Sounds pretty interesting, and David Gemmell doesn't ring a bell. Any popular titles?
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn
Those books changed my life.
Bernard Cornwell's serie The Saxon Stories is really good, but you probably know them. If not: it takes place in Britain around 1000 ad and tells about vikings
I A Song of Ice and Fire series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire)
I know it is fantasy but ASoIaF is very far from your average run-of-the-mill fantasy universe and George Martin captures Medieval life and politics (realpolitik) better than any other author I've seen, except perhaps for Cornwell.
He said no GoT xDHa ha sorry, for some reason I didn't think of ASoIaF when reading GoT.
KJ Parker is a better author than RR Martin and Cornwell in my opinion.Scavenger series really are mindblowing, yeah.
I know you said Medieval, but if you like war novels then you may want to check out the "Gates of Fire" by Steven Pressfield. It is set in the Hellenic period at the time of the Persian war. The book is very historical as most references came directly from Herodotus and other historians of the time. It is an amazing story and extremely popular even ten years after it was written. It is very gritty, real, and informative of life at the time. It can be tough to find on the shelves as it is still in high demand, but it is well worth the look. The Gates of Fire is on the Commandant of the Marine Corps' reading list. It is taught at West Point, Annapolis, and at the Marine Corps Basic School at Quantico at Virginia Military Institute.Thermopylae was where 300 is set, right?
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie. Nearly 2,500 years ago, in 480BC, at a bleak pass in a far-flung corner of eastern Greece, three hundred Spartan warriors faced the army of Xerxes of Persia, a massive force rumoured to be over a million strong. Their orders were simple: to delay the enemy for as long as possible while the main Greek armies mobilized.For six days the Spartans held the invaders at bay. In the final hours - their shields broken, swords and spears shattered - they fought with their bare hands before being overwhelmed. It was battle that would become synonymous with extraordinary courage, heroism and self-sacrifice: it was Thermopylae. In Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield tells the epic story of those legendary Spartans: the men and women who helped shaped our history and have themselves become as immortal as their gods.
Thermopylae was where 300 is set, right?