William Manchester From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages....

Paul Doherty An Ancient Evil inaugurates an ingenious new series of historical mysteries by P. C. Doherty, each one using characters from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. In Chaucer's poem, the pilgrims...

John Julius Norwich A narrative story of Byzantium. From the accession of Alexius in 1081, through the Fourth Crusade - when an army destined for the Holy Land was diverted...

Alfred Duggan First published January 1, 1965

Cecelia Holland A mere fourteen years old, strong-willed Maria is betrothed to Richard. Theirs is a marriage of conflict, yet one that grows over the years into respect and partnership....

Michael Eisner A knight possessed by demons, an ambitious monk skilled in exorcism, and a bloody Crusade that ends in a terrible siege lie at the heart of Michael Alexander...

Paul Doherty In 1344, as royal clerk Edmund Beche carries out his official investigation into the murder, seventeen years earlier, of King Edward II, he himself becomes a target for...

Sharon Kay Penman Here, alive from the pages of history, is the compelling tale of a Celtic society ruled by Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, on a collison course with a...

Michael Jecks It is 1325, and an atmosphere of dread and suspicion hangs over England like a thick fog. The last years have been racked by treachery and mistrust, and...

Piers Paul Read Sifting myth from history, Piers Paul Read reveals the Templars the multinational force of warrior monks, in their white tunics with red crosses over chainmail. They were...

Judith Lindbergh The mesmerizing chronicle of three tenth-century Viking women whose lives are inextricably bound by fate The Thrall’s Tale is a masterpiece of historical fiction that follows Katla, a slave,...

Reay Tannahill In fifteenth-century Scotland, Bishop Gavin Cameron of Kinveil, the chancellor of Scotland, is determined to stop Archdeacon Columba Crozier's plot to destroy the king January 1, 1986 by...