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Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9781512831344
Pub Date: April 2027
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
This book offers a new history of a major medieval genre, affective meditations on the Passion. It argues that women were instrumental in the creation of this genre, and it illuminates how these scripts for the performance of prayer served to construct compassion itself as an intimate and feminine emotion.
Histories from the Middle
Episcopal Sources and the Recovering of Medieval Castilian History
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512830811
Pub Date: March 2027
Format: eBook
A Merchant's House
Life and Work in Small-Town Sri Lanka
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512828900
Pub Date: February 2027
Format: eBook
Settling the Mind, Settling the Land
Mindful Nationalism and Value Conflict Among Religious Israelis
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512830651
Pub Date: February 2027
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
Forgotten Paths to Modernity
Isaac Abravanel, New Imperial Thinking, and Critical Historiography
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9781512830637
Pub Date: February 2027
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
Proclaim Liberty
The Jubilee and Ancient Utopian Visions
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512830590
Pub Date: January 2027
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
The Corrupter of Boys
Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512830453
Pub Date: November 2026
Format: Paperback
448 Pages
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.
American Preacher
The Life and Times of the Eccentric Lorenzo Dow
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512830200
Pub Date: November 2026
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Lorenzo Dow was the most famous early nineteenth-century American preacher and one of the United States’ first truly national celebrities. In this book, Seth Perry shows how he helped create the confident, aggressive brand of Protestantism that continues to dominate American culture and politics.
Tacit Textuality
Drinking the Qurʾan in Zanzibar Town
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512830088
Pub Date: October 2026
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
Tacit Textuality is an ethnography about the practice of kombe in Zanzibar, in which Qurʾanic verses are liquefied and consumed as medicine across religious divides. Hanna Nieber investigates three foci: kombe’s materiality, its social context that includes interreligious relations, and how the materiality of the book becomes part of the story.
Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9781512831344
Pub Date: April 2027
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
This book offers a new history of a major medieval genre, affective meditations on the Passion. It argues that women were instrumental in the creation of this genre, and it illuminates how these scripts for the performance of prayer served to construct compassion itself as an intimate and feminine emotion.
Histories from the Middle
Episcopal Sources and the Recovering of Medieval Castilian History
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512830811
Pub Date: March 2027
Format: eBook
A Merchant's House
Life and Work in Small-Town Sri Lanka
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512828900
Pub Date: February 2027
Format: eBook
Settling the Mind, Settling the Land
Mindful Nationalism and Value Conflict Among Religious Israelis
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512830651
Pub Date: February 2027
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
Forgotten Paths to Modernity
Isaac Abravanel, New Imperial Thinking, and Critical Historiography
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9781512830637
Pub Date: February 2027
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
Proclaim Liberty
The Jubilee and Ancient Utopian Visions
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512830590
Pub Date: January 2027
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
The Corrupter of Boys
Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512830453
Pub Date: November 2026
Format: Paperback
448 Pages
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.
American Preacher
The Life and Times of the Eccentric Lorenzo Dow
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512830200
Pub Date: November 2026
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Lorenzo Dow was the most famous early nineteenth-century American preacher and one of the United States’ first truly national celebrities. In this book, Seth Perry shows how he helped create the confident, aggressive brand of Protestantism that continues to dominate American culture and politics.
Tacit Textuality
Drinking the Qurʾan in Zanzibar Town
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512830088
Pub Date: October 2026
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
Tacit Textuality is an ethnography about the practice of kombe in Zanzibar, in which Qurʾanic verses are liquefied and consumed as medicine across religious divides. Hanna Nieber investigates three foci: kombe’s materiality, its social context that includes interreligious relations, and how the materiality of the book becomes part of the story.