Any suggestions?
2006-09-10 05:50:20 · 5 answers · asked by longnosedquoll 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I greatly enjoyed "A Distant Mirror The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, an overview of 14th Century medieval Europe" by Barbara Tuchman.
It's very readable and gripping and it doesn't just tell you about the lives of the important people.
2006-09-10 09:41:06 · answer #1 · answered by UKJess 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A brilliant book is The Year 1000 by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger. It might be slightly earlier than you were looking for but life didn't change a lot in the next thousand years. Change only escalated in Tudor times and beyond, first politically, then socially.
2006-09-10 14:30:08 · answer #2 · answered by happyjumpyfrog 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you looking for a story written in the middle ages, or are you looking for a book that describes the middle ages? One of my favorite books of this period is Boethius' "The Consolation of Philosophy" It's truly lovely. You may be interested in the following site. It may give you what you are looking for. Good luck!
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http://omacl.org/
http://library.marist.edu/diglib/english/englishliterature/medieval-lit/comp-medieval-lit.htm
2006-09-10 13:01:51 · answer #3 · answered by magnamamma 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett was pretty decent
2006-09-10 17:15:16 · answer #4 · answered by Kevin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Canterbury tales by Chaucer.
2006-09-10 12:55:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋