Credo: An Epic Tale of the Dark Ages is a historical fiction novel written by Melvyn Bragg and published in 1996.

Bega and the fictional Prince Padric desire to marry against her father's wishes, and she vows celibacy to avoid an arranged marriage with a warrior.

[1] In a negative review for The Independent, Hugo Barnacle called Credo "a very hard slog".

Barnacle criticised the book's difficult language, which included anachronisms, "occasional lapses in sentence construction", and "leadenness of the style".

He accused Bragg of "fall[ing] into an ungainly pomposity" by "misguidedly trying to do posh prose".