Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna

Babette Bohn

“This book is a monumental contribution to a rapidly growing body of studies on pioneering women artists. It will galvanize this field with fresh topics of discussion and a rich harvest of new archival findings.”
—Sheila Barker, Founding Director, Jane Fortune Research Program on Women Artists

The Magic of Rogues

Necromancers in Early Tudor England

Frank Klaassen and Sharon Hubbs Wright

“With its innovative combination of magical texts and legal documents, this is an important research contribution and offers an excellent set of annotated sources for teaching not just about magic but also about power, belief, and ambition in Tudor England.”—Jonathan Barry, author of Witchcraft and Demonology in South-West England, 1640–1789

The Prophetic Quest

The Stained Glass Windows of Jacob Landau, Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania

David S. Herrstrom and Andrew D. Scrimgeour

“An important contribution to our knowledge and understanding of Jewish life in Pennsylvania and religious life more broadly. The Prophetic Quest brings attention to hitherto unknown items that themselves carry artistic, historic, and religious significance.”—Dianne Ashton, author of Hanukkah in America: A History

Quakerism in the Atlantic World, 1690–1830

Edited by Robynne Rogers Healey

“This book will become a central work for a period of Quaker history that has lacked a comprehensive history to date.”—Thomas Hamm, author of The Quakers in America

ARLIS/NA Reviews says of Designing a New Tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness by Rebecca VanDiver: “This monograph not only elevates Jones but is a valuable contribution to the discourse on the visual articulation of Black identity in the twentieth century.”

Blogcritics Magazine calls Metaphysical Africa: Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community by Michael Muhammad Knight “an important, well researched documentation of one of the more controversial representations of Islam in modern American society.”

Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies has opened the introduction to the most recent issue.

Congratulations to the following journals for being approved for inclusion in the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS), the European Union’s most important and prestigious reference index in the areas of Humanities and Social Sciences:

Philosophy & Rhetoric, Milton Studies, Wesley and Methodist Studies, Shaw, Reception, Preternature, The Langston Hughes Review, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Journal of General Education, Journal of Information Policy, Journal of Jewish Ethics, Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures, Journal of Modern Periodical Studies.

Classical Ethiopic

A Grammar of Gəˁəz

Josef Tropper and Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee

“For students and scholars alike, Classical Ethiopic is the best grammar of Gəˁəz available in any language.”
—Aaron M. Butts, author of Language Change in the Wake of Empire: Syriac in Its Greco-Roman Context

Times of Transition

Judea in the Early Hellenistic Period

Edited by Sylvie Honigman, Christophe Nihan, and Oded Lipschits

This multidisciplinary study takes a fresh look at Judean history and biblical literature in the late fourth and third centuries BCE. In a major reappraisal of this era, the contributions to this volume depict it as one in which critical changes took place.