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Historical Fiction - Middle Ages Genre
Books in the Historical Fiction - Middle Ages genre:
The Song of Roland (1961)
The great French romance, here in a verse translation.
Author(s):
Hilda Cummings Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Magna Carta (1966)
Author(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
London Bridge is Falling Down (1967)
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
A Dictionary of Chivalry (1968)
Author(s):
Grant Uden
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Lorna Doone (1970)
Author(s):
R. D. Blackmore
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Wildest Horse Race in the World (1976)
A story, based on real events, about a boy and a half-Arabian mare who enter the Palio, an annual race in Siena, Italy, with all the pageantry of a medieval contest.
Author(s):
Marguerite Henry
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Anno’s Medieval World (1980)
An unfortunate example of the tendentious Enlightenment myth of the Middle Ages as a time of ignorance verging on insanity. Saint Augustine was well aware that the world was round. Not recommended.
Author(s):
Mitsumasa Anno
Illustrator(s):
Mitsumasa Anno
The Reluctant Dragon (1986)
This edition of The Reluctant Dragon includes a color illustration on the dust jacket. The story originally appeared in Kenneth Grahame’s Dream Days.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Raphael and the Noble Task (2000)
The denizens of the Cathedral, both of flesh and stone, rally around when a baby is left in their care.
Author(s):
Catherine Salton
Illustrator(s):
David Weitzman
William Tell Told Again (2009)
The classic tale of how Switzerland won its freedom from Austria. Pictures by Dadd, verse by Houghton and narrative by Wodehouse.
Author(s):
J. W. Houghton
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Philip Dadd