Knights & Castles.Knights & Castles Alex Martin Two-Can Publishing c/o Creative Publishing International Media Masters (publicity) 18705 Lake Drive East, Chanhassen, MN 55317-9384 www.creativepub.com 1587284413 $19.95 1-800-328-0590 Part of the impressive "Picture That!" series for young readers, Knights & Castles utilizies paintings from famous European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. artists such as Jean Fuquet, Pieter Bruegel the Young, and Paolo Uccello to illustrate Alex Martin's informed and informative text about life in the mid-fourteenth century. Describing the life of a knight in 1350, Knights & Castles goes into fascinating historical detail about jousting jousting Medieval Western European mock battle between two horsemen who charged at each other with leveled lances in an attempt to unseat the other. It probably originated in France in the 11th century, superseding the mêlée, in which mock battles were held between , courting a lady, hunting deer deer, ruminant mammal of the family Cervidae, found in most parts of the world except Australia. Antlers, solid bony outgrowths of the skull, develop in the males of most species and are shed and renewed annually. , and more. Sidebars offer tidbits TidBITS is an award-winning electronic newsletter and web site dealing primarily with Apple Computer and Macintosh-related topics. Internet publication TidBITS has been published weekly since April 16, 1990, which makes it one of the longest running Internet publications. of information about the artists who created the classical works used to illustrate daily life nearly seven hundred years ago. Fascinating reading for the young and old alike, and highly recommended. |
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