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Sword, miter, and cloister
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Constance Brittain Bouchard |
463 pages : 25 cm |
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Those of my blood
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Constance Brittain Bouchard |
"Focusing on the Frankish realm between the eighth and twelfth centuries, Constance Brittain Bouchard outlines the operative definitions of "family" in this period when there existed various and flex… |
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Dancing to the precipice
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Caroline Moorehead |
Her canvases were the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette; the Great Terror; America at the time of Washington and Jefferson; Paris under the Directoire and then under Napoleon; Regency London; t… |
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A Distant Mirror
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Barbara Wertheim Tuchman |
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In this sweeping historical narrative, Barbara Tuchman writes of the cataclysmic 14th century, when the energies of medieval Europe were devoted to fighting internecine wars and … |
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Princesse of Versailles
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Elliott, Charles |
Versailles had come to life again. For fifteen years Mme. de Maintenon's austerity had cast a gloom over the royal pleasure palace; the disillusioned old king, grown virtuous with advancing age, had … |
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A day with a noblewoman
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Régine Pernoud |
Describes a typical day in the life of Lady Blanche of Champagne, a medieval noblewoman, followed by a fictional story based on the facts presented. |
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