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The Physician
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The Physician

By Noah Gordon ,

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The Walking Drum
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The Walking Drum

By Louis L'Amour ,

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The Dragon and the George
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The Dragon and the George

By Gordon R. Dickson ,

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The Wars of the Roses
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The Wars of the Roses

By John Gillingham ,

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Holy Feast and Holy Fast
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Holy Feast and Holy Fast

By Caroline Walker Bynum ,

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Home: A Short History of an Idea
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Home

By Witold Rybczynski ,

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King Hereafter
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King Hereafter

By Dorothy Dunnett ,

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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

By Anne Savage ,

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Daughters of the Reconquest: Women in Castilian Town Society, 1100-1300
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Daughters of the Reconquest

By Heath Dillard ,

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Queens, Concubines, and Dowagers: The King's Wife in the Early Middle Ages
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Queens, Concubines, and Dowagers

By Pauline Stafford ,

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Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life
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Time Sanctified

By Roger S. Wieck ,

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Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe 900-1300
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Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe 900-1300

By Susan Reynolds ,

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War in the Middle Ages
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War in the Middle Ages

By Philippe Contamine ,

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The Medieval Archer
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The Medieval Archer

By Jim Bradbury ,

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Dino Compagni's Chronicle of Florence
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Dino Compagni's Chronicle of Florence

By Daniel E. Bornstein (translator) ,

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Northern Crusades, the Baltic and the Catholic Frontier, 1100-1525
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Northern Crusades, the Baltic and the Catholic Frontier, 1100-1525

By Eric Christiansen ,

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God's Playground: A History of Poland: The Origins to 1795, Vol. 1
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God's Playground

By Norman Davies ,

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Lion of Ireland
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Lion of Ireland

By Morgan Llywelyn ,

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The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England
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The Ties That Bound

By Barbara A. Hanawalt ,

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The Warlock in Spite of Himself
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The Warlock in Spite of Himself

By Christopher Stasheff ,

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The Origins of Courtliness: Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtly Ideals, 939-1210
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The Origins of Courtliness

By C. Stephen Jaeger ,

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Christine de Pizan: Her Life and Works
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Christine de Pizan

By Charity Cannon Willard ,

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In a Dark Wood Wandering: A Novel of the Middle Ages
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In a Dark Wood Wandering

By Hella S. Haasse ,

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On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal
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On Persephone's Island

By Mary Taylor Simeti ,

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The Wolf and the Dove
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The Wolf and the Dove

By Kathleen E. Woodiwiss ,

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Camber of Culdi
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Camber of Culdi

By Katherine Kurtz ,

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The Women Troubadours
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The Women Troubadours

By Meg Bogin ,

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Jewish Spirituality: From the Bible through the Middle Ages
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Jewish Spirituality

By Arthur Green (editor) ,

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Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor
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Frederick II

By David Abulafia ,

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Women in the Medieval English Countryside: Gender and Household in Brigstock before the Plague
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Women in the Medieval English Countryside

By Judith M. Bennett ,

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The Cognitive Revolution in Western Culture: Volume 1: The Birth of Expectation
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The Cognitive Revolution in Western Culture

By Don LePan ,

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Before European Hegemony: The World System AD 1250-1350
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Before European Hegemony

By Janet L. Abu-Lughod ,

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Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources
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Alfred the Great

By Asser , Simon Keynes (translator) , Michael Lapidge (translator)

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Daughter of Regals & Other Tales
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Daughter of Regals & Other Tales

By Stephen R. Donaldson ,

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The World of Orderic Vitalis
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The World of Orderic Vitalis

By Marjorie Chibnall ,

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The Pastel City
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The Pastel City

By M. John Harrison ,

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The Carolingians and the Written Word
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The Carolingians and the Written Word

By Rosamond McKitterick ,

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The Legitimacy of the Modern Age
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The Legitimacy of the Modern Age

By Hans Blumenberg , Robert M. Wallace (translator) ,

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The Cross-Time Engineer
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The Cross-Time Engineer

By Leo Frankowski ,

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