14th Century

As a means of recording the passage of time, the 14th century was the century which lasted from January 1, 1301, to December 31, 1400. In Europe, Asia, and North Africa, the Black Death claimed between 75 to 200 million lives. England and France fought in the protracted Hundred Years' War. Political and natural disaster ravaged the Mongolian Empire, which lost much of its power in Asia and Eastern Europe. ...more

Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)
Wolves of Winter
The Good Wife of Bath
The Royal Rebel (Jeanette of Kent Duology #1)
The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster
The Lawless Land (Tales of the Lawless Land, #1)
Fortress of Snow (The Dericott Tales, #4)
Lady of Disguise (The Dericott Tales, #6)
Queens of the Age of Chivalry (England's Medieval Queens, #3)
A Court of Betrayal
Cities of Women
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
Living in Medieval England: The Turbulent Year of 1326
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
By Treason We Perish (The Simon Merrivale Mysteries #1)
The Canterbury Tales
The Decameron
Inferno
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Katherine
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
The Name of the Rose
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio
The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)
Paradise (The Divine Comedy, #3)
Company of Liars
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98 books — 26 voters

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59 books — 6 voters
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Fiction Set in 14th Century
46 books — 37 voters

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63 books — 354 voters
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69 books — 5 voters


Terry Pratchett
One of the nice things about Time, Crowley always said, was that it was steadily taking him further away from the fourteenth century, the most bloody boring hundred years on God's, excuse his French, Earth. ...more
Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Before his mistress a lover was prostrate, wounded to death by her beauty, killed by her disdain, obliged to an illimitable constancy, marked out for her dangerous service. A smile from her was in theory a gracious reward for twenty years of painful adoration.
Nevill Coghill, The Canterbury Tales

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