The Good Men: A Novel of Heresy by Charmaine Craig
Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Riverhead Trade (March 4, 2003)
Average Customer Review on Amazon: 4.5 stars (28 reviews)
Editorial Review from Amazon.com:
The Good Men, Charmaine Craig’s fascinating tale of medieval torments and unrequited love, is brutally illuminating. The story concerns Pierre Clergue, a 14th-century French rector. Pierre is a […]
On this date, October 21st, in medieval history:
1096 - Turks attack and slaughter the army of the People’s Crusade near Civetot
1422 - Death of Charles VI (the “Well-loved” and the “Mad”), King of France
“A group of archaeologists are trying to establish if Norsemen brought Christianity to Caithness before St Columba arrived on Iona … ”
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Tenant in Chief
1) A lord or institution (the Church being most common) holding land directly from the king. All Earls are Tenants in Chief. (MEDIEV-L. Medieval Terms)
2) A “tenant-in-capite [kap-i-tee],” one who holds land by direct grant from the Crown; one who is a vassal of the king. (Hogue, Arthur R. Origins of the Common […]
Baudolino by Umberto Eco
Paperback: 544 pages
Publisher: Harvest Books (October 6, 2003)
Average Customer Review on Amazon: 4 stars (111 customer reviews)
Editorial Review from Amazon.com:
The most playful of historical novelists, Umberto Eco has absorbed the real lesson of history: that there is no such thing as the absolute truth. In Baudolino, he hands his narrative to an […]
The monastic way of life, a life of religious piety entirely devoted to God, had longed favored the Benedictine form of monasticism in medieval Europe up until the middle of the eleventh century. At some point during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, various forms of monastic orders began to spring up, as the older ways […]
Pantry
[pan-tree]
Etymology: Middle English panetrie, from Anglo-French paneterie, from paneter servant in charge of the pantry, from pain bread, from Latin panis
Storeroom for bread and other foodstuffs. (Kenyon, John R. Medieval Fortifications, 211)
*term definitions retrieved from Netserf’s Medieval Glossary (http://www.netserf.org/Glossary)
Today is officially Leif Erikson Day. Commemorated as a national holiday by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, the holiday is an observance of Leif Erikson and his companions as the first known Europeans to set foot in North America. The holiday gives the nation a chance to honor the contributions of Americans of Nordic […]
Harold the King by Helen Hollick
Paperback: 704 pages
Publisher: BookForce UK Ltd; 2nd edition (February 6, 2007)
Average Customer Review on Amazon: 5 stars (8 reviews)
Product Description:
This story is set in the England of 1044. As dawn breaks over a summer’s landscape, Harold Godwinesson is riding east. One of seven sons of the noble Godwime family, he […]
On this date, October 6th, in medieval history:
877 - Death of Charles “the Bald,” king of the West Frankish Kingdom
891 - Formosus elected as Pope
1101 - Death of St. Bruno, confessor, ecclesiastical writer, and founder of the Carthusian Order