Any medieval history books or documentary recomendations for a beginner?

by Esqimoo

For a while now I've been extremely interested in learning more about european medieval hostory mainly the holy roman empire(also the hussite wars and bohemian history), knighthood, and life in general in medieval times. The thing is I'm an idiot and since english isnt my first language I would love a recomendation about a source to learn more about it whether it's a book, documentary or even a podcast which would be interesting for a person like me. I would appreciate any suggestions thank you!

y_sengaku

The following are some examples of recent books that are not included in AH's book list, but relevant to OP's interest:

Lahey, Stephen E. The Hussites. Kalamazoo, MI: Arc Humanities, 2019: is AFAIK the easiest read to the Hussite, though Thomas Fudge and his works should firstly be mentioned from an academic point of view. Norman Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages, rev. ed. Oxford; OUP, 1970 is the readable classic of such religious movement (millenialism) in Medieval Europe, but I'm not sure whether his description of the Hussite is still valid after more than half a century after its publication.
Whaley, Joachim. The Holy Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford; OUP, 2018: is a readable short introduction to HRE, but it feels too brief. Peter H. Wilson's The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2016 (linked to Newspaper Guardian's book review), is definitely better in content, but I cannot recommend the book with about 1000 pages for a beginner. Anyway, these two books are the up-to-date books on HRE for non-specialists, though both authors are specialized in post-medieval period.
A series of books by Steven Ozment, like The Bürgermeister's Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Town, New York: Harper Collins, 1997, mainly focus on the family and social life of Late Medieval and Reformation Germany, though not all the readers appreciate his works as readable (I'm not native in English, so you should not rely too much on my preference). He is one of the few Anglophone scholars who published several works for general readers on medieval Germany in English.
As for the chivalry (and elite culture in High Middle Ages), while Maurice Keen, Chivalry, New Haven: Yale UP, 2005 (pbk) is probably seminal, I personally prefer David Crouch's The Birth of Nobility (2005) or Tournament (2005/2007).

voyeur324

I am obligated to offer you the following episodes of the AskHistorians Podcast:

/u/AlviseFalier stars in Episode #69: Milan in the Era of Communal Italy
Episode #93: The Holy Roman Empire in the Age of Martin Luther (this is more Early Modern/Renaissance, but you wanted Holy Roman Empire)
/u/Rhodis is the star of Episode #96: European Military orders and their History, which talks about the Knights Templar and related groups.
/u/Steelcan909 is interviewed for Episode #146: The Conversion of England to Christianity
Episode #151: Medieval Atheism

The subreddit also has an annotated list of books about the Middle Ages. The subreddit's podcast has episodes on many other fields of history.

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