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Lori Murphree's avatar

Grace, write that novel! Now I feel I must make room for Kristin and Godric. May I also suggest The Ramsey Scallop, about youth on pilgrimage on The Way in the Middle Ages? My daughter and I read this when she was a sixth-grader and it has stuck with me for years.

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Samuel Chapman's avatar

The Cadfael series are good reads, and set in the first English civil war - the "Anarchy" of the early Norman era. Paul Kingsnorth's "the Wake" is on my to read list too, from just slightly earlier.

Knight with Armour, by Alfred Duggan follows an Anglo-Norman knight on the first crusade. It's one I've read a couple of times as it's got a very interesting perspective and the main character feels authentic in his attitudes even if it makes him less likeable to a modern reader.

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