If All The Swords In England


By Barbara Willard
Illustrated by Robert M. Sax

Item #: 45-P
Location: Europe, England
Time Period: High Middle Ages (1000-1300 A.D.)

      Young Simon, recently and tragically orphaned, becomes a scribe in the following of the exiled Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket. The uncertainty of the tumultuous years leading to the infamous cathedral slaying is heightened by Simon's separation from his twin Edmund, who is in the service of King Henry II.