Most Read This Week In 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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Most Read This Week Tagged "Medieval"

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 Missing Prince (Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger, #4)
Hellmouth
Queen Macbeth
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400–1066
Never Leave Me (The Waters of Time, #2)
A Little Trickerie
Wolves of Winter
The Stern Chase (Brotherband Chronicles, #9)
Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)
Katheryn Howard: the Scandalous Queen (Six Tudor Queens, #5)
An Inconvenient Vow (Brides of Karadok, #5)
The Isle in the Silver Sea
Le Fay (Morgan le Fay, #2)
Arazan's Wolves (Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger, #6)
The Good Wife of Bath
Beneath a Crescent Shadow (The Balkan Legends, #1)
Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife (Six Tudor Queens, #6)
A Contracted Spouse for the Prizefighter (Victorian Prizefighters #3)
A Forest of Vanity and Valour (Levanthria, #1)
The Highlander's Return (Highland Brides, #12)
The Shadowed Land (The Lost Queen, #3)
In Her Highlander's Bed (Highland Brides #11)
Mere
Court of Swans (The Dericott Tales, #1)
The City of Tears (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #2)
Loving Her Highland Thief (Time to Love a Highlander, #1)
Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe
A Court of Betrayal
Arcanist (The Spellmonger #12)
The Book of Gothel: Memoir of a Witch
Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond
Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives
Execution (Giordano Bruno, #6)
The King's Jewel
The Huntress (The Huntress #1)
The Widow and the Highlander (Tales from the Highlands, #1)
The Land of the Living and the Dead (Gael Song, #3)
The Royal Rebel (Jeanette of Kent Duology #1)
Hollow
The Shield and the Thistle (The Grey Tower Chronicles, #1)
Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror
The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I (Tudor Rose #3)
Lady of Disguise (The Dericott Tales, #6)
Her Reluctant Highlander Husband (Clan MacKinlay, #2)
Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women
The Swift and the Harrier
The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
The Words of Kings and Prophets (Gael Song, #2)
Alchemy (Giordano Bruno, #7)
House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France
Buried: An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
Mortal Monarchs: 1000 Years of Royal Deaths
WolfeHeart (De Wolfe Pack Generations, #1)
The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
Three Fires
Dark Earth
Her Accidental Highlander Husband (Clan MacKinlay, #1)
The Traitor of Sherwood Forest
The Burnings
The Book of Roads and Kingdoms
Stay with Me (Waters of Time, #3)
Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
The Dream Weavers
My Highland Warrior (Warriors of the Highlands, #1)
How to Survive in Medieval England
Highland Thief (The Sons of Gregor MacLeod, #5)
Highlander's Heart (Called by a Highlander, #3)
Arthur (The Arthurian Tales, #3)
The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
Uhtred's Feast: Inside the World of The Last Kingdom
Cuddy
And Be My Love (Far From Home, #1)
Shadow Fallen (Dream-Hunters, #6; Hellchaser, #8; Dark-Hunter, #28)
Gold
Furieuse (French Edition)
Estuary (Oceans of Time #1)
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
The Radiance of the Moon (The Hebridean Shield, #1)
The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
The Highlander’s Wild Flame (Brotherhood of Solway Moss #1)
By Treason We Perish (The Simon Merrivale Mysteries #1)
The Third Law of Cultivation (Qi=MC^2 #3)
Canticle
Portal to Nova Roma (Portal to Nova Roma, #1)
Horizon of War: A Medieval Fantasy

Christine de Pizan
How was she created? I'm not sure if you realize this, but it was in God's image. How can anybody dare to speak ill of something which bears such a noble imprint? ...more
Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies

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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