10 books a day: academic

Today, I bring you ten more books. Books that formed my academic imagination. I largely focused in medieval studies and theological interpretation of art, which should lend some explanation for the bend of these texts. If you're an academic, which books formed you? Have you read any of these?

The Lamb of God by Sergius Bulgakov
Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary by Miri Rubin
Mervelous Signals: Poetics and Sign Theory in the Middle Ages by Eugene Vance
The Lady and the Virgin: Image, Attitude, and Experience in Twelfth-Century France by Penny Schine Gold
Evolution of Medieval Thought by David Knowles
The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages by Beryl Smalley
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by René Girard
Aristotle: Poetics by Aristotle
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo by Mary Douglas
Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages by Caroline Walker Bynum

I'm joining Sarah Bessey and showing 10 Books a Day for a Week.

Share your own favorites on your blog, and post your link in the comments, or just let me know what you think or recommend!

Sunday: 10 books that formed my faith

Monday: 10 books that formed me as a writer

Tuesday: 10 books that are classics

Wednesday: 10 books that I wish the world would read

Thursday: 10 books that formed my academic imagination

Friday: 10 books you’d be surprised I own

Saturday: 10 books that I use daily

Meet Preston

Preston is a twenty-something once-upon-a-time conservative Southern Baptist from Texas who learned to read saints, cross himself, and move across the world to China, England, and Scotland. Since, he's been theologically conservative, oft politically liberal, but radically pro-life, a believer in sacraments and sacramentality, a sort-of Christian feminist, an idealist pacifist who also understands the need for civil defense ... and a handful of everything else in-between. He thinks of himself now as a haphazard and patchwork Bapto-Anglican, though he is becoming confirmed in the Anglican tradition. This blog is his repository of working this whole faith thing out day by day, bird by bird. His first book, Tables in the Wilderness, a memoir of God found, lost, and found again, is due out autumn 2014 with Zondervan.