Looking for books set anywhere in the medieval era that are lighthearted, joyful, and focus on wonderful details about humanity and life

I feel like so many medieval era historical fiction books are filled with misery and death and violence, things which of course existed, but people also danced and played music together and sang and ate good food and crafted beautiful things and fell in love and laughed and all these other parts of human life. I’d love a book set in this period that does not emphasize war or violence or disease etc but rather allows other aspects of life to be highlighted. And I love details so authors who have done their research is a bonus. Would very much prefer a female author and/or female-centric story as well.