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The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.27 — 116,454 ratings — published 2004
The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.25 — 58,060 ratings — published 1995
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 3.51 — 357,260 ratings — published 950
The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0)
by (shelved 17 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.39 — 140,517 ratings — published 2020
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400–1066 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,094 ratings — published 2021
In Search of the Dark Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,162 ratings — published 1981
The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,285 ratings — published 2009
The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Stories, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.32 — 64,052 ratings — published 2006
Lords of the North (The Saxon Stories, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.36 — 54,397 ratings — published 2007
The Burning Land (The Saxon Stories, #5)
by (shelved 14 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.31 — 42,502 ratings — published 2009
The Buried Giant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 3.59 — 128,529 ratings — published 2015
The Pagan Lord (The Saxon Stories, #7)
by (shelved 13 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.37 — 31,932 ratings — published 2013
Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.42 — 30,764 ratings — published 1996
Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 12 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.44 — 32,706 ratings — published 1997
The Empty Throne (The Saxon Stories, #8)
by (shelved 11 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.39 — 29,044 ratings — published 2014
Death of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #6)
by (shelved 11 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.32 — 35,306 ratings — published 2011
Pope Joan (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.10 — 75,719 ratings — published 1996
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.13 — 10,696 ratings — published 2020
Sword Song (The Saxon Stories, #4)
by (shelved 10 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.33 — 47,185 ratings — published 2007
Dark Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 3.45 — 3,109 ratings — published 2022
In the Land of Giants: A Journey Through the Dark Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 3.73 — 596 ratings — published 2015
The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.13 — 215,163 ratings — published 1982
The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1–5)
by (shelved 8 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.06 — 120,989 ratings — published 1958
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 3.81 — 47,577 ratings — published 1995
The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,453 ratings — published 2022
The First Kingdom: Britain in the Age of Arthur (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 3.74 — 737 ratings — published 2021
The Lost Queen (The Lost Queen, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.16 — 17,790 ratings — published 2018
The Abbot's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,231 ratings — published 2017
The Flame Bearer (The Saxon Stories, #10)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.43 — 25,207 ratings — published 2016
The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,050 ratings — published 2005
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,847 ratings — published 2008
The Road to Avalon (Dark Ages of Britain, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,883 ratings — published 1988
Avalon (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 3.90 — 4,641 ratings — published 1965
Sword at Sunset (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,169 ratings — published 1963
The Serpent Sword (The Bernicia Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,937 ratings — published 2015
Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,029 ratings — published 2009
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.35 — 859,707 ratings — published 1989
The Barbarian West 400-1000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 3.57 — 117 ratings — published 1952
The History of the Franks (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,605 ratings — published 590
Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 3.41 — 502 ratings — published 2008
The Vikings (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 3.71 — 142 ratings — published 1985
Anglo-Saxon Thegn AD 449–1066 (Warrior, 5)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.01 — 85 ratings — published 1993
The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.13 — 49,307 ratings — published 1970
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.38 — 11,434 ratings — published 2021
The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,687 ratings — published 2018
River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,412 ratings — published 2021
Sword of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #12)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.42 — 18,132 ratings — published 2019
Britain after Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 4.01 — 521 ratings — published 2010
Blood Feud (The Warrior Brothers of Skye #1)
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avg rating 4.11 — 749 ratings — published 2017
Ælfred’s Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-ages)
avg rating 3.70 — 617 ratings — published 2017
“The Dark Ages gradually ended six centuries ago with the Renaissance, which seeded new ideas for a different world. The Renaissance ideal dominated our culture until three centuries ago, from the 14th to the 18th century, when it was superseded by modernism. Not surprisingly, this human ideal has almost been forgotten in our culture. The Renaissance, literally "re-birth", was a revival and rediscovery of classical Greek and Roman culture following the decline of culture, trade, and technology during the Dark Ages.”
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“The radical illusion of the world cannot be dispelled. The illusion of dispelling it is the secondary illusion of the disavowal and transformation of the world. But perhaps, in going to its extreme, that movement gets caught up in its own game and ends up wiping out its own traces, leaving the field free for misappropriation, imperfection, the original crime? Perhaps there is a ruse of the world, just as there is a ruse of history, and rationality and perfection in general might merely be implementing its irrational decree? Sciences and technologies would then merely be an immense, ironic diversion on the horizon of its disappearance.
What within truth is merely truth falls foul of illusion. What within truth exceeds truth is of the order of a higher illusion. Only what exceeds reality can go beyond the illusion of reality.”
― The Perfect Crime
What within truth is merely truth falls foul of illusion. What within truth exceeds truth is of the order of a higher illusion. Only what exceeds reality can go beyond the illusion of reality.”
― The Perfect Crime
