The Catholic Historical Review articles from April 2006

The Catholic Historical Review archives from April 2006

The "Traktat von der Minne": a chapter in the reception of Meister Eckhart's mysticism.
April 1, 2006... Despite the condemnation of twenty-eight articles from Meister Eckhart's Latin and German works by Pope John XXII in 1329, the Dominican mystic continued to be read by a variety of German and Dutch writers for the next century and a half....

"May the hatchet and the hammer never damage it!" The fate of the cathedral of Chartres during the French Revolution.
April 1, 2006... According to a very dramatic account of Chartres during the French Revolution, the town's Gothic cathedral barely escaped destruction in November 1793 after the local Popular Society lobbied in favor of a proposal to tear it down. An in-depth...

The grasshopper shrine at Cold Spring, Minnesota: religion and market capitalism among German-American Catholics.
April 1, 2006... This essay provides a peculiarly Catholic slant to a long-running debate in American history over the role of religion in the transition to rural capitalism. The author investigates the construction of a small votive chapel outside the village...

The eighty-sixth annual meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association.(Conference news)
April 1, 2006... Report of the Committee on Program The 2006 annual meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association convened on Thursday afternoon, January 5, at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Hotel. The program consisted of fifteen panels, a...

Why Study the Past?: The Quest for the Historical Church.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Why Study the Past? The Quest for the Historical Church. By Rowan Williams. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2005. Pp. 129. $15.00 paperback.) The frontispiece is a 1740 haywain passing the ruins of an...

Synod and Synodality: Theology, History, Canon Law and Ecumenism in New Contact.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Synod and Synodality, Theology, History, Canon Law and Ecumenism in New Contact. Edited by Alberto Melloni and Silvia Scatena. [Christianity and History: Series of the John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies in Bologna, Vol. 1.] (Munster:...

The Place of Judas Iscariot in Christology.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Place of Judas Iscariot in Christology. By Anthony Cane. (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 2005. Pp. viii, 211. $94.95 cloth.) This work is an exploration of how one's evaluation of Judas has much broader implications for...

Late Roman Spain and Its Cities.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Late Roman Spain and its Cities. By Michael Kulikowski. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. Pp. xxii, 489. $55.00.) Kulikowski's interesting new study brings together two themes that have occupied the attention of...

Gregory the Great.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Gregory the Great. By John Moorhead. [The Early Church Fathers 14.] (London and New York: Rutledge, Taylor and Francis Group. 2005. Pp. 177.) This is the fourteenth volume in an important introductory series designed to make available in...

Lordship, Reform, and the Development of Civil Society in Medieval Italy: The Bishopric of Orvieto, 1100-1250.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Lordship, Reform, and the Development of Civil Society in Medieval Italy: The Bishopric of Orvieto, 1100-1250. By David Foote. [Publications in Medieval Studies.] (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2004. Pp. xiv, 254. $14.95...

Wege zur Pfrund. Die Besetzung der Magdeburger Domkanonikate zwischen ordenlicher Kollatur und papstlicher Provision 1295-1464.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Wege zur Pfrunde. Die Besetzung der Magdeburger Domkanonikate zwischen ordenlicher Kollatur und papstlicher Provision 1295-1464. By Thomas Willich. [Bibliothek des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom, Band 102.] (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer...

Les baptemes princiers: Le ceremonial dans les cours de Savoie et Bourgogne (XVe-XVIe s).(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Les baptemes princiers. Le ceremonial dans les cours de Savoie et Bourgogne (XVe-XVIe s). By Thalia Brero. [Cahiers Lausannois d'Histoire Medievale, Volume 36.] (Lausanne: Universite de Lausanne, Section d'Histoire, Faculte des Lettres. 2005....

A Thomas More Source Book.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... A Thomas More Source Book. Edited by Gerard B. Wegemer and Stephen W. Smith. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2004. Pp. xxxii, 395. $34.95 paperback.) The purpose of this source book is announced at the beginning...

The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology. Edited by David Bag-chi and David C. Steinmetz. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 289. $70.00 clothbound; $24.99 paperback.) Between an Introduction and a Conclusion written...

Bound Choice, Election, and Wittenberg Theological Method: From Martin Luther to the Formula of Concord.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Bound Choice, Election, and Wittenberg Method: From Martin Luther to the Formula of Concord. By Robert Kolb. [Lutheran Quarterly Books.] (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2005. Pp. xiv, 381. $35.00 paperback.) ...

The Reformation of the Keys: Confession, Conscience, and Authority in Sixteenth-Century Germany.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Reformation of the Keys: Confession, Conscience, and Authority in Sixteenth-Century Germany. By Ronald K. Rittgers. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 318. $49.95.) This is a revised Harvard Ph.D....

Proibito capire: La Chiesa e il volgare nella prima eta moderna.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Proibito capire: La Chiesa e il volgare nella prima eta moderna. By Gigliola Fragnito. [Saggi, 640.] (Bologna: Societa Editrice il Mulino. 2005. Pp. 325. [euro]23,00 paperback.) In this tough-minded book, Gigliola Fragnito revisits the...

The Inquisition of Francisca: A Sixteenth-Century Visionary on Trial.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Francisca de los Apostoles. The Inquisition of Francisca: A Sixteenth-Century Visionary on Trial. Edited and translated by Gillian T. W. Ahlgren. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005. Pp. xxviii, 195. $18.00 paperback.) Beata. "A...

A Church Divided: German Protestants Confront the Nazi Past.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... A Church Divided: German Protestants Confront the Nazi Past. By Matthew D. Hockenos. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2004. Pp. xix, 286. $29.95.) As a Tubingen student in the 1960's I was impressed by the gruelling reexamination of...

Erich Przywara, S.J.: His Theology and His World.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Erich Przywara, S.J.: His Theology and His World. By Thomas F. O'Meara, O.P. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 254. $35.00.) Erich Przywara, S.J. (1889-1972), was a prominent spokesman for Catholicism in...

The Vatican-Israel Accords: Political, Legal and Theological Contexts.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Vatican-Israel Accords: Political, Legal and Theological Contexts. Edited by Marshall J. Breger. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2004. Pp. xvii, 392. $55.00.) Marshall Breger is professor of law at Columbus School...

The Protestant Interest: New England after Puritanism.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Protestant Interest: New England after Puritanism. By Thomas S. Kidd. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 212. $40.00.) First among this slim volume's virtues is its contrary ambition. The middle period...

Samuel Mazzuchelli: American Dominican, Journeyman, Preacher, Pastor, Teacher.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Samuel Mazzuchelli: American Dominican, Journeyman, Preacher, Pastor, Teacher. By Mary Nona McGreal, O.P. (Notre Dame, Indiana: Ave Maria Press. Order from Sinsinawa Mound Bookshop, 585 County Road Z, Sinsinawa, Wisconsin 53824-9701. 2005. Pp....

Domesticating Foreign Struggles: The Italian Risorgimento and Antebellum American Identity.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Domesticating Foreign Struggles: The Italian Risorgimento and Antebellum American Identity. By Paola Gemme. (Athens: The University of Georgia Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 204. $39.95.) Until 1861, when King Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed the...

The Catholic Worker Movement: Intellectual and Spiritual Origins.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Catholic Worker Movement: Intellectual and Spiritual Origins. By Mark and Louise Zwick. (New York: Paulist Press. 2005. Pp. ix, 358. $29.95.) This well-crafted work lives up to the promise of its title. Both authors write from an...

Harry, Tom, and Father Rice: Accusation and Betrayal in America's Cold War.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Harry, Tom, and Father Rice: Accusation and Betrayal in America's Cold War. By John Hoerr. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 311. $29.95.) Hoerr interweaves stories of three participants in the CIO's purge of...

Telling the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Story in Huron to the Iroquois.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... De Religione: Telling the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Story in Huron to the Iroquois. Edited and Translated by John L. Steckley. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2004. Pp. x, 213. $34.95.) John Steckley, Professor of Liberal Arts and...

La Inquisicion de Lima: Signos de su decadencia, 1726-1750.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... La Inquisicion de Lima. Signos de su decadencia, 1726-1750. By Rene Millar Carvacho (Santiago de Chile: Dibam/Lom/Centro de Investigaciones Diego Barros Arana. 2004. Pp. 183.) A lifetime student of the Peruvian Inquisition, Rene Millar has...

A Brief and Exact Account: The Recollections of Simao Rodrigues on the Origin and Progress of the Society of Jesus.(BRIEF NOTICES)(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Conwell, Joseph F., S.J. (Translation, Introduction, and Commentary by). A Brief and Exact Account: The Recollections of Simao Rodrigues on the Origin and Progress of the Society of Jesus. [Jesuit Primary Sources in English Translations, Series...

Diocese of Immigrants: The Brooklyn Catholic Experience, 1853-2003.(BRIEF NOTICES)(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Diocese of Immigrants: The Brooklyn Catholic Experience, 1853-2003. (Strasbourg: Editions du Signe. 2004. Pp. 240. $35.00.) When the Brooklyn Bridge was opened in 1883, it connected the first and third largest cities in the United States....

Margery Kempe and Her World.(BRIEF NOTICES)(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Goodman, Anthony. Margery Kempe and Her World. (Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education Limited. 2005. Pp. xx, 274. $32.99 paperback.) Those approaching Anthony Goodman's new work on Margery Kempe may be somewhat alarmed by the Series Editor's...

The Travels, Arrest, and Trial of John H. Surratt.(BRIEF NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Isacsson, Alfred. The Travels, Arrest, and Trial of John H. Surratt. (Middletown, New York: Vestigium Press. 2003. Pp. vi, 40. Paperback.) As a one-time associate of John Wilkes Booth and the son of Mary Surratt, John H. Surratt's...

Notes and comments.(catholic organizations)
April 1, 2006... Conferences On January 26, 2006, in the Convento Domenicano di Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome a book was presented entitled I luoghi di San Pio V and edited by Virginio Giacomo Bono. This event was part of a series of conferences held...

Correction.(Correction notice)
April 1, 2006... In the Notes and Comment section of the October issue (ante XCI, No. 4, page 893) the organizer of the Conference "Theater and the Visual Arts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Aspects of Representation" to be held at the State University of...

Periodical literature.
April 1, 2006... General and Miscellaneous Die Bedeutung der Geschichtstheologie fur das Fach "Kirchengeschichte" und fur die kirchliche Praxis. Reinhart Staats. Verkundigung und Forschung, 50 (1/2, 2005), 34-55. Tendenzen Kirchlicher Zeitgeschichte....

Other books received.
April 1, 2006... Allitt, Patrick. Religion in America Since 1945: A History. [Columbia Histories of Modern American Life.] (New York: Columbia University Press. 2005. Pp. xviii, 313. $24.00, [pound sterling]5.50 paperback.) Originally published in 2003 and...