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Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2002-05
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780439141345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of well-known tales from medieval Europe, including "Beowulf," "The Sword in the Stone," "The Song of Roland," and "The Island of the Lost Children."
Author: Lorna Czarnota
Publisher: august house
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780874835885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents traditional stories about the Middle Ages along with tips for storytellers.
Author: Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780486414072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWide-ranging stories offer glimpse into witchcraft, magic, Crusaders, astrology, alchemy, pacts with the Devil, chivalry, trial by torture, church councils, mercantile life, other elements of Middle Ages.
Author: W. Nikola-Lisa
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780618496426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA young apprentice learns to tap his own wellspring of creativity with the help of the magical margins of an illuminated manuscript in this story about patience, talent, and imagination. Full color.
Author: Marian Ury
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780520038646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patrick K. Ford
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2019-09-24
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0520974662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe four stories that make up the Mabinogi, along with three additional tales from the same tradition, form this collection and compose the core of the ancient Welsh mythological cycle. Included are only those stories that have remained unadulterated by the influence of the French Arthurian romances, providing a rare, authentic selection of the finest works in medieval Celtic literature. This landmark edition translated by Patrick K. Ford is a literary achievement of the highest order.
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 64
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKContrasts the way children of different social classes were betrothed and married during the Middle Ages.
Author: Andrew Joynes
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1843832690
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Medieval Ghost Stories" is a collection of ghostly occurrences from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries; they have been found in monastic chronicles and preaching manuals, in sagas and heroic poetry, and in medieval romances. In a religious age, the tales bore a peculiar freight of spooks and spirituality which can still make hair stand on end; unfailingly, these stories give a fascinating and moving glimpse into the medieval mind. Look only at the accounts of Richard Rowntree's stillborn child, glimpsed by his father tangled in swaddling clothes on the road to Santiago, or the sly habits of water sprites resting as goblets and golden rings on the surface of the river, just out of reach...
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Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1993-08-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780824815691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe stories in this collection constitute just a small portion of a vast body of some four hundred short narratives known as otogizoshi. They represent a cross section of medieval Japan in its richness and complexity, a panoply of life teeming with all the possibilities and contradictions of the age.
Author: Phillip Campbell
Publisher:
Published: 2017-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781505105742
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Children should not just read about history, they should live it. In The Story of Civilization, the ancient stories that have shaped humanity come alive like never before. Volume II, The Medieval World, continues the journey, picking up where Volume I left off just after the conversion of Emperor Constantine. Children will watch the seeds of Christendom being planted in the soil of Europe thanks to colossal figures like Saints Benedict, Patrick, and Ambrose. The wonder of the medieval world comes alive with brilliant tales of knights, crusaders, castles, and inventions"--Page [4] of cover.
