Exclusionary West
Medieval Minorities and the Making of Modern Europe
ISBN: HB: 9781787383159,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2026
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A timely study of the intrinsic connections between Western European nations and their non-Christian minorities in the age of state formation.
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are on the rise in twenty-first-century Europe, but these notions of the ma...
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Selling the Word of God
The Early Commercial History of the English Bible
ISBN: PB: 9781851246625,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
September 2026
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 18 colour illus., 32 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 18 colour illus., 32 black&white illus.
This is a history of the English Bible as a book. A book that in order to be read had first to be sold.
The Bible is the most published text in history and the story of its publication in the English language is extraordinary. This book traces its e...
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Converts
From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century
ISBN: PB: 9780300306194,
ISBN: HB: 9780300266078,
Yale University Press,
September 2026
368 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 16 colour illus.
368 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 16 colour illus.
Why did Catholicism attract so many unlikely converts in Britain during the twentieth century?
The twentieth century is understood as an era of growing, inexorable secularism, yet in Britain between the 1890s and the 1960s there was a marked turn t...
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Vatican Spies
From the Second World War to Pope Francis
ISBN: PB: 9781805266914,
ISBN: HB: 9781911723400,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2026
600 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
600 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A revelatory history of the priests, nuncios and missionaries whose "special operations" have served the Holy See and the 1.3 billion Catholics worldwide.
"Officially" the Vatican has no espionage service; but does that mean that no one carries out...
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Biblical Outlaws
What the Bible's Most Despised Characters Can Teach Us
ISBN: HB: 9780300283495,
Yale University Press,
August 2026
192 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
192 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
A revelatory exploration of how the Bible's underdogs, outlaws, and forgotten figures can teach us about our humanity.
In this unprecedented book, a secular humanist and celebrated scholar of religion tells the stories of the Bible's most marginaliz...
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History of the Popes
Saints and Sinners
ISBN: PB: 9780300303698,
Yale University Press,
August 2026
576 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 47 black&white illus.
576 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 47 black&white illus.
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Fifth Crusade
A History of the Epic Campaign to Conquer Egypt
ISBN: HB: 9780300283952,
Yale University Press,
July 2026
304 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 16 black&white illus., 3 maps
304 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 16 black&white illus., 3 maps
A fascinating account of the Fifth Crusade, the campaign to conquer Egypt and regain the Holy Land.
In 1217, the crusader states were in a highly fragile condition. The Fourth Crusade had failed, and Jerusalem had not been recovered. The crusaders n...
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Crusader Armies
The Untold Story of the Wars for the Holy Land
ISBN: PB: 9780300290332,
Yale University Press,
June 2026
432 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 20 colour illus., 20 black&white illus., 21 figures
432 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 20 colour illus., 20 black&white illus., 21 figures
A major new history of the Crusades that illuminates the strength and sophistication of the Western and Muslim armies.
During the Crusades, the Western and Muslim armies developed various highly sophisticated strategies of both attack and defense, w...
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Monastic World
A Thousand Year History
ISBN: PB: 9780300287004,
ISBN: HB: 9780300208566,
Yale University Press,
May 2026
432 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 16 black&white illus.
432 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 16 black&white illus.
A major new history of medieval monasticism, from the fourth to the sixteenth century.
From the late Roman Empire onwards, monasteries and convents were a common sight throughout Europe. But who were monasteries for? What kind of people founded and...
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World's Reformation
How Protestantism Became a Global Religion
ISBN: HB: 9780300279047,
Yale University Press,
May 2026
576 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 18 colour illus., 1 map
576 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 18 colour illus., 1 map
A vivid history of how Protestantism was spread across the globe, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.
Protestantism revolutionised early modern Europe. Radical theologians transformed the lives of thousands across the continent, irrevocab...
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