by Rob Shearer (Author), Cyndy Shearer (Author)
A Companion to Famous Men of the Middle Ages (also published by Greenleaf).
The thirty-four lessons in this guide are a gentle introduction to the history of the Middle Ages, using what Charlotte Mason called a "living book." This guide will show you how to use the biographies in Famous Men of the Middle Ages with students in a wide range of grade levels. Key figures from church history (Augustine, Patrick, Francis) as well as kings, knights, and travellers are covered with lots of suggestions for supplemental books and activities.
Make sure you get the Greenleaf version of Famous Men of the Middle Ages. Its the only one that includes the five new chapters (on Augustine, Patrick, Francis, Dominic, etc) written by Rob Shearer and added to the original 1904 edition.
Author Biography
Cyndy Shearer has a BA degree in English (summa cum laude) from Queens College (Charlotte, NC) and an MA in English from the University of Virginia. She has taught elementary, high school, and college students and home-schooled all eleven of her children.
Cyndy and her husband, Rob, live near the town of Lebanon in middle Tennessee in the home where they raised their eleven -children. They are the founders and co-directors of the Francis Schaeffer Study Center in Mt. Juliet, Cyndy TN, where Cyndy teaches literature, and Rob teaches history to homeschooled high school students.