This Week's Acquisitions
- Lady Amabel Kerr, A Mixed Marriage (British Library, n.d.). Facsimile reprint of a late-Victorian Catholic novel about the perils of interfaith marriages. (Amazon)
- Carole Martinez, The Castle of Whispers: A Novel, trans. Howard Curtis (Europa, 2014). In the twelfth century, an adolescent girl becomes an anchorite and mystic. (Amazon)
- William Clark, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University (Chicago, 2007). History of the conditions under which the research university emerged, beginning with the late medieval period. (U of C Press)
- Anthony Bale, Feeling Persecuted: Christians, Jews, and Images of Violence in the Middle Ages (Chicago, 2010). Role of anti-Jewish violence in consolidating Christian culture, from high theology to popular culture. (U of C Press)