The Catholic Historical Review articles from April 2003

The Catholic Historical Review archives from April 2003

"I will observe absolute and perpetual secrecy:" The historical background of the rigid secrecy found in papal elections.
April 1, 2003... The title of this address is taken from the oath that cardinals participating in the next papal election will swear repeatedly in the course of a conclave. The oath is found in Pope John Paul II's Apostolic Constitution on papal elections...

Metropolitan might and papal power on the Latin-Christian frontier: transforming the Danish church around the time of the Fourth Lateran Council.
April 1, 2003... Even before the Fourth Lateran Council met in the autumn of 1215, contemporaries believed it would be one of the greatest ever convoked. When the archbishop of Lund, Anders Sunesen, tried to excuse himself from attending, Innocent III expressed...

Thy kingdom come: patriotism, prophecy, and the Catholic hierarchy in nineteenth-century Poland.
April 1, 2003... Few sentences have been more troublesome over the centuries than the second line of the Lord's Prayer: "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." (1) Many Christians have taken comfort in the promise that an earthly...

American Catholicism?: John England and "the republic in danger".
April 1, 2003... The first decades of the nineteenth century were a period of phenomenal growth in the Catholic Church in the United States. A relatively small minority at the time of the American Revolution, Catholicism became the single largest religious...

The eighty-third annual meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association.
April 1, 2003... Report of the Committee on Program The Committee on the Program, consisting of Maureen Miller of George Mason University, Thomas Tweed of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and J. Dean O'Donnell and Frederic Baumgartner, both...

The Early Modern Papacy. From the Council of Trent to the French Revolution 1564-1789. (General).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The Early Modern Papacy. From the Council of Trent to the French Revolution 1564-1789. By A. D. Wright. [Longman History of the Papacy.] (London; Harlow, Essex: Longman. 2000. Pp. ix, 335. Paperback.) While the Council of Trent did not...

Catholic Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democracy. (General).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Catholic Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democracy By Jay P. Corrin. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2002. Pp. x, 571. $55.00.) Not the synthesis that one might expect from the title, this book actually focuses on...

Uber die Entwicklungsgeschichte des armenischen Symbolums: Ein Vergleich mit dem syriscben und griechischen Formelgut unter Einbezug der relevanten georgischen und athiopischen Quellen. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Uber die Entwicklungsgeschichte des armenischen Symbolums: Ein Vergleich mit dem syriscben und griechischen Formelgut unter Einbezug der relevanten georgischen und athiopischen Quellen. By Gabriele Winkler. [Orientalia Christiana Analecta,...

Gregorio Magno, Vita di san Benedetto, versione greca di papa Zaccaria. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Gregorio Magno, Vita di san Benedetto, versione greca di papa Zaccaria. Edited by Gianpaolo Rigotti. [Hellenica, 8] (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso. 2001.Pp. 150. [euro]15 paperback.) Fruit of a doctorate under the direction of the...

Adomnan at Birr, AD 697: Essays in Commemoration of the Law of the Innocents. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Adomnan at Birr, AD 697: Essays in Commemoration of the Law of the Innocents. Edited by Thomas O'Loughlin. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. Distributed in the United States by ISBS, Portland, Ore. 2001. Pp. 77. $55.00.) This small but valuable...

Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature. By Ananya Jahanara Kabir. [Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 32.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 210. $70.00.) Ananya Jahanara Kabir's study addresses the...

St. John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... St. John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology. By Andrew Louth. [Oxford Early Christian Studies.] (Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xvii, 327. [pounds sterling]45.) This book reminds me of the merchant...

Dumbarton Oaks Papers. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Number Fifty-five, 2001. (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. 2002. Pp. vii, 408. $100.00.) This issue comprises the acts of two colloquia held at Dumbarton Oaks in 1999, the first on...

St Symeon the New Theologian and Orthodox Tradition. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... St Symeon the New Theologian and Orthodox Tradition. By Hilarion Alfeyev. [Oxford Early Christian Studies.] (Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. 338.[pounds sterling]57.) Alfeyev's monograph on the eleventh-century monk Symeon the...

Crusade Charters, 1138-1270. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Crusade Charters, 1138-12 70. Corliss Konwisser Slack with English translations by Hugh Bernard Feiss. [Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Volume 197.] (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State...

The Council of Bourges, 1225: A Documentary History. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The Council of Bourges, 1225:A Documentary History. BY Richard Kay. [Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West.] (Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2002. Pp. xxviii, 599. $114.95.) Except only for the Fourth Lateran...

The Register of Walter Bronescombe, Bishop of Exeter, 1258-1280. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The Register of Walter Bronescombe, Bishop of Exeter, 1258-1280, Volume Two. Edited and translated by O. E Robinson. [The Canterbury and York Society, Volume LXXXVII.] (Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press. 1999. Pp. viii, 138. $45.00.) ...

The Late Medieval Pope Prophecies: The Genus nequam Group. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The Late Medieval Pope Prophecies: The Genus nequam Group. Edited by Martha H. Fleming. [Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Volume 204.] (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University. 1999. Pp....

St Birgitta of Sweden. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... St Birgitta of Sweden. By Bridget Morris. [Studies in Medieval Mysticism, Volume 1.] (Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press. 1999. Pp. xiv, 202. $60.00.) St Birgitta of Sweden is long overdue--not the work itself, which represents the...

Piety and Pythagoras in Renaissance Florence: The Symbolum Nesianum. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Piety and Pythagoras in Renaissance Florence: The Symbolum Nesianum. By Christopher S. Celenza. [Studies in the History of Christian Thought, Volume C1.] (Leiden: Brill. 2001. Pp.xiii, 238. $85.00.) This is a careful edition and...

Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance. (Early Modern European).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance. By Lu Ann Homza. [The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 118th Series.] (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000. Pp. xxv, 312. $39.95.) Lu Ann...

Confessional Identity in East-Central Europe. (Early Modern European).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Confessional Identity in East-Central Europe. Edited by Maria Craciun, Ovidiu Ghitta, and Graeme Murdock. [St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. xviii, 207. $84.95.) This carefully edited...

God's Two Books: Copernican Cosmology and Biblical Interpretation In Early Modern Science. (Early Modern European).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Rutgers University God's Two Books: Copernican Cosmology and Biblical Interpretation In Early Modern Science. By Kenneth J. Howell. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2002. Pp. viii, 319. $39.95.) Both Copernicans...

Culte des saints et anticlericalisme. Entre statistique et culture populaire. (Early Modern European).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Culte des saints et anticlericalisme. Entre statistique et culture populaire. By Louis Perouas. [Memories et documents sur le Bas-Limousin, Vol. XXIV.] (Ussel: Musee du Pays d'Ussel; Paris: Diffusion de Boccard. 2002. Pp. xxxiv, 504....

La Contre-Reforme et les Constitutions de Port Royal. (Early Modern European).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... La Contre-Reforme et les Constitutions de Port Royal. By F Ellen Weaver. (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf. 2002. Pp. 242. [euro]29 paperback.) There is no question that F Ellen Weaver's study of Port Royal's Constitutions is a must-read book...

Johann Michael Sailer: Das postume Inquisitionsverfahren. (Late Modern European).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Johann Michael Sailer: Das postume Inquisitionsverfahren. By Hubert Wolf [Romische Inquisition und Indexkongregation, Bd. 2.] (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh. 2002. Pp. 273. [euro]29.80.) From the eighteenth century until Vatican Council I,...

Correspondance: Reportoire. (Late Modern European).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Henri-Dominique Lacordaire. Correspondance: Reportoire, Tome 1:1816-1839. Edited and arranged by Guy Bedouelle and Christoph-Alois Martin. (Paris: Editions du Cerf. 2001. Pp. 1xxvii, 1429. [euro]72.-.) Jean-Baptiste-Henri (later Dominique)...

Father Mathew, Temperance and Irish Identity. (Late Modern European).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Father Mathew, Temperance and Irish Identity. By Paul A. Townend. (Dublin: Irish Academic Press. Distributed in the United States by International Specialized Book Services, Portland, Oregon. 2002. Pp. viii, 327. $49.50.) Theobald Mathew...

The Black International / L'Internatlonale noire, 1870-1878. The Holy See and Militant Catholicism in Europe / Le Saint-Siege et le Catholicisme militant en Europe. (Late Modern European).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The Black International / L'Internatlonale noire, 1870-1878. The Holy See and Militant Catholicism in Europe / Le Saint-Siege et le Catholicisme militant en Europe. Edited by Emiel Lamberts. [KADOC-Studies 29.] (Leuven: Leuven University Press....

Friedrich von Hugel, Cuthbert Hamilton Turner et les Bollandistes. Correspondance. (Late Modern European).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Friedrich von Hugel, Cuthbert Hamilton Turner et les Bollandistes. Correspondance. Presentation, edition et commentaire par Bernard Joassart. [Tabularium hagiographicum, vol. 2.] (Brussels: Societe des Bollandistes. 2002. Pp. 157. 40[euro])....

Pedro Segura: Un cardenal de fronteras. (Late Modern European).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Pedro Segura: Un cardenal de fronteras. By Francisco Gil Delgado. (Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos. 2001. Pp. xxvii, 786. [euro]33.56.) In the political and ecclesiastical history of Spain during the first half of the twentieth...

True Catholic Womanhood: Gender Ideology in Franco's Spain. (Late Modern European).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... True Catholic Womanhood: Gender Ideology in Franco's Spain. By Aurora G.Morcillo. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. 2000. Pp. ix, 214. $36.00.) The Franco regime shared with the Roman Catholic Church a series of assumptions...

Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism. (Late Modern European).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 2002. Pp.xi, 259. $35.00.) Bishop of Munster from October, 1933, until his death in March, 1946, five weeks after...

Pius XII and the Holocaust: Understanding the Controversy. (Late Modern European).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Pius XII and the Holocaust: Understanding the Controversy. By Jose M. Sanchez. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 197. $39.95 cloth; $19.95 paperback.) The first criticism of the silence of Pope Pius...

A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair. (Late Modern European).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair. By Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2002. Pp. 352. $25.00.) A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the...

Le Cardinal Lienart: Eveque de Lille, 1928-1968. (Late Modern European).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Le Cardinal Lienart: Eveque de Lille, 1928-1968. By Catherine Masson. (Paris: Editions du Cerf. 2001.Pp. 769. 250 FE) Once again an historian of Catholic France has written a biography of a significant church figure in the grand style of a...

Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. (American).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. By John L. Kessell. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2002. Pp. xvii, 462.$45.00.) Herbert Eugene Bolton, before and during his tenure...

Jonathan Edwards and the Bible. (American).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Jonathan Edwards and the Bible. By Robert E. Brown. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2002. Pp. xxi, 292. $35.00.) Jonathan Edwards's star has been rising among scholars. Recognized widely as America's greatest theologian, he is also...

The Great Catastrophe of My Life: Divorce in the Old Dominion. (American).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The Great Catastrophe of My Life: Divorce in the Old Dominion. By Thomas E. Buckley, S.J. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. xiii, 346. $59.95 clothbound; $19.95 paperback.) This book is packed with narrative,...

The Irish in the South, 1815-1877. (American).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The Irish in the South, 1815-1877. By David T. Gleeson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 278. $45.00 hardcover, $19.95 paperback.) Hoping to recover the story of 'the forgotten people of the Old South,"...

Edward Sorin. (American).(Book Review)(Children's Review)
April 1, 2003... Edward Sorin. By Marvin R. O'Connell. (Note Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2001.Pp.x,737. $49.95.) This biography of the founder of the University of Note Dame is exhaustive and definitive. Yet just as O'Connell finds the...

Shameless: The Visionary Life of Mary Gove Nichols. (American).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Shameless: The Visionary Life of Mary Gove Nichols. By Jean L. Silver-Isenstadt. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002. Pp xii, 342. $24.95.) In 1857 Mary Gove Nichols (1810-1884), along with her husband Thomas, were...

Claiming the City: Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in St. Paul. (American).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Claiming the City: Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in St. Paul. By Mary Lethert Wingerd. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 2001. Pp. xv, 326. $29.95.) Mary Lethert Wingerd's Claiming the City: Politics, Faith, and the...

Acts of Faith: The Catholic Church in Texas, 1900-1950. (American).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Acts of Faith: The Catholic Church in Texas, 1900-1950. By James Talmadge Moore. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 2002. Pp. viii, 263. $39.95.) In 1998 Father James Talmadge Moore retired as professor of history from North...

Catholics and Jews in Twentieth-Century America. (American).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Catholics and Jews in Twentieth-Century America. By Egal Feldman. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2001. Pp. xv; 323. $34.95.) Egal Feldman is professor of history emeritus at the University of Wisconsin. He has...

Father Hartke: His Life and Legacy to the American Theater. (American).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Father Hartke: His Life and Legacy to the American Theater By Mary Jo Santo Pietro. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2002. Pp. xix, 383. $39.95.) By way of disclosure, this reviewer notes that his own life was...

Bernardino de Sahagun: First Anthropologist. (Latin American).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Bernardino de Sahagun: First Anthropologist. By Miguel Leon-Portilla. Translated by Mauricio J. Mixco. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 324. $29.95.) The Franciscan priest Bernardino de Sahagun was born in Spain in...

Monjas y beatas: La escritura femenina en la espiritualidad barroca Novohispana, siglos XVIIy XVIII. (Latin American).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Monjas y beatas: La escritura femenina en la espiritualidad barroca Novobispana, siglos XVIIy XVIII. Edited by Asuncion Lavrin and Rosalva Loreto L. (Puebla: Universidad de las Americas--Puebla and Archivo General de Ia Nacion. 2002. Pp.275....

Os Salesianos e a Educacao na Bahia e em Sergipe--Brasil, 1897-1970. (Latin American).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Os Salesianos e a Educacao na Bahia e em Sergipe--Brasil, 1897-1970. By Antenor de Andrade Silva. [Istituto Storico Salesiano--Roma, Studi 14.1 (Rome: LAS [Libreria Ateneo Salesiano]. 2000. Pp. 431. Lire 40.000.) This study of the Salesian...

Loretto--The Sisters and Their Santa Fe Chapel. (Brief Notices).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Cook, Mary Jean Straw. Loretto--The Sisters and Their Santa Fe Chapel, Revised Edition. (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press. 2002. Pp. xviii, 118. $22.50 paperbound.) The chapel of Our Lady of Light, more commonly known as "the Loretto...

Pio XII: Attraverso le Immagini. (Brief Notices).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Marchione, Margherita. Pio XII: Attraverso le Immagini. (Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana. 2002. Pp. 214. [euro]14,O0.) This life of Pope Pius XII through pictures is dedicated to Pope John Paul H. Following a preface by Cardinal...

Meetings, conferences, and congresses. (Notes and Comments).
April 1, 2003... The fifty-first study week of the Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo will be devoted to the theme "Cristianita d'Occidente e Christianita d'Oriente (secoli VI-XI)." The dates are April 24-30, 2003. The inaugural address will be...

Archives. (Note and Comments).(historical archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The historical archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will be electronically catalogued, thanks to an agreement signed on December 6, 2002, by Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, then Secretary of the Congregation (now Archbishop...

Causes of Saints. (Notes and Comments).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... At a meeting of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints presided over by Pope John Paul II on December 20,2002, seven decrees of recognition of a second miracle of beati were promulgated, opening the way for their canonization. Among them are...

Obituaries.(Robert Brentano, Sather Professor of medieval history in the University of California, Berkeley; Robert O. McMain, founder of the Catholic Historical Society of Washington; Thomas W Spalding, C.F.X.)(Obituary)
April 1, 2003... Robert Brentano, Sather Professor of medieval history in the University of California, Berkeley, died on November 21, 2002, in Berkeley at the age of 76. He is survived by his wife, Carroll Brentano, and three children. Born in Evansville...

Other books received.
April 1, 2003... Ankarloo, Bengt, Stuart Clark, and William Monter. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Period of the Witch Trials. (Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002. Pp. xiv, 193. Paperback.) Beaton, Richard. Isaiah's Christ in Matthew's...