Studies in Medieval Religions and Cultures
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Saints and Storms: A Cultural History of Miraculous Weather Events in Medieval Italy
1st Edition
By Marco Papasidero
July 22, 2026
This book explores how medieval Italy perceived, interpreted, and sought to influence weather and climatic phenomena through the lens of sanctity. Focusing on hagiographic narratives from the Early to the Late Middle Ages, it reconstructs a rich corpus of miracle stories in which saints calm storms...
Glastonbury Abbey: The People and the Place, 1100 to 1539
1st Edition
By Mark Hutchinson
July 20, 2026
Unlike other works on Glastonbury Abbey, this book examines the lives and relationships of its monks, using methods such as quantitative and network analysis to extract substantial data from records between 900 and 1550. The book's recurring theme is that in one sense, Glastonbury was not ...
From Mass Conversion to Expulsion: Jews and New Christians in the Kingdom of Naples (1492–1541)
1st Edition
By Nadia Zeldes
December 26, 2025
This book explores the events that marked the last decades of Jewish presence in the kingdom of Naples from 1492 to 1541. It employs a comparative approach in the examination of the mass conversion of the Jews in the Kingdom of Naples in 1495, the failed attempt to establish a Spanish‑style ...
Paganism, Christianity, Lords and Peasants in the Iberian Early Middle Ages, 4th to 8th Centuries
1st Edition
By Mário Jorge da Motta Bastos
November 28, 2025
Addressing fundamental questions about the conversion of the West to Christianity between the fourth and eighth centuries, this book explores how and why new religions spread in societies that were previously foreign to them and examines what happens to old gods and traditional beliefs in the ...
Irenaeus of Sirmium and His Story in the Medieval East and West: Remembering a Lesser Saint
1st Edition
By Marijana Vuković
July 30, 2025
The study of hagiographies has generally been focused on the more prominent saints of late antiquity and the Middle Ages who inspired significant and long-lasting veneration. However, this has caused many less-well-known saints to be pushed aside and forgotten. This book is a study into one such ...
Converting the Saxons: A Study of Violence and Religion in Early Medieval Germany
1st Edition
By Yasha Cragle
May 27, 2025
Utilizing a “crusading ethos,” from 772 to 804 AD, Charlemagne, King of the Franks, waged war against the continental Saxons to integrate them within the growing Frankish Empire and facilitate their conversion to Christianity. While substantial research has been produced concerning various ...
Mendicants and the Urban Mediterranean, c.1200-1500
1st Edition
Edited
By Jon Paul Heyne, Austin Powell
April 22, 2025
This volume explores the relationship of mendicant men and women to cities and their inhabitants in the Mediterranean world, c.1200–1500. It asks questions including: what was specifically “urban” about the mendicant movement? what does it mean to think of the mendicants as an “urban phenomenon”? ...
Islam and Papal Power in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: The Afterlives of a Popular Polemic
1st Edition
By Kate Waggoner Karchner
March 19, 2025
Islam and Papal Power in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe traces the influential history of another book: Riccoldo da Montecroce’s Contra legem Sarracenorum. Around 1301, a Dominican missionary named Riccoldo da Montecroce wrote a treatise on the Qur’an, arguing against the validity of the ...