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  Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages

  by Joseph Gies, Frances Gies

  An illuminating look at the monumental inventions of the Middle Ages, by the authors of Life in a Medieval Castle .
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  The Heaven Tree Trilogy: The Heaven Tree, the Green Branch, the Scarlet Seed

  by Edith Pargeter

  A trilogy of novels set in twelfth-century England and Wales-- The Heaven Tree, The Green Branch, and The Scarlet Seed --chronicles the adventures of master stone carver Harry Talvace; Ralf Isambard, Lord of Parfois; and their two sons. 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo.
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  Egil's Saga (Penguin Classics)

  by Snorri Sturluson, Paul Edwards

  Egil’s Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a psychologically ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful poetry and a physical grotesque capable of staggering brutality. This Icelandic saga recounts Egil’s progression from youthful savagery to mature wisdom as he struggles to defend his honor in a... (more)
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  Middle English Verse Romances (Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies)

  by D.B. Sands

  Revised edition.
• The Home of The Eddic Poems, with Especial Reference to the Helgi-Lays...Sophus (transl from Norwegian By William Henry Schofield) Bugge

  

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  The Home of The Eddic Poems, with Especial Reference to the Helgi-Lays...

  by Sophus (transl from Norwegian By William Henry Schofield) Bugge

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  The Owl Killers: A Novel

  by Karen Maitland

  From the author of Company of Liars , hailed as “a jewel of a medieval mystery”* and “an atmospheric tale of treachery and magic,”** comes a magnificent new novel of an embattled village and a group of courageous women who are set on a collision course—in an unforgettable storm of secrets, lust, and rage. England, 1321. The tiny village of Ulewic teeters between survival and destruction, faith and doubt, God... (more)
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  by Guy Gavriel Kay

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  The Pillars of the Earth

  by Ken Follett

  A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, this is Ken Follett's historical masterpiece. Abridged edition read by John Lee
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  Doomsday Book

  by Connie Willis

  For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis... (more)
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  The Lady and the Unicorn (Unabridged)

  by Tracy Chevalier

  A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown—until now. Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions... (more)
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  A Song for Arbonne

  by Guy Gavriel Kay

  The author of The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy-hailed by Andre Norton as "one of the very best...since Tolkien"-returns with a critically acclaimed fantasy of two endlessly opposed kingdoms: one ruled by men, the other by women.