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Eamon Duffy is Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity at Cambridge. His book Royal Books and Holy Bones: Essays in Medieval Christianity was published last year. (December 2019)
Sacred Glamour
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World
by Christopher de Hamel
The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript from Genocide to Justice
by Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh
Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World Through Illuminated Manuscripts
edited by Bryan C. Keene
December 5, 2019 issue
The World Split in Two
Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind
by Michael Massing
April 18, 2019 issue
Far from the Tree
Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton
by Rob Iliffe
March 8, 2018 issue
Secret Knowledge—or a Hoax?
Four centuries of attempts to decode, decipher, or translate the Voynich manuscript have all ended in bafflement.
The Voynich Manuscript
edited by Raymond Clemens, with an introduction by Deborah Harkness
April 20, 2017 issue
The First Blood Libel Against the Jews
The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe
by E.M. Rose
October 27, 2016 issue
A Great, Ignored Transformation?
A History of Balance, 1250–1375: The Emergence of a New Model of Equilibrium and Its Impact on Thought
by Joel Kaye
May 26, 2016 issue
Who Is the Pope?
The differences between Francis and his predecessors are wide, deep, and momentous for the church
The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope
by Austen Ivereigh
A Big Heart Open to God: A Conversation with Pope Francis
by Antonio Spadaro, SJ
Pope Francis: Untying the Knots
by Paul Vallely
February 19, 2015 issue
The Intense Afterlife of the Saints
Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation
by Robert Bartlett
In Search of Sacred Time: Jacobus de Voragine and the Golden Legend
by Jacques Le Goff, translated from the French by Lydia G. Cochrane
June 19, 2014 issue
The Staying Power of Christianity
The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity
by Robert Louis Wilken
Trent: What Happened at the Council
by John W. O’Malley
June 20, 2013 issue
Books Held by Kings
‘Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination’ at the British Library
Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination
an exhibition at the British Library, London, November 11, 2011–March 13, 2012
June 7, 2012 issue
The Rise of Sacred Song
The Christian West and Its Singers: The First Thousand Years
by Christopher Page
January 12, 2012 issue
Sacred Bones & Blood
Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe
by Caroline Walker Bynum
August 18, 2011 issue
A Hero of the Church
Newman's Unquiet Grave: The Reluctant Saint
by John Cornwell
December 23, 2010 issue
The Greatest of the Saint-Kings?
Saint Louis
by Jacques Le Goff, translated from the French by Gareth Evan Gollrad
April 8, 2010 issue
‘The First Great Pandemic in History’
Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541–750
edited by Lester K. Little
May 29, 2008 issue
Early Christian Impresarios
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea
by Anthony Grafton and Megan Williams
The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship
by Megan Hale Williams
March 29, 2007 issue
The Holy Terror
God's War: A New History of the Crusades
by Christopher Tyerman
October 19, 2006 issue
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