What to Read After Mysteries of the Middle Ages
Readers who loved Mysteries of the Middle Ages by Thomas Cahill keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Mysteries of the Middle Ages is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Mysteries of the Middle Ages
Brunelleschi's dome
The swerve
In the Wake of the Plague
The year 1000
The history of the medieval world
The closing of the Western mind
The Middle Ages
Aristotle's Children
Sailing the wine-dark sea
Desire of the everlasting hills
1066
Inventing the Middle Ages
How the Irish saved civilization
Medieval women
Women in the Middle Ages
Great Medieval Heretics
Uppity Women of Medieval Times
Heretics and Heroes
In the Wake of the Plague
A Distant Mirror
The civilization of the Middle Ages
Queen Isabella
The House of Medici, its rise and fall
Life in a medieval city