For students, researchers, and history lovers, a look at day-to-day life in a rarely explored era. "About life and death, midwives and funerals, business, books and authors, and to...
From Publishers WeeklyMedieval Spain's caste system can't keep a good man down in this absorbing epic, a Spanish-language bestseller. Arnau Estanyol, son of a fugitive peasant, sta...
SUMMARY: 在线阅读本书 A beautiful, haunting evocation of the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn's imagination, this thrilling follow-up to Grass for His Pillow and Across the Nightingale Floor...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Barker, a British biographer (_The Brontës_) and accomplished medievalist, brings an excellent synergy of academic and literary skills to thi....