The Saracen Lamp Author:Ruth M. Arthur, Margery Gill (Illustrator) This is a book that spans six hundred years. It begins with the marriage, in about 1300, of fifteen year old Melisande, a girl of southern France to Sir Hugh de Hervey, six years older than herself and an English knight and landowner. With her to England, Melisande takes a very special lamp, a lamp of gold and jewels, made for her by a saracen s... more »ervant in her father's household. The lamp becomes the spirit and treasure of the de Hervey household.« less