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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.05 — 45,802 ratings — published 1978
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 151 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.35 — 864,971 ratings — published 1989
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.14 — 409,881 ratings — published 1980
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.53 — 242,672 ratings — published 1400
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.51 — 359,268 ratings — published 950
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.02 — 27,563 ratings — published 2008
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.77 — 82,561 ratings — published 1375
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.38 — 11,617 ratings — published 2021
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
by (shelved 79 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.33 — 286,387 ratings — published 2007
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.26 — 26,140 ratings — published 2012
The Waning of the Middle Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,465 ratings — published 1919
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.51 — 20,057 ratings — published 1115
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.09 — 181,234 ratings — published 1304
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.88 — 44,949 ratings — published 1349
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,708 ratings — published 2010
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 58 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.03 — 214,680 ratings — published 1321
Catherine, Called Birdy (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.74 — 43,826 ratings — published 1994
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.25 — 17,055 ratings — published 2014
The Door in the Wall (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.78 — 21,967 ratings — published 1949
Life in a Medieval City (Medieval Life)
by (shelved 49 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,992 ratings — published 1969
The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,377 ratings — published 2010
Ivanhoe (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.77 — 100,888 ratings — published 1819
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,434 ratings — published 2017
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.91 — 40,219 ratings — published 1485
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.03 — 67,404 ratings — published 1992
The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,316 ratings — published 2009
The Cross of Lead (Crispin, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.66 — 29,037 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 3.82 — 13,152 ratings — published 1992
The Civilization of the Middle Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,753 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 — 6,088 ratings — published 2019
The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.27 — 117,100 ratings — published 2004
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (World Leaders Past & Present)
by (shelved 39 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.94 — 17,000 ratings — published 1999
The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.14 — 13,689 ratings — published 2016
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.07 — 88,586 ratings — published 2004
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.21 — 11,111 ratings — published 1983
Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of Death, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.93 — 41,644 ratings — published 2007
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,615 ratings — published 2022
When Christ and His Saints Slept (Plantagenets #1; Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,862 ratings — published 1994
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,261 ratings — published 1200
The Midwife's Apprentice (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.73 — 43,905 ratings — published 1995
The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, The Power Behind Five English Thrones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,331 ratings — published 2014
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,731 ratings — published 2005
The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.68 — 5,865 ratings — published 1133
The Norman Conquest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,720 ratings — published 2012
Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.29 — 25,561 ratings — published 1985
Katherine (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 4.21 — 37,172 ratings — published 1954
Life in a Medieval Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,472 ratings — published 1974
Life in a Medieval Village (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,300 ratings — published 1989
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 — 4,709 ratings — published
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as middle-ages)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,890 ratings — published 2008
“Eliza knows there is a deep pit in the middle of the floor, darker and more binding than the cell. Sciapods are in there, giggling beneath their monstrous feet. They want to stomp me to a paste and spread me on ash cakes, she thinks.”
― Aulisyn A Gothic Sci-Fi Novel
― Aulisyn A Gothic Sci-Fi Novel
“The fundamental challenge of ancient man was to be wise. The fundamental challenge of medieval man was to be holy. The fundamental challenge of modern man was to be effective. The fundamental challenge of contemporary man is not to be ridiculous.”
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