Mass produced of tin-lead alloys and cheap to purchase, medieval badges were brooch-like objects displaying familiar images. Sumptuously illustrated, Medieval Badges considers all badges, whether they originated in religious or secular contexts, and highlights the ways in which badges could confer meaning and identity on their wearers.
Moharram Performances in Shiʿi Iran from the Qajar to the Covid Era
Babak Rahimi
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9781512828344
Pub Date: January 2026
Format: Hardcover
416 Pages
In Senses of Mourning, Babak Rahimi analyzes Moharram in Shi‘i Iran through the five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste) with an emphasis on the relationship between the religious practices as embodied experiences and how these performances—and practitioners’ experiences of them—changed over time.
Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation
Kirsten Fischer
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512828764
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
In this first biography of Elihu Palmer, Kirsten Fischer depicts a once notorious freethinker who countered Christianity with the idea of an interconnected universe infused with a divine life force. Denounced as "heretical," Palmer's speeches and writings shaped the contest over freedom of religion and of speech in the new United States.
Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome shows how, from late antiquity to early modernity, elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city’s saints for their own, thereby empowering and immortalizing their families.
Highlighting research on key pieces from the British Museum’s outstanding collection of Egyptian antiquities, Pharoah covers three thousand years of history—exploring the reality and the many challenges of ruling one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen.
In Plain Sight explores how Muslims, seemingly hostile to the crusading enterprise, integrated themselves into the Kingdom of Jerusalem, founded in the wake of the First Crusade. Ann E. Zimo draws not only on the well-known Frankish sources, but also the Arabic documentary base, to shed new light on Frankish society and how Muslims fit into it.
Friars, Sisters, and the Dominican Rite, 1256-1516
CJ Jones
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512825688
Pub Date: July 2024
Format: Hardcover
456 Pages
Through a set of never-before-studied records, CJ Jones illustrates how Dominicans reconciled their order’s rules with their own concrete circumstances and with the changing world around them and offers a new history of the medieval liturgy from the perspective of women’s communities.
Ambiguity, Hermeneutics, and the Formations of Religious Identity in Islam
Tehseen Thaver
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512825947
Pub Date: May 2024
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Beyond Sectarianism offers new and theoretically exciting avenues for studying the tradition of Qur’an commentary in Islam. It argues that sectarian identity and scriptural interpretation do not always follow predetermined patterns and questions the dominant assumption in the study of Shi‘i Qur’an commentaries that they do.
