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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.05 — 45,074 ratings — published 1978
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 148 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.35 — 848,886 ratings — published 1989
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.14 — 402,957 ratings — published 1980
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.53 — 240,619 ratings — published 1400
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.50 — 353,087 ratings — published 1000
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.02 — 27,035 ratings — published 2008
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.76 — 80,950 ratings — published 1375
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.39 — 11,011 ratings — published 2021
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
by (shelved 76 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.33 — 281,710 ratings — published 2007
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.25 — 25,140 ratings — published 2012
The Waning of the Middle Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,401 ratings — published 1919
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.51 — 19,670 ratings — published 1115
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.88 — 44,319 ratings — published 1349
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.09 — 177,053 ratings — published 1320
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,384 ratings — published 2010
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 56 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.03 — 210,778 ratings — published 1321
Catherine, Called Birdy (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.74 — 43,603 ratings — published 1994
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.25 — 16,318 ratings — published 2014
The Door in the Wall (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.78 — 21,296 ratings — published 1949
Life in a Medieval City (Medieval Life)
by (shelved 48 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,951 ratings — published 1969
The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,314 ratings — published 2010
Ivanhoe (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.77 — 100,138 ratings — published 1819
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.03 — 66,191 ratings — published 1992
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.91 — 39,898 ratings — published 1485
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,900 ratings — published 2017
The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,228 ratings — published 2009
The Cross of Lead (Crispin, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.66 — 28,672 ratings — published 2002
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.83 — 13,030 ratings — published 1992
The Civilization of the Middle Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,739 ratings — published 1963
Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,761 ratings — published 2019
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (World Leaders Past & Present)
by (shelved 39 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.93 — 16,824 ratings — published 1999
The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.27 — 114,940 ratings — published 2004
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.21 — 10,872 ratings — published 1983
The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,370 ratings — published 2016
Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of Death, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.93 — 41,211 ratings — published 2007
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.06 — 86,482 ratings — published 2004
The Midwife's Apprentice (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.73 — 43,682 ratings — published 1995
When Christ and His Saints Slept (Plantagenets #1; Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,635 ratings — published 1994
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,485 ratings — published 2005
The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, The Power Behind Five English Thrones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,142 ratings — published 2014
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,111 ratings — published 1200
Life in a Medieval Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,407 ratings — published 1974
Katherine (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.21 — 36,551 ratings — published 1954
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,218 ratings — published 2022
Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,682 ratings — published
The Norman Conquest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,536 ratings — published 2012
The History of the Kings of Britain (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.71 — 6,987 ratings — published 1136
1066: The Year of the Conquest (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,648 ratings — published 1977
The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.68 — 5,785 ratings — published 1133
Adam of the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,347 ratings — published 1942
“چرا تابلوهای رامبراند برای همیشه این شهرت فراوان را به همراه خواهند داشت که این سان تیره و ابرآلود می نمایند؟ چرا چهره ها و اندامها یا از درون تاریکی سر بر می آورند یا در ژرفنای تاریکی مدفون می شوند؟ چرا سطح بوم در تابلوهای هنرمند این چنین خشن و ناهموار و آغشته به رنگ های تیره است، چنانکه گویی هنرمند با این کار می خواهد تاکید کند که سطح بیرونی و ظاهر چیزها واجد اهمیت نیست، چنانکه گویی هنرمند قصد دارد بیننده را وادارد که در فراسوی دنیای صرفا مرئی به آنچه نامرئی است بنگرد .”
― Rembrandt: A Life
― Rembrandt: A Life
“Two of the most famous Baghdadi scholars, the philosopher Al-Kindi and the mathematician Al-Khawarizmi, were certainly the most influential in transmitting Hindu numerals to the Muslim world. Both wrote books on the subject during al-Ma'mun's reign, and it was their work that was translated into Latin and transmitted to the West, thus introducing Europeans to the decimal system, which was known in the Middle Ages only as Arabic numerals. But it would be many centuries before it was widely accepted in Europe. One reason for this was sociological: decimal numbers were considered for a long time as symbols of the evil Muslim foe.”
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