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The Most Important Works of Mediaeval Literature

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 Here is a list of Mediaeval literature works that every medievalist should read. I haven't read them all yet. Of course, there are many more than this that could be added. However, to me, these are some of the most important titles for readers to remember:  1. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 2. The Divine Comedy by Dante 3. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 4. The Song of Roland 5. Beowulf 6. The Consolation of Philosophy  by Boethius 7. City of God by Augustine of Hippo* 8. On the Trinity by Augustine of Hippo 9. Confessions by Augustine of Hippo 10. Summary of Theology by Thomas Aquinas 11. Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory 12. The Quest for the Holy Grail 13. Everyman  14. The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede 15. Canonzoniere by Petrarch 16. The Arthurian Romances by Chretien de Troyes 17. The Decameron by Boccaccio  18. The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe 19. The Romance of the Rose 20.  The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Varagin
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The most important works of English Medieval literature

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  By English Medieval literature, I exclude the works of English literature before the Norman Conquest as I personally see the Old English era as distinct from the Medieval English one. Thus, this post is mostly concerned with works written in Middle English.  It should also be noted that when I am saying ''medieval'' in this article, I am only referring to those people that lived in western Europe from the beginning of the middle ages through the Renaissance. Although the academics would prefer the word to now include those in other regions, I prefer to confine in its meeting in a limited application as scholars traditionally understood it. With that, I proceed towards what I wish to discuss.  1. Introduction: Medieval People liked books and nature C. S. Lewis knew well that the Middle Ages were not the ''Dark Ages.'' He praised medieval people in fact for their philosophical understanding: ''At his most characteristic, medieval man was not a dr
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