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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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Outlaws of Ravenhurst
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4.31 avg rating — 334 ratings
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The Junius Manuscript
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The Quest for Merlin
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3.83 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Middeleeuwse verhalen uit de Lage Landen
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Ingrid Biesheuvel (translator)
3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Richard III King of Controversy: Updated 2015
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El ejército de Dios (Trilogía Almohade, #2)
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4.16 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Constantinople: The Forgotten Empire
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4.30 avg rating — 602 ratings
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Battle: A History of Combat and Culture
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3.90 avg rating — 223 ratings
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The Winter Prince (The Lion Hunters, #1)
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Elizabeth Wein (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 1,652 ratings
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Gwyneth and the Thief
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3.82 avg rating — 781 ratings
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Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3)
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4.26 avg rating — 32,285 ratings
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The evening and the morning : the prequel to the pillars of the earth, a kingsbridge novell
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 129,893 ratings
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Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 3: The Middle Ages (Witchcraft and Magic in Europe
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Bengt Ankarloo (Editor)
4.06 avg rating — 54 ratings
score: 96,
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The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry
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3.55 avg rating — 547 ratings
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Tristan and Isolde
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3.63 avg rating — 1,292 ratings
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The Blanket of the Dark
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3.82 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Red Falcons of Tremoine
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4.19 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Exeter Book: An Anthology of Anglo-Saxon Poetry & Literature
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4.21 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Deutsche Lyrik des Mittelalters.
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The Medieval Garden
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3.91 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Agent of Byzantium
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3.79 avg rating — 1,214 ratings
score: 96,
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The Long Fall (The Hawk and the Dove #3)
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Penelope Wilcock (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 392 ratings
score: 96,
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Babylonne (Pagan Chronicles #5)
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3.38 avg rating — 402 ratings
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De ridders van de Ronde Tafel : Arturverhalen uit de Lage Landen
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Ingrid Biesheuvel (translator)
3.54 avg rating — 26 ratings
score: 96,
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The Medieval Housewife: & Other Women of the Middle Ages
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Toni Mount (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 88 ratings
score: 96,
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The Wicked and the Just
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J. Anderson Coats (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 2,119 ratings
score: 96,
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The Dark Ages
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4.14 avg rating — 555 ratings
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Cur Deus Homo: Why God Became Man
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4.08 avg rating — 749 ratings
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Catedrales: Las biografías desconocidas de los grandes templos de España
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4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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God's Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 1: The Origins to 1795
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4.22 avg rating — 783 ratings
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Los venenos de la corona (Los Reyes Malditos, #3)
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4.21 avg rating — 10,307 ratings
score: 96,
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The Buried Giant
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 118,828 ratings
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Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake #2)
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4.30 avg rating — 31,958 ratings
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O Nome da Rosa
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4.14 avg rating — 389,664 ratings
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The Cornerstone
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4.06 avg rating — 136 ratings
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The Medieval Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Medieval Period
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G.R. Evans (Editor)
3.81 avg rating — 37 ratings
score: 95,
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A History of Philosophy, Volume 2: Medieval Philosophy, from Augustine to Duns Scotus
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4.19 avg rating — 1,128 ratings
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Carnival in Romans: Mayhem and Massacre in a French City
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3.53 avg rating — 92 ratings
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El rey de hierro (Los reyes malditos, #1)
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4.08 avg rating — 22,611 ratings
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I, Coriander
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3.83 avg rating — 8,324 ratings
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Eleanor of Provence: Queenship in Thirteenth-Century England
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4.10 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Paris Psalter and the Meters of Boethius
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George Philip Krapp (Editor)
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Terry Jones' Barbarians
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3.98 avg rating — 986 ratings
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Eating Beauty: The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages
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4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Beyond Their Sex: Learned Women of the European Past
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Patricia H. Labalme (Editor)
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Het boek van Tristan en Isolde
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Jacqueline Zirkzee (Goodreads Author)
3.39 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
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3.80 avg rating — 1,595 ratings
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The Colour of Poison (Sebastian Foxley Medieval Mystery #1)
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Toni Mount (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 914 ratings
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Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors (The History of England, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 5,455 ratings
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Synnintekijä (Olavi Maununpoika, #1)
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Milja Kaunisto (Goodreads Author)
3.18 avg rating — 317 ratings
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The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great
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4.40 avg rating — 1,240 ratings
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The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading
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3.78 avg rating — 157 ratings
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The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme
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4.12 avg rating — 8,561 ratings
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Tierra vieja
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3.80 avg rating — 50 ratings
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La ley de los varones (Los Reyes Malditos, #4)
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4.28 avg rating — 9,103 ratings
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The King's Curse (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels)
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Philippa Gregory (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 31,845 ratings
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Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 60,533 ratings
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A History of Philosophy, Vol. 3: Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Okham, Francis Bacon, and the Beginning of the Modern World
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4.25 avg rating — 442 ratings
score: 94,
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England under the Norman and Angevin Kings, 1075 - 1225
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4.16 avg rating — 256 ratings
score: 94,
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The Vercelli Book
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4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Waltharius & Ruodlieb
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4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food: Processing and Consumption
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4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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His Poems
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4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 23,206 ratings
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The Poems of Robert Henryson
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3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Las cadenas del destino (Trilogía Almohade, #3)
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4.44 avg rating — 102 ratings
score: 94,
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Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming (Millennial Contest, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 3,815 ratings
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The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam
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3.64 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Renaissance Military Memoirs: War, History and Identity, 1450-1600 (Warfare in History, 18)
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3.55 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Wideacre (The Wideacre Trilogy, #1)
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Philippa Gregory (Goodreads Author)
3.36 avg rating — 26,651 ratings
score: 94,
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The Normans and their Myth
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4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 93,
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A Monastic Landscape: The Cistercians in Medieval Ireland
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Breda Lynch (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 93,
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Beowulf and Judith
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Elliot V. K. Dobbie (Editor)
4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 93,
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Secretum (Atto Melani, #2)
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3.79 avg rating — 864 ratings
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Dress in Anglo-Saxon England
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4.53 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Titus Alone (Gormenghast, #3)
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3.45 avg rating — 6,087 ratings
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Warfare In The Medieval World
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4.03 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World
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La tierra de Álvar Fáñez
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3.79 avg rating — 43 ratings
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A.D. 1000: A World on the Brink of Apocalypse
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3.45 avg rating — 89 ratings
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A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom
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3.30 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Canterbury Tales
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Barbara Cohen (Adaptation)
3.82 avg rating — 390 ratings
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Byzantium: The Early Centuries
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4.34 avg rating — 1,885 ratings
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The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0)
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 129,893 ratings
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Dark Tides (The Fairmile, #2)
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Philippa Gregory (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 16,596 ratings
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Belief and Unbelief in Medieval Europe
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A Needle in the Right Hand of God: The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry
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3.39 avg rating — 249 ratings
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The Story of the Mongols Whom We Call the Tartars
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3.97 avg rating — 270 ratings
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A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
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4.12 avg rating — 6,574 ratings
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Anglo Saxon Minor Poems
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Elliot V. Dobbie (Editor)
4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain
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Rachel Bromwich (Editor and Translator)
4.66 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Η πριγκηπέσσα Ιζαμπώ
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4.27 avg rating — 458 ratings
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The Mead-Hall: The Feasting Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England
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4.34 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Stave Churches in Norway
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4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Faust, Part Two
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3.66 avg rating — 8,448 ratings
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Selected Works
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4.15 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Breath
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Donna Jo Napoli (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 945 ratings
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Byzantium: The Decline and Fall
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4.44 avg rating — 1,124 ratings
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Visigodos. La verdadera historia de la primera España
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4.17 avg rating — 103 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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