Eastern Christian Books

I have long watched the history and development of the Coptic tradition with great affection and interest. Tim Vivian, editor of this new bo...

As the late, great historian of Byzantine Christianity, Robert Taft of the Society of Jesus used to say, when it comes to the development of...

Growing up an Anglican altar boy, I was fascinated by vestments, and utterly, secretly thrilled when I first got to done cassock and surplic...

For those who, as I noted on Monday, have begun their time in the Lenten desert, the themes of conflict, battle, and asceticism will be fore...

As I have been showing on here for over a decade, interest in "the Crusades" always remains high, even if that interest rarely tra...

Forthcoming early next year is a book that looks to be rewarding indeed to peruse and soak up vicariously the artistic splendors and  Revela...

I've only heard a couple of papers at conferences over the years about Inochentism, so I'm no expert, but it has always fascinated m...

If you read my first book on the papacy , or my book last year on the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, then you will know (with more...

Too much of monastic history and practice is traduced today by people who seem to feel (as the useful phrase has it) they can magic up a sol...

Among some Christians of both East and West, there is a tendency to romanticize both monasticism and the Middle Ages. Such romanticism will ...

I have over the years noted a number of books and videos, as well as TV shows, about Mt. Athos, a place that continues to enchant or at leas...

It is always a pleasure to be able to interview Ines Murzaku, as I have a few times now, most recently here . Today we are joined by her co-...

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...

If the name Neilos of Rossano does not immediately ring a bell, then a new book will remedy that most splendidly: The Life of Saint Neilos o...

Ines Murzaku recently sent me a copy of her newest publication, which I very gladly draw to your attention. She has graciously agreed to an ...

I'm always excited to see a new book from Ines Angeli Murzaku, whom I have interviewed in the past about earlier publications. She aler...

Finding the proper place for asceticism has long been a challenge. Applied too harshly it quickly veers into a kind of crypto-gnostic self-l...

So much of Christian monastic history is indebted to late antique Egypt, which continues justly to be the object of regular study, especiall...