11 books
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4 voters
Listopia > Bryce's votes on the list Best Medieval History Books (22 Books)
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Roman Britain and Early England: 55 BC - AD 871
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"So, who are the Britons anyway?"
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The Great Medieval Heretics: Five Centuries of Religious Dissent
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"Heresis, from the Greek, is to think differently - a curious mix of ideas - some not so strange after all. And who decides?"
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Atlas of the Medieval World
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"Helps get things in perspective"
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Medieval Lives: Eight Charismatic Men and Women of the Middle Ages
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Women in the Middle Ages
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"Cos I'd like to have met a few"
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Medieval Women
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Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages
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In Search of the Dark Ages
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"Raises the topics but a deeper search is needed beyond the TV show to find the answers..."
Bryce
rated it 4 stars
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Finland
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"The real middle earth"
Bryce
rated it 4 stars
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The Book of Durrow: A Medieval Masterpiece at Trinity College Dublin
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The Book of Kells: Reproductions from the Manuscript in Trinity College Dublin
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"Really need to see all of Kells to begin to grasp its achievement"
Bryce
rated it 5 stars
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Reading Medieval Latin
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"something we all need to do more of..."
Bryce
rated it 4 stars
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Medieval Latin: An introduction and bibliographical guide
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"Makes you realise how rich in thought the world once was..."
Bryce
rated it 4 stars
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Pelagius's Commentary on St Paul's Epistle to the Romans
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"More genius than heretic - be amazed how thoughtful this work is"
Bryce
rated it 5 stars
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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"I am descended from Durham stock and Bede tells our tale well"
Bryce
rated it 4 stars
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The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
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"Thoroughly worth digging below the myth to the human and theological struggle"
Bryce
rated it 5 stars
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The Erasmus Reader
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"Pure genuis"
Bryce
rated it 5 stars
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Ciceronianus: Or a Dialogue on the Best Style of Speaking. With an Introduction by Paul Monroe
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"Explains why imitation is not the point of Cicero - and how rhetoric needs application, not mimicry, in every age"
Bryce
rated it 5 stars
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Praise of Folly
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"The most important book if you want to make sense of an intelligent position between church schisms and unity"
Bryce
rated it 5 stars
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
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"Not such an exaggerated claim"
Bryce
rated it 4 stars
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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"Yes, it is non-fiction, true, with poetic licence, but the characters are real. The perspective is hilarious and grand in its compass. Nobody escapes unscathed."
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rated it 5 stars
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Sic Et Non: A Critical Edition
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