Eastern Christian Books

The hardback having been out for nearly two years, a more affordable paperback version is coming later this year of Anne P. Alwis,  Narratin...

The University of California Press remains one of the few public academic presses I know of to take such longstanding and in-depth interest ...

I mentioned a few weeks back the problem of trendy verbs and nouns dominating scholarly publications for a while. There is arguably no great...

The office of the Roman papacy, of course, attracts huge attention, including from scholars. But the patriarchate of New Rome attracts consi...

Forthcoming in January next year from (appropriately enough) the premier centre in North America for Byzantine studies is The Invention of B...

It is always interesting to watch what verbs and nouns become prevalent in academic discussion, and in my short lifetime, "performing...

I have made no secret of my view that much of the problem of Christian (and other cultural and theological) division, especially between Ort...

The ways in which we narrate the past almost always say as much about us in the present--and sometimes the future we wish to have--as they p...

Coming out in May of this year is a book that focuses on those fascinating proto-ecumenical encounters of Eastern Christians with their West...

Edited by two major scholars in the field, published in perhaps the most prestigious series for Byzantine scholarship in the anglophone worl...

Western apologists for celibacy, desperate to cover over the well-documented holes in their bogus and increasingly desperate apologias for t...

The long-lasting, if conflicted, imprint left by "Byzantium"--both real and imagined--is itself a topic worthy of further consider...

The world "intersectionality" evokes anxious sneers from some people who rarely give evidence of any serious thought, much less an...

Interest in Byzantine history always seems to remain relatively high, and will be further fed in July with the publication of a book in the ...

I recently received the Yale University Press's catalogue of forthcoming publications, and in there spied a name very well known, whom I...

It is always a delight to interview scholars on here, but--in the interests of full disclosure--it is an especial delight with Daniel Gala...

Oxford University Press, the publisher of  Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood:The Rise and Fall of Byzantine, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade b...

More than five years ago now, I lavished rather a lot of attention on an important and fascinating collection, Orthodox Constructions of the...

Well do I recall, in October 1993, being jolted out of my ignorance and naivete as a young Canadian unaccustomed to the scars of political v...

The University of Notre Dame Press catalogue for spring 2019 has just been released, and in it we spy such forthcoming gems as Alice-Mary Ta...