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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Barbara W. Tuchman
4.05 average rating, · 45.1k ratings
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
Ian Mortimer
4.02 average rating, · 27.1k ratings
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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
Dan Jones
4.25 average rating, · 16.4k ratings
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Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
Dan Jones
4.39 average rating, · 11.1k ratings
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Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
Neil Price
4.14 average rating, · 10.3k ratings
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De Bourgondiërs: Aartsvaders van de Lage Landen
Bart Van Loo
4.31 average rating, · 6.4k ratings
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The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, The Power Behind Five English Thrones
Thomas Asbridge
4.26 average rating, · 5.2k ratings
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A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
Marc Morris
4.16 average rating, · 5.2k ratings
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River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
Cat Jarman
4.04 average rating, · 4.3k ratings
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The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings
Lars Brownworth
4.07 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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Medieval Myths & Mysteries
Dorsey Armstrong
4.11 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
Terry Jones
4.02 average rating, · 3k ratings
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The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation
Ian Mortimer
4.20 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
Tore Skeie
4.16 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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In Search of the Dark Ages
Michael Wood
4.02 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague
Dorsey Armstrong
4.32 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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The Conquering Family
Thomas B. Costain
4.11 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography
Marion Meade
4.08 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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Saint Milburga's Bones
Jason Vail
4.22 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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The Last Plantagenets
Thomas B. Costain
4.15 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Down the Common: A Year in the Life of a Medieval Woman
Ann Baer
4.18 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
Ian Mortimer
4.08 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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My Fair Lady: A Story of Eleanor of Provence, Henry III's Lost Queen
J.P. Reedman
4.08 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Æthelstan: The Making of England
Tom Holland
4.02 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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