I’ve been playing Crusader Kings III a lot lately and it has sparked an interest in history. To expand, the game has you playing as members of a dynasty starting in 866 AD with a heavy focus on inheritance, conquest, and title management.
I’m open to nonfiction books on history (preferably European) around this time period or noteworthy families. I’m also open to fiction that captures a similar feeling, though I think my preference would be nonfiction.
I’m male, mid-twenties. I typically trend towards reading fantasy and sci-fi when reading for pleasure, so I’m attempting to broaden my horizons a little bit by bringing together a love of this game’s setting with my reading habits.
by AntitheticalAardvark
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For fiction,
The Sunne In Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel.
The Kingsbridge books by Ken Follett (starting with The Pillars of the Earth) immediately come to mind. However, please note that only a small part is about landed nobility, most of the story revolves about ordinary people.
Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors by Peter Ackroyd
Dan Jones writes very readable popular history books that might fit what you’re looking for.