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Dyan Elliott demonstrates how scandal-averse policies in conjunction with the requirement of clerical celibacy resulted in the widespread sexual abuse of boys from late antiquity through the later Middle Ages, and argues that the same clerical prerogatives and strategies for the cover-up of abuse remain in place today.

The Temptations of Trade reveals the opportunities and tensions of doing business in regions far from strict imperial control, where the actions of individuals could both connect empires and drive them to war.

The Barberini Butchers shows how seventeenth-century Rome’s preoccupation with the consumption of meat was the result of papal policy. But this consumption was not sustainable, fueling sensational rumors of murder and cannibalism and, Bradford A. Bouley contends, sparking the outbreak of civil war, as vassals rebelled against papal oversight.

Inner Zone unearths a buried history of violence within the 1992–1995 siege of Sarajevo. As Serb forces besieged the city, Serb civilians, particularly women, became targets for retribution—but they couldn’t discuss their experiences postwar. By tracing this silencing, Inner Zone advances a new approach to telling contentious histories of war.