Reading Suggestions for The Medieval Period

Here is a short list of general books, all of which Jane Ambrose enthusiastically recommends:

• H.S. Bennett, Six Medieval Men and Women (1972)
• Meg Bogin, The Women Troubadours (1980)
• Thomas Cahill, Mysteries of the Middle Ages (2006)
• Norman Cantor, The Civilization of the Middle Ages (1994)
• Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth (1989) & World Without End (2007)
• William Golding, The Spire (2002)
• Charles Homer Haskins, The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century (1927!) (Haskins was our first medieval historian...he opened many eyes, including mine.)
• Johann Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages (1924; reissued as The Autumn of the Middle Ages, 1996)
• Marion Meade, Eleanor of Aquitaine (1977)
• Kate Mosse, Labyrinth (2005)
• mysteries by Ellis Peters
• Eilen Power & Maxine Berg, Medieval Women (1997)
• Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror (1978)
• Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdattir (1930)
• Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Corner that Held Them (1948)
• Alison Weir, Eleanor of Aquitaine (1999)