Medieval

The Medieval period is subdivided into the Early (c. 476-1000), the High (c. 1001-1300), and the Late (c. 1301–1500) Middle Ages.
The Medieval period usually refers to Europe, but books set in Asia or North Africa within this time-frame may also be included as these areas were part of the interconnected Medieval world.

Medieval Europe offers the historical backdrop of the grandeur of medieval royalty contrasted with the stark struggle for survival of the common folk. Medieval historical fiction features, among others, conflicts between Christianity and the remnants of paganism, the open warfare
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The Starving Saints
The Pretender
Lady’s Knight
The Stone Witch of Florence
The Captive Kingdom (Ascendance, #4)
Once Was Willem
Written on the Dark
His Black Tongue
Rapture
The Shattered Castle (Ascendance, #5)
Bright I Burn
A Most Forgettable Girl (Brides of Karadok, #7)
Escape from Falaise (Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger, #5)
Priestess (Gods of Tintar, #1)
Ambush at Sorato (Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger, #7)
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Name of the Rose
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
The Song of Roland
Inferno
The Decameron
A Kingdom of Dreams (Westmoreland, #1)
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
The Bride (Lairds' Fiancées, #1)
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Learn About History
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805 books — 1,263 voters
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Best Medieval History Books
804 books — 315 voters


Arthur Conan Doyle
The fantastic graces of Chivalry lay upon the surface of life, but beneath it was a half-savage population, fierce and animal, with little ruth or mercy.
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel

Ian Mortimer
‎W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past might be a ruin or an archive but the means whereby we may understand it is--and always will be--ourselves.
Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

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