A history of the crusades examines the conflicts between and within the major religions, and describes in detail the various historical campaigns, complete with color illustrations and informational sidebars.

After being forced to marry an abusive man by Merlin and his scheming priests, Anna Pendragon returns to King Arthur's court where she finds herself yet again a pawn in a greater machinations. When a dark power awakens within her, she must bargain her own strength, her family, her ambition, and true love against her thirst for revenge.

An introduction to the famous battles, knights, kings, and castles of the Middle Ages.

Describes the life and work of a blacksmith living in Europe during the Middle Ages.

This is a discussion of the tactics and technology of warfare during the Middle Ages, including the tradition of personal combat, the use of armor, castles-and-siege weapons, and the dominance of the mounted knight.

After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today. On visits to the great cities of Europe--monumental Rome; the intellectually explosive Paris of Peter Abelard and Thomas Aquinas; the hotbed of scientific study that was Oxford; and the incomparable...

In this story loosely based on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, seventeen-year-old Rose, a healer's apprentice, falls in love with the betrothed Lord Hamlin, who is seeking the sorcerer who cursed his future bride.