Murphy has article published in book on religious practices in the Middle Ages

Sean Murphy, an associate professor in the Department of Liberal Studies at Western Washington University, recently published "On the Enduring Impurity of Menstrual Blood and Semen: Leviticus 15 in William of Auvergne's De Legibus" in "Ritus Infidelium: Miradas interconfesionales sobre las prácticas religiosas en la Edad Media."

This tri-lingual book, published by the Casa de Velazquez in Madrid, Spain, studies inter-religious attitudes towards competing religious rituals in medieval Europe.