History of Religion

James Pritchard's classic anthologies of the ancient Near East have introduced generations of readers to texts essential for understanding the peop...

Scholars have sometimes maintained that the study of the history of African religions is an impossible endeavor. Some have contended that African r...

As the oldest of the military religious orders and the one with an unexpected and dramatic downfall, the knighthood of the Templars continues to fa...

This volume aims to balance the traditional literature available on medieval feuding with an exploration of other aspects of vengeance and culture ...

Known for speaking with the birds, for professing poverty, receiving the stigmata and for initiating the Franciscan order, Francis of Assisi is one...

'Dionysius the Areopagite' is arguably one of the most mysterious and intriguing figures to emerge from the late antique world. Writing probably ar...

This collection of essays looks at the shared experience of exile across different groups in the early modern period. Contributors argue that exile...

This title was first published in 2001: Reason, Community and Religious Tradition examines key questions about the relationship of rationality to i...

Writing in the middle of the twentieth century, G.W. Bromiley was acutely aware of the renewal of debates surrounding baptism taking place within t...

First published in 1900, this Reader uses four manuscripts from the British Museum and Corpus Christi College Cambridge to present a thorough intro...

Prayer and Worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th Centuries forges a new conversation about the diversity of Christianities in the medieval...

On 29 December, 1170, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was brutally murdered in his own cathedral. News of the event was rapidly disseminat...

As with Muslims today, Catholics were once suspected of being antidemocratic, oppressive of women, and supportive of extremist political violence. ...

As the fragile window of personal witness to the events of the Holocaust closes, Moment of Witness provides the script for a powerful commemoration...

Explores how heritage discourses and local publics interact at Catholic mission sites in the southwestern United States, northern Mexico, and the S...

Explores how heritage discourses and local publics interact at Catholic mission sites in the southwestern United States, northern Mexico, and the S...

John Salmon's fourteenth-century register brings to life the day-to-day world of a medieval bishop. John Salmon's register is the earliest to sur...

Bringing together essays from experts in a variety of disciplines, this collection explores two of the most important facets of life within the med...

Drawing upon research carried out in several different languages and across a variety of disciplines, The Mongol World documents how Mongol rule sh...

The practice of walking to a sacred space for personal and spiritual transformation has long held a place in the British imagination. Art and the S...

With the Second Vatican Council (1962@65), the Roman Catholic Church for the first time took a positive stance on modernity. Its impact on the thou...

Scholars and analysts seeking to illuminate the extraordinary creativity and innovation evident in European medieval cultures and their afterlives ...

Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500, focuses on the unique ways that natural materials carry the spiri...

This book analyses the development of Sufism in Ottoman Egypt, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Examining the cultural, socio-econo...

The conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade shattered irreversibly the political and cultural unity of the Byzantine world in the Greek pe...

From William Langland's Piers Plowman, through the highly polemicized literary culture of fifteenth-century Lollardy, to major Reformation writers ...