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The New Middle Ages Books in Order

93
Books
1133
First Book
2024
Latest Book
892
Years

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

1
The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse (By: Betty Radice,Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Pierre Abélard,M.T. Clanchy) cover

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

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1133

2
Women in the Medieval Islamic World (By: Gavin R.G. Hambly) cover

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

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1998

3
The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Boccaccio's Poetaphysics (By: Gregory B. Stone) cover

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

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1999

4
Presence and Presentation: Women in the Chinese Literati Tradition (By: Sherry J. Mou) cover

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

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1999

5
Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers (By: Barbara Stevenson,Cynthia Ho,T. Takamiya) cover

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

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2000

6
Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse cover

Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse

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2000

7
Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England (By: Mary Dockray-Miller) cover

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

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2000

8
Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages (By: Pamela Sheingorn) cover

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

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2001

9
Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of Investiture (By: Stewart Gordon) cover

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

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2001

10
Eloquent Virgins: From Thecla to Joan of Arc (By: Maud Burnett McInerney) cover

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

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2002

11
Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages (By: Laurel Amtower) cover

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

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2002

12
Joan of Arc and Spirituality (By: Ann W. Astell,Bonnie Wheeler) cover

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

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2004

13
Capetian Women (By: Kathleen D. Nolan) cover

Capetian Women (By: Kathleen D. Nolan)

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2004

14
Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality and Sight in Medieval Text and Image (By: Emma Campbell,Robert Mills) cover

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

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2004

15
Chaucer's Jobs (By: David R. Carlson) cover

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

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2004

16
Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages (By: John R. Holmes,Jane Chance,Alfred Siewers) cover

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

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2005

17
Medievalism and Orientalism: Three Essays on Literature, Architecture and Cultural Identity (By: John M. Ganim) cover

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

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2005

18
Queer Love in the Middle Ages (By: Anna Klosowska) cover

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

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2005

19
Necessary Conjunctions: The Social Self in Medieval England (By: David Gary Shaw) cover

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

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2005

20
Performing Women in the Middle Ages: Sex, Gender, and the Medieval Iberian Lyric (By: Denise K. Filios) cover

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

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2005

21
Medieval Paradigms: 2 Volume Set: Essays in Honor of Jeremy duQuesnay Adams (By: Stephanie Hayes-Healy) cover

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

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2005

22
Queering Medieval Genres (By: Tison Pugh) cover

Queering Medieval Genres (By: Tison Pugh)

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2005

23
False Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode (By: Elizabeth Allen) cover

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

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2005

24
Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity in the Middle Ages (By: Michael Uebel) cover

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

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2005

25
On Farting: Bodily Wind in the Middle Ages (By: Valerie Allen) cover

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

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2006

26
Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: New Essays (By: Lawrence L. Besserman) cover

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

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2006

27
Medieval Theology of Work: Peter Damian and the Medieval Religious Renewal Movement (By: Patricia Ranft) cover

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

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2006

28
My Quest for the Middle Ages (By: Jacques Le Goff) cover

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

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2006

29
Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages (By: Erin L. Jordan) cover

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

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2006

30
Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval Literature (By: Cary Howie) cover

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

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2007

31
Race, Class, and Gender in "Medieval" Cinema (By: Lynn T. Ramey,T. Pugh) cover

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

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2007

32
Medieval Go-betweens and Chaucer's Pandarus (By: Gretchen Mieszkowski) cover

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

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2007

33
The Surgeon in Medieval English Literature (By: Jeremy J. Citrome) cover

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

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2007

34
Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Ages (By: Noah D. Guynn) cover

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

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2007

35
Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain: On Difficult Middles (By: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen) cover

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

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2007

36
The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women (By: Jane Chance) cover

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

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2007

37
Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature (By: Scott Lightsey) cover

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

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2007

38
Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature (By: Michelle M. Hamilton) cover

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

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2007

39
From the New Middle Ages to a New Dark Age: The Decline of the State and U.S. St (By: Phil Williams) cover

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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2008

40
The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer (By: Robert R. Edwards) cover

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

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2008

41
Paradigms and Methods in Early Medieval Studies (By: Celia Chazelle,Felice Lifshitz) cover

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

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2008

42
Chaucer’s Visions of Manhood (By: Holly A. Crocker) cover

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

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2008

43
Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix (By: Martha Dana Rust) cover

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

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2008

44
The King and the Whore: King Roderick and La Cava (By: Elizabeth Anne Drayson) cover

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

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2008

45
Sexuality and its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature (By: Tison Pugh) cover

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

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2008

46
Langland's Early Modern Identities (By: Sarah A. Kelen) cover

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

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2008

47
The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process (By: Albrecht Classen) cover

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

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2008

48
Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature (By: Emily C. Francomano) cover

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

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2008

49
Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period (By: Don J. Wyatt) cover

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

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2008

50
Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England (By: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen) cover

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

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2008

51
Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and Chaucer’s Fecopoetics (By: Susan Signe Morrison) cover

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

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2008

52
Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature (By: Kathleen E. Kennedy) cover

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

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2009

53
Storytelling in Organizations: From Theory to Empirical Research (By: Kenneth A. Loparo) cover

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

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2009

54
The Letters of Heloise and Abelard: A Translation of Their Collected Correspondence and Related Writings (By: Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Bonnie Wheeler,Mary Martin McLaughlin) cover

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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2010

55
Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer (By: Mary Catherine Davidson) cover

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

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2010

56
Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: Medieval Studies and New Media (By: Brantley L. Bryant) cover

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

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2010

57
Margaret Paston’s Piety (By: Joel T. Rosenthal) cover

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

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2010

58
Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis (By: Theresa Tinkle) cover

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

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2010

59
Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature (By: Roger A. Ladd) cover

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

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2010

60
Fairies in Medieval Romance (By: James Wade) cover

Fairies in Medieval Romance (By: James Wade)

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2011

61
The Lesbian Premodern (By: Diane Watt,Noreen Giffney,Michelle M. Sauer) cover

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

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2011

62
Women and Disability in Medieval Literature (By: Tory Vandeventer Pearman) cover

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

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2011

63
Outlawry in Medieval Literature (By: Timothy Scott Jones) cover

Outlawry in Medieval Literature (By: Timothy Scott Jones)

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2011

64
Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England: Legally Absent, Virtually Present (By: Miriamne Ara Krummel) cover

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

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2011

65
Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting and Performance (By: Sharon Aronson-Lehavi) cover

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

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2011

66
Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent (By: Shennan Hutton) cover

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

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2011

67
Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England: Collected Essays (By: Raeleen Chai-Elsholz,Leo Carruthers,Tatjana Silec) cover

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

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2011

68
Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature: Power, Anxiety, Subversion (By: Mary Hayes) cover

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

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2011

69
Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Muslim Other in Medieval Germany (By: Jerold C. Frakes) cover

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

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2011

70
Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the Perle-Poet, and the Cloud-Author: Seeing from the Center (By: Linda Tarte Holley) cover

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

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2011

71
Ecofeminist Subjectivities: Chaucer’s Talking Birds (By: Lesley Kordecki) cover

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

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2011

72
Ekphrastic Medieval Visions: A New Discussion in Interarts Theory (By: Claire Barbetti) cover

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

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2011

73
Contextualizing the Muslim Other in Medieval Christian Discourse (By: Jerold C. Frakes) cover

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

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2011

74
The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past (By: Tison Pugh,Susan Aronstein) cover

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

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2012

75
Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women (By: Margaret Cotter-Lynch,B. Herzog) cover

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

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2012

76
Market Power: Lordship, Society, and Economy in Medieval Catalonia (By: Gregory B. Milton) cover

Market Power: Lordship, Society, and Economy in Medieval Catalonia (By: Gregory B. Milton)

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2012

77
The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture: Ninth-Twelfth Century AD (By: Nizar F. Hermes) cover

The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture: Ninth-Twelfth Century AD (By: Nizar F. Hermes)

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2012

78
The Medieval Wild Man (By: Stock Lorraine Kochanske) cover

The Medieval Wild Man (By: Stock Lorraine Kochanske)

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2012

79
Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives (By: Sally A. Livingston) cover

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

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2012

80
The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones (By: Robert F. Yeager,Toshiyuki Takamiya) cover

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

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2012

81
Boccaccio’s Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance (By: Robert Grudin,Michaela Paasche Grudin) cover

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

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2012

82
Studies in the Medieval Atlantic (By: Benjamin Hudson) cover

Studies in the Medieval Atlantic (By: Benjamin Hudson)

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2012

83
Chaucer's Feminine Subjects: Figures of Desire in The Canterbury Tales (By: John A. Pitcher) cover

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

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2012

84
The Mediterranean World of Alfonso II and Peter II of Aragon (By: Ernest E. Jenkins) cover

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

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2012

85
Women in the Military Orders of the Crusades (By: Myra Miranda Bom) cover

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

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2012

86
Shame and Guilt in Chaucer (By: Anne McTaggart) cover

Shame and Guilt in Chaucer (By: Anne McTaggart)

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2012

87
Word and Image in Medieval Kabbalah (By: Marla Segol) cover

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

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2012

88
Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts (By: Kenneth A. Loparo) cover

Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts (By: Kenneth A. Loparo)

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2012

89
The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature: Development, Duplication, and Gender (By: Robin Waugh) cover

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

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2012

90
Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World (By: Maggie M. Williams) cover

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

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2012

91
Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture (By: Gail Ashton,Daniel T. Kline) cover

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

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2012

92
Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative: Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation (By: Brooke Heidenreich Findley) cover

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

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2012

93
The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise (By: Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Pierre Abélard) cover

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

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2024

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