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c2013., General, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Fic Gri Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, usually violently. A new religion is comingashore; the old gods' priests are worrying. Edwin of Northumbria plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Hild is the king's youngest niece. She has the powerful curiosity of a bright child, a will of adamant, and a way of seeing the world--of studying nature, of matching cause with effect, of observing human nature and predicting what will happen next--that can seem uncanny, even supernatural, to those around her. She establishes herself as the king's seer. And she is indispensable--until she should ever lead the king astray. The stakes are life and death: for Hild, her family, her loved ones, and the increasing numbers who seek the protection of the strange girl who can read the worldand see the future. Hild is a young woman at the heart of the violence, subtlety, and mysticism of the early medieval age--all of it brilliantly and accurately evoked by Nicola Griffith's luminous prose. Recalling such feats of historical fiction as Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter, Hild brings a beautiful, brutal world--and one of its most fascinating, pivotal figures, the girl who would become St. Hilda of Whitby--to vivid, absorbing life"--Publisher.
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c2011., General, Yale University Press Call No: 235 F855h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Relics were everywhere in medieval society. Saintly morsels such as bones, hair, teeth, blood, milk, and clothes, and items like the Crown of Thorns were thought to bring the believer closer to the saint, who might intercede with God on his or her behalf. This book presents an illustrated exploration of 1000 years of holy relics across Europe.
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-- Alliance Atlantis presents Joan of Arc.c1999., General, Artisan Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Joan Edition: Widescreen [ed.]. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This is the story of Joan of Arc, who at seventeen, led one of the greatest campaigns for freedom the world has ever witnessed.
![Joan of Arc [DVD] (1999). Directed by Christian Duguay.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Joan of Arc [DVD] (1999). Directed by Christian Duguay.")
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c1997., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: Bio B7725s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion
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c2005., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF Bio B7725si Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion (Unnumbered) Volume: 42.
