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.
In Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850, Mark J. Miller argues that transatlantic Protestant discourses of abjection engaged with, and furthered the development of, concepts of race and sexuality in the creation of public subjects and public spheres.
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.
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.
