What are some great medieval books?

>>8948810
A great ~~time-travel~~ book featuring the plague years is The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. The modern-day portion is tedious, but the 14th-century parts are excellent.

The social and religious life of a village are explored on their own terms, not through the viewpoint of a modern scold.

If you want stuff written in the era, check out some Icelandic sagas. Egil's saga is probably the best known, but Njal's saga is fantastic too.

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Orlando Furioso.

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>>8948810
I like the Shardlake series.

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>>8948810
Laurus. Russian mystic/healer journeys across his country in the 1400s.

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>>8948810
Morgante by Pulci.

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tfw this has been my wallpaper for weeks

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Azincourt and Harlequin by Bernard Cornwell

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Theologus autodidactus

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>>8948810
the accursed kings

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>>8949089
Still Ivanhoe (1820)
The Name of the Rose (1980) gets mentioned as being good here sometimes, but I've never read it

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>>8950182
Oh also Italo Calvino has a medieval trilogy that's weird and postmodern. I'm not sure if that's what your looking for but he's a great ~~Bloom approved~~ author: the trilogy thus:
>The Baron in the Trees
>The Cloven Viscount
>The Nonexistent Knight

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>>8949089
La catedral del mar is really comfy. I don't know if it has a yranslation in english but you learn a lot of shit and has some interesting plots

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In a similar vein to >>8950195 and >>8950182
I also recommend Baudolino by Umberto Eco if you don't mind some fantastical/whimsical elements in the story

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>>8948810
Every medievalist should read the Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius.

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