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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 664 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.35 — 824,476 ratings — published 1989
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 639 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.50 — 344,315 ratings — published 1000
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 628 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.53 — 237,062 ratings — published 1400
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 515 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.76 — 77,457 ratings — published 1375
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 507 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.14 — 393,442 ratings — published 1980
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 374 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,716,318 ratings — published 1996
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.05 — 43,927 ratings — published 1978
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 324 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,351 ratings — published 2008
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.92 — 39,355 ratings — published 1485
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.50 — 19,102 ratings — published 1115
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 299 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.03 — 204,707 ratings — published 1321
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 289 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.88 — 43,372 ratings — published 1349
A Kingdom of Dreams (Westmoreland, #1)
by (shelved 281 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.20 — 56,181 ratings — published 1989
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
by (shelved 272 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.32 — 274,114 ratings — published 2007
The Bride (Lairds' Fiancées, #1)
by (shelved 271 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.22 — 70,305 ratings — published 1989
The Lais of Marie de France (Paperback)
by (shelved 262 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.83 — 9,930 ratings — published 1160
A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
by (shelved 252 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.96 — 44,272 ratings — published 1977
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 248 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.08 — 170,973 ratings — published 1320
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 238 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,015,025 ratings — published 1998
The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
by (shelved 237 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.27 — 111,358 ratings — published 2004
Arthurian Romances (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,112 ratings — published 1181
The Secret (Highlands' Lairds, #1)
by (shelved 234 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.25 — 56,352 ratings — published 1992
Honor's Splendour (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.23 — 34,747 ratings — published 1987
The Prize (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.22 — 32,250 ratings — published 1991
The Mabinogion (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,584 ratings — published 1400
Ivanhoe (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.76 — 98,811 ratings — published 1819
Between Two Fires (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.22 — 57,062 ratings — published 2012
Katherine (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.21 — 35,637 ratings — published 1954
Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of Death, #1)
by (shelved 195 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.93 — 40,837 ratings — published 2007
The History of the Kings of Britain (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.71 — 6,867 ratings — published 1136
Untamed (Medieval, #1)
by (shelved 191 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,572 ratings — published 1993
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.25 — 23,555 ratings — published 2012
Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)
by (shelved 189 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.29 — 24,955 ratings — published 1985
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 188 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.55 — 841,788 ratings — published 2000
The Wedding (Lairds' Fiancées, #2)
by (shelved 185 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.16 — 37,807 ratings — published 1995
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.81 — 8,869 ratings — published 1200
Ransom (Highlands' Lairds, #2)
by (shelved 179 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.33 — 38,332 ratings — published 1999
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 173 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.17 — 787,716 ratings — published 2005
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 172 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.03 — 64,484 ratings — published 1992
When Christ and His Saints Slept (Plantagenets #1; Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)
by (shelved 172 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,387 ratings — published 1994
The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5)
by (shelved 171 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.07 — 117,436 ratings — published 1958
The Wolf and the Dove (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.13 — 20,297 ratings — published 1974
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,654 ratings — published 1220
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 167 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.34 — 734,741 ratings — published 2011
Never Seduce a Scot (The Montgomerys and Armstrongs, #1)
by (shelved 162 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.13 — 37,044 ratings — published 2012
Saving Grace (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.26 — 30,123 ratings — published 1993
The Consolation of Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,750 ratings — published 524
The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.68 — 5,675 ratings — published 1133
Prisoner of My Desire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,621 ratings — published 1991
Company of Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.87 — 16,613 ratings — published 2008
“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
“W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past might be a ruin or an archive but the means whereby we may understand it is--and always will be--ourselves.”
― The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
― The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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dark-ages, medieval-fiction, medieval-times, and middle-ages
