Early Medieval (to 1337)
The Column of Burning Spices: A Novel of Germany’s First Female Physician (Hildegard of Bingen)
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“Who is this woman who rises out of the wilderness like a column of smoke from burning spices?” –Pope Eugenius Even the title ...Read Review
Her Kind
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In the opening scene of this small, intimate novel, a group of women marked with the yellow crosses of heretics is led out ...Read Review
Storms of Retribution (Talon)
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In 1187, the treaty between the Kingdom of Jerusalem, ruled by Guy de Lusignan, and the Arab world, led by Salah Ed Din, is ...Read Review
Listen to the Wind: The Orphans of Tolosa
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In the 13th century, Azalaïs and Azemar live as orphans in the forests of what is now southern France. When angry men ...Read Review
The Office of Gardens and Ponds
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Set in Heian Japan, the book gives us two startlingly opposed worldviews – the imperial court is described in all its effete, rigid, exquisite ...Read Review
Arise Crusader: Book I of the Lotharingian Chronicles
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1096 France: young ploughman Anseau of Valois’ rustic but comfortable life is ripped asunder when it becomes known that he loves a local Jewish ...Read Review
The Way of Glory
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The novel begins in Bristol, England, in 1154. A Civil war known as the Anarchy drags on. It is a wholly Christian conflict, unlike ...Read Review
I Will Give My Love an Apple: The Savernake Novels Book 4
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It is 1204. The winter is harsh, and a stranger is found assaulted and left to die in the forest surrounding the village of ...Read Review
Nottingham
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Who was Robin Hood or Robin of Nottingham? In 1191, King Richard is battling during the Crusades to restore Jerusalem to Christian rulers. The ...Read Review
The Earl Strongbow (The Invader Series)
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Ruadh Butler’s series about the Norman conquest of Ireland continues with The Earl Strongbow, picking up a week after the events of ...Read Review