This is a book club. The purpose is not to move lit discussion away from r/redscarepod, general lit discussion can stay there. The purpose is to focus on a book of the month and to share reading suggestions.
Specifically fiction that takes place in medieval- early renaissance Europe, that’s not typical fantasy adventure d&d style content. Thank you!
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Bit of bland answer but Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose is this to a tee. Moshfegh's Lapnova is also set in medieval times.
Name of the Rose is really good. Id add Eco's Baudolino, not nearly as great but set in the 13th century and still a nice read
The Agony and the Ecstasy is a biographical novel about Michelangelo, set in Michelangelo's time.
Do you mean books written in the Middle Ages, or set in the middle ages and written later?
Either
Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin
Lapvona by Moshfegh is set in some fictional medieval European village.
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset - set in medieval Norway. Beautiful multivolume saga following a woman from childhood to death. I might come back and write more about it if I have time later. One of the best parts of this trilogy is its setting, which is fleshed out really immersively, without being burdensome.
Orlando by Woolf begins in the Elizabethan Age, but spans up until 20th century.