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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 655 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.35 — 818,973 ratings — published 1989
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 633 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.50 — 344,253 ratings — published 1000
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 626 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.52 — 236,085 ratings — published 1400
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 503 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.76 — 76,256 ratings — published 1375
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 500 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.14 — 391,311 ratings — published 1980
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 376 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,700,567 ratings — published 1996
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 329 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.05 — 43,707 ratings — published 1978
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 320 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.01 — 26,197 ratings — published 2008
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 310 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.92 — 39,219 ratings — published 1485
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.50 — 18,962 ratings — published 1115
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 294 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.03 — 203,172 ratings — published 1320
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.88 — 43,099 ratings — published 1349
A Kingdom of Dreams (Westmoreland, #1)
by (shelved 280 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.20 — 56,023 ratings — published 1989
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
by (shelved 272 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.32 — 272,320 ratings — published 2007
The Bride (Lairds' Fiancées, #1)
by (shelved 269 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.22 — 70,078 ratings — published 1989
The Lais of Marie de France (Paperback)
by (shelved 257 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.83 — 9,832 ratings — published 1160
A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
by (shelved 248 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.96 — 44,028 ratings — published 1977
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 241 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.08 — 169,562 ratings — published 1320
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 240 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,009,846 ratings — published 1998
The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
by (shelved 235 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.27 — 110,539 ratings — published 2004
Arthurian Romances (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,091 ratings — published 1181
The Secret (Highlands' Lairds, #1)
by (shelved 231 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.25 — 56,154 ratings — published 1992
Honor's Splendour (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.23 — 34,635 ratings — published 1987
The Prize (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.22 — 32,110 ratings — published 1991
The Mabinogion (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,519 ratings — published 1400
Ivanhoe (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.76 — 98,515 ratings — published 1819
Katherine (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.21 — 35,434 ratings — published 1954
The History of the Kings of Britain (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.71 — 6,848 ratings — published 1136
Untamed (Medieval, #1)
by (shelved 191 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,539 ratings — published 1993
Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of Death, #1)
by (shelved 191 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.93 — 40,755 ratings — published 2007
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 190 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.55 — 837,771 ratings — published 2000
Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)
by (shelved 189 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.29 — 24,899 ratings — published 1985
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 187 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.25 — 23,121 ratings — published 2012
The Wedding (Lairds' Fiancées, #2)
by (shelved 184 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.16 — 37,666 ratings — published 1995
Ransom (Highlands' Lairds, #2)
by (shelved 178 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.33 — 38,206 ratings — published 1999
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.82 — 8,799 ratings — published 1200
Between Two Fires (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.22 — 53,211 ratings — published 2012
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 175 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.17 — 783,836 ratings — published 2005
The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5)
by (shelved 170 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.07 — 117,102 ratings — published 1958
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 170 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.34 — 731,384 ratings — published 2011
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 170 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.03 — 64,140 ratings — published 1992
The Wolf and the Dove (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.13 — 20,223 ratings — published 1974
When Christ and His Saints Slept (Plantagenets #1; Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)
by (shelved 167 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,326 ratings — published 1994
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,538 ratings — published 1220
Never Seduce a Scot (The Montgomerys and Armstrongs, #1)
by (shelved 162 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.13 — 36,865 ratings — published 2012
Saving Grace (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.26 — 30,038 ratings — published 1993
The Consolation of Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,527 ratings — published 524
The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.68 — 5,646 ratings — published 1133
Prisoner of My Desire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as medieval)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,518 ratings — published 1991
The Book of Margery Kempe (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as medieval)
avg rating 3.30 — 4,894 ratings — published
“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
“The Dark and Middle Ages! The Nineteenth Century had an impudent way with its labels. For there, under the window in Arthur's Gramarye, the sun's rays flamed from a hundred jewels of stained glass in monasteries and convents, or danced from the pinnacle of cathedrals and castles, which their builders had actually loved. Architecture, in those dark ages of theirs, was such a light-giving passion of the heart that men gave love-names to their fortresses.”
― The Candle in the Wind
― The Candle in the Wind
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dark-ages, medieval-fiction, medieval-times, and middle-ages
