The Catholic Historical Review articles from April 2005

The Catholic Historical Review archives from April 2005

Politics, programs, and protests: Catholic Relief Services in Vietnam, 1954-1975.
April 1, 2005... It is now thirty years since Americans finally departed from Saigon in 1975. That this longest war in U.S. history still electrifies the political climate was abundantly evident in the last presidential election. John Kerry opened his campaign...

Steadfast saints or malleable models? Seventeenth-century Irish hagiography revisited.
April 1, 2005... At one of the last sessions of the Council of Trent, the question of the role of saints within the Church was addressed. While the fathers upheld the value of venerating images and relics of the saints, they nevertheless admitted that there had...

"Una Messa in Perpetuum": perpetual Mass bequests in traditional Malta, 1750-1797.
April 1, 2005... In 1931 Marc Bloch, reviewing Maurice Halbwach's book, Les Causes du Suicide, criticized historians' reluctance to write about death. (1) Lucien Febvre made the same comment twenty years later. He did admit that "death is now a fashionable...

Thy will be done: German Catholics and national identity in the twentieth century.
April 1, 2005... One of the most difficult parts of the development of the modern era to understand is the challenge to use history, along with philosophy and theology, to find a coherent understanding of the world. In our secular age, the ability to separate...

The eighty-fifth annual meeting of the American catholic historical association.
April 1, 2005... Report of the Chairman of the Committee on Program The Association met in Seattle, Washington, between January 7 and 9, 2005, in conjunction with the American Historical Association at the Sheraton Hotel. The registration table was...

Four Cultures of the West.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Four Cultures of the West. By John W. O'Malley. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2004. Pp. x, 261. $24.95.) This book is as much about the present as the past. In it Father O'Malley characterizes...

Per una storia dei santuari cristiani d'Italia: approcci regionali.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Per una storia dei santuari cristiani d'Italia: approcci regionali. Edited by Giorgio Cracco. [Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento, Quaderni, 58.] (Bologna: Il Mulino. 2002. Pp. 493. [euro]28.50.) This is one of several...

Historia de las Diocesis Espanolas.(Historia de las Diocesis Espanolas: Iglesias de Santiago de Compostela y Tuy-Vigo, vol. 14)(Historia de las Diocesis Espanolas: Iglesias de Lugo, Mondonedo-Ferrol y Orense, vol. 15)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Historia de las Diocesis Espanolas. Volume 14: Iglesias de Santiago de Compostela y Tuy-Vigo, and Volume 15: Iglesias de Lugo, Mondonedo-Ferrol y Orense. Edited by Jose Garcia Oro. (Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos. 2002. Pp. xviii,...

Theology in Stone: Church Architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Theology in Stone: Church Architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley. By Richard Kieckhefer. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 372. $39.95.) Several recent publications regarding Catholic church architecture have been written...

Holy Cards.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Holy Cards. By Barbara Calamari and Sandra DiPasqua. (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2004. Pp. 144; 110 illustrations in full color. $24.95.) This beautifully illustrated book is authored by Barbara Calamari, a freelance writer who has...

Emperor and Priest: The Imperial Office in Byzantium.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Emperor and Priest: The Imperial Office in Byzantium. By Gilbert Dagron. Translated by Jean Birrell. [Past and Present Publications.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2004. Pp. xiii, 337. $75.00.) Teachers of Byzantine History will be...

Alcuin: Achievement and Reputation: Being part of the Ford Lectures delivered in Oxford in the Hilary Term 1980.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Alcuin: Achievement and Reputation: Being part of the Ford Lectures delivered in Oxford in the Hilary Term 1980. By Donald A. Bullough. [Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Volume 16.] (Leiden: Brill. 2004. Pp. xxviii,...

Agnellus of Ravenna: The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Agnellus of Ravenna: The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna. Translated with an introduction and notes by Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis. [Medieval Texts in Translation.] (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2004....

Ecrire et lire en Catalogne (I[X.sup.e]-XI[I.sup.e] siecle).(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Ecrire et lire en Catalogne (I[X.sup.e]-XI[I.sup.e] siecle). By Michel Zimmermann. 2 vols. [Bibliotheque de la Casa de Velazquez, Volume 23.] (Madrid: Casa de Velazquez. 2003. Pp. xxii, 613; 614-1403. [euro]64.) About 7,000 records of the...

St. John the Divine. The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... St. John the Divine. The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology. By Jeffrey F. Hamburger. (Berkeley: University of California Press. 2002. Pp. xxiv, 347; 156 black and white illustrations, 26 colored plates. $60.00.) In medieval...

The Necrology of San Nicola della Cicogna (Montecassino, Archivio della Badia 179, pp. 1-64).(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Necrology of San Nicola della Cicogna (Montecassino, Archivio della Badia 179, pp. 1-64). Edited by Charles Hilken, FSC. [Monumenta Liturgica Beneventana, II.] (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. 2000. Pp. ix, 178. $34.95.)...

St.Anselm and the Handmaidens of God.A Study of Anselm's Correspondence with Women.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... St.Anselm and the Handmaidens of God.A Study of Anselm's Correspondence with Women. By Sally N. Vaughn. [Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 7.] (Turnhout: Brepols. 2003. Pp. xii, 335. [euro]60.00.) Scholars usually have seen Anselm as...

Sanctifying the Name of God: Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First Crusade.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Sanctifying the Name of God: Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First Crusade. By Jeremy Cohen. [Jewish Culture and Contexts.] (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. Pp. xvi, 208. $37.50.) Over the winter and spring...

The Experience of Crusading. Volume One: Western Approaches. Edited by Marcus Bull and Norman Housley; Volume Two: Defining the Crusader Kingdom.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Experience of Crusading. Volume One: Western Approaches. Edited by Marcus Bull and Norman Housley; Volume Two: Defining the Crusader Kingdom. Edited by Peter Edbury and Jonathan Phillips. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp....

Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris. Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Lives of the Poor.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris. Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Lives of the Poor. By Sharon Farmer. [Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past.] (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 2002. Pp. xv, 198. $35.00.) ...

The Hammer of the Inquisitors: Brother Bernard Delicieux and the Struggle Against the Inquisition in Fourteenth-Century France.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Hammer of the Inquisitors: Brother Bernard Delicieux and the Struggle Against the Inquisition in Fourteenth-Century France. By Alan Friedlander. [Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions: Medieval and Early Modern Peoples, Volume 9.] (Leiden:...

Worship in Medieval and Modern Europe. Change and Continuity in Religious Practice.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Worship in Medieval and Modern Europe. Change and Continuity in Religious Practice. Edited by Karin Maag and John D. Witvliet. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2004. Pp. xiii, 353. $60.00 cloth, $30.00 paper.) In...

Early Modern Catholicism: Essays in Honour of John W. O'Malley, S.J.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Early Modern Catholicism: Essays in Honour of John W. O'Malley, S.J. Edited by Kathleen M. Comerford and Hilmar M. Pabel. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2001. Pp. xxxvi, 324. $70.00 cloth, $27.50 paperback.) As the editors rightly...

Heinrich Bullingers europaische Kirchenpolitik.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Heinrich Bullingers europaische Kirchenpolitik. By Andreas Muhling. [Zurcher Beitrage zur Reformationsgeschichte, Band 19.] (Bern: Peter Lang. 2001. Pp. 371. $56.95 paperback.) Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575) received his call to succeed his...

Juan de Ovando. Governing the Spanish Empire in the Reign of Philip II.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Juan de Ovando. Governing the Spanish Empire in the Reign of Philip II. By Stafford Poole. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2004. Pp. x, 293. $37.95.) Although once described as "the dominating figure in [the] formulation of all...

The Scots College Rome, 1600-2000.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Scots College Rome, 1600-2000. Edited by Raymond McCluskey. (Edinburgh: John Donald. 2000. Pp. xiv, 178. $19.95 paperback.) Oftentimes centennial projects become either apologetic or triumphalistic pieces as they move from initial...

The Visionary Life of Madre Ana de San Agustin.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Visionary Life of Madre Ana de San Agustin. Critical edition and Introduction by Elizabeth Teresa Howe. [Coleccion Tamesis, Serie B: Textos, 46.] (Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer. 2004. Pp. xiii, 131. $75.00.) During the last...

Nuntiaturberichte aus Deutschland nebst erganzenden Aktenstucken, Section 4, Vol. 7: Nuntiaturen des Malatesta Baglioni, des Ciriaco Rocci und des Mario Filonardi. Sendung des P.Alessandro D'Ales (1634-1635).(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Nuntiaturberichte aus Deutschland nebst erganzenden Aktenstucken, Section 4, Vol. 7: Nuntiaturen des Malatesta Baglioni, des Ciriaco Rocci und des Mario Filonardi. Sendung des P.Alessandro D'Ales (1634-1635). Edited by Rotraud Becker. Im...

Les brefs d'indulgences pour les confreries des dioceses de Cambrai et de Tournai aux XVI[I.sup.e] et XVII[I.sup.e] siecles (A.S.V., Sec. Brev. Indulg. Perpetuae, 2-9).(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Les brefs d'indulgences pour les confreries des dioceses de Cambrai et de Tournai aux XVI[I.sup.e] et XVII[I.sup.e] siecles (A.S.V., Sec. Brev. Indulg. Perpetuae, 2-9). By Philippe Desmette. [Analecta Vaticano-Belgica, Premiere serie, XXXIII.]...

Papacy and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Pius VI and the Arts.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Papacy and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Pius VI and the Arts. By Jeffrey Collins. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2004. Pp. xxii, 355. $85.00.) Pius VI (r. 1775-1799), born Giovanni Angelo Braschi, was fated to be the last...

A Dominant Church: The Diocese of Achonry, 1818-1960.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... A Dominant Church: The Diocese of Achonry, 1818-1960. By Liam Swords. (Blackrock, Co. Dublin: The Columba Press. 2004. Pp. 700. [euro]35.00.) A Dominant Church is the third volume in a history of the Roman Catholic diocese of Achonry (ah...

Do Penance or Perish: A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Do Penance or Perish: A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland. By Frances Finnegan. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 258. $19.95.) Frances Finnegan's Do Penance or Perish (originally published in Ireland in 2001) reveals...

The Jesuit Specter in Imperial Germany.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Jesuit Specter in Imperial Germany. By Roisin Healy. [Studies in Central European Histories.] (Boston and Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 2003. Pp. xii, 263. $145.00.) There was a specter haunting Germany--not of communism but of...

Los papeles perdidos del cardenal Segura, 1880-1957.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Los papeles perdidos del cardenal Segura, 1880-1957. By Santiago Martinez Sanchez. (Pamplona: Ediciones Universidad de Navarra. 2004. Pp. 838.) The "lost papers" in the title of this impressively documented study of one of the most...

Inside the Vatican of Pius XII: The Memoir of an American Diplomat During World War II.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Inside the Vatican of Pius XII: The Memoir of an American Diplomat During World War II. By Harold H. Tittmann, Jr. Edited and with an Introduction by Harold H. Tittmann, III. (New York: Doubleday. 2004. Pp. xiii, 224. $12.95 paperback.) ...

Christian Democratic Parties in Europe since the End of the Cold War.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Christian Democratic Parties in Europe since the End of the Cold War. Edited by Steven Van Hecke and Emmanuel Gerard. [KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society, Volume 1.] (Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press. 2004. Pp. 343. [euro]29...

Katholisches Milieu und Vertriebene: Eine Fallstudie am Beispiel des Oldenburger Landes, 1945-1965.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Katholisches Milieu und Vertriebene: Eine Fallstudie am Beispiel des Oldenburger Landes, 1945-1965. By Michael Hirschfeld. [Forschungen und Quellen zur Kirchen-und Kulturgeschichte Ostdeutschlands, Band XXXIII.] (Cologne: Bohlau Verlag. 2002....

The Continuing Agony: From the Carmelite Convent to the Crosses at Auschwitz.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Continuing Agony: From the Carmelite Convent to the Crosses at Auschwitz. Edited by Alan L. Berger, Harry James Cargas, and Susan E. Nowak. (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. 2004. Pp. xxv, 269. $40.00 paperback.) This...

The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era. By Thomas E. Woods, Jr. (New York: Columbia University Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 270. $29.50.) In this study, begun as a doctoral dissertation at Columbia...

Between the Sacred and the Worldly: The Institutional and Cultural Practice of Recogimiento in Colonial Lima.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Between the Sacred and the Worldly: The Institutional and Cultural Practice of Recogimiento in Colonial Lima. By Nancy E. van Deusen. (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 2001. Pp. xxi, 319. $60.00.) Recently Latin American...

The Francis Trilogy.(BRIEF NOTICES)(The Francis Trilogy of Thomas of Celano)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Armstrong, Regis J., O.F.M. Cap., J.A. Wayne Hellmann, O.F.M. Conv., and William J. Short, O.F.M. (Eds.). The Francis Trilogy of Thomas of Celano. (Hyde Park, New York: New City Press. 2004. Pp. 387. $19.95 paperback.) The same scholars...

Always Faithful: The New York Carmelites, the Irish People and Their Freedom Movement.(BRIEF NOTICES)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Isacsson, Alfred, O. Carm. Always Faithful: The New York Carmelites, the Irish People and Their Freedom Movement. (Middletown, New York: Vestigium Press. 2004. Pp. vi, 168. $15.00 paperback.) In this slender volume, Father Alfred Isacsson,...

Notes and comments.(American Catholic Historical Association)
April 1, 2005... Association News At its meeting in Seattle on January 6, 2005, the Executive Council of the American Catholic Historical Association decided to increase the membership fees modestly as follows: for ordinary membership from $45 to $50; for...

Periodical literature.(Bibliography)
April 1, 2005... GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS Ein einziger Bischof fur eine Stadt. Warum und wie zuruckkommen zu can. 8 von Nizaa? Ein Pladoyer fur die Katholizitat der Kirche. Herve Legrand. Ostkirchliche Studien, 54 (Sept., 2004), 122-151. Freedom and...

Other books received.(Bibliography)
April 1, 2005... Belloni, Cristina, and Marco Lunari (Eds.). I Notai della Curia Arcivescovile di Milano (Secoli XIV-XV). [Pubblicazioni degli Archivi di Stato, Strumenti CLXV.] (Rome: Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali, Direzione Generale per gli...