Which area are you looking at learning more about, England, France, Crusades?

If you have a wish to learn about some of the lives of the big English Kings, William I, John, Edward I then Mark Morris has written some short easy to read yet accurate books that will give you some narrative.

You might enjoy Eric Jager’s Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris. It’s all based on the original records of the investigation into the assassination of Louis of Orleans and does a great job reconstructing a portrait of the city and royal politics at the time.