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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 698 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.35 — 862,469 ratings — published 1989
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 692 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.51 — 358,451 ratings — published 950
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 670 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.53 — 242,394 ratings — published 1400
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 565 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.77 — 82,244 ratings — published 1375
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 545 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.14 — 408,708 ratings — published 1980
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 392 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,827,767 ratings — published 1996
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 367 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.05 — 45,724 ratings — published 1978
Between Two Fires (Hardcover)
by (shelved 359 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.17 — 110,868 ratings — published 2012
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 352 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.02 — 27,446 ratings — published 2008
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 338 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.91 — 40,169 ratings — published 1485
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.51 — 20,012 ratings — published 1115
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 309 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.03 — 214,077 ratings — published 1321
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 306 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.88 — 44,837 ratings — published 1349
The Lais of Marie de France (Paperback)
by (shelved 293 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.83 — 10,451 ratings — published 1160
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
by (shelved 289 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.33 — 285,667 ratings — published 2007
A Kingdom of Dreams (Westmoreland, #1)
by (shelved 283 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.20 — 57,221 ratings — published 1989
The Bride (Lairds' Fiancées, #1)
by (shelved 281 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.22 — 71,988 ratings — published 1989
A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
by (shelved 279 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.96 — 45,912 ratings — published 1977
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 272 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.09 — 180,615 ratings — published 1304
The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
by (shelved 256 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.27 — 116,762 ratings — published 2004
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 246 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,055,791 ratings — published 1998
Arthurian Romances (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,268 ratings — published 1181
Katherine (Paperback)
by (shelved 239 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.21 — 37,070 ratings — published 1954
Honor's Splendour (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.23 — 35,406 ratings — published 1987
The Secret (Highlands' Lairds, #1)
by (shelved 237 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.25 — 57,618 ratings — published 1992
The Prize (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.21 — 32,910 ratings — published 1991
The Mabinogion (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,940 ratings — published 1200
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.26 — 25,983 ratings — published 2012
Ivanhoe (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.77 — 100,761 ratings — published 1819
The History of the Kings of Britain (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.71 — 7,076 ratings — published 1136
Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)
by (shelved 204 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.30 — 25,505 ratings — published 1985
Untamed (Medieval, #1)
by (shelved 198 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.98 — 8,764 ratings — published 1993
Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of Death, #1)
by (shelved 197 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.93 — 41,477 ratings — published 2007
The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1–5)
by (shelved 195 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.06 — 121,203 ratings — published 1958
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 192 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.55 — 874,452 ratings — published 2000
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,234 ratings — published 1200
Ransom (Highlands' Lairds, #2)
by (shelved 187 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.33 — 39,201 ratings — published 1999
The Wedding (Lairds' Fiancées, #2)
by (shelved 186 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.16 — 38,639 ratings — published 1995
Company of Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.87 — 17,359 ratings — published 2008
When Christ and His Saints Slept (Plantagenets #1; Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)
by (shelved 181 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,811 ratings — published 1994
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 178 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.18 — 816,026 ratings — published 2005
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 178 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.03 — 67,236 ratings — published 1992
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,358 ratings — published 1220
The Wolf and the Dove (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.13 — 20,736 ratings — published 1974
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 171 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.35 — 758,497 ratings — published 2011
The Book of Margery Kempe (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.30 — 5,152 ratings — published 1438
The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.68 — 5,857 ratings — published 1133
Saving Grace (Pocket Romance Classics)
by (shelved 169 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.26 — 30,830 ratings — published 1993
Never Seduce a Scot (The Montgomerys and Armstrongs, #1)
by (shelved 167 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,058 ratings — published 2012
The Consolation of Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.06 — 19,123 ratings — published 524
“How was she created? I'm not sure if you realize this, but it was in God's image. How can anybody dare to speak ill of something which bears such a noble imprint?”
― The Book of the City of Ladies
― The Book of the City of Ladies
“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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