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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 696 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.35 — 854,291 ratings — published 1989
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 684 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.50 — 354,990 ratings — published 1000
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 665 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.53 — 241,341 ratings — published 1400
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 563 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.76 — 81,404 ratings — published 1375
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 531 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.14 — 405,141 ratings — published 1980
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 390 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,803,151 ratings — published 1996
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 358 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.05 — 45,325 ratings — published 1978
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 346 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.02 — 27,176 ratings — published 2008
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 333 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.91 — 40,024 ratings — published 1485
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 318 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.51 — 19,772 ratings — published 1115
Between Two Fires (Hardcover)
by (shelved 310 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.18 — 94,599 ratings — published 2012
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.88 — 44,532 ratings — published 1349
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 305 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.03 — 212,104 ratings — published 1321
The Lais of Marie de France (Paperback)
by (shelved 290 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.83 — 10,332 ratings — published 1160
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
by (shelved 283 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.33 — 283,198 ratings — published 2007
A Kingdom of Dreams (Westmoreland, #1)
by (shelved 283 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.20 — 57,022 ratings — published 1989
The Bride (Lairds' Fiancées, #1)
by (shelved 279 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.22 — 71,663 ratings — published 1989
A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
by (shelved 276 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.96 — 45,629 ratings — published 1977
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 269 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.09 — 178,488 ratings — published 1320
The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
by (shelved 252 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.27 — 115,700 ratings — published 2004
Arthurian Romances (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,248 ratings — published 1181
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 244 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,046,483 ratings — published 1998
The Secret (Highlands' Lairds, #1)
by (shelved 234 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.25 — 57,400 ratings — published 1992
Honor's Splendour (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.23 — 35,254 ratings — published 1987
Katherine (Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.21 — 36,756 ratings — published 1954
The Prize (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.21 — 32,822 ratings — published 1991
The Mabinogion (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,842 ratings — published 1200
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 211 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.25 — 25,467 ratings — published 2012
Ivanhoe (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.77 — 100,468 ratings — published 1819
The History of the Kings of Britain (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.71 — 7,018 ratings — published 1136
Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)
by (shelved 202 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.30 — 25,358 ratings — published 1985
Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of Death, #1)
by (shelved 196 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.93 — 41,307 ratings — published 2007
Untamed (Medieval, #1)
by (shelved 195 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.98 — 8,730 ratings — published 1993
The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1–5)
by (shelved 191 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.06 — 120,663 ratings — published 1958
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 191 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.55 — 867,483 ratings — published 2000
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,158 ratings — published 1200
The Wedding (Lairds' Fiancées, #2)
by (shelved 186 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.16 — 38,500 ratings — published 1995
Ransom (Highlands' Lairds, #2)
by (shelved 185 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.33 — 39,055 ratings — published 1999
When Christ and His Saints Slept (Plantagenets #1; Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)
by (shelved 181 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,711 ratings — published 1994
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 178 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.03 — 66,647 ratings — published 1992
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 177 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.17 — 809,619 ratings — published 2005
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,228 ratings — published 1220
The Wolf and the Dove (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.13 — 20,644 ratings — published 1974
Company of Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.87 — 17,180 ratings — published 2008
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 170 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.34 — 753,254 ratings — published 2011
Saving Grace (Pocket Romance Classics)
by (shelved 169 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.26 — 30,716 ratings — published 1993
The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.68 — 5,813 ratings — published 1133
The Consolation of Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,805 ratings — published 524
The Book of Margery Kempe (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.30 — 5,100 ratings — published 1438
Never Seduce a Scot (The Montgomerys and Armstrongs, #1)
by (shelved 165 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.13 — 37,850 ratings — published 2012
“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
“Whoever has received knowledge
and eloquence in speech from God
should not be silent or secretive
but demonstrate it willingly.
When a great good is widely heard of,
then, and only then, does it bloom,
and when that good is praised by man,
it has spread its blossoms.”
―
and eloquence in speech from God
should not be silent or secretive
but demonstrate it willingly.
When a great good is widely heard of,
then, and only then, does it bloom,
and when that good is praised by man,
it has spread its blossoms.”
―
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