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 Once and Future Queen (The Lives of Guinevere, #1)
The Princess Knight
Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead (The Loyal Opposition #1)
Le Fay (Morgan le Fay, #2)
The Isle in the Silver Sea
Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
Escape from Falaise (Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger, #5)
The Book of I
Bright I Burn
A Most Forgettable Girl (Brides of Karadok, #7)
Oath of the Wolf (Wrath and Weeping, #2)
The Stone Witch of Florence
The Last Witch
The Shattered Castle (Ascendance, #5)
Lady’s Knight
An Inconvenient Vow (Brides of Karadok, #5)
The Huntress (The Huntress #1)
The Burden of a Scottish Chieftain (Clans of Mull #2)
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400–1066
Written on the Dark
Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)
Queen Macbeth
Lion Hearts (Essex Dogs Trilogy, #3)
Hellmouth
Rebis
Eleanor: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen
Arazan's Wolves (Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger, #6)
Ambush at Sorato (Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger, #7)
The Maid of Sherwood Forest (A McQuivey's Costume Shop Romance, #2)
The Stern Chase (Brotherband Chronicles, #9)
Les Lilas du roi (Peau d'Âme #1)
The Words of Kings and Prophets (Gael Song, #2)
The House of Seymour
Alchemy (Giordano Bruno, #7)
A Little Trickerie
The City of Tears (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #2)
The Shadowed Land (The Lost Queen, #3)
Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror
Portal to Nova Roma (Portal to Nova Roma, #1)
Court of Swans (The Dericott Tales, #1)
Never Cross a Highlander (The Shadow Lairds)
Castle of Refuge (The Dericott Tales, #2)
Loving Her Highland Thief (Time to Love a Highlander, #1)
Wolves of Winter
The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I (Tudor Rose, #3)
Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives
Rapture
The Faerie Morgana
Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry
Domination
Convent Wisdom: How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life
Mere
The Halfling's Harvest (Tales of Aedrea #3)
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
The Highlander's Return (Highland Brides, #12)
Lady of Disguise (The Dericott Tales, #6)
In Her Highlander's Bed (Highland Brides #11)
The Burnings
Never Leave Me (The Waters of Time, #2)
Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife (Six Tudor Queens, #6)
Florenzer
The Traitor of Sherwood Forest
The Book of Gothel: Memoir of a Witch
Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women (Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature)
Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond
Once Upon a Tim (Once Upon a Tim, #1)
The Land of the Living and the Dead (Gael Song, #3)
The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
Dievenland
Queens at War (England's Medieval Queens, #4)
Arthur (The Arthurian Tales, #3)
Weird Medieval Guys: How to Live, Laugh, Love (and Die) in Dark Times
The Swift and the Harrier
House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
Traitor’s Legacy (Sophia de Wolfe #1)
Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam
Three Fires
The Six Loves of James I
The Royal Rebel (Jeanette of Kent Duology #1)
The King's Jewel
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War
Fortress of Snow (The Dericott Tales, #4)
A Marriage of Lions
Squire & Knight (Squire & Knight, #1)
Winterlight (Green Rider, #7)
Stay with Me (Waters of Time, #3)
The Radiance of the Moon (The Hebridean Shield, #1)
Cloak of Scarlet (The Dericott Tales, #5)
The Good Wife of Bath
The Bone Chests
Hollow
The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
The Dancing Plague
Furieuse (French Edition)
Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
The Bear's Blade (The Whale Road Chronicles #5)
The Lion (Clan Ross of the Hebrides, #1)
Bloody Crowns: A New History of the Hundred Years War
Forgotten Churches: Exploring England's Hidden Treasures

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The Dark and Middle Ages! The Nineteenth Century had an impudent way with its labels. For there, under the window in Arthur's Gramarye, the sun's rays flamed from a hundred jewels of stained glass in monasteries and convents, or danced from the pinnacle of cathedrals and castles, which their builders had actually loved. Architecture, in those dark ages of theirs, was such a light-giving passion of the heart that men gave love-names to their fortresses. ...more
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