What to Read After The Body and Society
Readers who loved The Body and Society by Peter Brown keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Body and Society is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Body and Society
Holy feast and holy fast
A History of Private Life, Volume II, Revelations of the Medieval World (History of Private Life)
Autobiography
The Story of Civilization V
What happened at Vatican II
Immodest Acts
The memory palace of Matteo Ricci
Erasmus and the Age of Reformation
devil
Montaillou, the promised land of error
Like a hole in the head
She who is
The spiral staircase
A history of Christian theology
Jesus through the centuries
The aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas
Wrestling with God and Men
In Memory of Her
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours
Buddha
Women on the margins
Medieval civilization, 400-1500
Woman of valor