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A lifelong fascination with fairy tales and legends set Kim Rendfeld on her quest to write fiction.

She grew up in New Jersey and earned her bachelor’s degree from Indiana University. A former journalist, Kim spent almost twenty years in public relations for universities before her retirement. She has also written four novels set in early medieval times.

Kim, a member of the Historical Novel Society, lives in Illinois with her husband and their spoiled cats. The couple has a daughter and four grandchildren.

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An Unusual Adoption in 8th-Century Lombardy

In 737, Pippin, for all intents and purposes a Frankish prince, traveled to Lombard King Luitprand’s court, where the monarch adopted him as a son and bestowed him with gifts. As a show of loyalty, Pippin cut his hair in the Lombard style before returning home.

What makes this event even more unusual is that Luitprand already had an heir, his nephew and co-ruler Hildeprand, and Luitprand had no int

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