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10 best books like The Quest for Arthur's Britain (Geoffrey Ashe): Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages, King Arthur, Legends of Valor, The Arthurian Encyclopedia, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Arthurian Legends, The Arthurian Legends, The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages, The Evolution of Medieval Thought, Arthur's Britain, The Quest for Merlin

Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages
AuthorFrances Gies
ISBN0060914688
From bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies, authors of the classic “Medieval Life” series, comes this compelling, lucid, and highly readable account of the family unit as it evolved throughout the Medieval period—reissued for the first time in decades.

“Some particular...
King Arthur
AuthorNorma Lorre Goodrich
ISBN0060971827
Norma Lorre Goodrich’s main pursuit in “King Arthur” is to uphold the historicity of Arthur the man, as well as to identify the true localities of his kingdom. Traditionally, Arthur’s seat has been placed in southern England, but Goodrich builds an extremely compelling case for putting Arthur’s...
Legends of Valor
AuthorBrendan Lehane
ISBN0809452219
This is almost like reading two different books. I was convinced I was going to give this book a 2-star rating based on the first half. It starts with a collection of legends about an Irish hero named Cuchulain. Many of the legends have tons of internal references, and the text quite often tells you to (see...
The Arthurian Encyclopedia
AuthorNorris J. Lacy
ISBN0872261646
This review is of the 1986, red-covered version of THE ARTHURIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA, chief editor Norris Lacy. It's a big book, 649 pages, and appears to be substantially the same volume as the yellow-jacketed edition pictured above. It's worth understanding that the general field of "Arthuriana" embraces...
The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Arthurian Legends
AuthorRonan Coghlan
ISBN1566198763
Often plundered and even plagiarised – frequently online and most notably in print by Mike Dixon-Kennedy in his Arthurian Myth and Legend: an A-Z of People and Places (1996) – this was the first really accessible dictionary of Arthurian personages, locales and other miscellanea. While not an...
The Arthurian Legends
AuthorRichard Barber
ISBN0851151108
This book I got many years ago from Quarwood of all places. It's one of the books I own from John Entwistle's personal library, and it is an exceptionally beautiful book. It is worth five stars for the pictures alone, but the accompanying text makes it all even better.

The book is a broad survey...
The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages
AuthorHelen Waddell
ISBN0486414361
This is that strangeness, without which beauty is not made perfect.

This is the wonky cousin of The White Goddess from Robert Graves. Rampant rolls of verse citation seep and suggest all the anxious influence of the ancients, particularly the Irish, who survived the initial pillage from the...
The Evolution of Medieval Thought
AuthorDavid Knowles
ISBN0582494265
A famous text with an introduction and commentary by Brooke and Luscombe. It reveals the connection between the thought of the Medieval Schools of philosophy and that of the Greek philosophers. The new edition has been fully revised, updated and corrected.

Preface to First Edition
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Arthur's Britain
AuthorLeslie Alcock
ISBN0141390697
We are all familiar with the heroic deeds and enchantments of the legendary tales surrounding King Arthur. But what evidence is there for a real figure beneath the myth and romance?

Arthur's Britain assembles a wealth of information about the history of Arthur by delving into the shadowy period...
The Quest for Merlin
AuthorNikolai Tolstoy
ISBN0316850802
Nikolai Tolstoy, a distant relative to Count Leo and latterly a parliamentary representative for the deluded United Kingdom Independence Party, confesses to being hooked on Arthurian legend for as long as he can remember.

The twin fruits of his obsession were his novel, The Coming of the...
Medieval Folklore: A Guide to Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs
AuthorCarl Lindahl
ISBN0195147723
Over a decade in the making, Medieval Folklore offers a wide-ranging guide to the lore of the Middle Ages--from the mundane to the supernatural. Definitive and lively articles focus on the great tales and traditions of the age and includes information on daily and nightly customs and activities; religious...
The Life of Merlin
AuthorGeoffrey of Monmouth
ISBN0708305202
The VITA MERLINI (LIFE OF MERLIN) is an often-overlooked, but nonetheless important and fascinating, account of the life of Merlin, the good wizard of the Arthurian legendarium. In this volume, we have the original Latin poem (from the 12th century), an English translation thereof, and copious notes...
The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 350 to 650
AuthorJohn Robert Morris
A lifetime's scholarship enabled John Morris to recreate a past hitherto hidden in myth and mystery. He describes the Arthurian Age as 'the starting point of future British history', for it saw the transition from Roman Britain to Great Britain, the establishment of England, Scotland, Ireland and...
What Life Was Like on the Banks of the Nile: Egypt, 3050-30 BC
AuthorDenise Dersin
ISBN0809493780
The dazzling ancient Egyptian civilization, which was born by the river Nile and flourished for more than 3,000 years, captures our imagination as no other culture before or since. Their magnificent pyramids, colossal temples, and brooding Sphinx never fail to awe and astound us. But even more amazing...
What Life Was Like Among Druids and High Kings: Celtic Ireland, AD 400-1200
AuthorRobin Chapman Stacey
ISBN0783554559
This book is decent, I guess, for a general overview of early Irish history, but it should be taken with many, many grains of salt due to the author's complete lack of criticism of Roman sources describing Celtic society. Chapman also glosses over certain aspects of Celtic mythology, especially in regards...
The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
AuthorThomas Malory
ISBN0517231360
From the Preface by Alfred W. Pollard:

"There is much repetition in the Morte d'Arthur as Malory left it. How often Sir Breuse sans Pitie played his ugly tricks, or Tristram rescued Palomides, or minor knights met at adventure and emulated their betters, it is not easy to count. I have tried to...
The Anglo-Saxons
AuthorJames Campbell
ISBN0140143955
This survey, an introduction to the history of Anglo-Saxon England looks at political history, and religious, cultural, social, legal and economic themes are woven in. Throughout the book the authors make use of original sources such as chronicles, charters, manuscripts and coins, works of art,...
From Ritual to Romance
AuthorJessie Laidlay Weston
ISBN0486296806
Acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as one of the chief sources for his great poem "The Waste Land," Jessie L. Weston's From Ritual to Romance remains a landmark of anthropological and mythological scholarship. In this book she explores the origins of the Grail legend, arguing that it dates back to a primitive...
A History of Pagan Europe
AuthorPrudence J. Jones
ISBN0415373336
With this second edition bringing the books completely up to date with analysis of recent work in the area, A History of Pagan Europe is the first comprehensive study of its kind, and establishes Paganism as a persistent force in European history with a profound influence on modern thinking.

From...
Memoirs of a Medieval Woman: The Life and Times of Margery Kempe
AuthorLouise Collis
ISBN0060909927
Margery Kempe was an extraordinary 15th century woman who traveled from England to Jerusalem (and a number of spots in between). She was convinced she had been chosen by God to be his servant, and, though married with 14 (!) children, she undertook to take His message to the faithful. More importantly...
Dungeon, Fire and Sword: The Knights Templar in the Crusades
AuthorJohn J. Robinson
ISBN0871316579
Over the last 1000 years the bloodiest game of king-of-the-hill has been for supremacy on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This book recounts the stirring saga of the Knights Templar, the Christian warrior-monks who occupied the sacred Mount in the aftermath of the butchery of the First Crusade. Recruited...
The Medieval Underworld
AuthorAndrew McCall
This book was interesting, but very painful to read because McCall tortures all of his sentences. In McCall's hands, for example, the previous sentence might read: "The sentences of this book, being tortured by McCall, were very painful to read, yet interesting did I find the book."Or some such nonsense....
William Wallace: Brave Heart
AuthorJames A. MacKay
Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history's greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas—a shadowy figure whose edges have been blurred by myth and legend. James MacKay uses all his skills as a historical detective to produce this definitive biography, telling the incredible story...
Life in a Medieval Castle
AuthorJoseph Gies
Focusing on Chepstow, an English castle that survived the turbulent Middle Ages with a relative lack of violence, the book offers an exquisite portrait of what day-to-day life was actually like during the era, and of the key role the castle played. The Gieses take us through the full cycle of a medieval...
Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages
AuthorJean Gimpel
ISBN0140045147
The common, simplistic view of the Middle Ages as religion-centered and materially backward is challenged by Jean Gimpel in this milestone study, originally published in 1976. The Medieval Machine tells how, between the years 900 and 1300, Europeans created their first industrial revolution,...
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