"This illustrated book explores the impact of medieval imagery on three hundred years of visual culture up until the present day"--

Describes the late Middle Ages, the people, working conditions, village life, religion, and conquests.

In the fifth century A.D., as order retreats from Britain with the departing Roman Army, orphaned, twelve-year-old Kringle determines to rescue his beloved guardian from the evil goblins who terrorize the countryside by kidnapping and enslaving humans and, in the process, with the help of elves and others along the way, discovers his true destiny.