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Night
Blooming
Author: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Gynethe Mehaut is spied upon with hatred and horror as she tends a
convent's night-blooming gardens. On the way to Rome for a Papal
Inquisition, she meets Count Saint-Germaine.
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Blue
Flame
Author: K. M. Grant; Buy New: $11.55
The first book in a trilogy about the Cathars.
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Timeline
Author: Michael Crichton; Buy New: $7.99
Time traveling archaeologists (my favorite kind)
find danger, adventure and romance in medieval France.
There's also a pretty nifty movie. NH
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The
Last Troubadour
Author: Derek Armstrong; Buy New: $19.46
A complex action adventure set at the time of teh Cathars.
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The
Master of all Desires
Author: Judith Merkle Riley
Fantasy and intrigue at the court ot Henri II and his
jealous wife
Catherine de Medici.
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The
Knight on the Bridge
Author: Watson William
Surreal tale about a mad lord's crumbling manor
and the changes visitors make to it. |
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The
Rain Maiden
Author: Jill M. Phillips;
A novel of France's first queen, Isabel of Hainault, wife
of Philippe
II.
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The
Glittering Strand
Author: Judith Lennox;
North African women are abducted for the silk industry in 16th
century France.
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The Accursed Kings of France Series
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The
Iron King
Author: Maurice Druon, H. Hare
Philip the Fair (Philippe le Beau) and the extermination
of the Knights
Templars.
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The
Strangled Queen
Author: Maurice Druon
Novel of the wife of Louis X who was convicted of adultery.
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The
Lily and the Lion
Author: Maurice Druon
In England, Edward III shows his power by executing
his mother's lover,
Roger Mortimer, while in France Philip VI is on the throne.
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Labyrinth
Author: Kate Mosse Buy New: $17.13
The stories of two women, one 14th century, one modern,
are tied
together by a mysterious ring discovered during an archeological
dig.
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Daughters
of the Grail
Author: Elizabeth Chadwick
In 13th century France at the time of the Church's persecution
of the Cathars, a descendant of Mary Magdalene finds that her
ability to heal is both a blessing and a curse.
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The
Lords of Vaumartin
Author: Cecelia Holland
Dispossessed by a wicked uncle, a Breton lad
finds a new life as a student and scholar n Paris.
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The
Outcast Dove
Author: Sharan Newman
The relationship between Christians and Jews in 11th Century France.
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The Grail Quest
These books have sequences in England but mostly take place in
France. Just love that Thomas of Hookton. NH
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The
Archer's Tale
Author: Bernard Cornwell Buy New: $11.16
Also called Harlequin. Begins Thomas of Hookton's
tale, son of a mad priest, archer in King Edward III's armies in
France, caught up in a search for the Grail by a mysterious
relative.
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Vagabond
Author: Bernard Cornwell Buy New: $11.16
Thomas finds himself at the fall of Calais, and suddenly
interesting to the Inquisition.
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Heretic
Author: Bernard Cornwell Buy New: $11.16
Thomas gets mixed up with a heretic woman who was sentenced
to burn at the stake and finds his family's castle in ruins.
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The
Dark Pageant
Author: Edward Lucie Smith
A novel of Gilles de Rais, whose dark voices led him to
the scaffold and
hundreds of little victims to a ghastly death. |
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Farewell,
My Only One
Author: Antoine Audouard, Euan Cameron Buy New: $24.00
The love story of Heloise and Abelard.
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Mignon
Author: Chris Hunt
The court of Henri III of France offers a young
man the chance to make his fortune as a mignon--one of the
King's pet boys. The second half of the story
takes place in Elizabethan London and involves poet and
playwright
Christopher Marlowe and the underworld of spies, crime,
and political
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Dark Queen series by Susan Carroll
This series by Susan Carroll is a historical romantic fantasy
about
three sisters, The Ladies of the Faire Isle, who clash with the sinister
and ruthless Catherine de Medici.
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Stealing
Heaven
Author: Marion Meade Buy New: $12.48
A novel about the famous lovers Heloise and Abelard.
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The
Good Men
Author: Charmaine Craig
A novel spanning three generations, about people who are caught up in
the Cathar movement and the Inquisition's persecution of "The Good
Men." Chilling account based on the "confession" of
a real woman.
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Courtesan
Author:
Diane
Haeger
Buy
New:
$10.40
A novel of Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henri II of France.
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The
Jester
Author: James Patterson, Andrew Gross
A romantic tale of revolution in medieval France. Some great jokes too.
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Loyalty's
Web
Author: Joyce DiPastena Buy New: $17.06
Mystery, suspense, and romance unite as the Earl of Gunthar and
a
beautiful noblewoman work to uncover the truth behind the treason afoot
in
the French realms of King Henry II of England. The Midwest Book Review calls Loyalty's Web "an historical tale
of intrigue with multiple twists and turns, arranged marriages and
true romance. It is a fast-paced, well-written, well-edited,
fascinating
read.
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Katherine LeVendeur Mystery Series
Author: Sharan Newman
Early 12th century Paris. Engaging characters, gripping
mysteries against the backdrop of the Jewish community in Paris makes for
great entertainment. |
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Duchessina
A historical novel for young adults about Catherine de Medici. Part of
the "Young Royals" series.
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The
King's Women
Author: Dinah
Lampitt
A wonderful novel about the women in the life of King Charles VII of
France: his mother, wife, mistresses, and Joan of Arc. |
Theophilos the Jester
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The
Lark's Lament
Author: Alan
Gordon Buy
New: $18.21
Theophilos and his wife, Claudia, investigate the murder
of a Cistercian monk. The fate of the Fools' Guild may hinge upon
the outcome, but their only clue is a fragment of a lost song.
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The
Moneylender of Toulouse
Author: Alan Gordon Buy New: $16.47
Theophilos and Claudia have been sent by the Fools'
Guild to depose a corrupt bishop, but the death of a local
moneylender
draws them into a larger intrigue -- one that could mean war.
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Jeanne d'Arc
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An
Army of Angels
Author: Pamela Marcantel
Jeanne d'Arc from early childhood until.. well, you
know.
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The
Serpent Amongst the Lilies
Author: P. C. Doherty
An investigation into the mysterious woman known as The Maid, Jeanne
d'Arc (Joan or Arc), by a loyal servant to the English throne, Matthew
Jankyn.
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François Villon
The Vagabond King.
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I
Return
Author: Doris Leslie
François Villon. Sequel to Vagabond's
Way?
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