Faculty Bookshelf

The Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin Mary
Translated with an Introduction by Stephen J. Shoemaker
Brepols Publishers (2023)

A Cultural History of Comedy in the Middle Ages
Edited by Martha Bayless
Bloomsbury Academic (2022)

Divine Consumption: Sacrifice, Alliance Building, and Making Ancestors in West Africa
By Stephen A. Dueppen
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press (2022)

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)

Framing the Church: the social and artistic power of buttresses in French Gothic Architecture
By Maile S. Hutterer
Penn State University Press (2020)

Compelling God: Theories of Prayer in Anglo-Saxon England
By Stephanie Clark
University of Toronto Press (2018)

Beyond the Qur'an: Ismaili ta'wil and the Secrets of the Prophets
By David Hollenberg
University of South Carolina Press (2016)

Cosmas of Prague: Narrative, Classicism, Politics
By Lisa Wolverton
The Catholic University of America Press (2015)

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)

The Life of the Virgin: Maximus the Confessor
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Stephen J. Shoemaker
Yale University Press (2012)

The Aroma of Righteousness: Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature
By Deborah A. Green
Penn State University Press (2011)

Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture: The Devil in the Latrine
By Martha Bayless
Routledge (2011)