Bibliography

The Rabenstein Saga is reasonably historically accurate. All the towns, villages, and even the Covenant itself really existed in the Middle Ages. (Today for example, Rabenstein is a hotel - the original Medieval walls lie in ruins around the more contemporary 19th century-era structure. Medieval banquets are even held there in some summers, and someday I hope to attend one!)

Most of the books used as source material for the Saga were found in the libraries of Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, NC), and the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC). Special thanks to Wesley Schwein for assistance with Steiermark Tourist Information during his stay at Graz in 1996.

Geography and Maps

Allen, Nicholas, ed. Fodor's Austria. Random House, 1987.
Beattie & Pepper. A Visitor's Guide to Hungary. Moreland Publishing Company Ltd, 1994. ISBN 086190-380-3.
Chwaszcza, Joachim, ed. Insight Guide to the Italian Alps: Southern Tirol, Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
Klein, Wilhelm, ed. Insight Guide to Austria. Hofer Press, 1992.
Kraus, Adi. Driving Tours of Austria. Prentice Hall, 1995.
Michelin. Osterreich Travel Map. 1994.
Nable, Franz. Ostereich. Konigstein im Taunus, 1958.
Parsons, Nicholas T. Insider's Guide to Hungary. Hippocrene Books, 1992.
Sattin and Franquet, Fodor's Exploring the Greek Islands , Fodor's Publishing, 1997
Wanklyn, Harriet. Czechoslovakia. Praeger 1954.
Whitman, Sidney. Views of Austria. Putnam, 1901.
Osterricische Karte 1:50,000 Nummer 163: Voitsberg. BMN 6706, 1990.
Grazer Bergland Schockl-Teichalm Stubenbergsee (F&B #131), Freytag & Berndt, 1990.

Roman Sources

Lempriére, John. Lempriére's Classical Dictionary. Bracken Books, London, 1994. ISBN 1-85891-228-8.
Randers-Pehrson, J.D. Barbarians and Romans: The Birth Struggle of Europe, AD 400-700. University of Oklahoma Press, 1983.
Reinhold & Lewis. Roman Civilization Sourcebook I: The Republic. Columbia Press, 1951.

Celtic Sources

Bellingham, David. An Introduction to Celtic Mythology. Grange Books, London, 1996. ISBN 1-85627-805-0. Rhys, M.A. Celtic Folklore. Clarendon Press, 1971.
Rutherford, Ward. Celtic Mythology. Sterling Publishing, 1987.
Stewart, R.J. Celtic Gods Celtic Goddesses. Blandford, 1990. ISBN 0-7137-2113-8. Zaczek, Iain. Chronicles of the Celts. Sterling Publishing, NY, 1996. ISBN 0-8069-9949-7.

General Medieval and Historical Sources

Amt, Emilie. Women's Lives in Medieval Europe. Routledge Press, 1993.
Barraclough, Geoffrey. The Medieval Papacy. W.W. Norton & Company, NY, 1979. ISBN 0-393-95100-6 . Brooke, Rosalind & Christopher. Popular Religion in the Middle Ages: Western Europe 1000-1300. Barnes & Noble Books, 1996. ISBN 0-76070-093-1.
Norman, A.V.B. The Medieval Soldier. Barnes & Noble Books NY, 1993. ISBN 1-56619-381-8. 'Mythic European Sources and Bauml, Franz H. Medieval Civilization in Germany 800-1273. Praeger, 1969.
Bishop, Morris. The Middle Ages, Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
Freed, J.B. Noble bondsmen : Ministerial marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg, 1100-1343 . Ithaca, 1995.
Gies, Joseph and Frances. Life in a Medieval City. Harper Perennial, 1981.
Hall, Elvajean. Land and People of Czecholslovakia . Lippincott Co., 1966.
Holmes, Geroge, ed. The Oxford History of Medieval Europe. Oxford Press, 1988.
Krofta, Kamil. Short History of Bohemia. McBride& Co., 1934.
Hall, Elvajean. Land and People of Czecholslovakia. Lippincott Co., 1966.
Rösener, Werner (traslated by Alexander Stützer). Peasants in the Middle Ages. University of Illinois Press,1992.
Sandoval, Annette. The Directory of Saints: A Concise Guide to Patron Saints. Penguin Books, 1997. ISBN 0-451-18686-9.
Tierney, Brian. The Middle Ages: Sources of Medieval History Volume I (5th edition). McGraw-Hill, 1992.
Tierney, Brian. Crisis of Church & State 1050-1300, University of Toronto, 1964.

Mythic European Sources and Folklore

Baring-Gould, Sabine. Myths of the Middle Ages, Blandford, 1996.
Biedermann, Hans. Dictionary of Symbolism: Cultural Icons and the Meanings behind them , Meridian (James Hulbert, translator), 1994. ISBN 0-452-01118-3 Briggs, Katherine. Encyclopedia of Faeries . Pantheon Books, 1976.
Flint, Valerie I.J. The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe . Princeton, 1991.
Gurevich, Aron (Janos Bak & Paul Hollingsworth, translators). Medieval Popular Culture: Problems of Belief and Perception. Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-521-30369-9. Kieckhefer, Richard. Magic in the Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-521-30941. Russel, Jeffrey Burton. Witchcraft in the Middle Ages. Cornell University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8014-9289-0.

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