The New Middle Ages Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of The New Middle Ages books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: January 2026
Publication Order
The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse (By: Betty Radice,Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Pierre Abélard,M.T. Clanchy)
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Women in the Medieval Islamic World (By: Gavin R.G. Hambly)
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The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Boccaccio's Poetaphysics (By: Gregory B. Stone)
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Presence and Presentation: Women in the Chinese Literati Tradition (By: Sherry J. Mou)
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Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers (By: Barbara Stevenson,Cynthia Ho,T. Takamiya)
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Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse
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Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England (By: Mary Dockray-Miller)
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Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages (By: Pamela Sheingorn)
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Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of Investiture (By: Stewart Gordon)
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Eloquent Virgins: From Thecla to Joan of Arc (By: Maud Burnett McInerney)
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Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages (By: Laurel Amtower)
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Joan of Arc and Spirituality (By: Ann W. Astell,Bonnie Wheeler)
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Capetian Women (By: Kathleen D. Nolan)
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Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality and Sight in Medieval Text and Image (By: Emma Campbell,Robert Mills)
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Chaucer's Jobs (By: David R. Carlson)
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Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages (By: John R. Holmes,Jane Chance,Alfred Siewers)
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Medievalism and Orientalism: Three Essays on Literature, Architecture and Cultural Identity (By: John M. Ganim)
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Queer Love in the Middle Ages (By: Anna Klosowska)
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Necessary Conjunctions: The Social Self in Medieval England (By: David Gary Shaw)
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Performing Women in the Middle Ages: Sex, Gender, and the Medieval Iberian Lyric (By: Denise K. Filios)
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Medieval Paradigms: 2 Volume Set: Essays in Honor of Jeremy duQuesnay Adams (By: Stephanie Hayes-Healy)
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Queering Medieval Genres (By: Tison Pugh)
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False Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode (By: Elizabeth Allen)
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Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity in the Middle Ages (By: Michael Uebel)
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On Farting: Bodily Wind in the Middle Ages (By: Valerie Allen)
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Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: New Essays (By: Lawrence L. Besserman)
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Medieval Theology of Work: Peter Damian and the Medieval Religious Renewal Movement (By: Patricia Ranft)
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My Quest for the Middle Ages (By: Jacques Le Goff)
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Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages (By: Erin L. Jordan)
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Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval Literature (By: Cary Howie)
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Race, Class, and Gender in "Medieval" Cinema (By: Lynn T. Ramey,T. Pugh)
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Medieval Go-betweens and Chaucer's Pandarus (By: Gretchen Mieszkowski)
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The Surgeon in Medieval English Literature (By: Jeremy J. Citrome)
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Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Ages (By: Noah D. Guynn)
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Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain: On Difficult Middles (By: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen)
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The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women (By: Jane Chance)
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Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature (By: Scott Lightsey)
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Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature (By: Michelle M. Hamilton)
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From the New Middle Ages to a New Dark Age: The Decline of the State and U.S. St (By: Phil Williams)
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The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer (By: Robert R. Edwards)
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Paradigms and Methods in Early Medieval Studies (By: Celia Chazelle,Felice Lifshitz)
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Chaucer’s Visions of Manhood (By: Holly A. Crocker)
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Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix (By: Martha Dana Rust)
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The King and the Whore: King Roderick and La Cava (By: Elizabeth Anne Drayson)
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Sexuality and its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature (By: Tison Pugh)
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Langland's Early Modern Identities (By: Sarah A. Kelen)
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The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process (By: Albrecht Classen)
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Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature (By: Emily C. Francomano)
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Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period (By: Don J. Wyatt)
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Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England (By: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen)
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Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and Chaucer’s Fecopoetics (By: Susan Signe Morrison)
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Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature (By: Kathleen E. Kennedy)
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Storytelling in Organizations: From Theory to Empirical Research (By: Kenneth A. Loparo)
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The Letters of Heloise and Abelard: A Translation of Their Collected Correspondence and Related Writings (By: Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Bonnie Wheeler,Mary Martin McLaughlin)
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Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer (By: Mary Catherine Davidson)
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Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: Medieval Studies and New Media (By: Brantley L. Bryant)
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Margaret Paston’s Piety (By: Joel T. Rosenthal)
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Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis (By: Theresa Tinkle)
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Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature (By: Roger A. Ladd)
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Fairies in Medieval Romance (By: James Wade)
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The Lesbian Premodern (By: Diane Watt,Noreen Giffney,Michelle M. Sauer)
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Women and Disability in Medieval Literature (By: Tory Vandeventer Pearman)
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Outlawry in Medieval Literature (By: Timothy Scott Jones)
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Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England: Legally Absent, Virtually Present (By: Miriamne Ara Krummel)
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Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting and Performance (By: Sharon Aronson-Lehavi)
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Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent (By: Shennan Hutton)
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Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England: Collected Essays (By: Raeleen Chai-Elsholz,Leo Carruthers,Tatjana Silec)
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Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature: Power, Anxiety, Subversion (By: Mary Hayes)
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Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Muslim Other in Medieval Germany (By: Jerold C. Frakes)
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Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the Perle-Poet, and the Cloud-Author: Seeing from the Center (By: Linda Tarte Holley)
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Ecofeminist Subjectivities: Chaucer’s Talking Birds (By: Lesley Kordecki)
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Ekphrastic Medieval Visions: A New Discussion in Interarts Theory (By: Claire Barbetti)
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Contextualizing the Muslim Other in Medieval Christian Discourse (By: Jerold C. Frakes)
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The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past (By: Tison Pugh,Susan Aronstein)
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Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women (By: Margaret Cotter-Lynch,B. Herzog)
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Market Power: Lordship, Society, and Economy in Medieval Catalonia (By: Gregory B. Milton)
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The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture: Ninth-Twelfth Century AD (By: Nizar F. Hermes)
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The Medieval Wild Man (By: Stock Lorraine Kochanske)
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Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives (By: Sally A. Livingston)
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The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones (By: Robert F. Yeager,Toshiyuki Takamiya)
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Boccaccio’s Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance (By: Robert Grudin,Michaela Paasche Grudin)
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Studies in the Medieval Atlantic (By: Benjamin Hudson)
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Chaucer's Feminine Subjects: Figures of Desire in The Canterbury Tales (By: John A. Pitcher)
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The Mediterranean World of Alfonso II and Peter II of Aragon (By: Ernest E. Jenkins)
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Women in the Military Orders of the Crusades (By: Myra Miranda Bom)
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Shame and Guilt in Chaucer (By: Anne McTaggart)
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Word and Image in Medieval Kabbalah (By: Marla Segol)
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Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts (By: Kenneth A. Loparo)
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The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature: Development, Duplication, and Gender (By: Robin Waugh)
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Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World (By: Maggie M. Williams)
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Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture (By: Gail Ashton,Daniel T. Kline)
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Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative: Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation (By: Brooke Heidenreich Findley)
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The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise (By: Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Pierre Abélard)
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Frequently Asked Questions
The recommended reading order for the The New Middle Ages series is publication order: 1. The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse (By: Betty Radice,Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Pierre Abélard,M.T. Clanchy) (1133), 2. Women in the Medieval Islamic World (By: Gavin R.G. Hambly) (1998), 3. The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Boccaccio's Poetaphysics (By: Gregory B. Stone) (1999), 4. Presence and Presentation: Women in the Chinese Literati Tradition (By: Sherry J. Mou) (1999), 5. Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers (By: Barbara Stevenson,Cynthia Ho,T. Takamiya) (2000), and 88 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
The The New Middle Ages series by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah contains 93 books. The series began in 1133 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.
The The New Middle Ages series is written by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.
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