 | William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry by Georges Duby
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $1.85 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: $12.24 / Used from: $2.30 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: $12.24 / Used from: $0.37 Well written dual biography - fascinating, particularly in light of current events.
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 | Chronicles of the Crusades (Penguin Classics) by Jean de Joinville
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.71 A wonderful primary source peek into the real life of the Crusades.
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 | Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World by Karen Armstrong
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $2.97 Well reasoned, well supported, and well argued.
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 | Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art (Reaktion Books - Essays in Art and Culture) by Michael Camille
Buy new: $22.45 / Used from: $25.93 Camille was one of the greatest minds in the study of medieval art - his work is compelling, beautiful, and witty. He is deeply missed.
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 | Medieval Art by Marilyn Stokstad
Buy new: $55.69 / Used from: $33.85 A fairly good overview.
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 | Early Medieval Architecture (Oxford History of Art) by Roger Stalley
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $8.99 Again, decent overview of some major points.
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 | The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.01 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: $17.99 / Used from: $6.93 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: $0.33 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: $2.00 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: $17.00 / Used from: $5.85 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: $2.31 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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 | The New Knighthood : A History of the Order of the Temple by Malcolm Barber
Buy new: $18.24 / Used from: $4.73 Another Barber, another fascinating story, well told, that also sheds a great deal of light onto the Crusades.
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 | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.81 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: $0.71 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: $1.98 If you don't sigh and pine over this - you're not human. Beautiful.
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 | The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades (Oxford Illustrated Histories)
Buy new: $18.47 / Used from: $8.88 Great collection by some of the best scholars around.
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 | The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading by Jonathan Riley-Smith
Buy new: $22.45 / Used from: $5.84 You can't swing a dead cat without hitting Riley-Smith - and with good reason.
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