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New Middle Ages Books in Order

New Middle Ages contains 104 books, published between 1998 and 2024. The first book is Women in the Medieval Islamic World (1998) and the newest is The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
104
Published
1998–2024
Pages on record
24,252 in 98 of 104 books
Reading time
404–606 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 24,252 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 98 of 104 titles with a page count on record.

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New Middle Ages is an academic series on medieval history and literature. 104 volumes have appeared between 1998 and 2024, beginning with Women in the Medieval Islamic World (1998) and reaching The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise (2024). The books concentrate on medieval civilization, women's history, gender in literature and the criticism of medieval texts, in titles such as Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England (2000) and Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory (2000). Volumes run to a median 240 pages.

How many New Middle Ages books are there?

New Middle Ages has 104 books, released between 1998 and 2024.

New Middle Ages Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 104 New Middle Ages books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Women in the Medieval Islamic World by Gavin R.G. Hambly, book 2 of the New Middle Ages series (1998)
  2. Cover of The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France (1999)
  3. Cover of Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers (2000)
  4. Cover of Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse by Robert Stuart Sturges (2000)
  5. Cover of Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England by Mary Dockray-Miller, book 8 of the New Middle Ages series (2000)
  6. Cover of Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages by Pamela Sheingorn, book 9 of the New Middle Ages series
  7. Cover of Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of Investiture by Stewart Gordon, book 10 of the New Middle Ages series (2001)
  8. Cover of Eloquent Virgins: From Thecla to Joan of Arc by Maud Burnett McInerney, book 11 of the New Middle Ages series (2002)
  9. Cover of Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages by Laurel Amtower (2002)
  10. Cover of Joan of Arc and Spirituality, book 13 of the New Middle Ages series (2004)
  11. Cover of Capetian Women by Kathleen D. Nolan, book 14 of the New Middle Ages series (2004)
  12. Cover of Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality and Sight in Medieval Text and Image, book 15 of the New Middle Ages series
  13. Cover of Chaucer's Jobs by David R. Carlson, book 16 of the New Middle Ages series (2004)
  14. Cover of Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages, book 17 of the New Middle Ages series (2005)
  15. Cover of Medievalism and Orientalism: Three Essays on Literature, Architecture and Cultural Identity by John M. Ganim (2005)
  16. Cover of Queer Love in the Middle Ages, book 19 of the New Middle Ages series (2005)
  17. Cover of Necessary Conjunctions: The Social Self in Medieval England by David Gary Shaw (2005)
  18. Cover of Performing Women in the Middle Ages: Sex, Gender, and the Medieval Iberian Lyric by Denise K. Filios (2005)
  19. Cover of Medieval Paradigms: 2 Volume Set: Essays in Honor of Jeremy duQuesnay Adams by Stephanie Hayes-Healy (2005)
  20. Cover of Queering Medieval Genres by Tison Pugh, book 23 of the New Middle Ages series (2005)
  21. Cover of False Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode by Elizabeth Allen (2005)
  22. Cover of On Farting: Bodily Wind in the Middle Ages by Valerie Allen, book 26 of the New Middle Ages series (2006)
  23. Cover of Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: New Essays by Lawrence L. Besserman (2006)
  24. Cover of Medieval Theology of Work: Peter Damian and the Medieval Religious Renewal Movement by Patricia Ranft (2006)
  1. 1
    The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse– · 296 pages · confirmed 2/4
    –296
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  2. 2
    Women in the Medieval Islamic World1998 · 566 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998566
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  3. 3
    The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France1999 · 378 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999378
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  4. 4
    The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Boccaccio's Poetaphysics1999 · confirmed 2/4
    1999–
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  5. 5
    Presence and Presentation: Women in the Chinese Literati Tradition1999 · confirmed 2/4
    1999–
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  6. 6
    Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers2000 · confirmed 2/4
    2000–
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  7. 7
    Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse2000 · 232 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2000232
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  8. 8
    Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England2000 · 161 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2000161
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  9. 9
    Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages2001 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001320
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  10. 10
    Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of Investiture2001 · 394 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001394
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  11. 11
    Eloquent Virgins: From Thecla to Joan of Arc2002 · 250 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002250
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  12. 12
    Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages2002 · 243 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002243
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  13. 13
    Joan of Arc and Spirituality2004 · 298 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004298
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  14. 14
    Capetian Women2004 · 312 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004312
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  15. 15
    Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality and Sight in Medieval Text and Image2004 · 243 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004243
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  16. 16
    Chaucer's Jobs2004 · 168 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004168
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  17. 17
    Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages2005 · 250 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005250
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  18. 18
    Medievalism and Orientalism: Three Essays on Literature, Architecture and Cultural Identity2005 · 156 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005156
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  19. 19
    Queer Love in the Middle Ages2005 · 208 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005208
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  20. 20
    Necessary Conjunctions: The Social Self in Medieval England2005 · 292 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005292
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  21. 21
    Performing Women in the Middle Ages: Sex, Gender, and the Medieval Iberian Lyric2005 · 261 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005261
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  22. 22
    Medieval Paradigms: 2 Volume Set: Essays in Honor of Jeremy duQuesnay Adams2005 · 640 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005640
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  23. 23
    Queering Medieval Genres2005 · 226 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005226
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  24. 24
    False Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode2005 · 225 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005225
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  25. 25
    Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity in the Middle Ages2005 · 227 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005227
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  26. 26
    On Farting: Bodily Wind in the Middle Ages2006 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006256
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  27. 27
    Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: New Essays2006 · 238 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006238
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  28. 28
    Medieval Theology of Work: Peter Damian and the Medieval Religious Renewal Movement2006 · 264 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006264
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  29. 29
    My Quest for the Middle Ages2006 · 133 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006133
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  30. 30
    Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages2006 · 193 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006193
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Where to start with New Middle Ages

Start with Women in the Medieval Islamic World (1998), the earliest published title.

What is the newest New Middle Ages book?

The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise (2024) is the newest New Middle Ages book released so far.

Is there a new New Middle Ages book coming?

No next New Middle Ages book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

New Middle Ages at a glance

Still running
New Middle Ages is still running, with a title published as recently as 2024.
Release pace
New Middle Ages books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
24,252 pages across the 98 of 104 books with a recorded length, a median of 240 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most New Middle Ages books, 56 of 104, were published in the 2000s.
Attribution
Of the 104 titles, 4 are credited to Héloïse d'Argenteuil, 3 to Pierre Abélard, 3 to Tison Pugh and 2 to Bonnie Wheeler. A further 121 writers are credited. 5 titles carry no credit.

What the New Middle Ages books are about

102 of the 104 New Middle Ages books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history is tagged on 50 of 102. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • History 50 of 102 books
  • History and criticism 44 of 102 books
  • Medieval Literature 17 of 102 books
  • English literature 16 of 102 books
  • Literature, medieval, history and criticism 9 of 102 books
  • Criticism and interpretation 8 of 102 books
  • Civilization, medieval 7 of 102 books
  • HISTORY / Medieval 7 of 102 books
  • Medieval Civilization 7 of 102 books
  • Women 7 of 102 books
  • Middle Ages 6 of 102 books
  • Sex role in literature 6 of 102 books