kunopes:

forte-fievre

Early Christianity:

W.H.C. Frend, The Rise of Christianity. (this is a go-to for me, it covers just about everything in the first centuries of christianity, including “heretical” groups, ecclesiastical and theological conflict, etc.)

Peter Brown, The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity.

Peter Brown, The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity.

Peter Brown, Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity.

Peter Brown, Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianization of the Roman World.

Patricia Cox Miller, The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity.

Susan Ashbrook Harvey, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies. (any of the oxford handbooks on christianity will be excellent, also Ashbrook Harvey is one of my favorite scholars of early christianity, she works on the early syriac church and especially women of the syriac church)

Virginia Burrus, ed. Late Ancient Christianity.

Western Christianity:

Peter Brown, The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200 - 1000.

Caroline Walker Bynum, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336. (Bynum is without a doubt, the most famous and revered historian of medieval western Christianity and her work is revolutionary and spectacular)

Caroline Walker Bynum, Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages.

Caroline Walker Bynum, Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion.

Daniel Bornstein, Medieval Christianity.

John Arnold, The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity.

Eastern Christianity:

Derek Kreuger, Byzantine Christianity.

Elizabeth Jeffreys, The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies.

Cyril Mango, The Oxford History of Byzantium.

J.M Hussey, The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire.

John Meyendorff, Byzantine Theology: Historical Trends and Doctrinal Themes.

John Haldon, A Social History of Byzantium.

Bonus contemporary stuff:

Twentieth Century Global Christianity.

Eastern Christians in Anthropological Perspective.

The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity.

The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism.

Geoffrey Wainwright, The Oxford History of Christian Worship.