A cultural history of how Christianity was born from its martyrs. Though it promises eternal life, Christianity was forged in death. Christianity is built upon the legacies of the apostles and martyrs …
Read More >By Reyhan Durmaz, author of Stories between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond We all tell stories to create meaning. A far-gone event in a …
Read More >By Julia Kelto Lillis, author of Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity “Bodily” or “physical virginity” is one of the most used yet unclear phrases about virginity in academic and …
Read More >By Kyle Smith, author of Cult of the Dead: A Brief History of Christianity Every October 31, when the pumpkins and black cats emerge, we hear that Halloween owes its origins to Samhain, …
Read More >By Brian Catlos, co-author of The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650–1650 If Medieval Studies, as some say, has a “whiteness problem,” Mediterranean Studies does not. Recentering the narrative of …
Read More >By Michael Hollerich, author of Making Christian History: Eusebius of Caesarea and His Readers As I was finishing work on my new book, Making Christian History, Christopher Beeley—who at the time was …
Read More >This post is part of our Editor Spotlight Series. For this year’s virtual American Historical Association conference, we connected with UC Press Premodern World History Senior Editor Eric Schmidt to talk about …
Read More >By Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos, author of Constantinople: Ritual, Violence, and Memory in the Making of a Christian Imperial Capital Ritualized occasions—holy days and holidays, funerals and weddings, graduations and retirements, conferences, protests, …
Read More >by Edward J. Watts, author of The Final Pagan Generation: Rome’s Unexpected Path to Christianity In 392 AD, a Christian mob destroyed the Alexandrian temple of Serapis, the biggest and most impressive …
Read More >This guest post is part of our AARSBL blog series published in conjunction with the meetings of the American Academy of Religion & the Society of Biblical Literature in Boston Nov. 18-21. …
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