Best Medieval History Books

1.
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century 4.05 avg rating — 43,235 ratings
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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 4.01 avg rating — 25,924 ratings
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The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England
The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England
by: Dan Jones
4.25 avg rating — 22,360 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life 3.93 avg rating — 16,522 ratings
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West 4.25 avg rating — 6,902 ratings
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In Search of the Dark Ages
In Search of the Dark Ages really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,001 ratings
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age 3.83 avg rating — 12,692 ratings
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth 4.04 avg rating — 8,384 ratings
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World 3.87 avg rating — 5,818 ratings
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The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade 4.11 avg rating — 5,120 ratings
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The Wars of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,145 ratings
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 3.81 avg rating — 46,387 ratings
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The Three Edwards (The Plantagenets, #3)
The Three Edwards (The Plantagenets, #3) 4.11 avg rating — 1,151 ratings
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England 3.77 avg rating — 7,831 ratings
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Ecclesiastical History of the English People
by: Bede
3.83 avg rating — 4,778 ratings
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1066: The Year of the Conquest
1066: The Year of the Conquest 4.06 avg rating — 4,524 ratings
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The Last Plantagenets (The Plantagenets, #4)
The Last Plantagenets (The Plantagenets, #4) 4.14 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
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Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages 3.88 avg rating — 925 ratings
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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
by: Dan Jones
4.26 avg rating — 14,098 ratings
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The Magnificent Century (The Plantagenets, #2)
The Magnificent Century (The Plantagenets, #2) 4.14 avg rating — 1,000 ratings
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1215: The Year of Magna Carta
1215: The Year of Magna Carta 3.81 avg rating — 2,294 ratings
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Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages 3.97 avg rating — 1,510 ratings
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A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain 4.16 avg rating — 4,920 ratings
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Medieval Women
Medieval Women 3.95 avg rating — 510 ratings
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The Princes in the Tower
The Princes in the Tower 3.87 avg rating — 7,643 ratings
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Life in a Medieval City
Life in a Medieval City 3.84 avg rating — 3,835 ratings
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William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry
William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry 3.83 avg rating — 682 ratings
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A Medieval Family: The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England
A Medieval Family: The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England 3.81 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Women in the Middle Ages
Women in the Middle Ages 3.77 avg rating — 862 ratings
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Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I
Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I 3.90 avg rating — 1,659 ratings
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The Fall of Constantinople 1453
The Fall of Constantinople 1453 4.32 avg rating — 1,512 ratings
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made 3.41 avg rating — 5,388 ratings
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Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade
Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade 3.96 avg rating — 2,008 ratings
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Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives 4.02 avg rating — 2,940 ratings
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Byzantium: The Apogee
Byzantium: The Apogee 4.41 avg rating — 1,250 ratings
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The Norman Conquest
The Norman Conquest 4.17 avg rating — 5,003 ratings
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Uppity Women of Medieval Times
Uppity Women of Medieval Times 3.76 avg rating — 1,044 ratings
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Richard the Third
Richard the Third 3.98 avg rating — 2,967 ratings
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Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450-1500
Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450-1500 3.85 avg rating — 655 ratings
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The Conquering Family (The Plantagenets, #1)
The Conquering Family (The Plantagenets, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 1,503 ratings
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The Death of King Arthur
The Death of King Arthur
by: Anonymous
4.01 avg rating — 1,670 ratings
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Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381
Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381
by: Dan Jones
3.98 avg rating — 1,858 ratings
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The Warrior Queens
The Warrior Queens 3.71 avg rating — 2,784 ratings
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The First Crusade: A New History
The First Crusade: A New History 4.13 avg rating — 1,631 ratings
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The Travels
The Travels 3.58 avg rating — 7,904 ratings
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Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe 3.80 avg rating — 4,636 ratings
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The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain 3.92 avg rating — 2,949 ratings
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades 3.72 avg rating — 352 ratings
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time 3.89 avg rating — 11,192 ratings
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A History of the Crusades, Vol. II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187
A History of the Crusades, Vol. II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187 4.34 avg rating — 901 ratings
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The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English
The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English 3.93 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Those Terrible Middle Ages!: Debunking the Myths
Those Terrible Middle Ages!: Debunking the Myths 3.98 avg rating — 531 ratings
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A History Of The Crusades 3 Volume Set
A History Of The Crusades 3 Volume Set 4.41 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess
Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess 3.86 avg rating — 5,711 ratings
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The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople 4.08 avg rating — 860 ratings
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Agincourt: The King, The Campaign, The Battle
Agincourt: The King, The Campaign, The Battle 4.13 avg rating — 2,043 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings
by: Amy Kelly
3.95 avg rating — 968 ratings
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Revelations of the Medieval World (A History of Private Life, #2)
Revelations of the Medieval World (A History of Private Life, #2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 593 ratings
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The Normans in Sicily : The Magnificent Story of 'the Other Norman Conquest'
The Normans in Sicily : The Magnificent Story of 'the Other Norman Conquest' 4.33 avg rating — 344 ratings
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A History of the Vikings
A History of the Vikings 3.85 avg rating — 1,088 ratings
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Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England
Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England 3.83 avg rating — 4,168 ratings
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A Short History of Byzantium
A Short History of Byzantium 4.11 avg rating — 2,596 ratings
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A History of the Crusades, Vol. III: The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades
A History of the Crusades, Vol. III: The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades 4.36 avg rating — 701 ratings
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The Waning of the Middle Ages
The Waning of the Middle Ages 4.03 avg rating — 4,252 ratings
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Medieval Lives: Eight Charismatic Men and Women of the Middle Ages
Medieval Lives: Eight Charismatic Men and Women of the Middle Ages 3.46 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Maimonides
Maimonides 3.66 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Saint Thomas Aquinas and Saint Francis of Assisi
Saint Thomas Aquinas and Saint Francis of Assisi 4.15 avg rating — 370 ratings
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The Northern Crusades
The Northern Crusades 3.75 avg rating — 515 ratings
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Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity
Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity 3.80 avg rating — 109 ratings
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso 4.08 avg rating — 167,102 ratings
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King John, 1167-1216
King John, 1167-1216 3.35 avg rating — 7,763 ratings
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A History of the Crusades, Volume 1: The First Crusade and the Foundations of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
A History of the Crusades, Volume 1: The First Crusade and the Foundations of the Kingdom of Jerusalem 4.28 avg rating — 1,853 ratings
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The Vikings
The Vikings 3.82 avg rating — 1,162 ratings
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The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453
The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453 3.86 avg rating — 1,295 ratings
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Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World 3.61 avg rating — 302 ratings
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The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy
The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy 4.02 avg rating — 240 ratings
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The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians 4.15 avg rating — 4,269 ratings
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The New Concise History of the Crusades
The New Concise History of the Crusades 4.03 avg rating — 654 ratings
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Medieval Civilization 400-1500
Medieval Civilization 400-1500 4.17 avg rating — 1,171 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus 4.05 avg rating — 93,181 ratings
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The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century
The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century 4.22 avg rating — 504 ratings
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Life in a Medieval Village
Life in a Medieval Village 3.87 avg rating — 2,133 ratings
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The Great Medieval Heretics: Five Centuries of Religious Dissent
The Great Medieval Heretics: Five Centuries of Religious Dissent 3.64 avg rating — 137 ratings
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England under the Norman and Angevin Kings, 1075 - 1225
England under the Norman and Angevin Kings, 1075 - 1225 4.16 avg rating — 255 ratings
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The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land 4.22 avg rating — 6,682 ratings
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Celtic Blood
Celtic Blood 3.58 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Roman Britain and Early England: 55 BC - AD 871
Roman Britain and Early England: 55 BC - AD 871 3.80 avg rating — 165 ratings
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The History of the Franks
The History of the Franks 3.87 avg rating — 1,562 ratings
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Simon de Montfort
Simon de Montfort 3.89 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-century England
Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-century England 3.92 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World 4.06 avg rating — 81,005 ratings
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The Plantagenet Chronicles
The Plantagenet Chronicles 4.04 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens
Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens 3.89 avg rating — 1,659 ratings
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Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe 3.89 avg rating — 4,568 ratings
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The Medieval World Complete
The Medieval World Complete 4.21 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe
Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe 3.97 avg rating — 984 ratings
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The Black Death
The Black Death 3.71 avg rating — 1,444 ratings
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Edward II
Edward II 4.13 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Saxon and Norman Kings
The Saxon and Norman Kings 3.54 avg rating — 109 ratings
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The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature 4.28 avg rating — 3,175 ratings
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