Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City – Florence Under Siege by John Henderson
In Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City, John Henderson examines how a major city…
Religion
Bookshop of the Month – Cornerstone Bookshop, Edinburgh
For October’s Bookshop of the Month, we went up to Edinburgh and down into the crypt of St….
Bookshop of the Month – Sarum College Bookshop, Salisbury
Our August Bookshop of the Month is Salisbury’s Sarum College Bookshop, just a stone’s throw away from the…
Bookshop of the Month – Ampleforth Abbey Bookshop, North Yorkshire
This July, medieval history enthusiasts from all over the world will descend on Leeds for the 25th annual…
The Ten Books of Terry Eagleton
This year, we’re delighted to be publishing Terry Eagleton‘s tenth work with Yale, Radical Sacrifice, a weaving and cross-cultural examination…
Bookshop of the Month – Church House Bookshop, London
Our bookshop of the month for March is Church House Bookshop in Westminster, Church of England’s official bookshop….
Griselda Pollock explores the life and work of artist Charlotte Salomon
‘She found herself facing the question of whether to commit suicide or to undertake something wildly crazy.’ –…
The Spirit of the Text by David Bentley Hart
David Bentley Hart, one of our most celebrated writers on religion, has undertaken a huge task to offer us…
Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer by Scott H. Hendrix
It has been 500 years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle…
A Q&A with Devorah Baum, author of Feeling Jewish
Described as ‘intellectually luminous, psychologically penetrating, existentially anxious, and wonderfully funny’ by Zadie Smith, Devorah Baum’s Feeling Jewish: A…
What Are Brothers For? – Warner Bros, An Extract
The Warner brothers formed one of the most iconic and powerful movie studios of the 20th century, delighting…
ISIS, Christianity, and the Pact of Umar by David J. Wasserstein
David J. Wasserstein— When ISIS forces took the Iraqi city of Mosul in the summer of 2014,…
A Little History of Religion, by Richard Holloway – An Extract
If you haven’t discovered our amazing Little History series already, you have a whole host of great books…
The English Reformation: Was Henry VIII the founder of Roman Catholicism? by Peter Marshall
2017 marks 500 years since the Reformation. Peter Marshall, author of Heretics and Believers, asks whether Henry VIII really was…
The Mongols and the Islamic World from Conquest to Conversion
The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirteenth century when Chinggis Khan and his…