The Catholic Historical Review articles from April 2004

The Catholic Historical Review archives from April 2004

"Evil-sounding, rash, and suspect of heresy": tensions between mysticism and magisterium in the history of the church.
April 1, 2004... In the Bull In agro dominico, issued by Pope John XXII on March 27, 1329, the first fifteen articles extracted from the works of Meister Eckhart are condemned as haereticos, while the final eleven are said to be male sonantes, temerarios, et...

"Ghostly fathers" and their "virtuous daughters": the role of spiritual direction in the lives of three early modern English women.
April 1, 2004... In late Tudor and early Stuart England, the religious environment provided a contested space for some Catholic women who sought a more committed life of faith under the direction of a spiritual guide while remaining active in the world. On the...

An eroding milieu? Catholic youth, Church authority, and popular behavior in northwest Germany during the Third Reich, 1933-1938.
April 1, 2004... I cannot make homesick feelings go away. I miss the community life greatly. I am happy to be a part of the congregation here, but I cannot participate in the evenings because I am 3/4 of an hour from the city. How is it going? Are...

Natives and nationalism: the Americanization of Kateri Tekakwitha.(Biography)
April 1, 2004... In the history of the United States, the figure of the Indian has played an important part in discourses of national self-definition. Since colonial times, according to Jill Lepore, Americans constructed a "triangulated" identity, in relation...

The Eighty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association.
April 1, 2004... Report of the Committee on Program The Program Committee, consisting of Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago), Robin Darling Young (University of Notre Dame), Dennis D. Martin (Loyola University Chicago), Jay Dolan (University of Notre...

Credo. Historical and Theological Guide to Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition.(General and Miscellaneous)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Credo. Historical and Theological Guide to Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition. By Jaroslav Pelikan. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 2003. Pp. liii, 609, $37.50.) This is undoubtedly a major introduction to a major...

La Provincia Domenicana di Grecia.(General and Miscellaneous)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... La Provincia Domenicana di Grecia. By Tommaso Violante, O.P. [Institutum Historicum Fratrum Praedicatorum Romae, Dissertationes historicae, Fasciculus XXV.] (Rome: Istituto Storico Domenicano. 1999. Pp. 393. Paperback.) The success of the...

Beitrage zur Geschichte des Paulinerordens.(General and Miscellaneous)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Beitrage zur Geschichte des Paulinerordens. Edited by Kaspar Elm. [Berliner Historische Studien, Band 32; Ordensstudien XIV.] (Berlin: Duncker und Humblot. 2000. Pp. 333. DM 118.) The Paulist Order originated in Hungary. St. Paul the...

Presenza dei francescani conventuali nel Collegio dei Teologi dell'Universita di Padova: Appunti d'archivio (1510-1806).(General and Miscellaneous)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Presenza dei francescani conventuali nel Collegio dei Teologi dell'Universita di Padova: Appunti d'archivio (1510-1806). By Antonino Poppi. (Padua: Centro Studi Antoniani. 2003. Pp. 222. [euro]20,00 paperback.) This is a detailed summary...

Dizionario degli Istituti di Perfezione.(General and Miscellaneous)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Dizionario degli Istituti di Perfezione. Edited by Guerrino Pelliccia and Giancarlo Rocca. Vol. X: "Via-Zwijsen." (Rome: Edizioni Paoline. 2003. Pp. xxv, 1682; 6 colored plates.) This is the last volume in the monumental encyclopedia of...

The Correspondence of Roland H. Bainton and Delio Cantimori 1932-1966: An Enduring Transatlantic Friendship between Two Historians of Religious Toleration.(General and Miscellaneous)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Correspondence of Roland H. Bainton and Delio Cantimori 1932-1966: An Enduring Transatlantic Friendship between Two Historians of Religious Toleration. Edited by John Tedeschi. [Studi e testi per la storia della tolleranza in Europa nei...

Saint Vincent diacre et martyr: Culte et legendes avant l'An Mil.(Ancient)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Saint Vincent diacre et martyr: Culte et legendes avant l'An Mil. By Victor Saxer. [Subsidia Hagiographica, Vol. 83.] (Brussels: Societe des Bollandistes. 2002. Pp. vii, 372. [euro]65 paperback.) The universal saints of the Church are...

Families and Friends in Late Roman Cappadocia.(Ancient)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Families and Friends in Late Roman Cappadocia. By Raymond Van Dam. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 265; 1 map. $45.00.) After an impressive trail of published articles in peer-reviewed journals and a book on...

Vision and Image in Early Christian England.(Medieval)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Vision and Image in Early Christian England. By George Henderson. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 1999. Pp. xviii, 292. $90.00.) The wealth, variety, and inventiveness to be found in the art of early medieval Britain and Ireland owe...

Order & Exclusion: Cluny and Christendom face heresy, Judaism, and Islam (1000-1150).(Medieval)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Order & Exclusion: Cluny and Christendom face heresy, Judaism, and Islam (1000-1150). By Dominique Iogna-Prat. Translated by Graham Robert Edwards. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 2002. Pp. xvii, 407. $59.95.) Dr. Iogna-Prat's...

L'Ordre de Saint-Lazare de Jerusalem au Moyen Age: Milites Christi.(Medieval)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... L'Ordre de Saint-Lazare de Jerusalem au Moyen Age: Milites Christi, Volume 1. By Rafael Hyacinthe. (Millau: Conservatoire Larzac Templier et Hospitalier. 2003. Pp. 253. [euro]40.) Well presented, richly illustrated, and based on an...

El derecho canonico catalan en la baja Edad Media: La diocesis de Gerona en los siglos XIII y XIV.(Medieval)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... El derecho canonico catalan en la baja Edad Media: La diocesis de Gerona en los siglos XIII y XIV. By Santiago Bueno Salinas. [Col-lectania Sant Pacia, Num. 72.) (Barcelona: Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya. 2000. Pp. 415. Paperback.) The...

Olivi and the Interpretation of Matthew in the High Middle Ages.(Medieval)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Olivi and the Interpretation of Matthew in the High Middle Ages. By Kevin Madigan. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2003. Pp. xv, 224. $47.50 clothbound; $27.50 paperback.) Only recently, in his fine synthetic study of...

The Religious Orders in Pre-Reformation England.(Medieval)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Religious Orders in Pre-Reformation England. Edited by James G. Clark. [Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 18.] (Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 250. $75.00.) The thirteen essays in this volume began life...

The Early Reformation on the Continent.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Early Reformation on the Continent. By Owen Chadwick. [Oxford History of the Christian Church.] (New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. vi, 446. $95.00.) Unlike most such works, this volume has no introduction or conclusion to...

Usury, Interest and the Reformation.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Usury, Interest and the Reformation. By Eric Kerridge. [St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Co. 2002. Pp. xiv, 190. $79.95.) This slim volume, written with a measure of scholarly indignation,...

The Imaginative World of the Reformation.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Imaginative World of the Reformation. By Peter Matheson. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 153. $15.00 paperback.) The unifying theme of this small book is sixteenth-century people's dreams of freedom here on earth. Made up...

Mad for God: Bartolome Sanchez, the Secret Messiah of Cardenete.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Mad for God: Bartolome Sanchez, the Secret Messiah of Cardenete. By Sara Tilghman Nalle. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. 2001. Pp. xi, 228. $49.50 cloth; $16.95 paper.) Occasionally, historians who spend long...

Anti-Italianism in Sixteenth-Century France.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Anti-Italianism in Sixteenth-Century France. By Henry Heller. (Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 307. $60.00.) Henry Heller's latest book tackles a subject that has long been known, occasionally tackled by...

Ramus and Reform: University and Church at the End of the Renaissance.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Ramus and Reform: University and Church at the End of the Renaissance. By James Veazie Skalnik. (Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 172. $39.95.) This slim but important study begins with the statement:...

Plots and Plotters in the Reign of Elizabeth I.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Plots and Plotters in the Reign of Elizabeth I. By Francis Edwards, S.J. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. Distributed in the United States by ISBS, Portland, Oregon. 2002. Pp. 296. $50.00.) Francis Edwards was archivist of the English Jesuit...

Rhetoric & Dialectic in the Time of Galileo.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Rhetoric & Dialectic in the Time of Galileo. By Jean Dietz Moss and William A. Wallace. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 438. $69.95.) The core of this book consists of introductions to and abridged...

Giambattista Riccioli e il merito scientifico dei Gesuiti nell'eta Barocca.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Giambattista Riccioli e il merito scientifico dei Gesuiti nell'eta Barocca. Edited by Maria Teresa Borgato. [Istituto e museo di storia della scienza, Biblioteca di "Nuncius": Studi e Testi XLIV.] (Florence: Leo S. Olschki. 2002. Pp. xviii,...

Toleration in Enlightenment Europe.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Toleration in Enlightenment Europe. Edited by Ole Peter Grell and Roy Porter. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. ix, 270. $59.95.) This volume collects the papers delivered at a conference held in Corpus Christi College,...

Madeleine Sophie Barat, 1779-1865: A Life.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Madeleine Sophie Barat, 1779-1865: A Life. By Phil Kilroy. (New York and Mahwah, New Jersey. Paulist Press. 2000. Pp. x, 550. $34.95.) Phil Kilroy has written a masterful biography of Sophie Barat, founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart...

Britain and the Papacy in the Age of Revolution, 1846-1851.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Britain and the Papacy in the Age of Revolution, 1846-1851. By Saho Matsumoto-Best. [Royal Historical Society: Studies in History. New series.] (Rochester, New York: Boydell Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 196. $75.00.) In my recent book (Great...

Catholic Churchmen and the Celtic Revival in Ireland, 1848-1916.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Catholic Churchmen and the Celtic Revival in Ireland, 1848-1916. By Kevin Collins. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. Distributed in the United States by ISBS, Portland, Oregon. 2002. Pp. 203. $50.00.) Historical accounts of the Celtic, or Gaelic,...

Aux Frontieres de la Paix: Bons Offices, Mediations, Arbitrages du Saint-Siege (1878-1922).(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Aux Frontieres de la Paix: Bons Offices, Mediations, Arbitrages du Saint-Siege (1878-1922). By Jean-Marc Ticchi. [Collection de l'Ecole Francaise de Rome, 294.] (Rome: Ecole Francaise de Rome. 2002. Pp. ix, 483. Paperback.) This is a study...

The Voices of Gemma Galgani: The Life and Afterlife of a Modern Saint.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Voices of Gemma Galgani: The Life and Afterlife of a Modern Saint. By Rudolf M. Bell and Cristina Mazzoni. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2003. Pp. xviii, 320. $30.00.) This is a multi-textured study of the spiritual experience...

Class and Religious Identity: The Rhenish Center Party in Wilhelmine Germany.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Class and Religious Identity: The Rhenish Center Party in Wilhelmine Germany. By Thomas M. Bredohl. [Marquette Studies in Theology, Volume 18.] (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press. 2000. Pp. 288. $35.00 paperback.) In this well...

L'Ouest-Eclair: Naissance et essor d'un grand quotidien regional, 1899-1933.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... L'Ouest-Eclair: Naissance et essor d'un grand quotidien regional, 1899-1933. Under the direction of Michel Lagree, Patrick Harismendy, and Michel Denis. (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes. 2000. Pp. 203. 150 Ff.) A team of...

Liberalisme et modernisme. Mgr Lacroix (1855-1922): Enquete sur un suspect.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Liberalisme et modernisme. Mgr Lacroix (1855-1922): Enquete sur un suspect. By Christian Sorrel. [Histoire religieuse de la France, Vol. 21.] (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf. 2003. Pp. 541. [euro]59 paperback.) While major figures involved in...

Katholizismus und Antisemitismus: Mentalitaten, Kontinuitaten, Ambivalenzen: Zur Kulturgeschichte der Schweiz, 1918-1945.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Katholizismus und Antisemitismus: Mentalitaten, Kontinuitaten, Ambivalenzen: Zur Kulturgeschichte der Schweiz, 1918-1945. By Urs Altermatt (Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Verlag Huber. 1999. Pp. 414. sFr. 58.-.) At first glance, Urs Altermatt's...

Archivo Goma: Documentos de la Guerra Civil. Vol. 1: Julio-Diciembre de 1936; Vol. 2: Enero de 1937; Vol. 3: Febrero de 1937; Vol. 4: Marzo de 1937.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Archivo Goma: Documentos de la Guerra Civil. Vol. 1: Julio-Diciembre de 1936; Vol. 2: Enero de 1937; Vol. 3: Febrero de 1937; Vol. 4: Marzo de 1937. Edited by Jose Andres-Gallego and Anton M. Pazos. (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones...

European Christian Democracy: Historical Legacies and Comparative Perspectives.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... European Christian Democracy: Historical Legacies and Comparative Perspectives. Edited by Thomas Kselman and Joseph A. Buttigieg. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 339. $40.00 hardcover; $18.00 paperback.) ...

Religion and the American Nation: Historiography and History.(American)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Religion and the American Nation: Historiography and History. By John F. Wilson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2003. Pp. xv, 104. $24.95 cloth.) This brief but helpful book contains the inaugural George H. Shriver Lectures, which...

Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal.(American)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal. By William R. Hutchison. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 276. $29.95.) Hutchison, a distinguished scholar of liberal and modernist...

Religion, Power, and Politics in Colonial St. Augustine.(American)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Religion, Power, and Politics in Colonial St. Augustine. By Robert L. Kapitzke. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2001. Pp. xi, 219. $55.00.) In studying the place of religion, power, and politics in colonial St. Augustine, Robert...

Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation between Church and State.(American)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation between Church and State. By Daniel L. Dreisbach. (New York: New York University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 283. $42.00.) This is an excellent, eloquent book about a metaphor--the "wall of separation"...

Faith and Action: A History of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, 1821-1996.(American)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Faith and Action: A History of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, 1821-1996. By Roger Fortin. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 2002. Pp. xviii, 489. $35.00.) The historic see of Cincinnati looms large on the American Catholic diocesan...

How the Jesuits Settled in New York: A Documentary Account.(American)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... How the Jesuits Settled in New York: A Documentary Account. By Thomas C. Hennessy, S.J. (New York: Something More Publications, Distributed by Fordham University Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 286. $24.00 paperback.) In this and in its companion...

Anti-Catholicism in America: The Last Acceptable Prejudice.(American)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Anti-Catholicism in America: The Last Acceptable Prejudice. By Mark S. Massa, S.J. (New York: Crossroads. 2003. Pp. x, 245. $24.95.) Fordham University professor and Jesuit priest Mark Massa's provocative title implies that North Americans...

Catholicism and American Freedom: A History.(American)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Catholicism and American Freedom: A History. By John T. McGreevy. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 2003. Pp. 431. $26.95.) Is anti-Catholicism really the last acceptable prejudice of the intellectuals? John T. McGreevy's masterful...

Archbishop Lamy: In His Own Words.(American)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Archbishop Lamy: In His Own Words. Edited and translated by Thomas J. Steele, S.J. (Albuquerque: LPD Press. 2000. Pp. vii, 271. $29.95 paperback.) As first Archbishop of Santa Fe, Jean Baptiste Lamy (1814-1888) left a divided legacy....

FDR, the Vatican, and the Roman Catholic Church in America.(American)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... FDR, the Vatican, and the Roman Catholic Church in America, 1933-1945. Edited by David B. Woolner and Richard G. Kurial. [The World of the Roosevelts.] (New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. Pp. xvii, 295. $59.95.) The sixteen papers...

Households of Faith: Family, Gender, and Community in Canada, 1760-1969.(Canadian)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Households of Faith: Family, Gender, and Community in Canada, 1760-1969. Edited by Nancy Christie. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2002. Pp. xiv, 381. $75.00 clothbound; $27.95 paperback.) Among historians of the...

Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico.(Latin American)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico. By Laura A. Lewis. (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 262. $79.95 clothbound; $22.95 paperback.) Anthropologist Laura Lewis anchors her analysis of race and caste...

The Chaco Mission Frontier: The Guaycuruan Experience.(Latin American)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Chaco Mission Frontier: The Guaycuruan Experience. By James Scholfield Saeger. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 2000. Pp. xviii, 266. $50.00.) This book adds perspective on the studies of missions in Latin America. Traditionally,...

Death Is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil.(Latin American)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Death Is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. By Joao Jose Reis. Translated by H. Sabrina Glidehill. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 386. $59.95 clothbound; $27.50 paperback.) ...

Papal Overtures in a Cuban Key: The Pope's Visit and Civic Space for Cuban Religion.(Latin American)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Papal Overtures in a Cuban Key. The Pope's Visit and Civic Space for Cuban Religion. Edited by Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo. (Scranton: University of Scranton Press. 2002. Pp. xxxvii, 174. $27.95 paperback.) In January, 1998, Pope John Paul...

A Tradition of Outreach: Examples of Catholic Action in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.(Brief Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... WEBER, FRANCIS J. A Tradition of Outreach: Examples of Catholic Action in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. (Mission Hills, California: Saint Francis Historical Society. 2003. Pp. xiii, 107. $10.00 paperback.) The Los Angles archdiocesan...

Requiescant in Pace. The Story of Catholic Cemeteries in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.(Brief Notices)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... WEBER, FRANCIS J. Requiescant in Pace. The Story of Catholic Cemeteries in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. (Mission Hills, California: Saint Francis Historical Society. 2003. Pp. vii, 93. $12.00 paperback.) Catholic cemeteries are sacred...

Notes and comments.
April 1, 2004... Association News At its last annual meeting, which was held in Washington, D.C., on January 8, 2004, the Executive Council appointed Leslie W. Tentler of the Catholic University of America assistant secretary and treasurer of the American...

Periodical literature.(Bibliography)
April 1, 2004... GENERAL Wandel im Verstandnis von Schisma und Union. Von Bischof Cyprian von Karthago bis ins 20. Jh. Ernst Chr. Suttner. Orientalia Christiana Periodica, 69 (2, 2003), 267-285. Die Rolle der Textkritik im ersten jahrtausend der...

Other books received.
April 1, 2004... [Books that were sent to scholars for review but of which no review has been received are indicated by an asterisk.] Accattoli, Luigi, Heinz-Joachim Fischer, Arthur Hertzberg, Marco Politi, and Hansjakob Stehle. John Paul II: A Pope for the...