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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: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the The New Middle Ages series? Start with "The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse (By: Betty Radice,Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Pierre Abélard,M.T. Clanchy)" (1133) and follow publication order through all 93 books.
The complete The New Middle Ages reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order

The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse (By: Betty Radice,Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Pierre Abélard,M.T. Clanchy)
1133

Women in the Medieval Islamic World (By: Gavin R.G. Hambly)
1998

The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Boccaccio's Poetaphysics (By: Gregory B. Stone)
1999

Presence and Presentation: Women in the Chinese Literati Tradition (By: Sherry J. Mou)
1999

Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers (By: Barbara Stevenson,Cynthia Ho,T. Takamiya)
2000

Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse
2000

Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England (By: Mary Dockray-Miller)
2000

Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages (By: Pamela Sheingorn)
2001

Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of Investiture (By: Stewart Gordon)
2001

Eloquent Virgins: From Thecla to Joan of Arc (By: Maud Burnett McInerney)
2002

Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages (By: Laurel Amtower)
2002

Joan of Arc and Spirituality (By: Ann W. Astell,Bonnie Wheeler)
2004

Capetian Women (By: Kathleen D. Nolan)
2004

Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality and Sight in Medieval Text and Image (By: Emma Campbell,Robert Mills)
2004

Chaucer's Jobs (By: David R. Carlson)
2004

Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages (By: John R. Holmes,Jane Chance,Alfred Siewers)
2005

Medievalism and Orientalism: Three Essays on Literature, Architecture and Cultural Identity (By: John M. Ganim)
2005

Queer Love in the Middle Ages (By: Anna Klosowska)
2005

Necessary Conjunctions: The Social Self in Medieval England (By: David Gary Shaw)
2005

Performing Women in the Middle Ages: Sex, Gender, and the Medieval Iberian Lyric (By: Denise K. Filios)
2005

Medieval Paradigms: 2 Volume Set: Essays in Honor of Jeremy duQuesnay Adams (By: Stephanie Hayes-Healy)
2005

Queering Medieval Genres (By: Tison Pugh)
2005

False Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode (By: Elizabeth Allen)
2005

Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity in the Middle Ages (By: Michael Uebel)
2005

On Farting: Bodily Wind in the Middle Ages (By: Valerie Allen)
2006

Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: New Essays (By: Lawrence L. Besserman)
2006

Medieval Theology of Work: Peter Damian and the Medieval Religious Renewal Movement (By: Patricia Ranft)
2006

My Quest for the Middle Ages (By: Jacques Le Goff)
2006

Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages (By: Erin L. Jordan)
2006

Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval Literature (By: Cary Howie)
2007

Race, Class, and Gender in "Medieval" Cinema (By: Lynn T. Ramey,T. Pugh)
2007

Medieval Go-betweens and Chaucer's Pandarus (By: Gretchen Mieszkowski)
2007

The Surgeon in Medieval English Literature (By: Jeremy J. Citrome)
2007

Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Ages (By: Noah D. Guynn)
2007

Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain: On Difficult Middles (By: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen)
2007

The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women (By: Jane Chance)
2007

Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature (By: Scott Lightsey)
2007

Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature (By: Michelle M. Hamilton)
2007

From the New Middle Ages to a New Dark Age: The Decline of the State and U.S. St (By: Phil Williams)
2008

The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer (By: Robert R. Edwards)
2008

Paradigms and Methods in Early Medieval Studies (By: Celia Chazelle,Felice Lifshitz)
2008

Chaucer’s Visions of Manhood (By: Holly A. Crocker)
2008

Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix (By: Martha Dana Rust)
2008

The King and the Whore: King Roderick and La Cava (By: Elizabeth Anne Drayson)
2008

Sexuality and its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature (By: Tison Pugh)
2008

Langland's Early Modern Identities (By: Sarah A. Kelen)
2008

The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process (By: Albrecht Classen)
2008

Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature (By: Emily C. Francomano)
2008

Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period (By: Don J. Wyatt)
2008

Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England (By: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen)
2008

Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and Chaucer’s Fecopoetics (By: Susan Signe Morrison)
2008

Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature (By: Kathleen E. Kennedy)
2009

Storytelling in Organizations: From Theory to Empirical Research (By: Kenneth A. Loparo)
2009

The Letters of Heloise and Abelard: A Translation of Their Collected Correspondence and Related Writings (By: Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Bonnie Wheeler,Mary Martin McLaughlin)
2010

Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer (By: Mary Catherine Davidson)
2010

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: Medieval Studies and New Media (By: Brantley L. Bryant)
2010

Margaret Paston’s Piety (By: Joel T. Rosenthal)
2010

Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis (By: Theresa Tinkle)
2010

Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature (By: Roger A. Ladd)
2010

Fairies in Medieval Romance (By: James Wade)
2011

The Lesbian Premodern (By: Diane Watt,Noreen Giffney,Michelle M. Sauer)
2011

Women and Disability in Medieval Literature (By: Tory Vandeventer Pearman)
2011

Outlawry in Medieval Literature (By: Timothy Scott Jones)
2011

Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England: Legally Absent, Virtually Present (By: Miriamne Ara Krummel)
2011

Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting and Performance (By: Sharon Aronson-Lehavi)
2011

Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent (By: Shennan Hutton)
2011

Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England: Collected Essays (By: Raeleen Chai-Elsholz,Leo Carruthers,Tatjana Silec)
2011

Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature: Power, Anxiety, Subversion (By: Mary Hayes)
2011

Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Muslim Other in Medieval Germany (By: Jerold C. Frakes)
2011

Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the Perle-Poet, and the Cloud-Author: Seeing from the Center (By: Linda Tarte Holley)
2011

Ecofeminist Subjectivities: Chaucer’s Talking Birds (By: Lesley Kordecki)
2011

Ekphrastic Medieval Visions: A New Discussion in Interarts Theory (By: Claire Barbetti)
2011

Contextualizing the Muslim Other in Medieval Christian Discourse (By: Jerold C. Frakes)
2011

The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past (By: Tison Pugh,Susan Aronstein)
2012

Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women (By: Margaret Cotter-Lynch,B. Herzog)
2012

Market Power: Lordship, Society, and Economy in Medieval Catalonia (By: Gregory B. Milton)
2012
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The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture: Ninth-Twelfth Century AD (By: Nizar F. Hermes)
2012

The Medieval Wild Man (By: Stock Lorraine Kochanske)
2012

Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives (By: Sally A. Livingston)
2012

The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones (By: Robert F. Yeager,Toshiyuki Takamiya)
2012

Boccaccio’s Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance (By: Robert Grudin,Michaela Paasche Grudin)
2012

Studies in the Medieval Atlantic (By: Benjamin Hudson)
2012

Chaucer's Feminine Subjects: Figures of Desire in The Canterbury Tales (By: John A. Pitcher)
2012

The Mediterranean World of Alfonso II and Peter II of Aragon (By: Ernest E. Jenkins)
2012

Women in the Military Orders of the Crusades (By: Myra Miranda Bom)
2012

Shame and Guilt in Chaucer (By: Anne McTaggart)
2012

Word and Image in Medieval Kabbalah (By: Marla Segol)
2012

Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts (By: Kenneth A. Loparo)
2012

The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature: Development, Duplication, and Gender (By: Robin Waugh)
2012

Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World (By: Maggie M. Williams)
2012

Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture (By: Gail Ashton,Daniel T. Kline)
2012

Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative: Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation (By: Brooke Heidenreich Findley)
2012

The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise (By: Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Pierre Abélard)
2024
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