📚 The Middle Ages

A thousand years between Rome and the Renaissance — feudalism, faith and plague, and the institutions that quietly became modern Europe.

Below are the 27 works carrying the subject middle ages in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages	Henry Hallam	1821	51
	View of the state of Europe during the middle ages	Henry Hallam	1818	37
	Six old English chronicles, of which two are now first translated from the monkish Latin originals	J. A. Giles	1848	35
	A history of medieval Europe, from Constantine to Saint Louis	Ralph Henry Carless Davis	1957	30
	History of the Christian church	Philip Schaff	1859	26
	Medieval people	Eileen Edna Power	1924	26
	The Book of Signs	Rudolf Koch	1923	25
	A World Lit Only by Fire	William Manchester	1991	23
	Medieval Europe	C. Warren (Charles Warren) Hollister	1964	19
	The Holy Roman empire	James Bryce	1871	17
	Medieval people	Eileen Edna Power	1926	14
	Barbarian Europe	Gerald Simons	1968	12
	Horizon book of the Middle Ages	Morris Bishop	1968	10
	Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!	Laura Amy Schlitz	2005	10
	Everyday life in medieval times	Marjorie Rowling	1968	9
	The Great Mortality	John Kelly	2005	9
	Medieval women	Henrietta Leyser	1988	8
	Anglica historia	Polydore Vergil	1556	7
	The Dark Ages	Isaac Asimov	1968	6
	Fiefs and vassals	Susan Reynolds	1994	4
	Powers and Thrones	Dan Jones	2021	4
	Two lives of Charlemagne	Lewis G. M. Thorpe	1969	3
	Inventing the Middle Ages	Norman F. Cantor	1991	3
	The history of the medieval world	S. Wise Bauer	2010	3
	A history of Medieval Europe	Maurice Hugh Keen	1968	2
	Genesi e forme del documento medievale	Alessandro Pratesi	1979	2
	Ancient and Medieval World	Rakesh Kumar	2018	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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