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FROM: Joan Reddy <joanr@siouxland.lib.sd.us>
REC'D: 2/14/01, 4:16 PM

A customer has asked for fiction set in the time period of the Carolingian Resaissance. He prefers the location to be France, possibly Britain. He does not want romances, stories about King Arthur or Charlemagne, or mysteries (e.g. Brother Cadfael-12th century.) Does anybody have any suggestions? He likes historical authentic fiction. He has read, and likes, Gillian Bradshaw and Hella Haase's In A Dark Wood Wandering.
P.S. According to britannica.com the Merovingian and uninterrupted Carolingian Frankish dynasties (476-887) encompasses what scholars call the Early Middle Ages.

Joan Reddy
Siouxland Libraries
Sioux Falls, SD

FROM: Thelma Stone <tstone@fortworthlibrary.org>
REC'D: 2/14/01, 5:51 PM

Ellis Peters was Edith Pargenter. She wrote historical novels under
her own name. I'd suggest her Heaven Tree trilogy - The Heaven Tree,
The Green Branch and The Scarlet Branch.

FROM: "christine jeffords" <sevenstars39@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/15/01, 8:06 AM

Mario Pei wrote a novel called "Swords of [or possibly for] Charlemagne,"
which would definitely fit your patron's time period.

Poul Anderson's "Three Hearts and Three Lions" is about a WW2-era Dane who
gets thrown back to Carolingian times and discovers that he is in fact the
paladin Ogier the Dane. It's a fantasy but gives plausible explanations for
things like werewolves and troll-gold.
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FROM: Barry Trott <btrott@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 2/15/01, 3:06 PM

Here are some possibilities from "What Historical Fiction Do I Read Next:"

Alfred Duggan -- Conscience of the King -- The story of the Saxon invasion
of England (c. 451-531)

Basil Bonallack -- The Flame in the Dark -- Chronicles the careeer of
Alfred the Great (9th cen.)

Mario Pei -- The Swords of Anjou -- Based on the Song of Roland and other
Chansons de Geste (8th cen.)

Barry

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On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Joan Reddy wrote:

> A customer has asked for fiction set in the time period of the
Carolingian Resaissance. He prefers the location to be France, possibly
Britain. He does not want romances, stories about King Arthur or
Charlemagne, or mysteries (e.g. Brother Cadfael-12th century.) Does
anybody have any suggestions? He likes historical authentic fiction. He
has read, and likes, Gillian Bradshaw and Hella Haase's In A Dark Wood
Wandering.
> P.S. According to britannica.com the Merovingian and uninterrupted
Carolingian Frankish dynasties (476-887) encompasses what scholars call
the Early Middle Ages.
>
> Joan Reddy
> Siouxland Libraries
> Sioux Falls, SD
>
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FROM: Sarah Nagle <snagle@co.carver.mn.us>
REC'D: 2/17/01, 10:09 AM

Two very good authors who write fiction set in about that time period or
a little later - Zoe Oldenbourg and Cecelia Holland.

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