I'm reading Self and Society in Medieval France: The Memoirs of Abbot Guibert of Nogent and Erewhon by Samuel Butler.

The first one is pretty cool. It is one of the only examples of a first hand account of everyday life in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. It is a very "human" story. That is, when we learn about history, we tend to look at people in the past as if they are stories in a book. This memior provides a much needed human element to the medieval peiod.

I just started the Butler book. It might be good.