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The Canterbury Tales
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3.53 avg rating — 238,261 ratings
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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4.05 avg rating — 44,249 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 832,982 ratings
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Ivanhoe
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3.76 avg rating — 99,254 ratings
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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4.12 avg rating — 73,018 ratings
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The Wives of Henry VIII
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4.11 avg rating — 19,146 ratings
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Mary Queen of Scots
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3.99 avg rating — 17,490 ratings
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Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England
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3.77 avg rating — 7,911 ratings
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
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3.87 avg rating — 5,877 ratings
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The Conquering Family (The Plantagenets, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 1,532 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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4.02 avg rating — 26,550 ratings
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The Life of Elizabeth I
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4.03 avg rating — 32,810 ratings
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The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000
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3.93 avg rating — 3,143 ratings
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The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
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4.11 avg rating — 5,238 ratings
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The Divine Comedy I: Hell
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4.03 avg rating — 206,786 ratings
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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 233,875 ratings
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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
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3.97 avg rating — 1,040 ratings
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Romeo and Juliet
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3.74 avg rating — 2,828,307 ratings
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Elizabeth I
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4.16 avg rating — 7,075 ratings
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Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 61,742 ratings
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Life in a Medieval City
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3.84 avg rating — 3,902 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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4.02 avg rating — 15,502 ratings
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1066: The Year of the Conquest
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4.07 avg rating — 4,596 ratings
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The Story of England
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4.06 avg rating — 442 ratings
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In Search of the Dark Ages
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4.01 avg rating — 2,089 ratings
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The Art of War
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3.94 avg rating — 573,749 ratings
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Aesop’s Fables
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4.05 avg rating — 129,790 ratings
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Beowulf
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3.50 avg rating — 348,420 ratings
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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3.94 avg rating — 579,699 ratings
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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3.88 avg rating — 10,855 ratings
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Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles
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4.09 avg rating — 14,994 ratings
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The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
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3.52 avg rating — 14,881 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings
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3.94 avg rating — 973 ratings
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Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558
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4.01 avg rating — 15,498 ratings
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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3.83 avg rating — 4,912 ratings
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In a Dark Wood Wandering: A Novel of the Middle Ages
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4.10 avg rating — 2,707 ratings
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The Civilization of the Middle Ages
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3.96 avg rating — 2,731 ratings
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The Man on a Donkey: A Powerful Novel of England in the Reign of Henry VIII
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4.15 avg rating — 321 ratings
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A Short History of Byzantium
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4.11 avg rating — 2,636 ratings
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
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4.26 avg rating — 7,237 ratings
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A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
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3.89 avg rating — 14,949 ratings
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Henry VIII: The King and His Court
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4.10 avg rating — 14,651 ratings
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An Army of Angels: A Novel of Joan of Arc
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3.98 avg rating — 285 ratings
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The Prince
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3.84 avg rating — 384,033 ratings
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Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
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3.88 avg rating — 3,384 ratings
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The Lady in Medieval England 1000-1500
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3.80 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages
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3.97 avg rating — 1,537 ratings
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Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
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3.60 avg rating — 1,429 ratings
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Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485
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3.92 avg rating — 534 ratings
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Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570
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4.34 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Queen Emma and the Vikings: A History of Power, Love, and Greed in 11th-Century England
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3.81 avg rating — 819 ratings
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The Book of the City of Ladies
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3.80 avg rating — 4,497 ratings
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Paradise (The Divine Comedy, #3)
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3.96 avg rating — 21,884 ratings
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The Divine Comedy II: Purgatory
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4.05 avg rating — 30,066 ratings
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor & Stuart Britain
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3.83 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Warrior Queens
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3.71 avg rating — 2,799 ratings
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Medieval Women
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3.94 avg rating — 517 ratings
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The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers
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4.01 avg rating — 781 ratings
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The Bruce Trilogy: The Steps to the Empty Throne / The Path of the Hero King / The Price of the King's Peace (Robert the Bruce, #1-3)
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4.34 avg rating — 1,064 ratings
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Brother Cadfael's Herb Garden: An Illustrated Companion to Medieval Plants and Their Uses
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4.28 avg rating — 191 ratings
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Byzantium: The Decline and Fall
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4.44 avg rating — 1,150 ratings
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A History of Venice
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4.16 avg rating — 2,146 ratings
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The Reformation: A History
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4.07 avg rating — 3,557 ratings
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The Normans in Sicily : The Magnificent Story of 'the Other Norman Conquest'
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4.33 avg rating — 350 ratings
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Europe and the Faith
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4.14 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Memoirs of a Medieval Woman: The Life and Times of Margery Kempe
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3.71 avg rating — 282 ratings
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God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
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4.11 avg rating — 1,071 ratings
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
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3.88 avg rating — 11,712 ratings
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The Last Divine Office: Henry VIII and the Dissolution of the Monasteries
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3.79 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
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4.12 avg rating — 5,466 ratings
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The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village
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3.71 avg rating — 590 ratings
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Fires of Faith: Catholic England Under Mary Tudor
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3.89 avg rating — 224 ratings
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A Concise History of the Crusades
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4.01 avg rating — 432 ratings
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The Book of Margery Kempe
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3.30 avg rating — 4,996 ratings
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Mary Tudor: The Spanish Tudor
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3.99 avg rating — 1,005 ratings
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The Nibelungenlied
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3.82 avg rating — 8,951 ratings
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Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
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3.90 avg rating — 4,634 ratings
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The Alexiad
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4.07 avg rating — 1,315 ratings
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I, Elizabeth
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4.02 avg rating — 13,566 ratings
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Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley
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4.05 avg rating — 5,930 ratings
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Byzantium: The Apogee
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4.42 avg rating — 1,283 ratings
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The Treasure of the City of Ladies
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3.64 avg rating — 579 ratings
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Byzantium: The Early Centuries
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4.35 avg rating — 1,911 ratings
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Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts
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3.96 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary"
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4.04 avg rating — 3,432 ratings
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The Night’s Dark Shade: A Novel of the Cathars
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3.86 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580
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4.26 avg rating — 1,272 ratings
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A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury
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3.97 avg rating — 1,329 ratings
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The Hidden Treasure of Glaston
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3.91 avg rating — 1,086 ratings
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Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England
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3.76 avg rating — 241 ratings
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In Search of England: Journeys into the English Past
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4.02 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Tao Te Ching
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4.29 avg rating — 182,937 ratings
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Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation
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4.26 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Lepanto: With Explanatory Notes and Commentary
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4.45 avg rating — 371 ratings
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Bosch
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4.26 avg rating — 2,356 ratings
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1215: The Year of Magna Carta
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3.81 avg rating — 2,320 ratings
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God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades – Revealing the Truth of the Christian Crusades and Muslim Jihad
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4.11 avg rating — 1,959 ratings
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Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
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3.59 avg rating — 817 ratings
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The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
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4.10 avg rating — 5,151 ratings
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Julius Caesar
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3.71 avg rating — 219,817 ratings
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