Medieval Literature Book Club

Next date: Monday, October 19, 2026 | 06:30 PM to 07:30 PM

Hail! Prithee, join us at the Morris County Library every other month for our Medieval Literature Book Club. We plan to read works of all kinds written between the 5th to the late 15th century. See below for upcoming titles. No registration is required.

Would you like us to request a copy of the book for you? Or do you have questions about the Medieval Literature Book Club? Please contact us at the phone number or email in the Contact section to the right.

Tuesday, October 19, 2026: The Conference of Birds by Farid al-Din Attar.

A 12th-century epic Persian allegorical poem by the Sufi poet Attar of Nishapur written in rhymed couplets that spans roughly 4,500 lines and stands as a masterwork of Sufi mystic literature

Free translated versions are available at:

https://archive.org/details/conferenceofbird0000atta/page/n1/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/conferenceofbird00fari

https://data.nur.nu/Kutub/English/Attar_Conference-of-the-Birds_tr.C.S.Nott.pdf

Stay tuned for further upcoming titles!

Previous titles we've read:

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Jean de Mandeville
The Mabinogion
El Cantar de mio Cid: The Song of the Cid
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
The Song of Roland (author unknown)
The Lais of Marie de France by Marie de France
Troilus and Cressida by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson
The Faerie Queene (Book One) by Edmund Spencer
Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation by Dante Aleghieri and translated by Robert Pinsky
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage
Yvain, the Knight of the Lion: A poem by Chretien de Troyes
The History of My Misfortune or Historia Calamitatum by Peter Abelard
Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Melusine: Or, The Noble History of Lusignan