Theology in Stone: Church Architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). Magic in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989 New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990 reissued 2000 as a Canto book translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Polish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, and Turkish).įorbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century (Stroud: Sutton, 1997 University Park: Penn State University Press, 1998). Unquiet Souls: Fourteenth-Century Saints and Their Religious Milieu (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984 paperback, 1987). Selected Works BooksĮuropean Witch Trials: Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture, 1300-1500 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976). A theme underlying much of his research is the way in which communities create and sustain a sense of shared culture in the face of difference, dissention, and dispute. His published books include European Witch Trials (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1976), Repression of Heresy in Medieval Germany (Pennsylvania, 1979), Unquiet Souls (Chicago, 1984), Magic in the Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1989), Forbidden Rites (Sutton and Penn State, 1997), and Theology in Stone (Oxford, 2004). He is currently writing books on 'the mystical presence of Christ' in the late Middle Ages (an exploration of the relationship between ordinary and extraordinary piety, between shared religious culture and exceptional religious experience) and late medieval church-building (an inquiry into the collaboration and conflict among different interest groups in the creation of monuments meant to serve and symbolize communal interests). His research interests focus mainly on the late Middle Ages, with special interest in church architecture and in the history of witchcraft and magic.

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