History of Religion

'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...