Books 2019

Books about the Middle Ages that are great reads > .

The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England, by Dan Jones
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth, by Helen Castor
A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain, by Marc Morris
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, by Peter Frankopan

Lady of the Forest: A Novel of Sherwood, by Jennifer Roberson
Desire Lines, by Elizabeth Kingston
The Apothecary Rose, by Candace Robb
Ysabel, by Guy Gavriel Kay

Beowulf, translation by Roy Liuzza
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translation by Norman Davis
Le Morte Darthur, translation by Stephen H. A. Shepherd
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan, translation by Earl Jeffrey Richards
Avicenna’s Medicine, translation by Mones Abu-Asab, Hakima Amri and Marc S. Micozzi
The Good Wife’s Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris): A Medieval Household Book, translation by Gina L. Greco and Christine M. Rose
The Fabliaux, translation by Nathaniel E. Dubin
The Trotula: An English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women’s Medicine, by Monica H. Green
Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others, by Ruth Mazo Karras
Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities, by Carole Rawcliffe
Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World: Equipment, Combat Skills and Tactics, by Matthew Bennett, Jim Bradbury, Kelly DeVries, Iain Dickie and Phyllis Jestice
Medieval Life: Archaeology and the Life Course, by Roberta Gilchrist
Romance of the Three Kingdoms, by Luo Guanzhong
Mission to Asia, by Christopher Dawson
Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds, by Dr. Natalie Zemon Davis
A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History’s Most Orthodox Empire, by Anthony Kaldellis
The Murder of Charles the Good, by Galbert of Bruges and James Bruce Ross
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/06/books-about-middle-ages-great-reads/ .

See also the TEAMS Middle English text series and University of Toronto’s Reading in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures series