Recommend Fiction, Please

[Grumpy RPG Reviews]

Would you kindly...

Recommend some fiction (books, movies, TV shows, etc.) set in the 9th and 12th centuries, please? In Europe, to be specific.

 

[Umbran]

Hm.

The Hammer and the Cross, by Harry Harrison. Set in the 9th century, it asks, "What if the Vikings made greater resistance to the Catholic Church?"

 

[jonesy]

Edith Pargeter, under the pen name Ellis Peters, wrote a series of murder mysteries called The Cadfael Chronicles. It's twenty books set during The Anarchy, and most of them were adapted to tv and radio. Can't say anything about the adaptions as I haven't seen or heard them, but the books were good.

Edit:
On that note, Sharan Newman has a mystery series that takes place during the same time on the other side of the channel in France. Catherine LeVendeur series. Has been nominated for the Agatha Christie Award a couple of times.

 

[Dioltach]

Do you specifically want only the 9th and 12th centuries? Otherwise I'd highly recommend King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett: an account of the probable historical source for Macbeth, set in 11th century Scotland and the Orkneys.

 

[sabrinathecat]

Isn't the opening of Thor set in 900 something? Not much, I'll grant you.
There's a great movie called Lionheart, but that's the 1300s.

I started reading another mystery book that bounces between modern, France's Reign of Terror, and a much earlier period in time. Problem was that it bounced around so much I was getting Time-Lash (not be be confused with that corridor of tinsel and the Borad).

 

[Grumpy RPG Reviews]

Thanks.

 

[Gilladian]

Rosemary Sutcliff has a number of novels set in England or Scotland, etc... during that general era; her books range from bronze-age to 12th or 13th century so I can't specifically think of a title that I KNOW is either century you're looking for, but try Mark of the Horse Lord, Knight's Fee, Blood Feud, and Song For a Dark Queen.

 

[Nellisir]

Ariana Franklin (aka Diana Norman) has a mystery series (The Mistress of the Art of Death) set in 12th C. England and Europe.

Edit - And it looks like she died 2 years ago, so Mistress of the Art of Death, The Death Maze, Relics of the Dead, and A Murderous Procession are all there will likely be in that series.