The Bible shaped nearly every aspect of Jewish life in the ancient world, from activities as obvious as attending synagogue to those which have lost their scriptural resonance in modernity, such...
Refuting the common perception that the American left has a religion problem, Vaneesa Cook highlights an important but overlooked intellectual and political tradition that she calls "spiritual socialism."...
Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity
Georgia Frank
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512823950
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
What can we know about the everyday experiences of Christians during the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries? How did non-elite men and women, enslaved, freed, and free persons, who did not renounce...
Jewish Blues presents a broad cultural, social, and intellectual history of the color blue in Jewish life between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries. Bridging diverse domains such as...
Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt
Oded Zinger
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512823790
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Living with the Law explores the marital disputes of Jews in medieval Islamic Egypt (1000–1250), relating medieval gossip, marital woes, and the voices of men and women of a world long gone....
Writing Iceland's Bishops into the Roman Church, 1200-1350
Joel D. Anderson
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512822823
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
With its expanding legal system and its burgeoning throngs of lawyers, legates, and documents, the papacy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries has often been credited with spearheading a governmental...
In Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts in the Twelfth Century, Margot E. Fassler takes readers into the rich, complex world of Hildegard of Bingen’s Scivias (meaning “Know the ways”)...
Jacques Dalarun, Sean L. Field and Valerio Cappozzo
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512823042
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Paperback
192 Pages
This book centers on a fascinating woman, Clare of Rimini (c. 1260 to c. 1324–29), whose story is preserved in a fascinating text. Composed by an anonymous Franciscan, the Life of the Blessed...
Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Justine S. Murison
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512823516
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
Recent legal history in the United States reveals a hardening tendency to treat religious freedom and sexual and reproductive freedom as competing, even opposing, claims on public life. They are...
