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In recent decades medieval historians have made significant progress in the field of women's history. However, there is still the lingering concern that the discipline of women's history remains in the periphery of medieval historiography. A gender-based approach to medieval history has been proposed as an answer to remedy this situation and help women's history to be fully incorporated into the main body of medieval historiography. With this view in mind, the aim of this article is to introduce major works of gender-based approach in recent medieval historiography. This article tries to achieve this goal by classifying works of gender-based approach into two groups and discussing them in detail respectively. The first group of historians criticizes traditional women's history for its emphasis on manly women and the idealization of male sexuality. They propose the proper appreciation of female sexuality in its own terms. The second group of historians focuses on the investigation of male sexuality in the social and cultural context of the Middle Ages. They believe that male sexuality as well as female has long been misunderstood and even distorted. Their studies primarily aim to restore male sexuality in its proper position.