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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women's beauty, sexuality, and behavior. What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about women and reveal what's shifted over time-and what hasn't. Enshrined medieval thinkers, almost...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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A "Jack and the Beanstalk" retelling set in medieval England in which a young maiden undergoes a journey to save her sister and herself. Will the chivalrous knight, Sir Charles, help her find the treasure she seeks before her uncle can marry her off?
Only the hidden treasure will allow Louisa and her sister to gain their freedom.
England, 1388. All her life, Louisa's dreamed of finding the rumored "Giant's Treasure," a collection of ancient, lost...
3) The great mortality: an intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all time
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of the Black Death that spread across Europe in the fourteenth century, describing the devastating impact the plague had on European history and culture.