Michael Crichton - Timeline

A word about time travel. While it is true that quantum teleportation has been demonstrated in laboratories around the world, the practical application of such phenomena lies in the future. The ideas presented in this book were stimulated by the speculations of David Deutsch, Kip Thorne, Paul Nahin and Charles Bennett, among others. What appears here may amuse them, but they would not take it seriously. This is a novel: time travel rests firmly in the realm of fantasy.

But the representation of the medieval world has a more substantial basis, and for it I am indebted to the work of many scholars, some of whom are identified in the bibliography that follows. Errors are mine, not theirs.

I'm grateful as well to Catherine Kanner for the illustrations, and to Brant Gordon for the computer-generated architectural renderings.

Finally, my particular thanks to historian Bart Vranken for his invaluable insights, and for his companionship while tramping through little-known and neglected ruins of the Périgord.

Allmand, Christopher. The Hundred Years War: England and France at War c. 1300-c. 1450. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Anonymous. Lancelot of the Lake. Trans. Corin Corley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Artz, Frederick B. The Mind of the Middle Ages: An Historical Survey, A.D. 200-1500. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Ayton, Andrew. Knights and Warhorses: Military Service and the English Aristocracy under Edward III. Woodbridge, Eng.: Boydell Press, 1994.

Barber, Richard. Edward, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine. Woodbridge, Eng.: Boydell Press, 1996.

– -, ed. and trans. The Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince. London: Folio Society, 1979.

– -, and Juliet Barker. Tournaments. Woodbridge, Eng.: Boydell Press, 1989.

Bentley, James. Fort Towns of France: The Bastides of the Dordogne and Aquitaine. London: Tauris Parke, 1993.

Berry, Duc de. The Très Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry. Ed. Jean Longnon. New York: George Braziller,

Black, Maggie. The Medieval Cookbook. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1992.

Blair, Claude. European and American Arms, c. 1100-1850. New York: Bonanza Books, 1962.

Bloch, Marc. Feudal Society. Trans. L. A. Mayon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

Bradbury, Jim. The Medieval Siege. Woodbridge, Eng.: Boydell Press, 1992.

Burne, Alfred H. The Crécy War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955.

Cantor, Norman F. Inventing the Middle Ages. New York: William Morrow, 1991. One of the finest intellectual histories ever written. Informative about medievalists and the period.

Chrétien de Troyes. Cliges. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Chrétien de Troyes. Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Christine de Pizan. The Book of the Duke of True Lovers. Trans. Thelma S. Fenster. New York: Persea Books,

Contamine, Philippe. War in the Middle Ages. Trans. Michael Jones. Oxford: Blackwell, 1984.

Cosman, Madeleine P. Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony. New York: George Braziller, 1995.

Curry, Anne, and Michael Hughes, eds. Arms, Armies and Fortifications in the Hundred Years War. Woodbridge, Eng.: Boydell Press, 1994. See particularly the chapters by Vale and Hardy.

Delbruck, Hans. Medieval Warfare. Trans. Walter J. Renfroe, Jr. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.

Duby, Georges, ed. A History of Private Life, Vol. II: Revelations of the Medieval World. Trans. Arnold Goldhammer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988.

– -. France in the Middle Ages: 987-1460. Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell, 1991.

Ferguson, Niall, ed. Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals. London: Picador, 1977.

Ffoulkes, Charles. The Armourer and His Craft: From the XIth to the XVth Century. 1912. Reprint, Salem, N.H.: Ayer, 1967.

Froissart, Jean. Chronicles of England, France and Spain. Trans. Thomas Johnes. New York: Colonial Press,

– -. Froissart: Chronicles. Trans. Geoffrey Brereton. London: Penguin, 1978. A readable translation in a single volume.

– -. Froissarts Cronycles. Trans. Lord Berniers. Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell, 1927.

Geoffroi de Charny. The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny. Trans. Richard W. Kaeuper and Elspeth Kennedy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.

Gies, Francis and Joseph. Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

Gillmeister, Heiner. Tennis: A Cultural History. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Gimpel, Jean. The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages. London: Penguin Books,

Goetz, Hans-Werner. Life in the Middle Ages. Trans. Albert Wimmer. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press,

Goodrich, Michael E. Violence and Miracle in the Fourteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Henisch, Bridget Ann. Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976.

Hilton, R. H. English and French Towns in Feudal Society. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Horn, Walter, and Ernest Born. The Plan of St. Gall. 3 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

Houston, Mary G. Medieval Costume in England and France: The 13th, 14th and 15th Centuries. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1939.

Huizinga, Johan. The Autumn of the Middle Ages. Trans. Rodney J. Payton and Ulrich Mammitzsch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Huppert, George. After the Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

Hyland, Ann. The Medieval Warhorse. Conshohocken, Pa.: Combined Books, 1994.

Johnson, Eric A., and Eric H. Monkkonen. The Civilization of Crime: Violence in Town and Country since the Middle Ages. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996.

Kaeuper, Richard W. War, Justice and Public Order: England and France in the Later Middle Ages. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.

Keen, Maurice. Chivalry. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

La Sale, Antoine de. Le Petit Jehan de Saintre. Trans. Irvine Gray. 1931. Reprint, Westport, Conn.: Hyperion,

La Tour Landry, Geoffrey de. The Book of the Knight of La Tour Landry. Ed. G. S. Taylor. London: John Hamilton, n.d.

LaBarge, Margaret Wade. Gascony: England's First Colony, 1204-1453. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1980.

Lambert, Joseph B. Traces of the Past: Unraveling the Secrets of Archaeology Through Chemistry. Reading, Mass.: Perseus Books, 1997.

Lodge, Eleanor C. Gascony under English Rule. London: Methuen, 1926.

McFarlane, K. B. The Nobility of Later Medieval England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.

McKisack, May. The Fourteenth Century, 1307-1399. New York: Oxford University Press, 1959.

Mesqui, Jean. Châteaux, Forts et Fortifications en France. Paris: Flammarion Press, 1997.

Muir, Lynette R. Literature and Society in Medieval France. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985.

Murrin, Michael. History and Warfare in Renaissance Epic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Oman, C.W.C. The Art of War in the Middle Ages. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1953.

Origo, Iris. The Merchant of Prato. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.

Orser, Charles E., Jr., and Brian M. Fagan. Historical Archaeology. New York: HarperCollins, 1995.

Ottaway, Patrick. Archaeology in British Towns. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Partington, J. R. A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. See especially the excellent introduction by Bert S. Hall.