Late Medieval (1338 to 1485)
The Master of Bruges
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The title of the book refers to Hans Memling the painter (1430 – 1494), the central character. With the Duke of Burgundy as his powerful patron, ...Read Review
A Play of Piety
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I have been a fan of Margaret Frazer’s medieval mysteries about Dame Frevisse. This novel is the sixth of another series she ...Read Review
The Queen of Last Hopes: The Story of Margaret of Anjou
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In her latest novel, Susan Higginbotham takes on the task of redeeming yet another maligned historical figure: Margaret of Anjou, wife of the ...Read Review
Queen of Cities
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The year is 1453, and the army of Turkish Sultan Mehmed is camped outside the walls of Constantinople while the Emperor Constantine and his ...Read Review
Pale Rose of England
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Sandra Worth’s Pale Rose of England focuses on one of British history’s more obscure heroines: Lady Catherine Gordon, the highborn Scottish ...Read Review
The Demon’s Parchment
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London, 1384. Crispin Guest, aka “The Tracker,” returns in the third of Jeri Westerson’s medieval noir mysteries. The story opens with Crispin being ...Read Review
The Virgin Widow
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During the War of the Roses, Anne Neville, daughter of Warwick the Kingmaker, is a young woman from one of the most powerful ...Read Review
Crispin: The End of Time
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The writer known as Avi has written more than 70 books for children, and is a master of historical narrative. Crispin: The End of ...Read Review
Duncan of the Britons
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Duncan of the Britons transports us to Britain in the 1380s where we are plunged into the conflict between the Saxons and the ...Read Review
The King’s Mistress
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Campion is the foremost scholar on the subject of Alice Perrers, who is primarily – and notoriously – known as the young mistress of an ...Read Review