List of historical fiction by time period
This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable historical works divided by time period.
For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; also see the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well as the more general Category:Historical novels and Category:Historical fiction.
Novels
Set in Prehistory (c. 30,000 BC-3000 BC)
- Earth's Children by Jean Auel
- Ember of a New World by Tom Watson
- Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell
- Pillar of the Sky by Cecelia Holland
- Mammoth Trilogy by Stephen Baxter
- The Gathering Night by Margaret Elphinstone
- Song of the Axe and Song of the Earth by John R. Dann
- Chronicles of Ancient Darkness by Michelle Paver
- First North Americans by W. Michael Gear & Kathleen O'Neal Gear
- The Temporary Zare (На заре времен) series by Semyon Karatov et al.
- The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault
Set in Classical Greece, Ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, etc. (c. 2000 BC - 500 AD)
- I, Claudius, King Jesus, Homer's Daughter and Count Belisarius by Robert Graves
- Fire from Heaven, The Persian Boy, and Funeral Games by Mary Renault
- Emperor series by Conn Iggulden
- A Struggle for Rome by Felix Dahn
- Men of Bronze and Memnon by Scott Oden
- The Scourge of God by William Dietrich
- Pharaoh by Bolesław Prus
- Julian and Creation by Gore Vidal
- The Sword of Attila (Мечът на Атила) by Petar Bobev
- The Death of Attila by Cecelia Holland
- Uard, Homo Sum, Die Schwester, Der Kaiser by Georg Ebers
- Carthage Trilogy by Ross Leckie
- Kleopatra Pharaoh by Karen Essex
- Gaius Valerius Verrens series by Douglas Jackson
- The Ramses Series and The Queen of Freedom Trilogy by Christian Jacq
- The Empress of Silk (L'impératrice de la soie) and The Jade Disc (Le disque de jade) by José Frèches
- The War at Troy and The Return from Troy by Lindsay Clarke
- Marcus Corvinus series by David Wishart
- Roma Sub Rosa by Steven Saylor
- The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
- Hannibal Chronicles, Spartacus Chronicles and Forgotten Legion Chronicles by Ben Kane
- Vespasian series by Robert Fabbri
- Cicero Trilogy (Imperium/Lustrum/Dictator) and Pompeii by Robert Harris
- The Egyptian and The Secret of the Kingdom by Mika Waltari
- The Alexander Trilogy (Trilogia di Aléxandros) by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
- Eagle Series and Gladiator Series by Simon Scarrow
- Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero by Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Lion of Sparta (Леонид. Спартанский лев) and Darius (Дарий) by Viktor Porotnikov
- Troy Series by David Gemmel
- The Walled Orchard, Olympiad, Song for Nero, Meadowland and Alexander: At World's End by Tom Holt
- Judge Dee by Robert Van Gulik
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong and retold by Eiji Yoshikawa
- Gates of Fire, Last of the Amazons, The Virtues of War, The Afghan Campaign and Tides of War by Stephen Pressfield
- Hay luz en casa de Publio Fama by Juan Miñana
- Scipio trilogy and Trajan trilogy by Santiago Posteguillo
- El lazo de púrpura by Alejandro Núñez Alonso
- The Unconquered Sun by Ralph Dulin
- Helena by Evelyn Waugh
Set in the Middle Ages (c. 500 AD - 1500 AD)
See also: Arthurian fiction
- Les Rois maudits (The Accursed Kings) by Maurice Druon
- The Saxon Stories and The Grail Quest by Bernard Cornwell
- Conqueror series by Conn Iggulden
- Oathsworn Series by Robert Low
- Matthew Bartholomew series by Susanna Gregory
- Brethren Trilogy and The Insurrection Trilogy by Robyn Young
- Camulod Chronicles by Jack Whyte
- Kings of Albion and The Last English King by Julian Rathbone
- Minstrel Dick. A Tale of the XIVth Century by Christabel R. Coleridge (set in the court of Edward, the Black Prince)
- King Raven Trilogy by Stephen Lawhead
- The Knights of the Cross by Henryk Sienkiewicz
- New Tale of the Heike by Eiji Yoshikawa
- The Viking Series and Saxon by Tim Severin
- Nama miko monogatari (A Tale of False Fortunes) by Fumiko Enchi
- The Plantagenet Series, The Welsh Princes Series, The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
- The Cadfael Chronicles and A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury by Edith Pargeter
- The Corban Loosestrife series and Great Maria by Cecelia Holland
- El Doncel de don Enrique el Doliente by Mariano José de Larra
- Sancho Saldaña o el castellano de Cuellar by José de Espronceda
- Svetoslav Terter, Two against hell and Black Rider by Tsoncho Rodev
- Il cavaliere invisibile by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
- Telling of Khan Asparoukh, knyaz Slav and votari Terez, Telling of the time of Samuil, Odd knight of Holy book by Anton Donchev
- Los bandos de Castilla by Ramón López Soler
- Los malos años and Corazón oscuro by León Arsenal
- El camino mozarabe by Jesús Sánchez Adalid
- Pre-Aztec Series, The Rise of the Aztecs Series, The Peacemaker Series, The People of the Longhouse Series by Zoe Saadia
Set in the Early Modern Period (c. 1500 AD - 1760 AD)
- Sano Ichiro by Laura Joh Rowland
- Lymond Chronicles and The House of Niccolò by Dorothy Dunnett
- The Secrets of the Tudor Court and Face Down Mysteries by Kate Emerson
- Captain Alatriste by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- Peter I by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
- The White Devil (Белият Дявол) by Hristo Kalchev
- The Waverley Novels by Walter Scott
- The Cem Case (Случаят Джем) by Vera Mutafchieva
- My Name is Red and The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
- Mathias Tannhauser trilogy by Tim Willocks
- d'Artagnan Romances and Valois Romances by Alexandre Dumas
- Leonardo's Swans by Karen Essex
- Miyamoto Musashi and Taiko ki by Eiji Yoshikawa
- Imprimatur Secretum Veritas Mysterium... by Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti
- Leo Africanus, Samarkand, Balthasar's Odyssey by Amin Maalouf
- Shōgun by James Clavell
- Adventures of Captain Alatriste series by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- The Heretic: A Novel of the Inquisition by Miguel Delibes
- Ladrones de tinta by Alfonso Mateo-Sagasta
- El reino de los hombres sin amor by Alfonso Mateo-Sagasta
- The Heart of Jade (El Corazón de piedra verde) by Salvador de Madariaga
- La aventura equinocial de Lope de Aguirre by Ramón José Sender Garcés
- Tlaloc Weeps for Mexico (Esőisten siratja Mexikót) by László Passuth
- Centauros by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa (Alonso de Ojeda)
- The Last Crusader by Louis de Wohl
- Aztec by Gary Jennings
- Romola by George Eliot
Set during the Industrial Revolution and Napoleonic Era (c.1760 A.D.-1840 A.D.)
- Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell
- The Competition by Caroline Miley
- Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian
- Hornblower series by C.S. Forester
- Lord Ramage by Dudley Pope
- Saint Hermine Series by Alexandre Dumas
- The Trilogy by Henryk Sienkiewicz
- The Mutiny by Julian Rathbone
- Stealing Athena by Karen Essex
- The Revolution Quartet by Simon Scarrow
- Beltrán Ochoa, capitán de Dragones series by Octavio Sánchez-Machuca (Carlos III reign)
- El día que España derrotó a Inglaterra. De cómo Blas de Lezo, tuerto, manco y cojo, venció en Cartagena de Indias a la otra «Armada Invencible» by Pablo Victoria
- National Episodes by Benito Pérez Galdós)
- La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas (Clarín)
- Fortunata y Jacinta by Benito Pérez Galdós
- Un día de cólera, El húsar, The Siege (El asedio) and La sombra del águila by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- Una saga marinera española by Luis Delgado Bañón
- Historical romances by Eleanor Hibbert
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Set during the recent history (c.1850 A.D.-1950 A.D.)
- The Starbuck Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
- Enigma by Robert Harris
- Cézanne’s Quarry by Barbara Corrado Pope
Theatre
Set 2000 BC-600 A.D.
- Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
- Britannicus by Jean Racine
- Caligula by Albert Camus
- The Death of Pompey by Pierre Corneille
- Socrates on Trial by Andrew David Irvine
- Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw
- The Siege of Numantia by Miguel de Cervantes
- Salome by Oscar Wilde
Set 600 A.D.-1550 A.D.
- St Joan by George Bernard Shaw
- William Shakespeare's English history plays
- Edward II, Tamburlaine, and The Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe
- Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello
- In Extremis: The Story of Abelard & Heloise and Anne Boleyn by Howard Brenton
- The Jester's Supper by Sem Benelli
- Marie Tudor by Victor Hugo
- Götz von Berlichingen by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
Set after 1550 A.D.
- Egmont and Torquato Tasso by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Mary Stuart and Demetrius by Friedrich Schiller
- Cross and Sword by Paul Green
Opera
Main articles: List of historical opera characters and Category:Historical operas
Set 3000 BC - 600 AD
- Aida and Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi
- Akhnaten by Philip Glass
- Cléopâtre and Hérodiade by Jules Massenet
- Mosè in Egitto by Gioachino Rossini
- Giulio Cesare by George Frideric Handel
- Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz
- Sapho by Charles Gounod
- L'Olimpiade by Metastasio
- Germanicus by Georg Philipp Telemann
Set 600 AD - 1800 AD
- Gustave III by Daniel Auber
- Henry VIII by Camille Saint-Saëns
- William Tell by Gioachino Rossini
- Les Huguenots and Le prophète by Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Fosca and Salvator Rosa by Antônio Carlos Gomes
- Fernand Cortez by Gaspare Spontini
- Thérèse by Jules Massenet
- Le roi l'a dit by Léo Delibes
- Tamerlano and Rodelinda by George Frideric Handel
- Les Abencérages by Luigi Cherubini
- Montezuma by Roger Sessions
- Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi
Films and television
Main articles: list of historical period drama films, Category:Historical television series, and Category:Historical films
Poetry
- The Light of Asia by Sir Edwin Arnold: life of Gautama Buddha, c. 5th century BC
- The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: reign of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus in Rome, 6th century BC
- Roderick the Last of the Goths by Robert Southey: reign of Roderic, 8th century Hispania
- King Alfred by John Fitchett: reign of Alfred the Great, 9th century England
- The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton: reign of Alfred the Great, 9th century England
- The Saga of King Olaf by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: reign of Olaf Tryggvason, 10th century Norway
- Madoc by Robert Southey: legend of Madoc, 12th century Wales
- Isabella, or the Pot of Basil and The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats: European Middle Ages
- Marmion by Sir Walter Scott: reign of Henry VIII of England & the Battle of Flodden, 1513
- The Revenge - A Ballad of the Fleet by Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Battle of Flores, 1591
- Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: the Expulsion of the Acadians (1755–1764)
Comics
Prehistoric
Ancient
Wuxia manhua
- Three Kingdoms by Yū Terashima
- Fung Wan by Ma Wing-shing
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Andy Seto
- The Ravages of Time by Chan Mou
- Threads of Time by Noh Mi-young
- Ying Xiong Wu Lei by Ma Wing Shing
Samurai manga
See also
- List of historical novels
- List of historical novelists
- Fiction set in ancient Greece
- Fiction set in ancient Rome
External links
- Database of German historical novels
- Historical Fiction database, divided by time period.
- A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales by Jonathan Nield (1902). Project Gutenberg etext (accessed 05-2014)
- A selection of historical novels set by epoch and author. (accessed 08-2010)
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