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10 best books like Le Lai de Lanval (Marie de France): Paradise Lost, Dr. Faustus, The Rape of the Lock, The Song of Roland, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The History of the Kings of Britain, The Book of Margery Kempe, Revelations of Divine Love, Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance, The Battle of Maldon

Paradise Lost
AuthorJohn Milton
ISBN0140424393
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's...
Dr. Faustus
AuthorChristopher Marlowe
ISBN0486282082
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe's death in 1593. Two different...
The Rape of the Lock
AuthorAlexander Pope
ISBN1557429162
I’ve always believed that miracles can happen and that great physical and/or mental suffering can engender greatness. This indeed proved to be the case with this splendid work by Alexander Pope.

I find Pope a fascinating individual. He was a catholic, at a time when legislation was repressive...
The Song of Roland
AuthorUnknown
ISBN0140440755
On 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring tale of war, which was recorded in the oldest extant epic poem in French. The Song of Roland, written...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
AuthorUnknown
ISBN0451528182
Contains the greatest "OH FUCK" moment in medieval literature!

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - listed here as written by Unknown, though I believe it may have been penned by that prolific Greek author Anonymous - is a classic tale from Arthurian legend in which the code of honor attributed...
The History of the Kings of Britain
AuthorGeoffrey of Monmouth
ISBN0140441700
Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous...
The Book of Margery Kempe
AuthorMargery Kempe
ISBN0393976394
The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1436-8) is the extraordinary account of a medieval wife, mother, and mystic. Known as the earliest autobiography written in the English language, Kempe's Book describes the dramatic transformation of its heroine from failed businesswoman and lustful young wife to devout...
Revelations of Divine Love
AuthorJulian of Norwich
ISBN0140446737
One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Love a remarkable work of revelatory insight, that stands alongside The Cloud of Unknowing and Piers Plowman as a classic of Medieval religious literature

After fervently praying for a greater understanding...
Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance
AuthorHeldris de Cornualles
ISBN0870135430
This bilingual edition, a parallel text in Old French and English, is based on a reexamination of the Old French manuscript, and makes Silence available to specialists and students in various fields of literature and women's studies.
     The Roman de Silence, an Arthurian romance of the...
The Battle of Maldon
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0951620908
The Battle of Maldon
Composed in approx. 1100 AD

This narrative poetry right away made me think of « The Song of Roland.»

Taking my copy off the shelve, I went to compare the dates of these historical events that became legendary related poetry.

The battle in which Roland...
Sonny's Blues
AuthorJames Baldwin
ISBN3125765005
I guess Sonny's Blues is OK if you like that sort of thing. In this case, that sort of thing being nearly perfectly crafted fiction. That sort of thing being a story that's so universal and so timeless that it can be felt by any and everybody on the face of the earth. This sort of thing being the kind of story...
The Miller's Prologue and Tale
AuthorGeoffrey Chaucer
ISBN0521080339
The Miller's tale deals boldly with a thorny problem which is the motivational human need, Sexual appetite, along with cunning and folly.
On the one hand, it focuses on the nature of good and evil, how an impoverished student named Nicholas who is depicted as a very good man is in reality a shrewd devious...
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
AuthorGeoffrey Chaucer
ISBN0198319673
Great! Thoroughly entertaining... My goodness these medieval folks fooled around a lot -- or at least enjoyed stories of those who did :) I'm curious about Chaucer's repeatedly using the word ape ; Harvard University's Interlinear Translation page interprets ape in two ways : "ape" and "fool". How...
The Dream of the Rood
AuthorCynewulf
ISBN0859895033
The Dream of the Rood is a poem that has entranced generations of scholars. It is one of the greatest religious poems in English literature, the work of a nameless poet of superb genius.

This edition presents a conservative text with variant reading described in the notes. In his introduction...
Sir Orfeo
AuthorUnknown
ISBN1177696711
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important,...
The Second Shepherd's Play
AuthorWakefield Master
Lisl Beer adapted this famous play from the Towley Manuscript of Old English. As observed in FaceBook, “The play is actually two separate stories presented sequentially; the first is a non-biblical story about a thief, Mak, who steals a sheep from three shepherds. He and his wife, Gill, attempt to...
Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart
AuthorChrétien de Troyes
ISBN0300071213
lancelot is a damsel in distress

lancelot in the tower: oh woe, my life sucks, i'm stuck here forever
the maiden: yo, lancelot!
lancelot: i will never be free. nobody knows i'm here. alas.
the maiden: seriously dude i'm right here
lancelot: i wish i was dead
the maiden:...
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