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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This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1)
As Old As Thyme
The Once and Future Queen (The Lives of Guinevere, #1)
The Princess Knight
Under the Oak Tree, Vol. 1
The Isle in the Silver Sea
Le Fay (Morgan le Fay, #2)
An Inconvenient Vow (Brides of Karadok, #5)
The Shattered Castle (Ascendance, #5)
Lady’s Knight
Eleanor: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen
Convent Wisdom: How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life
Mere
The Huntress (The Huntress #1)
The Land of the Living and the Dead (Gael Song, #3)
A Most Forgettable Girl (Brides of Karadok, #7)
Oath of the Wolf (Wrath and Weeping, #2)
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)
The Lais of Marie de France
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
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Learn About History
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Dragons
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Best Books of the 13th Century
72 books — 186 voters


Richard Lederer
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
Richard Lederer, Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language

Thomas Cahill
Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.
Thomas Cahill, Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe

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