 | William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry by Georges Duby
Buy new: $8.50 / Used from: $1.40 Quite possibly one of the most engaging books on chivalry ever written.
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 | Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography by Marion Meade
Buy new: $13.50 / Used from: $0.68 Because she's fascinating - and for my money this is the best, easy-to-read bio out there.
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 | Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade by James Reston Jr.
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $1.18 Well written dual biography - fascinating, particularly in light of current events.
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 | Medieval Art by Marilyn Stokstad
Buy new: $56.13 / Used from: $28.49 A fairly good overview.
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 | Early Medieval Architecture (Oxford History of Art) by Roger Stalley
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $10.95 Again, decent overview of some major points.
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 | The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $0.99 A classic, and you can't beat Sayers as a translator or introduction writer.
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 | The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Canto) by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: $17.09 / Used from: $11.30 An interesting introduction to medieval and Renaissance lit by one of the greatest authors ever to address the subject.
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 | The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief by Richard Barber
Buy new: $27.95 / Used from: $0.05 Simply fascinating and a great debunker of some of the crazier Grail myths.
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 | Medieval People by Eileen Power
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $2.58 Eileen Powers has a strong voice and a clear vision of the realities of the Middle Ages. She's great.
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 | Medieval Women (Canto) by Eileen Power
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $6.67 Another Powers - perhaps her most famous work - very strong piece on a previously much- neglected topic.
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 | The Trial of the Templars by Malcolm Barber
Buy used from: $0.74 Barber is a wonderful writer, particularly for the layman - and this fascinating story tells a lot about the nature of things in this era.
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 | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.20 Because Tolkien made this fun translation - and I love the story.
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 | St. Augustine Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine
Buy used from: $1.43 Eventually, it all comes back to Augustine - and this is more fun than "City of God".
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 | Arthurian Romances (Penguin Classics) by Chrétien de Troyes
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.00 If you don't sigh and pine over this - you're not human. Beautiful.
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 | The Medieval Imagination by Jacques Le Goff
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $5.99 Jacques Le Goff is the founder of so many ideas, and this book is a wonderful exploration of some of the most vivid aspects of medieval life.
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 | Europe in the High Middle Ages (Penguin History of Europe) by William Chester Jordan
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.40 A wonderful man and talented writer, Professor Jordan has crafted this lovely introduction to the later middle ages for lay readers and undergraduates alike. It's a good reference.
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 | Feudal Society: Vol 1: The Growth and Ties of Dependence by Marc Bloch
Buy new: $29.60 / Used from: $17.00 With volume 2 of the same work, a classic (with Marxist leanings) examination of medieval feudalism which teaches as much about how theory reshaped our understanding of the Middle Ages as it does medieval society. A true classic.
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