Contributor's Form (list #117)

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• Alder, Elizabeth.THE KING'S SHADOW.Farrar Straus Giroux c1995 259p.Evyn, a young Welsh serf, encounters ruffians who leave him muteand orphaned. When his uncle sells him into slavery, Evyn is unable to communicatewith others in the household. He learns to read and write and eventually serves Harold Godwinson, who becomes king of England. Together they make their stand at the Battle of Hastings, October 14, 1066.
• Almedingen, E. M. A candle at dusk. [1st American ed.] New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux [1969] In spite of his recent betrothal and fear of Saracen invasion, an eighth- century Frankish boy obtains his father's skeptical permission to live for a time at the neighboring abbey in order to learn to read.
• Several books by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn.
• Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Forest House by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Beacon at Alexandria by Gillian Bradshaw
• Bryher, Winifred. The fourteenth of October : a novel. New York : Pantheon Books, [1952] A Saxon youth taken as a hostage by marauding Danes is sold to a Norman lord, only to make his escape and return to England to fight for his country under Harald at the Battle of Hastings.
• F Bryher Roman wall : a novel. New York : Pantheon Books, [1954] A historical novel ofthe third century which is set at a military outpost near Lake Geneva. The great Roman empire is crumbling, soon to be over-run by hordes of barbarians.
• Carr, Shirley N. The King's constable. Richmond, Virginia: Garrett & Massie, 1951. A story of Bertand du Guesclin who became commander of the French armies and a counselor to King Charles V during the Hundred Years War.
• Coe, Frederick Levi. Knight of the cross : a story of the crusades. New York
• Darkness and the Dawn by Thomas Costain
• Crichton, Michael Eaters of the dead : the manuscript of Ibn Fadlan relating his experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922. 1st ed. New York :Knopf, 1976. An ambassador of the tenth-century Caliph of Bagdad is carried off by the Norsemen to endure, for three years, the harshness of their way of life and the creatures that terrorize their lives.
• Venus in Copper by Davis (detective novel -- one of several)
• Older high school kids enjoy the Lindsay Davis hard-boiled mysteries set in Ancient Rome (when Vespasian was emporer) and featuring the detective Marcus Didius Falco. (Silver Pigs is the first, they feature some sort of metal in most of the titles.) They are funny, and stuffed with tidbits about life in ancient Rome. She also has a new, non-mystery out, about Vesbasian's slave-born mistress
• Goodman, Joan E. The winter hare. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1996. In 1140, with England divided between the supporters of King Stephen and those of the Empress Matilda, twelve-year-old Will Belet, small for his age but longing to be a knight, comes to his Uncle's castle to be a page and soon finds himself involved in dangerous intrigues and adventures.
• I, Cladius by Robert Graves
• Conspiracy by John Hersey
• Door in the Wall by Benita Kane Jaro
• Lattimore, Deborah.THE SAILOR WHO CAPTURED THE SEA. c1991 unpaged A sailor continues the work of others in creating the illminated Book of Kells.
• Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton
• Black Horses for the King by Anne McCaffrey
• A series that I like is "Mark of the Lion" by Francine Rivers. I believe there are 3 books in the series. They are Christian based romance novels set in the Roman Empire. While the story line is good, I found the historical aspect of the books to be very informative.
• Roman Hostage by Schurfranz
• Seton, Anya. The mistletoe and sword. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1955. Young Quintus, a standard-bearer with the Ninth Roman Legion in 1st century Britain, rescues the beautiful and mysterious Regan, witnesses Druid mysteries at Stonehenge and takes part in the battle aginst the British forces of Queen Boadicea.
• Speare, Elizabeth George. The bronze bow. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1961. Daniel is trying to organize his band together to fight the Romans.
• Sutcliff, Rosemary. BLOODFEUD.
• Sutcliff, Rosemary. The eagle of the Ninth. London : Oxford University Press, 1954. Marcus Flavius Aguila, whose father commanded the First Cohort of the Ninth Legion, is on his first command in Britain.
• Sutcliff, Rosemary. SWORD SONG.Farrar, Straus & Giroux c1997 272p. At sixteen, Bjarni is cast out of the Norse settlement in the Angles' Land for an act of oath-breaking and spends five years sailing the west coast of Scotland and witnessing the feuds of the clan chiefs living there.
• F Sutcliff The silver branch. London : Oxford University Press, 1958. Justin, a young surgeon in the Roman army, is posted to Britain at a time when Rome's power is weakening.
• F Sutcliff Warrior scarlet. New York : H. Z. Walck, [c1958] The Warrior Scarlet was the symbol of manhood in Drem's tribe. To win it he must kill a wolf single-handed.
• Trease, Geoffrey Message to Hadrian : an adventure story of ancient Rome. New York : Vanguard Press, c1955.
• Treece, Henry. The Dark island. New York: Random, 1952. A story of England when Caesar's legions were on the march to conquer the island.
• Ben Hur by Wallace
• Webb, Robert N. We were there with Caesar's legions. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1960. The story of Caesar's invasion of Britain and life in Rome.
• Wells, Reuben Field. With Caesar's legions : the adventures of two Roman youths in the conquest of Gaul. New York : Biblo and Tannen [1960, c1951]
• White, T. H. The once and future king. New York, Putnam [1958]
• Just started a series by Jack Whyte (I think they're all available in paperback) which starts with Roman Britain (just about when they're done in) and goes forward to the Arthurian legend. Fascinating -- some sex, but altogether good.
• Centurion by L. Wibberly
• Detectives in Togas (Odyssey Classic) by Henry Winterfeld, Charlotte Kleinert (Illustrator) List Price: $6.00 Paperback - 249 pages Reissue edition (March 1990) Harcourt Brace; ISBN: 0152234152