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FROM: "Esther Frith" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 10:24 AM

I have a patron looking for novels which feature knights but are not
mysteries or romances. Any suggestions?

Esther Frith
Essex Public Library

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FROM: "Smith, Jeff" <[removed]@marshall.usc.edu>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 10:35 AM

Michael Crichton's "Timeline" is about a group of modern researchers thrown
back in time to the 14th century, where they do battle with knights and
whatnot.

Jeff Smith

FROM: "Marsha Valance" <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 11:07 AM

Adult novels set in the Middle Ages by Alfred Duggan, Maurice Druon, Edith Pargeter, Martha Rofheart, Sir Walter Scott, Arthur Conan Doyle, Valerie Anand.
If the reader will look at YA, I suggest Rosemary Sutfliff's KNIGHT'S FEE and E.L. Konigsburg's A PROUD TASTE FOR SCARLET AND MINIVER.


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Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
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>>> [removed]@hotmail.com 03/08/02 10:11AM >>>
I have a patron looking for novels which feature knights but are not
mysteries or romances. Any suggestions?

Esther Frith
Essex Public Library

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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 11:48 AM

>From: "Esther Frith" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Medieval Fiction
>Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 16:11:14 +0000
>
>I have a patron looking for novels which feature knights but are not
>mysteries or romances. Any suggestions?
>

First obvious: "Ivanhoe." Also Howard Pyle's "Men of Iron."

Best suggestion: get hold of a good bibliography of historical fiction and
look under "The Middle Ages." The annotations should help you decide which
books fit your criterion. Once again I plug the McKinley Bibliographies,
which were for the most part compiled before Historical Mysteries and
Romance became the big genres they are today.

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FROM: "Nora M. Armstrong" <[removed]@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 12:31 PM

There's a new book by Michael Alexander Eisner called The Crusader. It's
sort of a two-in-one story: the narrator, a minor cleric of the late
thirteenth century, relates the Crusades adventure of a high-ranking
Spanish nobleman, as the nobleman is undergoing "purification" for
suspected demonic possession. The story-within-a-story structure worked
well, I thought, and I enjoyed getting to know the cleric, in spite of the
good face he tried to put on himself. :-) Not a cheerful book by any
means, but well researched and a good way to learn a bit about part of
Europe that is often overlooked.

Nora Armstrong
Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center
Fayetteville, NC
(910)483-7878, FAX (910)486-6661
[removed]@cumberland.lib.nc.us

FROM: "Dillie, Thomas" <[removed]@mailserv.gcpl.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 1:23 PM

Esther,
A couple of recent titles: The Crusader by Michael Alexander Eisner,
Doubleday, 2001; and Deus Lo Volt! by Evan Connell, Counterpoint, 2000,
which is also set during the Crusades. For a blast from the past, why not
some of the historical fiction by 19th century novelist G.A. Henty? Many of
the Henty novels have been re-issued by Prestonspeed Publications
<http://www.prestonspeed.com/>. Henty was prolific and wrote on a wide
range of periods. His medieval novels that probably include knights are
Wulf the Saxon [Norman Conquest]; Winning His Spurs [Crusades]; In Freedom's
Cause [William Wallace and Robert the Bruce];St. George for England [Crecy
and Poitiers; At Agincourt [battle of Agincourt of course];and A Knight of
the White Cross [siege of Rhodes].

Tom Dillie
Head Librarian
Cedarville Community Library
Greene County Public Library
76 N. Main St.
Cedarville, OH 45314

"'Under consideration' means we've lost the file. 'Under active
consideration' means we're trying to find it."

-----Original Message-----
From: Esther Frith [[removed]@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 11:11 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Medieval Fiction


I have a patron looking for novels which feature knights but are not
mysteries or romances. Any suggestions?

Esther Frith
Essex Public Library

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FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 2:16 PM

At 02:20 PM 3/8/02 -0500, you wrote:
For a blast from the past, why not
>some of the historical fiction by 19th century novelist G.A. Henty? Many of
>the Henty novels have been re-issued by Prestonspeed Publications
><http://www.prestonspeed.com/>. Henty was prolific and wrote on a wide
>range of periods. His medieval novels that probably include knights are
>Wulf the Saxon [Norman Conquest]; Winning His Spurs [Crusades]; In Freedom's
>Cause [William Wallace and Robert the Bruce];St. George for England [Crecy
>and Poitiers; At Agincourt [battle of Agincourt of course];and A Knight of
>the White Cross [siege of Rhodes].
>
>Tom Dillie

SAINT GEORGE FOR ENGLAND is one of five Henty books available online,
per the On Line Books Page:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/authors.html


Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: JCURTIN <[removed]@cuyahoga.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 2:57 PM

Subject: Re: Medieval Fiction

I just read Bernard Cornwell's "The Archer's Tale", and loved it. Action,
adventure, romance. But not for the faint of heart.

Joan Curtin

FROM: "Karen S" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 2:57 PM

Try Shield of Three Lions, by Pamela Kaufman, which takes place during the
Crusades. Great book!
Karen

>From: "Esther Frith" Reply-To: "Fiction_L" To: Fiction_L Subject: Medieval
>Fiction Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 16:11:14 +0000
>
>I have a patron looking for novels which feature knights but are not
>mysteries or romances. Any suggestions?
>
>Esther Frith Essex Public Library

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FROM: Julie Roberts <[removed]@rolling-meadows.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 3:51 PM

Esther, again if your patron will look at YA, there is an excellent fantasy
quartet featuring an eleven-year old girl who becomes a knight, and her
twin brother, who doesn't want to be one. It's called "The Song of the
Lioness" by Tamora Pierce. I recommend it to all. Julie A. Roberts
[removed]@rolling-meadows.lib.il.us "All opinions are my own".

-----Original Message-----
From: Marsha Valance [[removed]@mpl.org]
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 11:16 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Medieval Fiction

Adult novels set in the Middle Ages by Alfred Duggan, Maurice Druon, Edith
Pargeter, Martha Rofheart, Sir Walter Scott, Arthur Conan Doyle, Valerie
Anand.
If the reader will look at YA, I suggest Rosemary Sutfliff's KNIGHT'S FEE
and E.L. Konigsburg's A PROUD TASTE FOR SCARLET AND MINIVER.


Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<[removed]@mpl.org>

>>> [removed]@hotmail.com 03/08/02 10:11AM >>>
I have a patron looking for novels which feature knights but are not
mysteries or romances. Any suggestions?

Esther Frith
Essex Public Library

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FROM: Julia Henderson <[removed]@kcls.org>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 6:20 PM

I read the first two and liked them...
The Celtic Crusader series by Steve Lawhead:
The iron lance /
The black rood
The mystic rose /
They're *sort of* mysterious, in that they all involve quests for holy relics.

Julia Henderson
Federal Way Regional Library
King County Library System

-----Original Message-----
From: Esther Frith [[removed]@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 11:11 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Medieval Fiction


I have a patron looking for novels which feature knights but are not
mysteries or romances. Any suggestions?

Esther Frith
Essex Public Library

FROM: jejones4 <[removed]@students.uiuc.edu>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 6:31 PM

I have to second Julie's recommendation of the Song of the Lioness Quartet,
its been a favorite of mine since it was originally published in the mid 80's.
Pierce's newest series, featuring several characters, and new characters from
the Lioness series, including new knight to be Kel, is just as good, if not
better than the original.

Jessica Moyer
Graduate Student in Library and Information Science
University of Illinois

>===== Original Message From Julie Roberts <[removed]@rolling-meadows.lib.il.us>
=====
>Esther, again if your patron will look at YA, there is an excellent fantasy
>quartet featuring an eleven-year old girl who becomes a knight, and her
>twin brother, who doesn't want to be one. It's called "The Song of the
>Lioness" by Tamora Pierce. I recommend it to all. Julie A. Roberts
> [removed]@rolling-meadows.lib.il.us "All opinions are my own".
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marsha Valance [[removed]@mpl.org]
>Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 11:16 AM
>To: Fiction_L
>Subject: Re: Medieval Fiction
>
>Adult novels set in the Middle Ages by Alfred Duggan, Maurice Druon, Edith
>Pargeter, Martha Rofheart, Sir Walter Scott, Arthur Conan Doyle, Valerie
>Anand.
>If the reader will look at YA, I suggest Rosemary Sutfliff's KNIGHT'S FEE
>and E.L. Konigsburg's A PROUD TASTE FOR SCARLET AND MINIVER.
>
>
>Marsha Valance
>Regional Librarian
>Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
>813 West Wells St.
>Milwaukee, WI 53233
>1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
><[removed]@mpl.org>
>
>>> [removed]@hotmail.com 03/08/02 10:11AM >>>
>I have a patron looking for novels which feature knights but are not
>mysteries or romances. Any suggestions?
>
>Esther Frith
>Essex Public Library
>
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 3/9/02, 6:41 AM

"Crusade," by Donn Byrne, is a favorite oldie of mine. "The Knights of Dark
Renown" and "The Kings of Vain Intent," by Graham Shelby(?), would qualify.
"Sword at Sunset" is Rosemary Sutcliff's adult take on the King Arthur
legend and, of course, includes the "Knights" of the Round Table.

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FROM: "Kate Gillette" <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 3/9/02, 9:11 AM

Stephen Rivele's 1997 novel, "A Book of Days" is set during the
First Crusade.

Kate Gillette
Novi Public Library
Novi, MI


From: "Esther Frith" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
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Date sent: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 16:11:14 +0000
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> I have a patron looking for novels which feature knights but are not
> mysteries or romances. Any suggestions?
>
> Esther Frith
> Essex Public Library
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FROM: "Gayle Richardson" <[removed]@spl.org>
REC'D: 3/9/02, 1:15 PM

Manuel Mujica-Lainez THE WANDERING UNICORN. For me, a memorable novel of the Crusades.
Gayle Richardson
[removed]@spl.org

>>> [removed]@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us 03/08/02 10:13AM >>>
There's a new book by Michael Alexander Eisner called The Crusader. It's
sort of a two-in-one story: the narrator, a minor cleric of the late
thirteenth century, relates the Crusades adventure of a high-ranking
Spanish nobleman, as the nobleman is undergoing "purification" for
suspected demonic possession. The story-within-a-story structure worked
well, I thought, and I enjoyed getting to know the cleric, in spite of the
good face he tried to put on himself. :-) Not a cheerful book by any
means, but well researched and a good way to learn a bit about part of
Europe that is often overlooked.

Nora Armstrong
Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center
Fayetteville, NC
(910)483-7878, FAX (910)486-6661
[removed]@cumberland.lib.nc.us

FROM: Bradley A Scott <[removed]@juno.com>
REC'D: 3/9/02, 4:18 PM

The tales of Arthur and his knights, in their various inlibrations, might
be of interest. See the 1998 Fiction-L thread
http://www.webrary.org/Maillist/msg/1998/5/Re.Arthurianfiction.html.

Personally, I've enjoyed T.H. White's "The Once And Future King", John
Steinbeck's adaptation of Malory as "The acts of King Arthur and his
noble knights", and Mary Stewart's books.

James Branch Cabell's "Domnei" (1920), or its earlier version as "The
Soul of Melicent" (1913), might be worth looking at if you have a copy
available. There's a romance involved, but it's not Harlequin material.
It's probably Cabell's least cynical work; although the author pokes fun
at some conventions of the knightly tale, Perion and Melicent are as true
to their vows as any human being could be. It may be difficult to find
in public libraries, but is available in a print-on-demand edition from
Wildside Press (http://www.wildsidepress.com), and should be readily
available by ILL.

It might also be worth searching for historical or biographical fiction
about notable individual knights. For example, a search of WorldCat for
"Pembroke, William Marshal, Earl of, 1144?-1219 -- Fiction" reveals that
there have been a couple of novels written about this prominent medieval
knight: "Champion", by L. Christian Balling (1988), and "King's Man", by
C.M. Edmondston and M.L.F. Hyde (1948). One could also search for
"fiction" in conjunction with "crusades", "Richard I, King of England",
etc., but of course WorldCat, unlike Fiction-L, does not provide personal
testimonials....

Bradley A. Scott

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FROM: [removed]@ryde.nsw.gov.au
REC'D: 3/10/02, 8:50 PM

No doubt someone has sent these in and I missed them, but the Arthurian
series by Bernard Cornwell beginning with "The Winter King" has knights
(and is a great series)

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 3/11/02, 9:53 AM

At 05:03 PM 3/9/02 -0500, you wrote:

>James Branch Cabell's "Domnei" (1920), or its earlier version as "The
>Soul of Melicent" (1913), might be worth looking at if you have a copy
>available. <snip> It may be difficult to find
>in public libraries, but is available in a print-on-demand edition from
>Wildside Press (http://www.wildsidepress.com), and should be readily
>available by ILL.


It's also available online at

http://www.litrix.com/domnei/domne001.htm

(other Cabell freely available online so far: JURGEN; THE CREAM OF
THE JEST; THE CERTAIN HOUR).


Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: Leslie DeLooze <[removed]@nioga.org>
REC'D: 3/11/02, 3:02 PM

I am just finishing GOOD KING HARRY by Denise Giardina, which is a
novel about Henry V, with lots of interesting observations of knights
and chivalry. The description of the Battle of Agincourt is great. The
book has been reissued recently as a Ballantine Reader's Circle
paperback.
Leslie DeLooze
Richmond Memorial Library, Batavia, NY

FROM: [removed]@hudson.lib.oh.us
REC'D: 3/12/02, 6:43 PM

I haven't read it in years but Thomas Costain's "Below the Salt"
flashes back to Magna Carta times with knights in armor.

Monica Knooihuizen, Reference Librarian
Hudson Library & Historical Society
22 Aurora St., Hudson, OH 44236

FROM: "Katherine Hoylo" <[removed]@i29.net>
REC'D: 3/22/02, 12:42 PM

Did anyone suggest Norah Lofts who wrote a Triligoy starting with _Knights
Acre_?
A less glamourous look at financial situations, daily life, injuries and
their ramifications of a knight and his family.
Katherine Hoylo

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