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The Albigensian Crusades (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
by Joseph Strayer  Publisher Comments Interprets thirteenth-century crusades in terms of the development of Europe, especially France<BR>...
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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
by Leonie Frieda Publisher Comments Poisoner, despot, necromancer -- the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and...
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God's Heretics
by Aubrey Burl Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-271) and index....
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The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France
by Eric Jager 
Publisher Comments In 1386, a few days after Christmas, a massive crowd gathered at a Parisian monastery to witness what would become the nation’s final trial by combat: a court-ordered duel intended to let God determine which of two men was telling the truth. The...
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
by Alison Weir Publisher Comments Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the Middle Ages. At a time when women were regarded as little more than chattel, Eleanor...
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Joan of Arc a Military Leader
by Kelly Devries Publisher Comments In 1428, a young girl from a small French village approached the royal castle of Vaucouleurs with a now famous tale. Heavenly voices, she said, had told her to seek out the Dauphin of France, so that he might giver her an army with which to deliver...
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Joan of Arc: Maid, Myth and History
by Timothy Wilson-smith Publisher Comments Joan of Arc, born in Domremy in France in 1412, began to hear voices when she was thirteen and, believing they were directives from God, followed them - to the French court, to battle to wrest France from the English in the Hundred Years War, and to...
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Dark Star: The Satanic Rites of Gilles de Rais
by Candice Black Publisher Comments The spectre of Gilles de Rais, satanist and child-killer, eclipses French history like a dark star. A fallen general, once the champion of Jeanne d'Arc, de Rais' riches and experimentations led him to the very gates of Hell. With quotations, essays and...
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Joan of Arc: A Spiritual Biography (Lives & Legacies)
by Siobh Nash Marshall Publisher Comments Written in a straight-forward, concise, and at times humorous manner, Nash-Marshall's Joan of Arc acquaints the reader with a historical character who became a legend during her lifetime legend. Joan is presented to us as a brave young girl who received...
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Tale of Two Murders: Passion and Power in Seventeenth-Century France
by James R Farr Publisher Comments A compelling account of a 17th-century murder mystery and a well-researched scholarly work that explores the dynamics of power, justice, and law in Louis XIII's...
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Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words
by Willard Trask Publisher Comments The story of a young French peasant girl who led an army to help crown a king and was burned at the stake for her efforts has never lost its power to move us. Yet neither movies nor books about Joan of Arc have anything like the impact of her own words...
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Danse Macabre
by Aubrey Burl Publisher Comments Francois Villon is one of the great enigmas of French medieval history. A lyric poet of beauty and depth, he was also a murderer, pimp, thief and denizen of the underworld of 15th-century Paris. The book describes a riotous and debauched student life in...
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Catherine de' Medici and the French Reformation
by Edith Sichel Publisher Comments CONTENTSCatherine de' MediciThe Youth of Catherine de' MediciDiane de PoitiersThe Court of Henri IIThe Reign of Frangois IIThe Princesse de CondiJeanne de NavarreThe Council of PoissyThe HuguenotsCatherine and the Prince de CondiWhy the Reformation...
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The Return of Martin Guerre
by Natalie Zemon Davis Publisher Comments The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denouncedArnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity...
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Last Duel a True Story of Crime Scandal
by Eric Jager Publisher Comments Subtitled, "A True Story Of Trial By Combat In Medieval France". A dramatic true story of a knight, a squire and a lady unfolds during the tumultuous fourteenth century, a time of war, plague and anarchy, as well as of honour, chivalry and courtly love....
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Eleanor of Aquitaine and the four kings
by Amy Kelly Publisher Comments The story of that amazingly influential and still somewhat mysterious woman, Eleanor of Aquitaine, has the dramatic interest of a novel. She was at the verycenter of the rich culture and clashing politics of the twelfth century. Richest marriage prize of...
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Society and Culture in Early Modern France
by Natalie Z Davis
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Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris: Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Lives of the Poor (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past)
by Sharon Farmer
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Normans
by R Allen Brown
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French Chivalry Chivalric Ideas & Practi
by Sidney Painter
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