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Drawing on anthropology, religious studies, history, and literary theory, Plagues, Priests, and Demons explores significant parallels in the rise of...

Solidarity in Europe is a comprehensive study of the idea of solidarity from the early nineteenth century to the present...

The sights, sounds, and smells of life on the streets and in the houses of eighteenth-century Paris rise from the...

The prospective ruin of Christendom was repeatedly predicted at the beginning of the fifteenth century. In 1494, Sebastian Brant...

Setting Aside All Authority is an important account and analysis of seventeenth-century scientific arguments against the Copernican system. Christopher M....

Written for everyone who loves and is simultaneously driven crazy by the holiday season, Christmas: A Candid History provides an...

We must ask ourselves, can we allow a group of fundamentalist Muslims following the culture of Islam to freely attack...

An Open Door of Liberty is about how religious freedom came to be an important part of the basic law...

Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has...

This book surveys the full panorama of ten centuries of Christian monastic life. It moves from the deserts of Egypt...

Five centuries after the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain, Europe is once again becoming a land of Islam....

The fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were truly an Age of Secrecy in Europe, when arcane knowledge was widely believed...

Can the eclectic medieval history of the world's most conquered island be a lesson for our times?Home to Normans, Byzantines,...

"The general argument of this book, then, is as follows: I first direct attention to the origin of modern science...

Classic 1905 biography depicts the saint's early life in fourth-century Britain, abduction by Irish raiders, conversion to Christianity, and...

"Apocalypticism has been the source of hope and courage for the oppressed, but has also given rise, on many occasions,...

The Martyrdom of Man was a history of the world from an entirely new viewpoint, and was a prominent freethinking...

In Enlightenment and revolutionary France, new and pressing arguments emerged in the long debate over clerical celibacy. Appeals for the...

Armed with pistols and wearing jackboots, Bishop Henry Compton rode out in 1688 against his King but in defence of...

Drawing on contemporary sources, the text unfolds Hildegard's life from the time of her entrance into an anchoress's cell--where a...