By Susan L. Einbinder (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr was born. With the literary commemoration of the victims, Jewish martyrology … Continued
By John N. King (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) This book was first published in 2006. Second only to the Bible and Book of Common Prayer, John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, known as the Book of Martyrs, was the most influential book published in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The most complex and best-illustrated English … Continued
By Gretchen Murphy (NHC Fellow, 2018–19) Drawing on literature, correspondence, sermons, legal writing, and newspaper publishing, this book offers a new account women’s political participation and the process of religious disestablishment. Scholars have long known that eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American women wrote pious, sentimental stories, but this book uses biographical and archival methods to understand … Continued
Edited by Michael A. Lofaro (NHC Fellow, 1980–81) Southern Manuscript Sermons before 1800 is the first guide to the study of the manuscript sermon literature of the Southern colonies/states of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The bibliography contains entries for over 1,600 sermons by over a hundred ministers affiliated with eight denominations. The … Continued
By Elizabeth A. Clark (NHC Fellow, 1988–89; 2001–02) Around the turn of the fifth century, Christian theologians and churchmen contested each other’s orthodoxy and good repute by hurling charges of “Origenism” at their opponents. And although orthodoxy was more narrowly defined by that era than during Origen’s lifetime in the third century, his speculative, Platonizing … Continued
Edited by Susannah Heschel (NHC Fellow, 1997–98)
By Rachel Fulton (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) Devotion to the crucified Christ is one of the most familiar, yet most disconcerting artifacts of medieval European civilization. How and why did the images of the dying God-man and his grieving mother achieve such prominence, inspiring unparalleled religious creativity as well such imitative extremes as celibacy and self-flagellation? … Continued
By Nicholas of CusaTranslated by Jasper Hopkins (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), sometimes misleadingly referred to as the first "modern" philosopher, was born in Kues, Germany (today Bernkastel-Kues). He became a canon lawyer and a cardinal. His two best-known works are De Docta Ignorantia (On Learned Ignorance) and De Visione Dei (On the Vision of God).
By John R. Levison (NHC Fellow, 2000–01) This work presents the most important Greek manuscript witnesses of the Life of Adam and Eve, a popular Jewish pseudepigraphical text that has undergone christianization in its present forms. The synopticon initiates and facilitates comparisons of the Greek tradition with the other extant linguistic versions to a depth largely unexplored, … Continued
By Dale K. Van Kley (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) Although the French Revolution is associated with efforts to dechristianize the French state and citizens, it actually had long-term religious—even Christian—origins, claims Dale Van Kley in this controversial new book. Looking back at the two and a half centuries that preceded the revolution, Van Kley explores the … Continued