Recs if you like Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race...

No, it's not. You just didn't learn all of history. (A.k.a. not all period dramas need to be all-white all-straight etc. and we have the sources to prove it)

Books on the middle ages and medievalism that I would like to read during my meandering personal study of the medieval period around the world.

no? well, now you do Books about [niche subject] or [not so niche subject] that spam from the mysterious and the macabre to the weird and unsettling to just interesting and fun