Janega, Eleanor
Summary: In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages to unfurl its suppositions about women and reveal what's shifted over time--and what hasn't. Enshrined medieval thinkers, almost always male, subscribed to classical Greek and Roman philosophy and Christian theology for their concepts of the sexes, deriding women as oversexed sinners, inherently lustful,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 305.409 JANGriffith, Nicola.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIRamirez, Janina
Summary: The Middle Ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings, saints and kings; a patriarchal society that oppressed and excluded women. But when we dig a little deeper into the truth, we can see that the "Dark" Ages were anything but. Oxford and BBC historian Janina Ramirez has uncovered countless influential women's names struck out of historical records, with the word Femina annotated beside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.409 RAMOzment, Steven E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.471 OZMSharratt, Mary
Summary: Bishop's Lynn, England, 1413. At the age of forty, Margery Kempe has nearly died giving birth to her fourteenth child. Fearing that another pregnancy might kill her, she makes a vow of celibacy, but she can't trust her husband to keep his end of the bargain. Desperate for counsel, she visits the famous anchoress Dame Julian of Norwich and confesses that she has been haunted by visceral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHASummary: From childhood on, biological and social factors combine to shape an individual's sexual identity. In this program, Ruben Gur, Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Pennsylvania; sociologist Rhoda Reddock, of the University of the West Indies; philosopher Elisabeth Badinter; historians Arlette Farge and Jennifer Stoddart; and others evaluate gender-related behavioral models from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Croucher, Lex
Summary: It's been hundreds of years since King Arthur's reign. His descendant, Arthur, a future Lord and general gadabout, has been betrothed to Gwendoline, the quick-witted, short-tempered princess of England, since birth. The only thing they can agree on is that they despise each other. They're forced to spend the summer together at Camelot in the run-up to their nuptials, and within 24 hours, Gwen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CROSummary: Poet, essayist, musician, and visionary, Hildegard of Bingen is the most well-known female mystic of the Middle Ages, renowned in Europe for advising popes and bishops, conducting theological debates with Bernard of Clairvaux, and composing Ordo Virtutum. In this program, host Avril Benoit and theology experts Dr. Kathy Garay and Dr. Madeleine Jeay of McMaster University tour the abbey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Dickerson, Melanie.
Summary: Gisela's childhood was filled with laughter and visits from nobles such as the duke and his young son. But since her father's death, each day has been filled with nothing but servitude to her stepmother. So when Gisela learns the duke's son, Valten -- the boy she has daydreamed about for years -- is throwing a ball in hopes of finding a wife, she vows to find a way to attend, even if it's only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DICDickerson, Melanie
Summary: In medieval England, Mazy tries to find her place in the world and meets a friendly knight, Sir Berenger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DICDickerson, Melanie.
Summary: Rose has been appointed as a healer's apprentice at Hagenheim Castle, a rare opportunity for a woodcutter's daughter like her. While she often feels uneasy at the sight of blood, Rose is determined to prove herself capable. Failure will mean returning home to marry the aging bachelor her mother has chosen for her -- a bloated, disgusting merchant who makes Rose feel ill. When Lord Hamlin, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DICSummary: This series covers history from 3500 B.C. to the 1780's. This course analyzes civilizations by looking at their geographic and political environments, their technologies, economies, social institutions, and cultural achievements. Students will look at history from new perspectives, come to understand the connections between human beings despite time and distance, and appreciate the lasting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1995
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Dickerson, Melanie
Summary: In this retelling of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, Princess Elyce escapes unscrupulous King Conrad by taking a sleeping potion, and after Sir Gerard wakes her with a kiss they begin their journey to Prague in the dead of winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2022
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Summary: Justine Meade takes a cross-country journey to find her lost dog, and discover herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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Summary: Orphan Violet and knight Sir Merek team up to fight against the villainous Baron Dunham and corruption in the kingdom, while also navigating their growing feelings for each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DICRinaldi, Robin.
Summary: "What if for just one year you explored everything you'd wondered about sex but hadn't tried? The project was simple: An attractive, successful magazine journalist, Robin Rinaldi, would move into a San Francisco apartment, join a dating site, and get laid. Never mind that she already owned a beautiful flat a few blocks away, that she was forty-four, or that she was married to a man she'd been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RINALDI, ROBIN RINShipman, Viola
Summary: To gain viewers as a local meteorologist, Sonny throws herself into all the holiday shenanigans hosted by a widowed father and Chamber director whose genuine love for the town, winter, and Sonny may just thaw her heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021