Faculty Bookshelf
![Book cover: The Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin Mary](/sites/humanities2.uoregon.edu/files/styles/custom_xl/public/2024-04/mdvl_bookcover_thedormitionandassumption_bystephenshoemaker_1.jpg?itok=f7uZmsZY)
The Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin Mary
Translated with an Introduction by Stephen J. Shoemaker
Brepols Publishers (2023)
![Book cover: A Cultural History of Comedy in the Middle Ages](/sites/humanities2.uoregon.edu/files/styles/custom_xl/public/2024-04/mdvl_bookcover_a-cultural-history-of-comedy_edbymarthabayless_0.jpg?itok=WWf6MDkv)
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Middle Ages
Edited by Martha Bayless
Bloomsbury Academic (2022)
![Book cover: Divine Consumption: Sacrifice, Alliance Building, and Making Ancestors in West Africa](/sites/humanities2.uoregon.edu/files/styles/custom_xl/public/2024-04/mdvl_bookcover_divineconsumption_bystephendueppen.jpg?itok=lrzgIhFR)
Divine Consumption: Sacrifice, Alliance Building, and Making Ancestors in West Africa
By Stephen A. Dueppen
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press (2022)
![Book cover: Gender and Status Competition in Pre-modern Societies: Studies in the History of Daily Life 800-1600](/sites/humanities2.uoregon.edu/files/styles/custom_xl/public/2024-04/mdvl_bookcover_genderandstatuscompetition_edbymarthabayless.jpg?itok=w47iZQ6s)
Gender and Status Competition in Pre-modern Societies: Studies in the History of Daily Life 800-1600
Edited by Martha Bayless, Jonas Liliequist, and Lewis Webb
Brepols Publishers (2022)
![Book cover: Framing the Church: the social and artistic power of buttresses in French Gothic Architecture](/sites/humanities2.uoregon.edu/files/styles/custom_xl/public/2024-04/mdvl_bookcover_framingthechurch_bymailehutterer.jpg?itok=Lh8wEa90)
Framing the Church: the social and artistic power of buttresses in French Gothic Architecture
By Maile S. Hutterer
Penn State University Press (2020)
![Book cover: Compelling God: Theories of Prayer in Anglo-Saxon England](/sites/humanities2.uoregon.edu/files/styles/custom_xl/public/2024-04/mdvl_bookcover_compellinggod_bystephanieclark.jpg?itok=gMmgBUi_)
Compelling God: Theories of Prayer in Anglo-Saxon England
By Stephanie Clark
University of Toronto Press (2018)
![Book cover: Beyond the Qur'an: Ismaili ta'wil and the Secrets of the Prophets](/sites/humanities2.uoregon.edu/files/styles/custom_xl/public/2024-04/mdvl_bookcover_beyondthequran_bydavidhollenberg.jpg?itok=ZLwAPZuX)
Beyond the Qur'an: Ismaili ta'wil and the Secrets of the Prophets
By David Hollenberg
University of South Carolina Press (2016)
![Book cover: Cosmas of Prague: Narrative, Classicism, Politics](/sites/humanities2.uoregon.edu/files/styles/custom_xl/public/2024-04/mdvl_bookcover_cosmasofprague_bylisawolverton.jpg?itok=wWSteEkz)
Cosmas of Prague: Narrative, Classicism, Politics
By Lisa Wolverton
The Catholic University of America Press (2015)
![Book cover: The Death of a Prophet: The End of Muhammad’s Life and the Beginnings of Islam](/sites/humanities2.uoregon.edu/files/styles/custom_xl/public/2024-04/mdvl_bookcover_thedeathofaprophet_bystephenshoemaker.jpg?itok=4_gMDDGa)
The Death of a Prophet: The End of Muhammad’s Life and the Beginnings of Islam
By Stephen J. Shoemaker
University of Pennsylvania Press (reprint, 2015)
![Book cover: The Life of the Virgin: Maximus the Confessor](/sites/humanities2.uoregon.edu/files/styles/custom_xl/public/2024-04/mdvl_bookcover_thelifeofthevirgin_bystephenshoemaker.jpg?itok=cIont0IY)
The Life of the Virgin: Maximus the Confessor
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Stephen J. Shoemaker
Yale University Press (2012)
![Book cover: The Aroma of Righteousness: Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature](/sites/humanities2.uoregon.edu/files/styles/custom_xl/public/2024-04/mdvl_bookcover_aromaofrighteousness_bydeborahgreen.jpg?itok=RHDk3qz6)
The Aroma of Righteousness: Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature
By Deborah A. Green
Penn State University Press (2011)
![Book cover: Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture: The Devil in the Latrine](/sites/humanities2.uoregon.edu/files/styles/custom_xl/public/2024-04/mdvl_bookcover_sinandfilthinmedievalculture_bymarthabayless.jpg?itok=9dxbL9C3)
Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture: The Devil in the Latrine
By Martha Bayless
Routledge (2011)