Timeless Tales of Chivalry: 50 Outstanding Medieval Historical Novels
Fifty Medieval Romances of Grail Quests, Crusades, Castle Intrigue, and Sacred VowsBy Felix Dahn, Mary Shelley, Walter Scott, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Howard Pyle, George Gissing, William Morris, Grace Aguilar, Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Cao Xueqin, James Hogg, Georg Ebers, Robert Williams Buchanan, Lew Wallace, G. P. R. James, Pearl Poet, C. R. Macauley, Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío, John Fox Jr., G. A. Henty, William John Ferrar, Quatrelles, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Arthur W. Marchmont, Robert E. Howard, F. Marion Crawford, Friedrich de La Motte-Fouqué, Sylvanus Cobb, Robert B. Brough, Jean Bernard Lafon, Thomas Malory, Tobias Smollett, Florence L. Barclay, Emma Orczy, Jessie L. Weston, Thomas Love Peacock, John Bunyan, Maurice Hewlett, Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Emily Sarah Holt
Length655h 42m
About this audiobook
Timeless Tales of Chivalry gathers fifty works that imagine, inherit, and interrogate the medieval past through romance, adventure, chronicle, gothic fantasy, quest narrative, and historical fiction. Ranging from Arthurian legend and crusading ideals to courtly love, dynastic conflict, religious struggle, and outlawry, the volume places canonical medieval voices beside later reinventions of chivalric culture. Its selection foregrounds the enduring literary power of tournaments, castles, pilgrimage, warfare, and moral ordeal, while allowing heroic aspiration to coexist with irony, melancholy, and social critique. The contributors span medieval Europe and the modern transnational revival of historical romance, including writers associated with Romantic medievalism, Victorian popular fiction, Gothic and adventure traditions, and the historical novel's development. Their varied cultural locations—from English and Scottish traditions to German, French, Spanish, Polish, and Chinese literary worlds—broaden "chivalry" beyond a single national myth. Collectively, these texts reveal how successive eras have used the Middle Ages to consider honor, gender, faith, sovereignty, class, and the tensions between legend and history. This anthology is recommended for readers seeking both pleasure and critical perspective in a capacious literary archive. It offers an exceptional opportunity to compare narrative forms, national imaginaries, and changing ideals of heroism within one volume. Students and general readers alike will find it a valuable guide to the afterlives of medieval culture and to the rich dialogue among romance, history, and fantasy.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length655 hrs 42 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
2Timeless Tales of Chivalry: 50 Outstanding Medieval Historical Novels
3The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights
4CHAPTER I
5CHAPTER III
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6CHAPTER VI
7CHAPTER IX
8CHAPTER XI
9CHAPTER XII
10CHAPTER XIII
11CHAPTER XIV
12King Arthur and His Knights
13The Book of King Arthur
14Part I The Winning of Kinghood
15Part II The Winning of a Sword
16Part III The Winning of a Queen
17Chapter First
18Chapter Second
19Chapter Third
20Chapter Fourth
21Chapter Fifth
22Chapter Sixth
23The Book of Three Worthies
24Part I The Story of Merlin
25Part II The Story of Sir Pellias
26Chapter First
27Chapter Second
28Chapter Third
29Chapter Fourth
30Chapter Fifth
31Chapter Sixth
32Part III The Story of Sir Gawaine
33A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes
34PREFACE.
35CHAPTER III THE GRAND MASTER'S PAGE
36CHAPTER V SCOURGES OF THE SEA
37CHAPTER VII A FIRST COMMAND
38CHAPTER IX WITH THE GALLEY SLAVES
39CHAPTER XI IN COMMAND OF A GALLEY
40CHAPTER XIII THE FIRST PRIZES
41CHAPTER XV A SPLENDID EXPLOIT
42CHAPTER XVII CAPTURED
43CHAPTER XIX ESCAPE
44CHAPTER XXI THE FORT OF ST. NICHOLAS
45CHAPTER XXIII THE REWARD OF VALOUR
46A Knight of the Cumberland
47I. THE BLIGHT IN THE HILLS
48V. BACK TO THE HILLS
49VIII. THE KNIGHT PASSES
50Men of Iron
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