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14th Century Books
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The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.52 — 236,524 ratings — published 1400
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.88 — 43,224 ratings — published 1349
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 91 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 203,912 ratings — published 1321
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.08 — 170,220 ratings — published 1320
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.76 — 77,169 ratings — published 1375
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.05 — 43,817 ratings — published 1978
Katherine (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.21 — 35,529 ratings — published 1954
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
by (shelved 52 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.32 — 273,178 ratings — published 2007
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.01 — 26,270 ratings — published 2008
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.14 — 392,332 ratings — published 1980
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 64,301 ratings — published 1992
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,664 ratings — published 1321
Paradiso (The Divine Comedy, #3)
by (shelved 28 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.96 — 21,613 ratings — published 1321
The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.08 — 22,856 ratings — published 1955
Company of Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.87 — 16,571 ratings — published 2008
The Archer's Tale (The Grail Quest, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.15 — 33,461 ratings — published 2000
Kristin Lavransdatter (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.31 — 14,257 ratings — published 1920
Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,763 ratings — published 2009
Troilus and Criseyde (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,154 ratings — published 1385
The Traitor's Wife: A Novel of the Reign of Edward II (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,737 ratings — published 2005
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 20 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.31 — 1,624 ratings — published 1357
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,886 ratings — published 2005
1356 (The Grail Quest, #4)
by (shelved 19 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.14 — 15,718 ratings — published 2012
Piers Plowman (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.45 — 3,101 ratings — published 1360
The Strangled Queen (The Accursed Kings, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,585 ratings — published 1955
Outlaws of the Marsh (4-Volume Boxed Set)
by (shelved 17 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,070 ratings — published 1370
The King's Concubine (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,341 ratings — published 2012
Hugh and Bess: A Love Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,947 ratings — published 2007
The First Princess of Wales (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,698 ratings — published 1984
The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,833 ratings — published 2009
The Last Hours (Black Death, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,471 ratings — published 2017
A Burnable Book (John Gower, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.55 — 4,552 ratings — published 2014
Revelations of Divine Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,963 ratings — published 1393
The Owl Killers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.82 — 4,366 ratings — published 2009
The King's Mistress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,340 ratings — published 2009
Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.89 — 9,792 ratings — published 2022
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.09 — 228,517 ratings — published 2017
The Unquiet Bones (Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon Chronicles #1)
by (shelved 14 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,110 ratings — published 2008
Vagabond (The Grail Quest, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.14 — 20,702 ratings — published 2002
The People's Queen (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.49 — 832 ratings — published 2010
The Illuminator (Illuminator, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.75 — 6,644 ratings — published 2004
The Apothecary Rose (Owen Archer, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,887 ratings — published 1993
A Plague on Both Your Houses (Matthew Bartholomew, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,900 ratings — published 1996
Canzoniere (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,019 ratings — published 1372
The Travels of Ibn Battutah (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,762 ratings — published 1355
La catedral del mar (La catedral del mar, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.17 — 63,604 ratings — published 2006
The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,960 ratings — published 2004
Within the Hollow Crown (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 3.84 — 699 ratings — published 1947
Heretic (The Grail Quest, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.18 — 18,886 ratings — published 2003
The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as 14th-century)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,074 ratings — published 2003
“I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since ideology had anything to do with it. Not without cunning, Fat Man and Little Boy gradually mutated the whole state belief system into a debased form of Confucianism, in which traditional ancestor worship and respect for order become blended with extreme nationalism and xenophobia. Near the southernmost city of Kaesong, captured by the North in 1951, I was taken to see the beautifully preserved tombs of King and Queen Kongmin. Their significance in F.M.-L.B. cosmology is that they reigned over a then unified Korea in the 14th century, and that they were Confucian and dynastic and left many lavish memorials to themselves. The tombs are built on one hillside, and legend has it that the king sent one of his courtiers to pick the site. Second-guessing his underling, he then climbed the opposite hill. He gave instructions that if the chosen site did not please him he would wave his white handkerchief. On this signal, the courtier was to be slain. The king actually found that the site was ideal. But it was a warm day and he forgetfully mopped his brow with the white handkerchief. On coming downhill he was confronted with the courtier's fresh cadaver and exclaimed, 'Oh dear.' And ever since, my escorts told me, the opposite peak has been known as 'Oh Dear Hill.'
I thought this was a perfect illustration of the caprice and cruelty of absolute leadership, and began to phrase a little pun about Kim Jong Il being the 'Oh Dear Leader,' but it died on my lips.”
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
I thought this was a perfect illustration of the caprice and cruelty of absolute leadership, and began to phrase a little pun about Kim Jong Il being the 'Oh Dear Leader,' but it died on my lips.”
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
“Fourteenth-century men seemed to have regarded their doctor in rather the same way as the twentieth-century men are apt to regard their priest, with tolerance for someone who was doing his best and the respect due to a man of learning but also with a nagging and uncomfortable conviction that he was largely irrelevant to the real and urgent problems of their lives.”
― The Black Death
― The Black Death
