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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 686 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.35 — 846,269 ratings — published 1989
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 679 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.50 — 352,232 ratings — published 1000
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 658 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.53 — 240,225 ratings — published 1400
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 555 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.76 — 80,733 ratings — published 1375
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 526 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.14 — 401,873 ratings — published 1980
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 384 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,779,288 ratings — published 1996
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 356 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.05 — 44,964 ratings — published 1978
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 342 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,964 ratings — published 2008
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.91 — 39,842 ratings — published 1485
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.51 — 19,623 ratings — published 1115
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 308 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.03 — 210,088 ratings — published 1321
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.88 — 44,226 ratings — published 1349
The Lais of Marie de France (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.83 — 10,248 ratings — published 1160
A Kingdom of Dreams (Westmoreland, #1)
by (shelved 282 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.20 — 56,783 ratings — published 1989
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
by (shelved 279 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.33 — 280,806 ratings — published 2007
Between Two Fires (Hardcover)
by (shelved 278 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.20 — 79,740 ratings — published 2012
The Bride (Lairds' Fiancées, #1)
by (shelved 274 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.22 — 71,262 ratings — published 1989
A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
by (shelved 269 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.96 — 45,265 ratings — published 1977
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 264 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.09 — 176,422 ratings — published 1320
The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
by (shelved 251 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.27 — 114,592 ratings — published 2004
Arthurian Romances (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,215 ratings — published 1181
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 237 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,037,828 ratings — published 1998
The Secret (Highlands' Lairds, #1)
by (shelved 233 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.25 — 57,141 ratings — published 1992
Honor's Splendour (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.23 — 35,083 ratings — published 1987
The Prize (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.22 — 32,659 ratings — published 1991
The Mabinogion (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,779 ratings — published 1200
Katherine (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.21 — 36,443 ratings — published 1954
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 207 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.25 — 24,983 ratings — published 2012
Ivanhoe (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.77 — 99,980 ratings — published 1819
The History of the Kings of Britain (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.71 — 6,974 ratings — published 1136
Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)
by (shelved 196 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.30 — 25,231 ratings — published 1985
Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of Death, #1)
by (shelved 195 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.93 — 41,145 ratings — published 2007
Untamed (Medieval, #1)
by (shelved 194 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.98 — 8,681 ratings — published 1993
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,097 ratings — published 1200
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 188 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.55 — 858,810 ratings — published 2000
The Wedding (Lairds' Fiancées, #2)
by (shelved 187 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.16 — 38,287 ratings — published 1995
Ransom (Highlands' Lairds, #2)
by (shelved 185 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.33 — 38,859 ratings — published 1999
The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1–5)
by (shelved 183 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.06 — 120,092 ratings — published 1958
When Christ and His Saints Slept (Plantagenets #1; Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)
by (shelved 180 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,606 ratings — published 1994
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 179 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.03 — 65,971 ratings — published 1992
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,047 ratings — published 1220
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 172 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.17 — 803,668 ratings — published 2005
The Wolf and the Dove (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.13 — 20,561 ratings — published 1974
Saving Grace (Pocket Romance Classics)
by (shelved 168 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.26 — 30,567 ratings — published 1993
Company of Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.87 — 17,017 ratings — published 2008
The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.68 — 5,777 ratings — published 1133
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 167 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.34 — 748,203 ratings — published 2011
The Book of Margery Kempe (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.30 — 5,077 ratings — published 1438
The Consolation of Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.05 — 18,524 ratings — published 524
The Book of the City of Ladies (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,648 ratings — published 1405
“Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?”
― The Dragon Reborn
― The Dragon Reborn
“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
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