The Catholic Historical Review articles from April 2008

The Catholic Historical Review archives from April 2008

An historian's creed and the emergence of postconciliar culture wars.
April 1, 2008... Describing the contrasting visions of two Bay Area Catholic groups in their reception and interpretations of Vatican II, the author traces their roots back to different understandings of the relationship between the Church, social order, and...

The naughty canon of Catalonia and the sack friars: the dynamics of passage from monk to mendicant.(Essay)
April 1, 2008... This sordid tale of the runaway monk Ramon de Moranta during the tumultuous reign of King Jaume the Conqueror (1228-76) affords a glimpse into the intersecting worlds of the feudalistic Gregorian Reform, the cresting mendicantism of the doomed...

The Church and Galileo.(Essay)
April 1, 2008... I In 1633, at the end of one of the most famous trials in history, the Inquisition found Galileo "vehemently suspected of heresy" (1) for holding and defending the thesis that the earth revolves around the sun and for thinking "that one...

The eighty-eighth annual meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association.(Conference news)
April 1, 2008... Report of the Chairman of the Committee on Program The 2008 annual meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association convened on Thursday afternoon, January 3, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. The meeting...

In the Light of Christ: writings in the Western tradition.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... In the Light of Christ: Writings in the Western Tradition. By Lucy Beckett. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press. 2006. Pp. x, 648. paperback.). Anyone who has taught classic texts for many years will at once recognize and appreciate the...

Toleranz und Gewalt. Das Christentum zwischen Bibel und Schwert.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Toleranz und Gewalt. Das Christentum zwischen Bibel und Schwert. By Arnold Angenendt. (Munster: Aschendorff Verlag. 2006. Pp. 797. [member of]24,80.) This highly significant book deals with the relationship of Christianity to the...

L'Hopital entre religions et laicite du Moyen Age a nos jours.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... L'Hopital entre religions et laicite du Moyen Age a nos jours. Edited by Jacqueline Lalouette with the collaboration of Elisabeth Belmas, Marie-Jose Michel and Serenella Nonnis-Vigilante. [Memoire chretienne au present, Number 4.] (Paris:...

The friend.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The Friend. By Alan Bray. Edited by Mark D. Jordan. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 380. $22.50 paperback.) The late Alan Bray's study of friendships between persons of the same sex who chose to be buried...

The Forging of Races: race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000. By Colin Kidd. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. viii, 309. $75.00 clothbound; $27.99 Paperback.) Colin Kidd, known internationally as an...

Early Evangelicalism: A Global Intellectual History, 1670-1789.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Early Evangelicalism: A Global Intellectual History, 1670-1789. By W. R. Ward. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. vi, 220. $85.00.) This fine work authored by W. R. Ward, the Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the...

Paolo VI Nel Cono di Luce del Concilio.(1965-1978).(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Paolo VI "Nel Cono di Luce del Concilio."Discorsi e documenti (1965-1978). Edited by Marco Vergottini. [Quaderni dell'Istituto Paolo VI, Brescia, 26.] (Rome: Edizioni Studium. 2006. Pp. xxiv, 475,[member of].40,00 paperback.) The...

The Apostolic Fathers and the New Testament.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The Apostolic Fathers and the New Testament. By Clayton N. Jefford. (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers. 2006. Pp. xii, 267. $ 19.95 paperback.) This interesting volume seeks to draw together into a dialogue two bodies of...

The New Prophecy and new visions.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The New Prophecy and "New Visions": Evidence of Montanism in The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas. By Rex D. Butler. [Patristic Monograph Series, 18.] [Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2006. Pp. xx, 211.$44.95...

Conciliorum Oecumenicorum Generaliumque Decreta.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Conciliorum Oecumenicorum Generaliumque Decreta. Editio critica. Volume I: The Oecumenical Councils from Nicaea I to Nicaea II (325-787). Edited by Giuseppe Alberigo, et alli. [Corpus Christianorum.] (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. 2006. Pp....

The monk and the book: Jerome and the making of Christian Scholarship.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship. By Megan Hale Williams. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 315. $45.00.) Jerome himself tells us that while he lived as a monk in the...

City and school in late antique Athens and Alexandria.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria. By Edward J. Watts. [The Tranformation of the Classical Heritage, XII.] (Berkeley: University of California Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 288. $55.00.) This book finds the pagan teacher of...

Venantius Fortunatus, Gelegentlicb Gedichte: Das lyrische Werk, Die Vita des hl Martin.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Venantius Fortunatus, Gelegentlicb Gedichte: Das lyrische Werk, Die Vita des hl Martin. Translated, with Introduction and Commentary, by Wolfgang Fels. [Bibliothek der Mittellateinischen Literatur, Band 2.] (Stuttgart: Hiersemann. 2006. Pp....

Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250. By Florin Curta. [Cambridge Medieval Textbooks.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xxviii, 496.$90.00 hardback; $34.99 paperback.) Curta's survey of the vast area he terms...

Politics and power in Early Medieval Europe: Alsace and the Frankish Realm, 600-1000.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe: Alsace and the Frankish Realm, 600-1000. By Hans J. Hummer. [Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, Fourth Series, 65.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 299. $85.00....

Monastic life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600-900.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600-900. By Sarah Foot. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 398. $90.00.) The publishers of this handsomely and generously produced book have included on the jacket an evaluation of...

Agnelli Ravennatis: liber Pontificalis Ecclesiae Ravennatis.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Agnelli Ravennatis: Liber Pontificalis Ecclesia Ravennatis. Edited and annotated by Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis. [Corpus Christianorum: Continuatio Mediaevalis, 199.] (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. 2006. Pp. 393. [euro]175,00.) Deborah...

The Eucharist in Romanesque France: iconography and theology.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The Eucharist in Romanesque France: Iconography and Theology by Elizabeth Saxon. (Rochester, New York:The Boydell Press. 2006. Pp. viii, 317, 25 black and white plates. $85.00.). Elizabeth Saxon nicely delineates the multifarious ways in...

Religious and laity in Western Europe, 1000-1400: interaction, negotiation, and power.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Religious and Laity in Western Europe, 1000-1400: Interaction, Negotiation, and Power. Edited by Emilia Jamroziak and Janet Burton. [Europa Sacra, Volume 2.] (Turnhout: Brepols. 2006. Pp. xiv, 399. [euro]80.00.) This volume gathers...

Aelred of Rievaulx: the lives of the Northern Saints.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Aelred of Rievaulx: The Lives of the Northern Saints. Translated by Jane Patricia Freeland, edited with an introduction and notes by Marsha L. Dutton. [Cistercian Fathers Series, 71.] (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications. 2006.Pp.xiv,...

Disegni dei tempi. II "Liber Figurarum" e la teologia figurativa di Gioacchino da Fiore.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Disegni dei tempi. II "Liber Figurarum" e la teologia figurativa di Gioacchino da Fiore. By Marco Rainini. [Opere di Gioacchino da Fiore, testi e strumenti, 18.] (Rome:viella. 2006. Pp. xvi, 333. [euro]35 paperback.) In 1936 Monsignor...

Sibilla Eritbea Babilonica: papsttum und prophetie im 13. jahrhundert.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Sibilla Eritbea Babilonica: Papsttum und Prophetie im 13. Jahrhundert. By Christian Jostmann. [Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Schriften, Band 54.] (Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung. 2006. Pp. xviii, 549- [euro]60,00.) Jostmann's subject is...

Picturing the celestial city: the medieval stained of Beauvais cathedral.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Picturing the celestial city. The medieval stained of Beauvais cathedral. By Michael W. Cothren. (princeton: princeton university Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 277. $85.00.). The glazing programs of Beauvais cathedral were installed in four...

The trial of the Templars.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The Trial of the Templars. By Malcolm Barber. Second edition. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 398. $75.00 cloth; $27.99 paperback.) The first edition of this book (1978) is thirty years old, and as the author explains...

La repression des delits sexuels dans les etats savoyards.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... La repression des delits sexuels dans les etats savoyards:Chatellenies des dioceses d'Aoste, Sion et Turin, fin [XIII.sup.e]-[XV.sup.e] siecle. By Prisca Lehmann. [Cahiers Lausannois d'histoire medievale, 39] (Lausanne: Universite de Lausanne,...

The World of Marsilius of Padua.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The World of Marsilius of Padua. Edited by Gerson Moreno Riano. [Dsiputatio, volume 5.] (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. 2006. Pp. xii, 279. [euro]60,00.) Marsilius of Padua was a radical critic of the fourteenth-century papacy and an early...

Marsilius of Padua and "The Truth of History.".(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Marsilius of Padua and The "Truth of History." by George Garnett. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp.xii, 221.$80.00.) George Garnett has produced an original, provocative, and clever book that adds new dimensions to the...

John Wyclif: Myth and reality.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... John Wyclif: Myth and Reality. by G. R. Evans. (Downers Grove, Illinois. InterVarsity Press. 2006. Pp. 320. s25.00.) An ambitiously titled volume, this account of the life and achievements of the fourteenth-century English polymath and...

A Companion to John Wyclif, late Medieval theologian.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... A Companion to John Wyclif, Late Medieval Theologian. Edited by Ian Christopher Levy. [Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, Vol. 4] (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 2006. Pp xii, 489. [euro]95, $124.00.) The introduction...

San Rocco: Genesi e prima espansione di un culto. Incontro di studio--Padova, 12-13 febbriao 2004.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... San Rocco: Genesi e prima espansione di un culto. Incontro di studio--Padova, 12-13 febbraio 2004. Edited by Antonio Rigon and Andre Vauchez. [Subsidia hagiographica, 87.] (Brussels: Societe des Bollandistes. 2006. Pp. x, 324; 32 plates....

Innocent VI (1352-1362): Lettres Secretes et curiales, publiees d'apres les registres des archives vaticanes.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Innocent VI (1352-1362): Lettres Secretes et Curiales, publiees d'apres les registres des Archives vaticanes.edited by Pierre Gasnault and Nicole gotteri. [Bibliqtheque des ecoles franchises d'athenes et de Rome, [3.sup.e] serie, IV: Lettres,...

Das Basler Konzil. Synodale praxis zwiscben routine und revolution.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Das Baster Konzil. Synodale Praxis zwiscben Routine und Revolution. By Stefan Sudmann. [Tradition--Reform--Innovation, Band 8.] (Frankfurt/ Main: peter Lang. 2005. Pp. 508. $88.95. ISBN 3-631-54266-6.) Despite a series of excellent modern...

Un mariage conteste: "L'union de la Cite et de la ville inferieure de Lausanne"(1481).(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Un mariage conteste: "L'union de la Cite et de la ville inferieure de Lausanne"(1481).By Clemence Thevenaz Modestin. [Cahiers Lausannois d'histoire medievale,38.] (Lausanne : Universite de Lausanne. 2006. Pp. 313. [euro]24,00 paperback.) ...

Historia critica de la vida y reinado de Fernando II de Aragon.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Historia critica de la vida y reinado de Fernando II de Aragon. By Jaime Vicens Vives. Introduction by Miquel A. Marin Gelabert. [Coleccion "Historiadores de Aragon," 3.1(Zaragoza: Institucion "Fernando el Catolico," Cortes de Aragon. 2006)....

The World of the Luttrell Psalter.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The World of the Luttrell Psalter By Michelle P. Brown. (london: British Library, distributed by the University of Chicago Press. 2006. Pp. 96. $19.95 paperback.) In 2006 the British Library published a complete facsimile of the Luttrell...

Lay religious life in late medieval durham.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Lay Religious Life in Late Medieval Durham. By Margaret Harvey. [Regions and Regionalism in History, Vol. 6.] (Rochester, New York: Boydell Press. 2006. Pp xiv, 232. $85.00.) Recent years have seen a growth in interest in the history of...

The York mystery cycle and the worship of the city.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The York mystery cycle and the worship of the city. By Pamela M. King. [westfleld Medieval Studies, Vol. 1.] (Rochester, New York: D. S. Brewer. 2006. Pp. x, 246. $80.00.) The text of the York mystery cycle has been much studied, with the...

Books under Suspicion: censorsbip and tolerance of revelatory writing in late medieval England.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Books under Suspicion: Censorsbip and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England. By Kathryn Kerby-Fulton. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. Pp. 1ii, 562. $50.00.) Kathryn Kerby-Fulton's Books under...

Early modern Confraternities in Europe and the Americans: international and interdisciplinary perspectives.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Early Modern Confraternities in Europe and the Americans: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Christopher Black and Pamela Gravestock. (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2006. Pp. xii, 290. $99.95). ...

Orden und kloster in Zeitalter von reformation und katholischer reform 1500-1700, band 2.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Orden und kloster in Zeitalter von Reformation und katholischer Reform 1500-1700, band 2. Edited by friedhelm jiirgensmeier and regina elisabeth schwerdtfeger. [Katholisches leben und kirchenreform im Zeitalter der glaubensspaltung, 66.]...

Renaissance education between religion and politics.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Renaissance education between religion and politics. By Paul F. Grendler. [Variorum Collected Studies Series, no. 845.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2006. Pp. x, 328. $114.95.) Anyone who in recent years has studied the...

Universitaten im konfessionellen Zeitalter: gesammelte beitrage.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Universitaten im konfessionellen Zeitalter: Gesammelte Beitrage. By Peter Baumgart. [Reformationsgeschichtliche Studien und Texte, Band 149.] (Munster: Aschendorff Verlag. 2006. Pp. x, 519. [euro]65,00 paperback. ISBN 3-402-03817-X.) This...

I tribunali del matrimonio (secoli XV-XVIII).(Book review)
April 1, 2008... I tribunali del matrimonio (secoli XV-XVIII). Edited by Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaflioni- [Istituto trentino di cultura. Annali dell' Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento, Quaderni, 68; I processi matrimoniali degli archivi...

The Censorship and Fortuna of Platina's Lives of the Popes in the Sixteenth Century.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The censorship and fortuna of Platina's lives of the popes in the sixteenth century. By Stefan Bauer. [Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 9.] (Turnhout: Brepols. 2006. Pp. xvii, 390.[euro]70,00. ISBN-13:978-2-503-51814-5.) ...

Reforming priests and parishes: Tuscan dioceses in the first century of seminary education.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Reforming Priests and Parishes: Tuscan Dioceses in the First Century of Seminary Education. By Kathleen M. Comerford. [Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Volume 27.] (Leiden: Brill. 2006. Pp. xx, 162. $118.00.) Those...

"...nelle indie di quaggiu": San Francesco de Geronimo e i processi de evangelizzazione nel Mezzogiorno moderno: atti del Convegno di studio (Grottaglie, 6 e 7 maggio 2005).(Book review)
April 1, 2008... "...nelle Indie di quaggiu": San Francesco de Geronimo e i processi de evangelizzazione nel Mezzogiorno moderno: Atti del Convegno di Studio (Grottaglie, 6 e 7 maggio 2005). Edited by Mario Spedicato. [Cultura e Storia: Collana della Societa di...

Gerardo Maiella. la sua storia e il nostro tempo. Atti del convegno di studi per il 250[degrees] anniversario della morte del santo e per il centenario della canonizzazione, aterdomini 21-21 giugno 2005.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Gerardo Maiella. La sua storia e il nostro tempo. Atti del convegno di studi per il 250[degrees] anniversario della morte del Santo e per il Centenario della Canonizzazione, Materdomini 21-21 giugno 2005. Edited by Angelomichele De Spirito and...

John of Avila: Audi, filia--Listen, O daughter.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... John of Avila: Audi, filia--Listen, O Daughter. Translated and introduced by Joan Frances Gormley. Foreword by Francisco Javier Martinez Fernandez. [The Classics of Western Spirituality.] (Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press. 2006.Pp.xiv, 329....

Students and teachers at the University of Paris: the generation of 1500. A critical edition of Bibliotheque de l'universite de Paris (Sorbonne), archives, registres 89 and 90.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Students and Teachers at the University of Paris: The Generation of 1500. A Critical Edition of Bibliotheque de l'Universite de Paris (Sorbonne), Archives, Registres 89 and 90. Edited by James K. Farge, [Education and Society in the Middle Ages...

Catholic activism in South-West France, 1540-1570.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Catholic Activism in South-West France, 1540-1570. By Kevin Gould. [St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Co. 2006. Pp. viii, 190. $99.95. ISBN )-7546-5226-2.) In the recent flurry of...

La revolution des paroisses: culture paroissiale et reforme catholique en Haute-Bretagne aux XVI(e) et XVII(e) siecles.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... La revolution des paroisses: Culture paroissiale et Reforme Catholique en Haute-Bretagne aux XVI(e) et XVII(e) siecles. By Bruno Restif. [Collection [much less then]Histoire[much greater then]] (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes. 2006....

I Volpini, una famiglia di scultori tra Lombardia e Baviera: (secoli XVII-XVIII).(Book review)
April 1, 2008... I Volpini, una famiglia di scultori tra Lombardia e Baviera: (secoli XVII-XVIII). By Pietro Delpero. [Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento. Monografie, 44.] (Bologna: Societa editrice il Mulino. 2006. Pp. 286. [euro]20.00...

Confessionalism and Pietism: religious reform in rarly modern Europe.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Confessionalism and Pietism: Religious Reform in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Fred van Lieburg. [Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fur Europaische Geschichte Mainz, Abteilung fur Abendlandische Religionsgeschichte, Beiheft 67.] (Mainz: Verlag...

Martyrdom and literature in early modern England.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England. By Susannah Brietz Monta. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. viii, 245. $75.000.) Martyrdom accounts are intrinsically sensational, which has led to revived interest in them...

John Jewel and the English National Church: the Dilemmas of an Erastian reformer.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... John Jewel and the English National Church: The Dilemmas of an Erastian Reformer. By Gary W Jenkins. [St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.](Burlington, Vermont: Ashagete publishing Company. 2006. Pp. viii, 293. $99.95; [pound...

Pictures and Popery: art and Religion in England, 1660-1760.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Pictures and Popery: Art and Religion in England, 1660-1760 By Clare Haynes. (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2006. Pp. xii, 185. $99.95.) This excellent, accessibly written, and carefully evidenced study addresses the...

Miracles in Enlightenment England.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Miracles in Enlightenment England. By Jane Shaw. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 244. $45.00.) The tendency to regard the eighteenth century as a critical period in the eventual triumph of scientific rationalism over...

Religious politics in post-reformation England: essays in honour of Nicholas Tyacke.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Religious Politics in Post-Reformation England: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Tyacke. Edited by Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake. [Studies in Modern British Religious History, Vol. 13.] (Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press Pp. xiv, 252....

Naples and Napoleon. Southern Italy and the European revolutions, 1780-1860.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Naples and Napoleon. Southern Italy and the European Revolutions, 1780-1860. By John A. Davis. (Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp. viii, 372. $120.00;[pounds sterling]65,00.) Professor Davis is a prominent scholar of...

Ercole Consalvi. Le scelte Per la Chiesa.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Ercole Consalvi. Le scelte Per la Chiesa. By Roberto Regoli. [Miscellanea Historiae Pontificiae, 67] (Roma: Editrice Pontificia Universita Gregoriana.2006. Pp. ii, 514. [euro]35,00 paperback.) Roberto Regoli has produced a major work on...

The Jews in Mussolini's Italy: from equality to persecution.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The Jews in Mussolini's Italy: From Equality to Persecution. By Michele Sarfatti. Translated by John and Anne C.Tedeschi. (Madison:The University of Wisconsin Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 419. $65.00 clothbound; $29.95 paperback.) When Michele...

Protestant theology and the making of the modern German University.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University. By Thomas Albert Howard. (Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp. 468. $135.00.) Reviewing a book devoted solely to Protestant theology in the nineteenth century would...

Santa Sede a Russia da Leone XIII a Pio XI: Atti del secondo Simposio organization dal Pontificio Comitato di Scienze storicbe e dall'Istituto di Storia Universale dell 'Accademia Russa. delle Scienze, Vienna, 25-30 aprile 2001.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Santa Sede a Russia da Leone XIII a Pio XI: Atti del secondo Simposio organization dal Pontificio Comitato di Scienze storicbe e dall'Istituto di Storia Universale dell 'Accademia Russa. delle Scienze, Vienna, 25-30 aprile 2001. Edited by...

In Lubianka's Shadow: the memoirs of an American priest in Stalin's Moscow, 1934-1945.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... In Lubianka's Shadow: The Memoirs of an American Priest in Stalin's Moscow, 1934-1945. By Leopold L. S. Braun, A.A. Edited by G. M. Hamburg. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. Pp. lxxxiv, 352.2006. $35.00.) In Lubianka's...

Parish and belonging: community, identity and welfare in England and Wales, 1700-1950.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Parish and Belonging: Community, Identity and Welfare in England and Wales, 1700-1950. By K.D.M. Snell. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006.Pp. xiv, 541.$110,00.) A typical contemporary gravestone might refer to "John Smith, a...

Crisis of doubt: honest faith in Nineteenth-Century England.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England. By Timothy Larsen.(Oxford, U.K.. Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp xii, 317.) "There was a crisis of faith in nineteenth-century Britain, but there was also a crisis of doubt,"...

Out of due time: wilfrid ward and the dublin review.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Out of Due Time: Wilfrid Ward and the Dublin Review. By Dom Paschal Scotti, O.S.B. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 329. $69.95.) In the preface to his book Dom Paschal Scotti writes that Wilfred...

The Cathedral of Saint Fin Barre at Cork: William burges in Ireland.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The Cathedral of Saint Fin Barre at Cork: William Burges in Ireland. By David Lawrence and Anne Wilson. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2006. Pp. 200, 120 illustrations, most in color. $55.00.) The Cathedral of Saint Fin Barre in Cork is a...

Patrick McAlister: Bishop of Down and Connor, 1886-95.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Patrick McAlister: Bishop of Down and Connor, 1886-95. By Ambrose Macaulay. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2006. Pp. 182. $40.00.) Down and Connor is the Catholic diocese whose see is Belfast--in the eighteenth century, a Scots Presbyterian...

Her Heart can see: the life and hymns of Fanny J. Crosby.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Her Heart Can See: The Life and Hymns of Fanny J. Crosby. By Edith L.Blumhofer. [Library of Religious Biography.] (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Company 2005.Pp. xxiv, 365. $20.00 paperback.) This fine biography brings...

Priest, Parish, and people: saving the faith in Philadelphia's "Little Italy.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Priest, Parish, and People: Saving the Faith in Philadelphia's "Little Italy." By Richard N. Juliani. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 396. $35.00 paperback.) The beginning of Richard Juliani's latest...

Truman: un cbretien a la maison balancbe.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Truman: un cbretien a la Maison Balancbe. By Yves-Henri Nouailhat. [Petits Cerf-Histoire.] (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf. 2007. Pp. 201. [euro]22,00 paperback.) Readers of this journal will no doubt find it a salutary thing when the...

China's millions: the China Inland Mission and late qing society, 1832-1905.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... China's Millions: The China Inland Mission and Late Qing Society, 1832-1905. By Alvybn Austin. [Studies in the History of Christian Missions.] (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2007. Pp. xxxii, 506. $45.00 paperback.)...

Association news.(NOTES AND COMMENTS)
April 1, 2008... The American Catholic Historical Association's spring meeting in 2009 will be held at La Salle University in Philadelphia on April 17-18.The chairman of the organizing committee will be Professor Margaret McGuinness. Proposals of papers or,...

Exhibit.(NOTES AND COMMENTS)
April 1, 2008... The Chicago History Museum will present an exhibit from March 8, 2008, to January 4, 2009, that explores the influence of Catholicism on the city's ever-changing urban landscape. It will feature the area's earliest Catholics, Chicago's...

Research institutes.(NOTES AND COMMENTS)
April 1, 2008... The Folger Institute of Washington, D.C., has announced a year-long (2008-09) monthly colloquium led by Professors David D. Hall and Laura Lunger Knoppers on "Forms of Religious Experience in the 17th-Century British Atlantic World." For...

Conferences and lectures.(NOTES AND COMMENTS)
April 1, 2008... On February' 21-23, 2008, a conference was held in Rome under the title "A dieci anni dall'apertura dell'archivio della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede: storia e archivi dell'inquisizione." Among the papers presented were "Un decennio...

Publications.(NOTES AND COMMENTS)
April 1, 2008... Gordon College of Boston, which has an extension in Orvieto, sponsored a conference in that Italian city on May 25-28, 2005, on the theme "Eucaristia ed escatologia. Arte e teologia nel duomo di Orvieto." The papers presented on those days have...

Personal notices.(NOTES AND COMMENTS)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Sabine MacCormack of the University of Notre Dame received two prizes of the American Historical Association at its 122nd annual meeting, which was held in Washington, D.C., in January, for her book On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain,...

Periodical literature.(Bibliography)
April 1, 2008... General and Miscellaneous Gregorio XVI: una ricerca storiografica. Roberto Regoli. Archivum Historiae Pontificiae, 44 (2006), 141-71. The Politics of Leo XIII's Opening of the Vatican Archives: The Ownership of the Past. Nicholas J....