The Catholic Historical Review articles from January 2003

The Catholic Historical Review archives from January 2003

Margery Kempe: an exemplar of late medieval english piety.
January 1, 2003... When the only complete manuscript of The Book of Margery Kempe came to light in the 1930's, it brought both joy and disappointment to students of the religion of late medieval England. On the one hand, The Book opens up medieval daily religious...

Leo XIII, Loisy, and the "broad school": an early round of the modernist crisis.
January 1, 2003... Many Catholics at the beginning of the twentieth century feared that their Church was becoming increasingly anachronistic, and they therefore sought to update its teachings. Alfred Loisy (1857-1940) was one of the most important people engaged...

Catholic Greenwich Village: ethnic geography and religious identity in New York city, 1880-1930.
January 1, 2003... Introduction Greenwich Village is a neighborhood of diagonal streets and narrow alleys on the lower West Side of Manhattan. Tourists find it an unexpected contrast to Manhattan's rigid grid of north-south avenues and cross-town streets....

Storia della Chiesa di Bologna. (General).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Storia della Chiesa di Bologna. Edited by Paolo Prodi and Lorenzo Paollni. 2 vols. (Bologna: Istituto per la Storia della Chiesa di Bologna, and Bergamo: Edizioni Boils. 1997. Pp. xv, 402 and 670.) These two handsome volumes make a splendid...

After Augustine: The Meditative Reader and the Text. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... After Augustine: The Meditative Reader and the Text. By Brian Stock. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. Pp. viii, 132. $32.00.) Despite its diminutive size, this recent volume by Professor Brian Stock exhibits enormous...

Church Law and Church Order in Rome and Byzantium: A Comparative Study. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Church Law and Church Order in Rome and Byzantium: A Comparative Study. By Clarence Gallagher, Sj. [Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs, Volume 8.] (Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2002. Pp. xi, 279. $79.95.) ...

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in Worcester Cathedral Library. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in Worcester Cathedral Library. Edited by R. M. Thomson with a Contribution on the Bindings by Michael Gullick. (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, Inc. 2001. Pp....

Violence et religion dans le christianisme et l'isiam. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Guerre sainte, jihad, croisade: Violence et religion dans le christianisme et l'isiam. By Jean Flori. (Paris: Editions du Seuil. 2002. Pp. 342. Paperback.) In this timely and useful survey, Professor Flori offers a comparative study of the...

God's Scribe: The Historiographical Art of Galbert of Bruges. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... God's Scribe: The Historiographical Art of Galbert of Bruges. By Jeff Rider. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2001. Pp. viii, 360. $59.95.) Jeff Rider is perhaps the ideal reader and interpreter of Galbert of...

Monastic Spaces and Their Meanings: Thirteenth-Century English Cistercian Monasteries. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Monastic Spaces and Their Meanings: Thirteenth-Century English Cistercian Monasteries. By Megan Cassidy-Welch. (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. 2001. Pp. xv, 293. [euro]50.00.) This provocative book explores the monastic culture of...

The Concept of Woman, Volume Two: The Early Humanist Reformation, 1250-1500. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... The Concept of Woman, Volume Two: The Early Humanist Reformation, 1250-1500. By Sister Prudence Allen, R.S.M. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2002. Pp. xxiv, 1161. $70.00 paperback.) This comprehensive...

Kirche und Macht im romischen Trecento: Die Colonna und ihre Klientel auf dem kurialen Pfrundenmarkt (1278-1378). (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Kirche und Macht im romischen Trecento: Die Colonna und ihre Klientel auf dem kurialen Pfrundenmarkt (1278-1378). By Andreas Rehberg. [Bibliothek des deutschen historischen Instituts in Rom, Band 88.] (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. 1999. Pp....

The Abbot and the Rule. Religious Life at St Albans, 1290-1349. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Abbot and the Rule. Religious Life at St Albans, 1290-1349. By Michelle Still. [Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. ix, 329. [pounds sterling]45; $79.95.) From the historian's...

Women in a Medieval Heretical Sect: Agnes and Huguette the Waldensians. (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Women in a Medieval Heretical Sect: Agnes and Huguette the Waldensians. By Shulamith Shahar. Translated by Yael Lotan. (Rochester, New York: The Boy-dell Press. 2001. Pp. xix, 184. $60.00.) On Tuesday, May 1, 1320, Raymond de la Cote and...

Le diable chez l'eveque: Chasse aux sorciers dans le diocese de Lausanne (vers 1460). (Ancient and Medieval).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Le diable chez l'eveque: Chasse aux sorciers dans le diocese de Lausanne (vers 1460). Edited by Georg Modestin. [Cahiers Lausannois d'Histoire Medievale, 25.] (Lausanne: Universite de Lausanne, Faculte des Lettres, Section d'histoire, 1995.)...

Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy. (Early Modern European).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy. Edited by Gigliola Fragnito; translated by Adrian Belton. [Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. x, 264. $59.95.) The most...

Building Codes: The Aesthetics of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe. (Early Modern European).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Building Codes: The Aesthetics of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe. By Catharine Randall. (Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press. 1999. Pp. xii, 288. $36.50.) Randall's monograph examines the work of Calvinist architects in...

Monumenta Proximi-Orientis, V: Egypte (1591-1699). (Early Modern European).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Monumenta Proximi-Orientis, V: Egypte (1591-1699). By Charles Libois, S.J. [Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu, Vol. 152; Monumenta Missionum Societatis Iesu, Vol. LXV] (Rome: Instirutum Historicum Societatis Iesu. 2002. Pp. lxii, 593....

The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800. (Early Modern European).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800. By David A. Bell. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2001. Pp. xv, 304, $45.00.) In 1792 Jean-Paul Rabaut de Saint-Etienne declared to the National...

Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England. Volume III: Accommodations. (Late Modern European).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England. Volume III: Accommodations. By Maurice Cowling. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xxiv, 766. $100.00.) For scholars and intellectuals who take religion seriously, perhaps the...

John Lingard and the Pursuit of Historical Truth. (Late Modern European).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... John Lingard and the Pursuit of Historical Truth. By Edwin Jones. (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press. Distributed in the U.S. by ISBS, Portland, Ore. 2001. Pp. xxv, 308. $69.95.) Lord Macaulay did not like the History of England written by...

The Politics of Modernism: Alfred Loisy and the Scientific Study of Religion. (Late Modern European).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... The Politics of Modernism: Alfred Loisy and the Scientific Study of Religion. By Harvey Hill. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 227. $54.95.) One is unlikely to find in any language a clearer, better...

The Defamation of Pius XII. (Late Modern European).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... The Defamation of Pius XII. By Ralph McInerny. (South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine's Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 211. $19.00.) The past few years have seen book after book critical of Pope Pius XII, and behind almost every one of them was a...

Consensus and Controversy: Defending Pope Pius XII. (Late Modern European).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Consensus and Controversy: Defending Pope Pius XII. By Margherita Mar. chione. (Mahwah, New Jersey: The Paulist Press. 2002. Pp. x, 389. $24.95 paperback.) Although Sister Margherita Marchione first won scholarly recognition in the United...

Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636-1641. (American).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636-1641. By Michael P. Winship. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2002. Pp. xvii, 322. $29.95.) Controversies about the nature of grace and the constraints, if...

Guadalupe: Our Lady of New Mexico. (American).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Guadalupe: Our Lady of New Mexico. By Jacqueline Orsini Dunnington. (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press. 1999. Pp. xviii, 189. 15 color, 32 b&w photographs. $45.00 hardback; $24.95 paperback.) Miracles are said to occur at the beginning...

Between Church and State: Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural America. (American).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Between Church and State: Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural America. By James A. Fraser. (New York: St. Martin's Press. 1999. Pp. x, 278. $24.95 clothbound; $14.95 paperback.) The interrelationship among church, state, and...

No Cross, No Crown: Black Nuns in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans. (American).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... No Cross, No Crown: Black Nuns in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans. By Sister Mary Bernard Deggs. Edited by Virginia Meacham Gould and Charles E. Nolan. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 2001. Pp. xxxvii, 226. $44.95.) ...

Catholic Women's Colleges in America. (American).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Catholic Women's Colleges in America. Edited by Tracy Schier and Cynthia Russett. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 439. $45.00.) The stated aim of this collection of essays is to open up what has been "a closed...

Fray Angelico Chavez: Poet, Priest, and Artist. (American).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Fray Angelico Chavez: Poet, Priest, and Artist. Edited by Ellen McCracken. [Paso por aqul Series on the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage.] (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2000. Pp. xi, 156. $24.95.) With assistance of nine...

Defining Mission: Comboni Missionaries in North America. (American).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Defining Mission: Comboni Missionaries in North America. By Patricia Durchholz. (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. 1999. Pp. xiv, 353.) The birth of the nation of Ghana in 1957 marked the beginning of the achievement of...

Juan Ignacio Molina. The World's Window on Chile. (Latin American).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Juan Ignacio Molina. The World's Window on Chile. By Charles E. Ronan, S.J. [American University Studies, Series IX: History, Vol. 198.] (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. 2002. Pp. xvii, 318. $60.95.) Juan Ignacio Molina was one of...

A History of the Church in Africa. (African).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... A History of the Church in Africa. By Bengt Sundkler and Christopher Steed. [Studia Missionalia Upsaliensis LXXIV.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. xix, 1232; 8 maps. $140.00.) Bengt Sundkler made a splendid reputation as a...

Handbook of Christianity in China. Volume One: 635-1800. (Asian).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Handbook of Christianity in China. Volume One: 635-1800. Edited by Nicolas Standaert. [Handbook of Oriental Studies/Handbuch der Orientalistik: Section Four: China, Volume Fifteen (15/1).] (Leiden: Brill. 2001. Pp. xxviii, 964. Dgl. 361.41;...

This Train is Bound for Glory. (Brief Notice).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Taylor, Wilma Rugh, and Norman Thomas Taylor. This Train is Bound for Glory. (Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Judson Press. 1999. Pp.382. $45.00.) Subtitled "The story of America's Chapel Cars," this book can be more properly called an archive...

Association news. (Notes and Comments).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The president of the American Catholic Historical Association, Bernard McGinn, who is also chairman of the Committee on Program for the Association's eighty-fourth annual meeting, which will be held in Washington, D.C., on January 9-11,2004,...

Conferences, Symposia, Meetings, and Lectures. (Notes and Comments).
January 1, 2003... The Academy of American Franciscan History, the Franciscan Center at Cardinal Stritch University, and the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure's University sponsored a symposium on American Franciscan History at Cardinal Stritch University...

Report on "Brides of Christ: Towards a History of Women Religious in Britain and Ireland" Symposium, October 12, 2002, St. Mary's College, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham. (Notes and Comments).
January 1, 2003... Fifty-five delegates from international academic and religious communities converged upon Strawberry Hill for a one-day symposium exploring the history of women religious in Britain and Ireland. This interdisciplinary forum brought together...

Archives. (Notes and Comments).
January 1, 2003... Father Geoffrey Holt, S.J., wishes to draw attention to the existence of seven letters from Dominic Edward Fenwick, O.P. (1768-1832), Bishop of Cincinnati from 1821 to 1832, to Jesuit priests in England. The letters are dated between 1824 and...

Vatican Library. (Notes and Comments).
January 1, 2003... A set of three videocassettes on the Vatican Apostolic Library has been produced with the general title "The Wonders of the Vatican Library." The first cassette is on "The Hall of Pope Sixtus V," the second on "The Galleries," and the third on...

Publications. (Notes and Comments).
January 1, 2003... A "Special Issue" of Church History for September, 2002 (Volume 71, Number 3), is devoted to "Present Trends in the Study of Christian History." Following an "Introduction" by Hans J. Hillerbrand are these seven articles: David Brakke, "The...

Personal notices. (Notes and Comments).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Vincent A. Lapomarda, S.J., of the College of the Holy Cross was honored with a testimonial and presented with a plaque by the International Order of the AL. hambra as chairman of its Committee on Historical Memorials. On that occasion he gave...

Obituaries. (Notes and Comments).(Obituary)
January 1, 2003... Donald F. Crosby, S.J., historian and former member of the history department at Santa Clara University, died of heart failure on October 27, 2002, at the rectory of St. Thomas the Apostle Church in San Francisco. He was sixty-nine years old,...

Other books received.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2003... Aubert, R. (Ed.). Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Geographie Ecclesiastiques, Fascicule 164: Julien de Cividale-Kalamona. (Paris: Letouzey et Ane. 2002. Cols. 513-787. Paperback.) Banki, Judith H., and Eugene J. Fisher (Eds.). A Prophet for...