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Best Middle Ages Books
The best books that are about, set in, or written in the Middle Ages time period. (The 5th century to the 15th century)
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Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
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3.79 avg rating — 10,128 ratings
score: 507,
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Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
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3.84 avg rating — 4,381 ratings
score: 507,
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A Concise History of the Crusades
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Thomas F. Madden (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 423 ratings
score: 497,
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Silence
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3.89 avg rating — 1,202 ratings
score: 496,
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A Kingdom of Dreams (Westmoreland, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 55,899 ratings
score: 492,
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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4.06 avg rating — 81,796 ratings
score: 485,
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Richard II
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3.78 avg rating — 27,227 ratings
score: 481,
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Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women
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4.20 avg rating — 860 ratings
score: 480,
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Revelations of Divine Love
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3.97 avg rating — 7,793 ratings
score: 477,
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| 210 |
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King Henry IV, Part 1
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3.80 avg rating — 32,714 ratings
score: 471,
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| 211 |
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The Seeing Stone
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3.67 avg rating — 5,393 ratings
score: 469,
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| 212 |
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Y Gododdin
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4.22 avg rating — 378 ratings
score: 464,
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Brethren (Brethren Trilogy, #1)
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Robyn Young (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 4,387 ratings
score: 460,
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| 214 |
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La reina estrangulada (Los Reyes Malditos, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 12,423 ratings
score: 457,
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The Agony and the Ecstasy: The Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
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4.09 avg rating — 94,469 ratings
score: 453,
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The Whale Road (Oathsworn, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 3,100 ratings
score: 450,
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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
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3.91 avg rating — 2,815 ratings
score: 436,
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The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950 - 1350
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3.96 avg rating — 701 ratings
score: 432,
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Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381
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Dan Jones (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 1,895 ratings
score: 429,
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The Last Templar (Knights Templar, #1)
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Michael Jecks (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 3,219 ratings
score: 425,
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The Whipping Boy
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3.60 avg rating — 28,394 ratings
score: 422,
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The Cross of Lead (Crispin, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 28,012 ratings
score: 422,
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Mosque
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4.13 avg rating — 496 ratings
score: 419,
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The Conquest
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Elizabeth Chadwick (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 1,841 ratings
score: 411,
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Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade
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3.96 avg rating — 2,014 ratings
score: 410,
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Instruction Manual for the 21st Century Samurai
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Alexei Maxim Russell (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 98 ratings
score: 400,
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4 people voted
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| 227 |
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The Anglo-Saxons
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4.05 avg rating — 636 ratings
score: 396,
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| 228 |
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A Place Beyond Courage (William Marshal, #1)
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Elizabeth Chadwick (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 4,612 ratings
score: 391,
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
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3.75 avg rating — 30,179 ratings
score: 390,
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The Quest of the Holy Grail
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3.90 avg rating — 2,285 ratings
score: 389,
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Byzantium: The Apogee
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4.42 avg rating — 1,263 ratings
score: 384,
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Mohammed and Charlemagne
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4.01 avg rating — 703 ratings
score: 382,
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The Heart of the Lion (Plantagenet Saga, #3)
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3.91 avg rating — 979 ratings
score: 382,
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The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
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Katherine Arden (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 226,280 ratings
score: 380,
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4 people voted
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Byzantium
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4.21 avg rating — 5,365 ratings
score: 378,
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Absolution by Murder (Sister Fidelma, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 5,911 ratings
score: 377,
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Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway
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4.19 avg rating — 1,399 ratings
score: 377,
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The Death of King Arthur
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4.01 avg rating — 1,680 ratings
score: 375,
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Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles
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Margaret George (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 14,895 ratings
score: 374,
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Gunnar's Daughter
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4.18 avg rating — 1,875 ratings
score: 373,
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The Journey Through Wales / The Description of Wales
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3.84 avg rating — 462 ratings
score: 367,
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Women of the Twelfth Century, Vol 1: Eleanor of Aquitaine and Six Others
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3.81 avg rating — 139 ratings
score: 365,
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The Princes in the Tower
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3.87 avg rating — 7,656 ratings
score: 365,
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 75,442 ratings
score: 365,
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Anne Boleyn
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3.96 avg rating — 1,250 ratings
score: 362,
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The Time of Singing (William Marshal, #4; Bigod, #1)
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Elizabeth Chadwick (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 3,827 ratings
score: 360,
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4 people voted
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Edwin: High King of Britain (The Northumbrian Thrones #1)
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Edoardo Albert (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 429 ratings
score: 359,
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The King's Curse (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #7)
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Philippa Gregory (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 31,846 ratings
score: 358,
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Hood (King Raven, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 15,602 ratings
score: 357,
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Shadows and Strongholds
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Elizabeth Chadwick (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 3,349 ratings
score: 355,
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The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 48,065 ratings
score: 354,
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The Age of Faith (The Story of Civilization, #4)
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4.38 avg rating — 1,631 ratings
score: 349,
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Medieval Lives: Eight Charismatic Men and Women of the Middle Ages
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3.46 avg rating — 194 ratings
score: 347,
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The Battle of Maldon
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3.67 avg rating — 474 ratings
score: 347,
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The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, The Power Behind Five English Thrones
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Thomas Asbridge (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 4,735 ratings
score: 347,
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The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother
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Philippa Gregory (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 3,721 ratings
score: 343,
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A Medieval Home Companion
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Tania Bayard (Editor, Translator)
3.79 avg rating — 227 ratings
score: 338,
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The Last Apocalypse: Europe at the Year 1000 A.D.
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3.72 avg rating — 483 ratings
score: 337,
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The Book of Eleanor: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
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3.79 avg rating — 1,572 ratings
score: 337,
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The Suffolk Trilogy: Knight's Acre / The Homecoming / The Lonely Furrow (Suffolk, #1-3)
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4.39 avg rating — 94 ratings
score: 336,
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Erec and Enide
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3.60 avg rating — 1,524 ratings
score: 335,
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A King's Ransom
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4.37 avg rating — 3,836 ratings
score: 333,
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The Riverside Chaucer
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4.19 avg rating — 8,204 ratings
score: 331,
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The Art of Courtly Love
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3.47 avg rating — 786 ratings
score: 330,
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Matilda Empress
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Lise Arin (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 89 ratings
score: 330,
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The House on the Strand
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3.82 avg rating — 14,368 ratings
score: 330,
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The Knight, the Lady & the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France
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3.92 avg rating — 288 ratings
score: 327,
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Below the Salt
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4.10 avg rating — 824 ratings
score: 326,
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The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
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Thomas Asbridge (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 6,767 ratings
score: 325,
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The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy
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4.01 avg rating — 241 ratings
score: 322,
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Uppity Women of Medieval Times
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3.76 avg rating — 1,043 ratings
score: 322,
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The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki
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4.09 avg rating — 1,136 ratings
score: 321,
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The Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era
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3.34 avg rating — 472 ratings
score: 319,
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Purgatorio (The Divine Comedy, #2)
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4.05 avg rating — 29,347 ratings
score: 319,
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Pearl and Sir Orfeo
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J.R.R. Tolkien (Translator)
3.76 avg rating — 84 ratings
score: 317,
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The Trumpeter of Krakow
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3.75 avg rating — 7,803 ratings
score: 317,
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A Play of Isaac (Joliffe the Player, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 1,150 ratings
score: 316,
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To Defy a King (William Marshal, #5; Bigod, #2)
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Elizabeth Chadwick (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 4,532 ratings
score: 315,
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Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages
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3.89 avg rating — 317 ratings
score: 311,
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War in the Middle Ages
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3.67 avg rating — 177 ratings
score: 310,
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Everyman and Other Miracle and Morality Plays
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3.30 avg rating — 5,790 ratings
score: 309,
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Otto of the Silver Hand
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3.82 avg rating — 3,088 ratings
score: 309,
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The Summer Queen (Eleanor of Aquitane, #1)
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Elizabeth Chadwick (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 11,410 ratings
score: 306,
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Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The Complete English Translation of Her Classic Work on Health and Healing
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4.17 avg rating — 272 ratings
score: 301,
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Celtic Blood
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James John Loftus (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 128 ratings
score: 300,
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Galiene: A Twelfth-Century Tale of Love and War (The Butterfly Chronicles Book 1)
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Dawn Hammill (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 300,
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A Day in a Medieval City
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3.56 avg rating — 210 ratings
score: 298,
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La Gualchiera di Fabriano (Una Cronaca Medievale, #1)
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Gianni Perticaroli (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 297,
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Longbow (The Saga of Roland Inness #1)
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Wayne Grant (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 2,123 ratings
score: 297,
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Il Giudizio di Dio (Una Cronaca Medievale, #2)
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Gianni Perticaroli (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 296,
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Queen By Right
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Anne Easter Smith (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 3,938 ratings
score: 295,
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Women's Lives in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook
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Emilie Amt (Editor)
3.98 avg rating — 203 ratings
score: 294,
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The Hunt
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Robin Ingle (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 294,
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The Crusades
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3.99 avg rating — 299 ratings
score: 292,
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The Water Devil (Margaret of Ashbury, #3)
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4.05 avg rating — 1,172 ratings
score: 292,
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Stormbird (Wars of the Roses, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 16,557 ratings
score: 292,
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The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture
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4.31 avg rating — 254 ratings
score: 286,
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The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century
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4.22 avg rating — 511 ratings
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The Witch of Cologne
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Tobsha Learner (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 2,221 ratings
score: 280,
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Henry VI, Part 1
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3.54 avg rating — 9,533 ratings
score: 280,
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Jul 02, 2009 01:57PM
If you are talking about middle ages historical fiction how come Bernard Cornwall is not one of the mentioned books/author??? He is definitely the champ of writing on this period!
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The list is ABOUT the Middle Ages (i.e., secondary sources), not books FROM the middle-Ages (i.e., primary sources). Thus, the Mabinogion, Bede, Beowulf,Boccaccio, Chaucer, Marie de France, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ought not to be on the list.
Brett,Which particular titles of Bernard Cornwell 's would you suggest? I've never read any of his works, but I've had friends suggest him.
Also, you know you can add books to the list and vote for them, right?
IW,I'm of a like mind, I only voted (initially) for secondary works and historical novels but I could see a case for including works from the MA as well...but you're correct than in that case the list title probably should be slightly changed...
brett, I couldn't agree more! I clicked on this list expecting to see loads of bernard cornwell! He is really an awesome writer. I really think his books define the genre.
Steve,
I would suggest Vagabond, The Archer's Tale, and Heretic. I believe these three books comprise The Grail Quest series?? They are so amazing! Well, I am being a bit partial with these suggestions; they are the only Cornwell I've read. I'm sure there are other great titles as well..
...o yea and IWB...you're a dipshit. This is a list ok, "books that are about, set in, or written in the Middle Ages," therefore the list should include books FROM the Middle Ages..moron..
It's easy enough to add books to the list - the form is over at the right-hand side of the page ("find/add books to list")
I loved the Grail Series by Cornwell. As well as Azincourt.
"The Marlowe Conspiracy" is set in 16th century - it's hardly middle ages.
Foucault's Pendulum seems like a stretch to me. The novel is set in the 20th century, and though the characters spend a lot of time discussing the Templars, the book is still not medieval.
"Agricola and the Germania" by Tacitus should be deleted as it was written in the 1st century CE, and "A Canticle for Leibowitz" is set in the future after a nuclear war, so again not really MA and should be deleted from the list.
Andrew wrote: "Foucault's Pendulum seems like a stretch to me. The novel is set in the 20th century, and though the characters spend a lot of time discussing the Templars, the book is still not medieval."
I agree insted the name of the rose should be right in the middle age
The term 'Middle Ages' is only used for a Western European phenomena, as far as I know. Yet there are books on this list which are not set in during the Middle Ages of Western Europe, like The Tale of Genji (#149), for instance. A great book, but I very much doubt whether it should be on this list? Same goes for The Pillow Book (#297).Andrew wrote: "Foucault's Pendulum seems like a stretch to me. The novel is set in the 20th century, and though the characters spend a lot of time discussing the Templars, the book is still not medieval."
I've read the book and agree, which is why I haven't voted for it.
Beatriz wrote: "I agree insted the name of the rose should be right in the middle age". The Name of the Rose (#484) is indeed set in the Middle Ages.
IWB wrote: "The list is ABOUT the Middle Ages (i.e., secondary sources), not books FROM the middle-Ages (i.e., primary sources).
Seems the description of the Listopia has been adapted since your comment, as it now also includes "written in the Middle Ages time period" (which is why I voted for some written during that period).
I removed A Canticle for Leibowitz. It is a post apocalyptic science fiction book. Its plot involves a time way in the future that includes monasteries similar to those from the actual Middle Ages. I can understand where some readers might think this book should be included because of this.
Ken Follett's Fall of Giants doesn't seem to fit this list. (#301 today)
#509, How to Beg for Cigarettes. It doesn't appear to fit this topic, but maybe I'm missing something here...
I'd say both should be removed from this list.
I don't think Wolf Hall (#109) should be here, and neither should Bring Up the Bodies (#173), its sequel, as they are not set in the Middle Ages (5th to 15th century). Nor should L'Œuvre au noir (#400) as it is set in the 16th century.Does The Last Battle (#597) count?
It is too long ago since I've read it but I seem to remember Foucault's Pendulum (#38) was set outside the Middle Ages as well. But like I said, it's too long ago to be sure (see also my earlier message).
The Return of Martin Guerre should not be on here, as it is Early Modern history.
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