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Song of the Vikings

Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths

by Nancy Marie Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012

Much like Greek and Roman mythology, Norse myths are still with us. Famous storytellers from JRR Tolkien to Neil Gaiman have drawn their inspiration from the long-haired, mead-drinking, marauding and pillaging Vikings. Their creator is a thirteenth-century Icelandic chieftain by the name of Snorri...
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Stories Set Forth with Fair Words

The Evolution of Medieval Romance in Iceland

by Marianne E. Kalinke
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017

This book is an investigation of the foundation and evolution of romance in Iceland. The narrative type arose from the introduction of French narratives into the alien literary environment of Iceland and the acculturation of the import to indigenous literary traditions. The study focuses on the oldest...
Cover of Harvard Classics Volume XXXV: The Chronicles of Jean Froissart, The Holy Grail, and A Description of Elizabethan England (Illustrated Edition)
by Jean Froissart, Sir Thomas Malory, & William Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012

The Harvard Classics series is an incredible collection of the most important literary works, compiled by Charles Eliot (1834 1926), then president of Harvard University. Eliot stated that a liberal arts education could be supplemented by reading 15 minutes a day from classic works stored on a five...
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A Perceforest Reader

Selected Episodes from Perceforest: The Prehistory of Arthur's Britain

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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012

Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances, and is almost completely unknown except to a handful of scholars. But it is a work of exceptional richness and importance, and has been justly described as "an encyclopaedia of 14th-century...
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by Edward L. Risden
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013

Beowulf: A Verse Translation for Students offers the famed Anglo-Saxon epic in Modern English. Noted Beowulf scholar E. L. Risden has crafted a translation that is accessible even to students with no previous familiarity with medieval literature, preserving the beauty of the original verse without...
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by Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013

This profusely illustrated and thoroughly researched book describes in detail the diverse methods used to attack and defend castles during the Middle Ages. In a groundbreaking study—the first to shed light on the purpose, construction techniques, and effectiveness of medieval fortifications, noted...
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by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012

*Explains the myths and legends of the Knights Templar, and their origins.*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events in the history of the Knights Templar.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of historys...
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by Ryan Lavelle
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012

The defence of the 9th-century kingdom of Wessex under King Alfred against the 'Great Viking Army' is one of the major military achievements of Early Medieval history. While the guerrilla warfare in the Somerset marshes and the battle of Edington are characteristic of Alfred's military abilities,...
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How to Cook a Golden Peacock

Enseingnemenz Qui Enseingnent ? Apareillier Toutes Mani?res de Viandes - A Little-Known Cookbook from Medieval France

by Anonymous, Jim Chevallier
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012

An obscure manuscript from the early fourteenth century containing a cookbook, a cookbook unknown in its time and lost until the nineteenth century. Not so extensive or so elegant as Taillevent's "Viandier", it nonetheless includes recipes for a variety of period dishes, made with familiar...
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Feasts and All Their Finery

Elegant Dining in Old Regime France

by Pierre Jean-Baptiste Le Grand d'Aussy, Jim Chevallier
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013

A mechanical horse... A mountain flowing with rose-water... A lake with a boat in full sail.. These were a few of the details of the complex entertainments presented with elegant Medieval meals. Meanwhile, table decoration, which began with abundant flowers and piles of fruit, evolved into complex...
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by Charles Oman
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017

Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman KBE (1860-1946) was a British military historian. His reconstructions of medieval battles from the fragmentary and distorted accounts left by chroniclers were pioneering. Occasionally his interpretations have been challenged, especially his widely copied thesis that...
Cover of Routledge Revivals: A History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages (1978)
by Charles Oman
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017

First published in 1898, and following on from Volume 1, this second volume charts the history of medieval warfare from 1278 to 1485. Written by Sir Charles Oman, one of the great medievalists of his time, this book remains for students and general readers one of the best accounts of military art...
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Swords of El Cid

“Rodrigo! May God curse him!”

by Tom Hill
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014

Swords, combat, ransom, siege, battle, rape, starvation, revenge, bloodshed, justice, honour and death. The life of the famous El Cid as he wages medieval warfare to seize Valencia. A thousand years ago the Christian Knights of the Kings of Leon fight the ruling Muslim Moors and the dreaded Almoravids of the Sahara for the right to rule Spain.
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The Journal of William de Rubruck

Account of the Mongols

by William de Rubruck, William Woodville Rockhill (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017

The Journal of William de Rubruck: Account of the Mongols. William of Rubruck (1220-1293) was a Flemish Franciscan missionary and explorer. His account is one of the masterpieces of medieval geographical literature comparable to that of Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta. Translated by William Woodville...
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