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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 674 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.35 — 833,395 ratings — published 1989
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 656 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.50 — 348,578 ratings — published 1000
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 644 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.53 — 238,319 ratings — published 1400
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 525 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.76 — 78,157 ratings — published 1375
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 516 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.14 — 396,607 ratings — published 1980
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 374 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,742,198 ratings — published 1996
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 344 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.05 — 44,274 ratings — published 1978
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 333 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,559 ratings — published 2008
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 320 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.92 — 39,537 ratings — published 1485
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.50 — 19,296 ratings — published 1115
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 298 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.03 — 206,888 ratings — published 1321
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 292 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.88 — 43,723 ratings — published 1349
A Kingdom of Dreams (Westmoreland, #1)
by (shelved 281 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.20 — 56,379 ratings — published 1989
The Lais of Marie de France (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.83 — 10,039 ratings — published 1160
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
by (shelved 272 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.33 — 276,810 ratings — published 2007
The Bride (Lairds' Fiancées, #1)
by (shelved 271 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.22 — 70,653 ratings — published 1989
A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
by (shelved 259 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.96 — 44,589 ratings — published 1977
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 256 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.09 — 173,083 ratings — published 1320
Arthurian Romances (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,138 ratings — published 1181
The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
by (shelved 240 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.27 — 112,646 ratings — published 2004
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 236 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,023,424 ratings — published 1998
The Secret (Highlands' Lairds, #1)
by (shelved 234 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.25 — 56,657 ratings — published 1992
Honor's Splendour (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.23 — 34,860 ratings — published 1987
Between Two Fires (Hardcover)
by (shelved 220 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.22 — 61,737 ratings — published 2012
The Prize (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.22 — 32,398 ratings — published 1991
The Mabinogion (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,649 ratings — published 1200
Katherine (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.21 — 35,902 ratings — published 1954
Ivanhoe (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.77 — 99,276 ratings — published 1819
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.25 — 24,122 ratings — published 2012
Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of Death, #1)
by (shelved 195 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.93 — 40,960 ratings — published 2007
Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)
by (shelved 194 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.30 — 25,043 ratings — published 1985
The History of the Kings of Britain (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.71 — 6,903 ratings — published 1136
Untamed (Medieval, #1)
by (shelved 193 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.98 — 8,622 ratings — published 1993
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 187 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.55 — 848,118 ratings — published 2000
The Wedding (Lairds' Fiancées, #2)
by (shelved 186 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.16 — 37,982 ratings — published 1995
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.82 — 8,954 ratings — published 1200
Ransom (Highlands' Lairds, #2)
by (shelved 179 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.33 — 38,511 ratings — published 1999
When Christ and His Saints Slept (Plantagenets #1; Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)
by (shelved 178 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,457 ratings — published 1994
The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5)
by (shelved 176 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.07 — 119,103 ratings — published 1958
The Wolf and the Dove (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.13 — 20,390 ratings — published 1974
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 172 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.17 — 793,819 ratings — published 2005
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 171 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.03 — 64,956 ratings — published 1992
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,798 ratings — published 1220
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 167 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.34 — 739,909 ratings — published 2011
The Consolation of Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.05 — 18,035 ratings — published 524
Saving Grace (Pocket Romance Classics)
by (shelved 163 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.26 — 30,244 ratings — published 1993
The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.68 — 5,721 ratings — published 1133
Never Seduce a Scot (The Montgomerys and Armstrongs, #1)
by (shelved 161 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.13 — 37,217 ratings — published 2012
The Book of Margery Kempe (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.30 — 4,999 ratings — published
Prisoner of My Desire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,754 ratings — published 1991
“Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent. ”
― Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
― Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
“Some Christian lawyers—some eminent and stupid judges—have said and still say, that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of all law.
Nothing could be more absurd. Long before these commandments were given there were codes of laws in India and Egypt—laws against murder, perjury, larceny, adultery and fraud. Such laws are as old as human society; as old as the love of life; as old as industry; as the idea of prosperity; as old as human love.
All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new are foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he would have left out the commandment about keeping the Sabbath, and in its place would have said: 'Thou shalt not enslave thy fellow-men.' He would have omitted the one about swearing, and said: 'The man shall have but one wife, and the woman but one husband.' He would have left out the one about graven images, and in its stead would have said: 'Thou shalt not wage wars of extermination, and thou shalt not unsheathe the sword except in self-defence.'
If Jehovah had been civilized, how much grander the Ten Commandments would have been.
All that we call progress—the enfranchisement of man, of labor, the substitution of imprisonment for death, of fine for imprisonment, the destruction of polygamy, the establishing of free speech, of the rights of conscience; in short, all that has tended to the development and civilization of man; all the results of investigation, observation, experience and free thought; all that man has accomplished for the benefit of man since the close of the Dark Ages—has been done in spite of the Old Testament.”
― About The Holy Bible
Nothing could be more absurd. Long before these commandments were given there were codes of laws in India and Egypt—laws against murder, perjury, larceny, adultery and fraud. Such laws are as old as human society; as old as the love of life; as old as industry; as the idea of prosperity; as old as human love.
All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new are foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he would have left out the commandment about keeping the Sabbath, and in its place would have said: 'Thou shalt not enslave thy fellow-men.' He would have omitted the one about swearing, and said: 'The man shall have but one wife, and the woman but one husband.' He would have left out the one about graven images, and in its stead would have said: 'Thou shalt not wage wars of extermination, and thou shalt not unsheathe the sword except in self-defence.'
If Jehovah had been civilized, how much grander the Ten Commandments would have been.
All that we call progress—the enfranchisement of man, of labor, the substitution of imprisonment for death, of fine for imprisonment, the destruction of polygamy, the establishing of free speech, of the rights of conscience; in short, all that has tended to the development and civilization of man; all the results of investigation, observation, experience and free thought; all that man has accomplished for the benefit of man since the close of the Dark Ages—has been done in spite of the Old Testament.”
― About The Holy Bible
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