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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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Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds
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3.73 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Selected Writings
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3.73 avg rating — 359 ratings
score: 186,
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| 403 |
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Matilda Bone
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Karen Cushman (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 3,640 ratings
score: 185,
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| 403 |
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Crusade (Brethren Trilogy, #2)
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Robyn Young (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 2,590 ratings
score: 185,
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| 403 |
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La loba de Francia (Los Reyes Malditos, #5)
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4.18 avg rating — 7,927 ratings
score: 185,
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| 406 |
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Hugh and Bess: A Love Story
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Susan Higginbotham (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 1,946 ratings
score: 184,
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| 407 |
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Requiem voor de tempeliers (Brethren Trilogy, #3)
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Robyn Young (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 2,229 ratings
score: 183,
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| 408 |
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Eleanor the Queen
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3.79 avg rating — 904 ratings
score: 182,
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| 408 |
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Robert the Bruce: King of Scots
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3.93 avg rating — 752 ratings
score: 182,
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| 408 |
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The Lady and the Unicorn
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Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 47,088 ratings
score: 182,
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| 411 |
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The Sanctuary Seeker (Crowner John Mystery #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
score: 181,
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| 412 |
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The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity
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3.84 avg rating — 287 ratings
score: 180,
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| 412 |
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Girl in a Cage (Stuart Quartet, #2)
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Jane Yolen (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 2,266 ratings
score: 180,
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| 412 |
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The Saga of Thidrek of Bern
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Edward R. Haymes (translator)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 180,
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| 412 |
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The Fool's Tale
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Nicole Galland (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 1,791 ratings
score: 180,
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| 416 |
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The World Is Not Enough
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4.09 avg rating — 252 ratings
score: 179,
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| 416 |
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Love, Death and Money in the Pays d'Oc
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3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 179,
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| 416 |
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Raptor
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4.11 avg rating — 1,907 ratings
score: 179,
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| 416 |
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Sword at Sunset
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4.09 avg rating — 2,107 ratings
score: 179,
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| 420 |
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The White Company
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3.89 avg rating — 4,733 ratings
score: 178,
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| 421 |
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The Journeyer
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4.32 avg rating — 4,057 ratings
score: 177,
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| 421 |
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Hawkwood: The Diabolical Englishman
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3.92 avg rating — 374 ratings
score: 177,
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| 423 |
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Fortune Like the Moon (Hawkenlye Mysteries, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 1,654 ratings
score: 176,
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| 424 |
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Necropolis: London and Its Dead
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Catharine Arnold (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 2,223 ratings
score: 175,
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| 424 |
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Bloodfeud: Murder and Revenge in Anglo-Saxon England
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3.82 avg rating — 185 ratings
score: 175,
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| 426 |
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The Chivalrous Society
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3.89 avg rating — 65 ratings
score: 174,
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| 427 |
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Hamnet
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Maggie O'Farrell (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 317,385 ratings
score: 173,
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| 428 |
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The Virgin Widow
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Anne O'Brien (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 2,702 ratings
score: 172,
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| 429 |
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Women in Anglo-Saxon England
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3.79 avg rating — 42 ratings
score: 171,
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| 429 |
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Murder in the Cathedral
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3.71 avg rating — 12,236 ratings
score: 171,
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| 431 |
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Ottoman
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4.30 avg rating — 246 ratings
score: 170,
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| 431 |
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The Complete Sagas of Icelanders, including 49 Tales (5 Volumes)
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Viðar Hreinsson (Editor)
4.50 avg rating — 40 ratings
score: 170,
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| 433 |
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Ghostly Murders (Stories told on Pilgrimage from London to Canterbury, #4)
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4.29 avg rating — 492 ratings
score: 169,
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| 434 |
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The Spider King
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3.92 avg rating — 83 ratings
score: 168,
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| 434 |
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Worst Jobs In History: The Most Unenviable Jobs Of The Last Two Thousand Years
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3.82 avg rating — 258 ratings
score: 168,
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| 436 |
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Against Walls
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Bryn Hammond (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 37 ratings
score: 167,
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| 437 |
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Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias
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4.02 avg rating — 467 ratings
score: 166,
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3 people voted
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| 437 |
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Avalon
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3.90 avg rating — 4,487 ratings
score: 166,
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| 437 |
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Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom
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4.05 avg rating — 295 ratings
score: 166,
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| 440 |
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A Burnable Book (John Gower, #1)
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Bruce Holsinger (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 4,542 ratings
score: 165,
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| 440 |
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King John
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3.35 avg rating — 7,826 ratings
score: 165,
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| 442 |
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Bones of the Hills (Conqueror, #3)
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4.38 avg rating — 22,282 ratings
score: 163,
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| 442 |
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The Forbidden Queen
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Anne O'Brien (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 2,882 ratings
score: 163,
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| 444 |
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Poison in the Blood: The Memoirs of Lucrezia Borgia
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M.G. Scarsbrook (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 295 ratings
score: 162,
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| 444 |
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Myself as Witness
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3.86 avg rating — 100 ratings
score: 162,
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| 446 |
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The Winter Mantle
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Elizabeth Chadwick (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 2,317 ratings
score: 161,
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| 446 |
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The Inbetween
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Sue Kendrick (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 161,
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| 448 |
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God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215
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3.78 avg rating — 949 ratings
score: 160,
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| 449 |
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The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
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4.08 avg rating — 863 ratings
score: 159,
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| 449 |
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Quentin Durward
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3.79 avg rating — 1,471 ratings
score: 159,
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Medieval Scandinavia: From Conversion to Reformation, circa 800-1500 (Volume 17) (The Nordic Series)
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3.71 avg rating — 78 ratings
score: 158,
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| 451 |
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Outlaw (The Outlaw Chronicles, #1)
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Angus Donald (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 4,384 ratings
score: 158,
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| 451 |
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Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession (Six Tudor Queens #2)
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4.14 avg rating — 12,273 ratings
score: 158,
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| 454 |
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Ring Out Bow Bells
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4.17 avg rating — 77 ratings
score: 157,
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| 454 |
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Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered
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3.41 avg rating — 495 ratings
score: 157,
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| 454 |
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Shroud for the Archbishop (Sister Fidelma, #2)
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4.01 avg rating — 2,970 ratings
score: 157,
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On the Song of Songs 1 (On the Song of Songs, #1)
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4.32 avg rating — 88 ratings
score: 157,
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| 458 |
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Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen (Six Tudor Queens, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 17,409 ratings
score: 155,
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| 458 |
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The Passion of Dolssa
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Julie Berry (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 7,236 ratings
score: 155,
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| 458 |
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De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen
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4.31 avg rating — 5,666 ratings
score: 155,
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| 461 |
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The Religion (Tannhauser, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 3,495 ratings
score: 154,
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| 462 |
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The Medieval Underworld
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3.59 avg rating — 218 ratings
score: 153,
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| 463 |
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Year of Three Kings: 1483
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3.71 avg rating — 68 ratings
score: 151,
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| 463 |
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Hawk Quest (Vallon, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 1,489 ratings
score: 151,
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| 465 |
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
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4.42 avg rating — 1,562 ratings
score: 150,
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| 466 |
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The Cross (Kristin Lavransdatter, #3)
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4.34 avg rating — 3,982 ratings
score: 148,
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| 467 |
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The History of the Danes, Books I-IX: I. English Text; II. Commentary
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4.04 avg rating — 187 ratings
score: 146,
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The Wife (Kristin Lavransdatter, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 4,949 ratings
score: 146,
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| 469 |
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The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
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4.02 avg rating — 189 ratings
score: 145,
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| 469 |
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The Life of Merlin
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3.60 avg rating — 311 ratings
score: 145,
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| 469 |
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The Tiger Queens: the Women of Genghis Khan
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Stephanie Marie Thornton (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 1,753 ratings
score: 145,
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| 469 |
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The Last Hours (Black Death, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 8,416 ratings
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The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
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4.30 avg rating — 4,753 ratings
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| 474 |
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The Disputed Crown (Norman Quartet, #3)
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4.20 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 9,596 ratings
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The Spanish Ballad
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4.23 avg rating — 1,627 ratings
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| 476 |
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King John (Yale English Monarchs Series)
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3.96 avg rating — 120 ratings
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| 476 |
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D'Aulaires' Norse Gods and Giants
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4.39 avg rating — 4,656 ratings
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Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages
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3.99 avg rating — 1,069 ratings
score: 142,
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| 479 |
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The Passionate Brood
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3.54 avg rating — 293 ratings
score: 142,
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| 479 |
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Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
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3.82 avg rating — 1,701 ratings
score: 142,
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Nobel streven: Het onwaarschijnlijke maar waargebeurde verhaal van ridder Jan van Brederode
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4.28 avg rating — 334 ratings
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Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection
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3.72 avg rating — 1,748 ratings
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| 484 |
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Bluebeard: The Life and Crimes of Gilles de Rais
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3.85 avg rating — 75 ratings
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| 484 |
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An Introduction to Old Norse
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4.13 avg rating — 123 ratings
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| 484 |
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Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions
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4.14 avg rating — 909 ratings
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| 484 |
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Robin Hood
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3.71 avg rating — 297 ratings
score: 141,
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| 488 |
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The Courts of Love (Queens of England, #5)
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3.94 avg rating — 1,925 ratings
score: 140,
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| 488 |
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The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
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Katherine Arden (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 109,042 ratings
score: 140,
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| 490 |
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages, 350-950
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Robert Fossier (Editor)
4.10 avg rating — 39 ratings
score: 139,
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| 491 |
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Samarkand
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Amin Maalouf (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 30,928 ratings
score: 138,
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| 491 |
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The Book of Beasts: Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the 12th Century
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T.H. White (Translator)
4.07 avg rating — 375 ratings
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| 491 |
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Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle that Made England
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4.13 avg rating — 2,059 ratings
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The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy
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Norman Kretzmann (Editor)
3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 137,
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| 494 |
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Four Sisters, All Queens
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Sherry Jones (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 4,348 ratings
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| 496 |
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The Plantagenet Prelude (Plantagenet Saga, #1)
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3.88 avg rating — 1,826 ratings
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| 496 |
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Changeling (Order of Darkness, #1)
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Philippa Gregory (Goodreads Author)
3.29 avg rating — 10,973 ratings
score: 135,
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| 498 |
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Tales of the Elders of Ireland
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3.73 avg rating — 266 ratings
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The Tainted Relic (The Medieval Murderers, #1)
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3.71 avg rating — 1,166 ratings
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Highroad to the Stake: A Tale of Witchcraft
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3.81 avg rating — 36 ratings
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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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