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I was tempted to read vol 4 of MDZS but in the end I used my internetless evening to finish this off. Now just two books left to complete my November #BookSpinBingo.

This was okay. Fairly predictable, all in all, with the main characters both stupidly keeping secrets. A very light pick, maybe a so-so. I wasn't tempted to DNF but I won't read more in the series.

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Ecclesiastical History of the English People; The Greater Chronicle; Bede's Letter to Egbert (Revised) | Bede

Halfway

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Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris | Eric Jager

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There is a lot of detail- approx 1/3 of the pages are footnotes- in this accounting of a 500 year old crime. It is well researched & I was impressed at how much documentation survives. It starts out by following the Provost of Paris who did some fine detective work w/i the technological limits of his time. We also get a fascinating look at French politics of the time- and there are unfortunate parallels to be drawn. Once the murder is solved the

bookandbedandtea book goes on to examine the repercussions of the murder as it leads to a civil war, which weakens French defenses and resources such that they cannot fend off the English king Henry V when he comes campaigning in France. He wins at Agincourt, despite the odds, and comes out ahead in the Hundred Years War, which the author posits may have turned out differently had not the Orleanists and the Burgundians been at each other's throats. 2w

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The Rebel Nun | Marj Charlier

so-so

Very repetitive and slow, but the early medieval history was interesting.

80/80

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The Lady in Medieval England, 1000-1500 | Peter R. Coss

Random book from our personal library.

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Bernard O'Donoghue

Recent acquisition for our personal library.

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Scorbet

House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France | Justine Firnhaber-Baker

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A history of the Capetians from Hugh through to Charles IV (before it passed to the Valois) focussing on each of the kings. I was familiar with some of them before (like Philip Augustus and Philip IV (the fair) but this helped to put them in sequence in a very readable way.

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Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney | Hermann P�lsson, Paul Geoffrey Edwards