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Histories from the Middle
Episcopal Sources and the Recovering of Medieval Castilian History
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512830811
Pub Date: March 2027
Format: eBook
Proclaim Liberty
The Jubilee and Ancient Utopian Visions
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512830590
Pub Date: January 2027
Format: Hardcover
320 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.
The Inquisition's Gambit
Making Wealth and Race in Cartagena de Indias
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512830026
Pub Date: October 2026
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Using rarely studied financial records from the Inquisition’s archives, Ana María Silva Campo reveals how the Spanish Inquisition seized property from prosperous Black women and descendants of Portuguese Jews—a process of selective persecution and wealth redistribution that helped create racialized economic hierarchies in a Spanish colonial city.
Cast Down
Abjection in America, 1700-1850
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512830507
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
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.
Constructing Christendom
Conquest and Diocese Formation in Medieval Iberia
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512829808
Pub Date: August 2026
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Constructing Christendom examines how church leaders partnered with lay rulers to integrate lands conquered from the Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries—emphasizing the divinely ordained centrality of papal authority and solidifying a cohesive European Christian identity in the process.
The Barberini Butchers
Meat, Murder, and Warfare in Early Modern Italy
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512829457
Pub Date: May 2026
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
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.
Medieval Badges
Their Wearers and Their Worlds
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829662
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
324 Pages
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.
Senses of Mourning
Moharram Performances in Shiʿi Iran from the Qajar to the Covid Era
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.
Histories from the Middle
Episcopal Sources and the Recovering of Medieval Castilian History
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512830811
Pub Date: March 2027
Format: eBook
Proclaim Liberty
The Jubilee and Ancient Utopian Visions
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512830590
Pub Date: January 2027
Format: Hardcover
320 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.
The Inquisition's Gambit
Making Wealth and Race in Cartagena de Indias
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512830026
Pub Date: October 2026
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Using rarely studied financial records from the Inquisition’s archives, Ana María Silva Campo reveals how the Spanish Inquisition seized property from prosperous Black women and descendants of Portuguese Jews—a process of selective persecution and wealth redistribution that helped create racialized economic hierarchies in a Spanish colonial city.
Cast Down
Abjection in America, 1700-1850
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512830507
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
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.
Constructing Christendom
Conquest and Diocese Formation in Medieval Iberia
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512829808
Pub Date: August 2026
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Constructing Christendom examines how church leaders partnered with lay rulers to integrate lands conquered from the Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries—emphasizing the divinely ordained centrality of papal authority and solidifying a cohesive European Christian identity in the process.
The Barberini Butchers
Meat, Murder, and Warfare in Early Modern Italy
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512829457
Pub Date: May 2026
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
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.
Medieval Badges
Their Wearers and Their Worlds
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829662
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
324 Pages
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.
Senses of Mourning
Moharram Performances in Shiʿi Iran from the Qajar to the Covid Era
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.