The Penn Press list for spring 2020 includes hardcover releases, first-time paperbacks, and ebook editions intended for scholars, students, and serious general readers worldwide. Click here to explore our forthcoming books, grouped by subject area.

Current Season: Religious Studies

New and forthcoming titles from the Penn Press current seasonal catalog.

Dunkelgrün/Maciejko, Bastards and Believers: Jewish Converts and Conversion from the Bible to the Present (hc Apr 2020, eb Mar 2020)

Elverskog, The Buddha's Footprint: An Environmental History of Asia (hc Feb 2020, eb Jan 2020)

MacEvitt, The Martyrdom of the Franciscans: Islam, the Papacy, and an Order in Conflict (hc Mar 2020, eb Jan 2020)

Mayse, Speaking Infinities: God and Language in the Teachings of Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritsh (hc May 2020, eb May 2020)

Minnis, From Eden to Eternity: Creations of Paradise in the Later Middle Ages (hc 2015, pb Apr 2020, eb 2015)

Tartakoff, Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe (hc 2020, eb 2019)