Cold Case Squad

Edna Buchanan - Cold Case Squad

Buchanan launches a new series with this novel, starring Sergeant Craig Burch of the Miami Police Department's Cold Case Squad. Fans of Buchanan's Britt Montero series may recognize Burch as the cop who helped crime reporter Montero solve a cold case in The Ice Maiden (2002). Although Burch made a superb supporting character, in his first role as the lead, he comes off a bit like a newborn colt on shaky legs. Buchanan has given him the traditional backstory of the homicide cop so haunted by his work that his family life unravels, but he needs considerably more fleshing out if he is going to become a fully formed character.

The Garden of Eden

Eve Adams - The Garden of Eden

As touching as it is humorous, The Garden of Eden is a parable for our time with a powerful and ultimately redemptive ending that speaks to oft underappreciated virtues such as loyalty (sticking with those you love even when they screw up royally), tolerance, and forgiveness. It's also about the values that keep America together--the simple solutions ordinary people find to keep their small communities strong.

Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades 1000 - 1300

This authoritative and concise work surveys the range of warfare in the high Middle Ages while reflecting on the society that produced these military struggles. The book brings together for the first time a wealth of information on such topics as knighthood, military organization, weaponry and fortifications, and warfare in the East.

A Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

"A Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases" by Christopher Corèdon is a unique reference for understanding some of the language of medieval Britain. Designed to help the non-specialist reader, it includes many Latin, Old and Middle English terms which are often used in modern histories of the period but which may be unfamiliar or misunderstood. 308 pages long, it includes over 3,400 terms relating to all aspects of medieval life, from the political, administrative and ecclesiastical to more mundane terms for food and drink, and for various trades and professions.

Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures - New Essays

This book illuminates the pervasive interplay of 'sacred' and 'secular' phenomena in the literature, history, politics, and religion of the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. Following an introduction that examines methodological questions in the study of the sacred and the secular, the other essays treat (among other topics): Old English poetry, troubadour lyrics, twelfth-century romance, the Gregorian Reform, Middle English lyrics and the work of the Pearl-poet, Luther, and Shakespeare. The essays gathered here constitute a new way of applying a classic dichotomy to major cultural phenomena of the pre-modern era.