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Books

• The Hybrid Reformation: A Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History of Contending Forces, Cambridge University Press, 2022.

• Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West, Cambridge University Press, 2018.

• Politics and Reformations: Histories and Reformations—Essays in Honor of Thomas A. Brady, Jr. (Coordinating editor with co-editors Michael Printy, Peter Starenko, Peter Wallace), E.J. Brill, 2007.

• Church-Robbers and Reformers in Germany, 1525-1547, E.J. Brill, 2006.

• Biblical Poetics before Humanism and Reformation, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Articles

• “Prayer Literature and the History of Prayer: Material Conditions and Subjectivities.” Pages 347-358, Prayer Books and Piety in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe / Gebetbücher und Frömmigkeit in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Ed. Maria Crăcium, Volker Leppin, Katalin Luffy, Ulrich A. Wien. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2023.

• “The Ecology of Desire: Pierre d’Ailly’s Commentary on the Fourth Chapter of the Song of Songs.” Pages 241-262, The Song of Songs Through the Ages Essays on the Song’s Reception History in Different Times, Contexts, and Genres. Ed. Annette Schellenberg. Berlin: De Grutyer, 2023.

• “Hebrew Idiom and Figurative Reading between Theodolf of Orléans and the Victorines: An Unstable Textuality.” Pages 294-346, From Theodulf to Rashi: Uncovering the Origins of European Biblical Scholarship.  Edited by Johannes Heil, Sumi Shimahara. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2022.

• “Biblical Poetics in Scholasticism and the Ratio.” Pages 63-79, Erasmus on Literature: His Ratio or ‘System’ of 1518/1519. Ed. Mark Vessey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021.

• With Susanna Elm, “Christianity and the Material, Medieval to Modern.” Pages 1-25, Material Christianity: Western Religion and the Agency of Things, edited with Susanna Elm, Amsterdam: Springer, 2020.

• “Resacralizing the Media of Grace.” Pages 69-102, Material Christianity (see above).

• “Calvin and Calvinism in Germany.” Pages 200-219, Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism. Edited by Bruce Gordon, Carl Trueman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

• “Disruption and Engagement: Christendom’s Experience of Islam at the End of the Middle Ages.” Pages 179-209, Unordnung. Festchrift für Gert Melville zum 70. Geburtstag. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.

• “The Motion of Another’s Death.” Pages 368-392, Death, Burial and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe 1300-1700 (Brill Companions to the Christian Tradition). Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2020.

• “Spirit, Writers, and Biblical Readers in ‘the Practical Circumstances of Life’: A Political Hermeneutic.” Pages 59-82, Sola scriptura heute. Ed. Stefan Alkier. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019.

• “Sexual Crime and Political Conflict: An Alsatian Nobleman Is Burned to Death with His Male Lover in 1482.” A Sourcebook of Early Modern History: Life, Death, and Everything in Between. In Honor of Susan C. Karant-Nunn, ed. Ute Lotz-Heumann. New York: Routledge, 2019, No. 27.

• “After the Peasants War: Barbara von Fuchstein Fights for Her Property.” Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Reforme, special issue on the early Reformation, edited by Robert Bast and Andrew Colin Gow 40.4(2017).

• “Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther, ed. Derek Nelson, Paul Hinlicky. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

• “Explaining Evil and Grace,” Oxford Handbook of the Reformation, ed. Ulinka Rublack. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

• "After Beryl Smalley: Thirty Years of Medieval Exegesis, 1984-2013," Journal of the Bible and Its Reception 2, 2015.

• "The Four Senses of Scripture," Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, De Gruter, 2014.

• "The Physiology of Spirit in the Reformation: Medical Consensus and Protestant Theologians," Miracle Stories Revisited, Mohr Siebeck, 2013.