Getting medieval...

[scribb1e]

I realised I have lots of appropriate books on my shelves already:

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[antiprism]

The Spire (William Golding)? (We can lend you a copy.)

[scribb1e]

One for the historical fiction category? Excellent!

[gjm11]

Other things we could lend you (I expect there are more, but I should really be going to bed rather than racking brains or searching shelves...):

Books written in mediaeval times: Divine Comedy, Decameron (both only in translation, and actually it turns out that we have only 2/3 of the D.C.)

Historical fiction: Tracy Chevalier's "The lady and the unicorn"; Helen Waddell's "Peter Abelard".

History (kinda): Philip Ball's "Universe of Stone", about Chartres cathedral; David Grant's "The foundations of modern science in the Middle Ages".

Probably not fitting any of the official categories: two books about Thomas Aquinas; C S Lewis's "The allegory of love"; the letters of Abelard and Heloise. (There's a lengthy introduction so perhaps you could consider it a work of history.)

[scribb1e]

Ooh, thanks! I'd be interested in the David Grant book and the letters of Abelard and Heloise. But I'd probably better get on with reading what's already on my shelves first, though...

Divine Comedy, Decameron (both only in translation...

Only? And I was so looking forward to learning obscure medieval Italian...

[antiprism]

What about Shakespeare?

[scribb1e]

The terms of the challenge (see previous post) defined medieval as 500-1500 AD. Shakespeare was born in 1564. Although his history plays dealing with the medieval era probably count as historical fiction...