Saving Shame–Now Available
10/03/2007
Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects Virginia Burrus 208 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4044-3 | $45.00 | £29.50 A volume in the Divinations:… READ MORE
Category: Religious Studies
Praise for Jackson in The Texas Observer
09/13/2007
The Texas Observer columnist Todd Moye praises Thomas F. Jackson’s From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice in a recent review…. READ MORE
Ruggles Illuminates ‘Cities of Light’
08/29/2007
The film Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain examines a time during the Middle Ages when Christians, Jews and Muslims peacefully coexisted in southern Spain. D…. READ MORE
Reading the Qur’an in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560–Now Available
07/26/2007
Reading the Qur’an in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560 Thomas E. Burman 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth Aug 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4018-4 | $59.95 | £39.00 A… READ MORE
AAR Award for Bynum’s Wonderful Blood
07/20/2007
Caroline Walker Bynum’s Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond has been selected to receive the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the… READ MORE
The Reformation of American Quakerism–Now in Paperback
07/17/2007
The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748-1783 Jack D. Marietta 376 pages | 6 x 9 Paper 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1989-0 | $24.95 | £16.50 "Exhaustively researched, clearly written, and provocative."–American… READ MORE
Blum’s History News Network Editorial
07/16/2007
"If Democrats and Barack Obama want to ‘get religion’ and if historians want to witness a deep commitment to leftist politics and spirituality, they should get to know the spiritual… READ MORE
The Censor, the Editor, and the Text–Now Available
07/11/2007
The Censor, the Editor, and the Text: The Catholic Church and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon in the Sixteenth Century Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin. Jackie Feldman, Translator 328 pages | 6… READ MORE
Bardsley’s Venomous Tongues Takes Berks Book Prize
06/25/2007
Penn Press is proud to announce that Venomous Tongues: Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England is a co-winner of the 2006 First Book Prize of the Berkshire Conference of… READ MORE
Connecting the Covenants–Now Available
06/07/2007
Connecting the Covenants: Judaism and the Search for Christian Identity in Eighteenth-Century England David B. Ruderman 152 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4016-0 | $55.00 |… READ MORE
