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14th Century Books
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The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.53 — 240,978 ratings — published 1400
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.88 — 44,422 ratings — published 1349
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 91 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 211,435 ratings — published 1321
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.09 — 177,787 ratings — published 1320
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.76 — 81,172 ratings — published 1375
Katherine (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.21 — 36,657 ratings — published 1954
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.05 — 45,201 ratings — published 1978
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.33 — 282,481 ratings — published 2007
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.14 — 404,057 ratings — published 1980
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.02 — 27,116 ratings — published 2008
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 66,421 ratings — published 1992
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.06 — 31,023 ratings — published 1321
The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.09 — 23,965 ratings — published 1955
Paradise (The Divine Comedy, #3)
by (shelved 28 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.96 — 22,410 ratings — published 1321
Company of Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.87 — 17,131 ratings — published 2008
Kristin Lavransdatter (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.32 — 15,241 ratings — published 1920
Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,872 ratings — published 2009
The Archer's Tale (The Grail Quest, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.16 — 34,553 ratings — published 2000
Troilus and Criseyde (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,345 ratings — published 1385
The Traitor's Wife: A Novel of the Reign of Edward II (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,748 ratings — published 2005
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,951 ratings — published 2005
1356 (The Grail Quest, #4)
by (shelved 20 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,310 ratings — published 2012
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 20 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.28 — 1,693 ratings — published 1357
The Last Hours (Black Death, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,740 ratings — published 2017
A Burnable Book (John Gower, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.55 — 4,614 ratings — published 2014
Outlaws of the Marsh (4-Volume Boxed Set)
by (shelved 18 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,217 ratings — published 1370
Piers Plowman (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.45 — 3,144 ratings — published 1360
The Strangled Queen (The Accursed Kings, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.17 — 13,225 ratings — published 1955
Revelations of Divine Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 8,313 ratings — published 1393
The King's Concubine (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,397 ratings — published 2012
The First Princess of Wales (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,719 ratings — published 1984
The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,891 ratings — published 2009
The Owl Killers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.82 — 4,446 ratings — published 2009
Hugh and Bess: A Love Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,949 ratings — published 2007
The King's Mistress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,359 ratings — published 2009
Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,137 ratings — published 2022
The Unquiet Bones (Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon Chronicles #1)
by (shelved 14 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,278 ratings — published 2008
The Illuminator (Illuminator, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.75 — 6,698 ratings — published 2004
Vagabond (The Grail Quest, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.14 — 21,383 ratings — published 2002
The People's Queen (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.49 — 835 ratings — published 2010
The Apothecary Rose (Owen Archer, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,038 ratings — published 1993
A Plague on Both Your Houses (Matthew Bartholomew, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,032 ratings — published 1996
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.08 — 243,331 ratings — published 2017
The Travels of Ibn Battutah (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,889 ratings — published 1355
Canzoniere (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,126 ratings — published 1372
The Bookseller's Tale (Oxford Medieval Mysteries, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,284 ratings — published 2016
La catedral del mar (La catedral del mar, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.18 — 67,570 ratings — published 2006
The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,255 ratings — published 2004
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.25 — 25,309 ratings — published 2012
Within the Hollow Crown (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.84 — 709 ratings — published 1947
“Tell me how you wish me to deal with these enemies of yours, for they are no able to camp, and I will deliver them in your hands in whatever manner you wish.' Modern accounts invariably include the story of how dal Verme sent Hawkwood a fox in a cage, to say that he had the clever Englishman trapped. -Jacopo dal Verme to Giangaleazzo Visconti”
― John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy
― John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy
“I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since ideology had anything to do with it. Not without cunning, Fat Man and Little Boy gradually mutated the whole state belief system into a debased form of Confucianism, in which traditional ancestor worship and respect for order become blended with extreme nationalism and xenophobia. Near the southernmost city of Kaesong, captured by the North in 1951, I was taken to see the beautifully preserved tombs of King and Queen Kongmin. Their significance in F.M.-L.B. cosmology is that they reigned over a then unified Korea in the 14th century, and that they were Confucian and dynastic and left many lavish memorials to themselves. The tombs are built on one hillside, and legend has it that the king sent one of his courtiers to pick the site. Second-guessing his underling, he then climbed the opposite hill. He gave instructions that if the chosen site did not please him he would wave his white handkerchief. On this signal, the courtier was to be slain. The king actually found that the site was ideal. But it was a warm day and he forgetfully mopped his brow with the white handkerchief. On coming downhill he was confronted with the courtier's fresh cadaver and exclaimed, 'Oh dear.' And ever since, my escorts told me, the opposite peak has been known as 'Oh Dear Hill.'
I thought this was a perfect illustration of the caprice and cruelty of absolute leadership, and began to phrase a little pun about Kim Jong Il being the 'Oh Dear Leader,' but it died on my lips.”
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
I thought this was a perfect illustration of the caprice and cruelty of absolute leadership, and began to phrase a little pun about Kim Jong Il being the 'Oh Dear Leader,' but it died on my lips.”
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
