How elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city’s saints for their ownDomesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome explores the creative...
Covers three thousand years of history and highlights key pieces from the British Museum’s outstanding collection of Egyptian antiquitiesThe rulers of ancient Egypt were not always male, nor always...
How Muslims integrated themselves into the Kingdom of Jerusalem, founded in the wake of the First CrusadeIn Plain Sight draws from a wide array of interdisciplinary sources to show how Muslims, seemingly...
Friars, Sisters, and the Dominican Rite, 1256-1516
Claire Taylor Jones
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512825688
Pub Date: July 2024
Format: Hardcover
456 Pages
A new history of the medieval Dominican liturgy, from the perspective of women’s communitiesIn Fixing the Liturgy, Claire Taylor Jones opens a window into the daily practice of medieval liturgy, uncovering...
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
In this groundbreaking book, Tehseen Thaver offers a fundamental reevaluation of how one should think about the relationship between the Qur’an, Shi‘ism, and religious identity. Beyond Sectarianism...
In The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England, Holly Crawford Pickett reconceptualizes early modern religious identity by exploring the astonishing stories of serial converts: historical...
Liberal Protestants, Human Rights, and the Polarization of the United States
Gene Zubovich
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826104
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Paperback
408 Pages
When we think about religion and politics in the United States today, we think of conservative evangelicals. But for much of the twentieth century it was liberal Protestants who most profoundly shaped...
In Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators, historian Katherine Aron-Beller analyzes the common Christian charge that Jews habitually and compulsively violated Christian images, identifying this...
Volume editor Elizabeth A. Foster and Udi Greenberg
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512824964
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
In the decades following the era of decolonization, global Christianity experienced a seismic shift. While Catholicism and Protestantism have declined in their historic European strongholds, they have...
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...
