Recommended Books
Developed from a list compiled for a Middle School Medieval Unit by George Roller, Library Media
Specialist, Tallulah Falls School, Tallulah Falls, GA 30573, distributed over LM_NET.
Bibliographic information and additional materials from the libraries of Mary Institute
and Saint Louis Country Day School.
Jump to topics:
General Studies | Arts and
Architecture | Daily Life | Eyewitness Books | Medieval
People | Fiction.
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General Studies of the Middle Ages.
Anno, Mitsumasa. Anno's Medieval World. New York: Philomel, 1980.
Brooks, Polly Schoyer. The World of Walls: The Middle Ages in Western Europe.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966.
Cairns, Trevor. The Middle Ages. Minneapolis: Lerner, 1975.
Caselli, Giovanni. The Middle Ages. New York: Bedrick, 1988. 44 p.
Corbishley, Mike. The Middle Ages. New York: Facts on File, 1990.
Grant, Michael. Dawn of the Middle Ages, A.D. 476-814. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981.
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Arts and Architecture.
Bibles and Bestiaries
Hunt, Jonathan. Illuminations. New York: Aladdin, 1993.
Jacobs, David. Master Builders of the Middle Ages. 1969.
Macaulay, David. Castle [videorecording]. New York: Unicorn Projects, 1983.
Macaulay, David. Castle. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977.
Macaulay, David. Cathedral [videorecording]. New York: Unicorn Projects, 1985.
Macaulay, David. Cathedral: The Story of its Construction. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1973.
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Daily Life in the Middle Ages.
Arnold, Ralph. Kings, Bishops, Knights and Pawns: Life in a Feudal Society. New
York: Norton, 1963.
Bagley, J.J. Life in Medieval England. New York: Putnam, 1960.
Black, Irma Simonton. Castle, Abbey and Town: How People Lived in the Middle Ages.
NewYork: Holiday, 1963.
Buehr, Walter. Knights and Castles and Feudal Life. New York: Putnam, 1957.
Coulton, George Gordon. Medieval Village, Manor and Monastery. New York: Harper,
1960.
Gies, Frances and Joseph. Life in a Medieval City. New York: Crowell, 1969. 274 p.
Gies, Frances. Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle
Ages. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
Gies, Frances. Life in a Medieval Village. New York: Harper and Row, 1990.
Gies, Frances. Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages. New York: Harper and
Row.
Gies, Frances. Women in the Middle Ages. New York: Harper and Row.
Lewis, Brenda Ralph. Growing Up in the Dark Ages. London: Batsford, 1980.
Riche, Pierre. Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne. Philadelphia: U. of
Pennsylvania Press, 1978.
Rowling, Marjorie. Life in Medieval Times. New York: Putnam, 1973.
Walker, Dorothy. Knight of the Middle Ages. A True to Life Book. Stockmyer
Educational Materials, 1974.
Williams, Jay. Life in the Middle Ages. New York: Random House, 1966.
Winston, Clara and Richard. The Horizon Book of Daily Life in the Middle Ages. New
York: American Heritage, 1975.
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Eyewitness Books Series
These striking picture books are published in London by Dorling Kindersley and in New
York by Knopf. Medieval volumes in the series are:
Grovett, Christopher. The Knight. 1993.
Grovett, Christopher. The Castle. 1994.
Langley, Andrew. Medieval Life. 1996.
Margeson, Susan M. Viking. 1994.
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Medieval People.
Brooks, Polly Schoyer. Queen Eleanor, Independent Spirit of the Medieval World.
1983.
Cantor, Norman F. Medieval Lives: Eight Charismatic Men and Women of the Middle Ages.
New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
Dahmus, Joseph Henry. Seven Medieval Queens. Garden City: Doubleday, 1972.
Smalley, Beryl. Historians in the Middle Ages. New York: Scribner, 1975.
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Fiction.
Chambers, James. The Devil's Horsemen. New York: Atheneum, 1979.
Curry, Jane Louise. Over the Sea's Edge. New York: Harcourt, 1971.
Cushman, Katherine. The Midwife's Apprentice. New York: Clarion, 1995. 122 p.
Cushman, Katherine. Catherine Called Birdie. New York: Clarion, 1994. 169 p.
De Angeli, Marguerite. Door in the Wall. New York: Doubleday, 1949. 112 p.
Garrard, Roy. Sir Cedric. New York: Farrar, 1984.
Garrard, Roy. Sir Cedric Rides Again. New York: Farrar, 1986.
Gray, Elizabeth Janet. Adam of the Road. New York: Viking, 1942. 317 p.
Proud Knight, Fair Lady: The Twelve Lais of Marie de France. New York: Viking
Kestrel, 1989.
Sutcliff, Rosemary. Beowulf, retold. New York: Dutton, 1962.
Sutcliff, Rosemary. The Hound of Ulster. New York: Dutton, 1963.
Sutcliffe, Rosemary. The Light beyond the Forest: the Quest for the Holy Grail. New
York: Dutton, 1980.
Sutcliffe, Rosemary. The Road to Camlann. New York: Dutton, 1982.
Sutcliffe, Rosemary. The Sword and the Circle: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round
Table. New York: Dutton, 1981.
Sutcliffe, Rosemary. Tristan and Iseult. New York: Dutton, 1971.
Temple, Frances. The Ramsay Scallop. New York: Orchard, 1994.
Treece, Henry. The Green Man, a novel. New York: Putnam, 1966.
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