The Catholic Historical Review articles from January 2004

The Catholic Historical Review archives from January 2004

Missionary saints of the high middle ages: martyrdom, popular veneration, and canonization.
January 1, 2004... At the beginning of the thirteenth century, as missionaries were again leaving Europe in the hope of creating a Christian world, the idea of martyrdom cast a powerful spell. The church calendar still gave primary place to holy martyrs, who had...

Oliver Cromwell's policy toward the English Catholics: the appraisal by diplomats, 1654-1658.
January 1, 2004... For four years there were reports in western Europe concerning the persecution of the English Catholics by the Lord Protector, so that it was not unusual for the Catholic foreign diplomats residing in London to include their current views of...

La Croix and the swastika: the ambiguities of Catholic responses to the fall of France.
January 1, 2004... Studies of Catholic identification with the authoritarian Vichy regime's professed mission of national moral renewal have devoted little attention to how the so-called "Marshal's pious parishioners" (1) viewed the 1940 fall of France. (2)...

"Three cheers for the abolitionist Pope!": American reaction to Gregory XVI's condemnation of the slave trade, 1840-1860.
January 1, 2004... In December, 1839, Pope Gregory XVI issued In Supremo, an apostolic letter that condemned the slave trade in the strongest possible terms. He published the statement at the prompting of the British government, which had been campaigning for...

First Crusader: Byzantium's Holy Wars.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... First Crusader: Byzantium's Holy Wars. By Geoffrey Regan. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. Pp. viii, 280. $29.95.) This popular history is worth reviewing in a scholarly journal only because its confused ideas of "crusade" and "holy...

The Legend of St Brendan: A Critical Bibliography.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Legend of St Brendan: A Critical Bibliography. By Glyn S. Burgess and Clara Strijbosch. (Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. 2000. Pp. xii, 287. $23.50.) St. Brendan, an Irish monk of Munster ancestry, was born toward the end of the fifth...

Dumbarton Oaks Papers: Number Fifty-Six, 2002.(Ancient and Medieval)(Periodical Review)
January 1, 2004... Dumbarton Oaks Papers: Number Fifty-Six, 2002. Edited by Alice-Mary Talbot. (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. 2003. Pp. vii, 324. $85.00.) Rarely are volumes of professional journals reviewed, but in this...

Christ in Celtic Christianity: Britain and Ireland from the Fifth to the Tenth Century.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Christ in Celtic Christianity: Britain and Ireland from the Fifth to the Tenth Century. By Michael W. Herren and Shirley Ann Brown. [Studies in Celtic History, XX.] (Rochester, New York: Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 319. $75.00.) This...

Manuscripts in Northumbria in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Manuscripts in Northumbria in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries. By Anne Lawrence-Mathers. (Rochester, New York: D. S. Brewer. 2003. Pp. xii, 308. $110.00; [pounds sterling]60.) This is a book of considerable ambition setting out to "study...

Theology, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Eucharistic Controversy, 1078-1079: Alberic of Monte Cassino Against Berengar of Tours.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Theology, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Eucharistic Controversy, 1078-1079: Alberic of Monte Cassino Against Berengar of Tours. By Charles M. Radding and Francis Newton. (New York: Columbia University Press. 2003. Pp. xiv, 197. $49.50...

Cistercian Europe: Architecture of Contemplation.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Cistercian Europe: Architecture of Contemplation. By Terryl N. Kinder. [Cistercian Studies Series, No. 191.] (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications. 2002. Pp. 407. $70.00.)...

Women and the Church in Medieval Ireland, c. 1140-1540.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Women and the Church in Medieval Ireland, c. 1140-1540. By Dianne Hall. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. Distributed in the United States by ISBS, Portland, Oregon. 2003. Pp. 252. $50.00.) This excellent first book attempts the near-impossible...

Four Irish Martyrologies: Drummond, Turin, Cashel, York.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Four Irish Martyrologies: Drummond, Turin, Cashel, York. Edited by Padraig O Riain. [Henry Bradshaw Society, volume CXV.] (Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. xiv, 260. $60.00.) A friend of mine recently celebrated his saint's...

"Che sono queste novita?" Le religiones novae in Italia meridionale (secoli XIII e XIV).(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... "Che sono queste novita?" Le religiones novae in Italia meridionale (secoli XIII e XIV). By Luigi Pellegrini. [Mezzogiorno medievale e moderno, 1.] (Naples; Liguori Editore. 2000. Pp. x, 403. [euro]19,63 paperback.) This volume is a...

Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260-1807.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260-1807. By Jonathan Glixon. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. xvii, 372.) Of all the Renaissance and early modern cities with active confraternities, Venice...

The Obedientiaries of Westminster Abbey and their Financial Records, ca. 1275-1540.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Obedientiaries of Westminster Abbey and their Financial Records, ca. 1275-1540. By Barbara Harvey. [WestminsterAbbey Record Series III.] (Rochester, New York: Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. 1xii, 270. $110.00.) Barbara Harvey, a fellow of...

The Premonstratensian Order in Late Medieval England.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Premonstratensian Order in Late Medieval England. By Joseph A. Gribbin. [Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, Volume XVI.] (Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press. 2001. Pp. xx, 283. $75.00.) Between 1458 and 1503 the...

Penitence, Preaching and the Coming of the Reformation.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Penitence, Preaching and the Coming of the Reformation. By Anne T. Thayer. [St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.] (Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2002. Pp. xiv, 226. $84.95.) Penance was the central sacrament in...

Reform before the Reformation. Vincenzo Querini and the Religious Renaissance in Italy.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Reform before the Reformation. Vincenzo Querini and the Religious Renaissance in Italy. By Stephen D. Bowd [Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, Volume LXXXVII.] (Leiden: Brill. 2002. Pp. xvi, 267. [euro]74; US $86.00.) When one...

Erasmus in the Twentieth Century: Interpretations c. 1920-2000.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Erasmus in the Twentieth Century: Interpretations c. 1920-2000. By Bruce Mansfield. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2003. Pp. xiv, 324. $70.00.) The title of this monograph by Professor Emeritus Bruce Mansfield is misleading because...

Female Monastic Life in Early Tudor England. With an Edition of Richard Fox's Translation of the Benedictine Rule for Women, 1517.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Female Monastic Life in Early Tudor England. With an Edition of Richard Fox's Translation of the Benedictine Rule for Women, 1517. Edited by Barry Collett. [The Modern English Woman 1500-1700: Contemporary Editions.] (Burlington, Vermont:...

The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Politics of the 1530s.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Politics of the 1530s. By R. W. Hoyle. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. xvi, 487.) Of all the rebellions that troubled Tudor England, the Pilgrimage of Grace (1536-37) was the most extensive and...

Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era. By John W. O'Malley. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2000. Pp. x, 219. $24.95 clothbound; $19.95 paperback.) Despite its slightly flippant main title,...

A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime. By Elizabeth Rapley. [McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion.] (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2001. Pp. xv, 378. $49.95.) ...

Burokratie und Nepotismus unter Paul V. (1605-1621): Studien zur fruhneuzeitlichen Mikropolitik in Rom.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Burokratie und Nepotismus unter Paul V. (1605-1621): Studien zur fruhneuzeitlichen Mikropolitik in Rom. By Birgit Emich. [Papste und Papsttum, Band 30.] (Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann. 2001. Pp. xii, 475; 12 illustrations. DM 240,-.) ...

Bernini and the Bell Towers: Architecture and Politics at the Vatican.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Bernini and the Bell Towers: Architecture and Politics at the Vatican. By Sarah McPhee. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 353. $60.00.) To students of seventeenth-century Rome, the title of Sarah McPhee's book...

Christobal de Gentil de Rojas y Spinola O.F.M. und der lutherische Abt Gerardus Wolterius Molanus: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Unionsbestrebungen der katholischen und evangelischen Kirche im 17. Jahrhundert.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Christobal de Gentil de Rojas y Spinola O.F.M. und der lutherische Abt Gerardus Wolterius Molanus: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Unionsbestrebungen der katholischen und evangelischen Kirche im 17. Jahrhundert. By Karin Masser....

Monumenta Proximi-Orientis, VI: Egypte (1700-1773).(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Monumenta Proximi-Orientis, VI: Egypte (1700-1773). By Charles Libois, S.J. [Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu, Vol. 155; Monumenta Missionum Societatis Iesu, Vol. LXVII. Missiones Orientales.] (Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu....

The Eagle and the Cross: Jesuits in Late Baroque Prague.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Eagle and the Cross: Jesuits in Late Baroque Prague. By Paul Shore. [No. 16 in Series 3: Original Studies Composed in English.] (St. Louis: Institute of Jesuit Sources. 2002. Pp. xiii, 267. $22.95 paperback.) It is a difficult task to...

Religion, Politics and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Belfast: The Pound and Sandy Row.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Religion, Politics and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Belfast: The Pound and Sandy Row. By Catherine Hirst. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. Distributed in the U.S.A. by ISBS, Portland, Oregon. 2002. Pp. 223. $39.50.) This work sets out to...

Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845-1865.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845-1865. By Colin Barr. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2003. Pp. xv, 288. $30.00 paperback.) The story of the conception, structure, and early...

Great Britain and the Holy See: The Diplomatic Relations Question, 1846-1852.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Great Britain and the Holy See: The Diplomatic Relations Question, 1846-1852. By James P. Flint, O.S.B. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2003. Pp xvii, 301. $39.95.) This is a delightful treatment, excellently...

Lord Acton.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Lord Acton. By Roland Hill. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2000. Pp. xxv, 548. $39.95;[pounds sterling]30 sterling.) This masterly volume has something of the grand proportions of its subject. John Emerich Edward Dalberg...

"Au service de l'Eglise, de la Patrie et de la Famille": Femmes catholiques et maternite sous la [III.sup.e] Republique.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... "Au service de l'Eglise, de la Patrie et de la Famille": Femmes catholiques et maternite sous la [III.sup.e] Republique. By Anne Cova. (Paris: L'Harmattan. 2000. Pp. 278. Paperback.) In the late nineteenth century the French Catholic...

Mgr Petit, Assomptionniste, Fondateur des "Echos d'Orient", Archeveque Latin d'Athenes (1868-1927).(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Mgr Petit, Assomptionniste, Fondateur des "Echos d'Orient", Archeveque Latin d'Athenes (1868-1927). Edited by Bernard Holzer, A.A. [Orientalia Christiana Analecta 266.] (Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale. 2002. Pp. 229.) This volume is a...

With Bound Hands: A Jesuit in Nazi Germany. The Life and Selected Prison Letters of Alfred Delp.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... With Bound Hands: A Jesuit in Nazi Germany. The Life and Selected Prison Letters of Alfred Delp. By Mary Frances Coady. (Chicago: Loyola Press. 2003. Pp. xv, 239. $13.95 paperback.) Well known in Germany, where numerous streets and schools...

Pio XII tra guerra e pace: profezia e diplomazia di un papa (1939-1945).(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Pio XII tra guerra e pace: profezia e diplomazia di un papa (1939-1945). By Matteo Luigi Napolitano. [I volti della storia, Vol. 12.] (Rome: Citta Nuova Editrice. 2002. Pp. 296. [euro]18,00.) Matteo Luigi Napolitano (b. 1962), an expert on...

La Chiesa e lo sterminio degli ebrei.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... La Chiesa e lo sterminio degli ebrei. By Renato Moro. (Bologna: Societa editrice il Mulino. 2002. Pp. 216. [euro]12 paperback.) Pope Pius XII (1939-1958), praised effusively by world leaders and Jewish groups at his death, within half a...

A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair. By Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2002. Pp. 362. $25.00.) The Harvard political scientist, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen,...

Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941-1945.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941-1945. By Steven Merritt Miner. (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press. 2003. Pp. 407. $55.00.) Steven Merritt Miner, professor of history in Ohio...

Greenwich Village Catholics: St. Joseph's Church and the Evolution of an Urban Faith Community, 1829-2002.(American)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Greenwich Village Catholics: St. Joseph's Church and the Evolution of an Urban Faith Community, 1829-2002. By Thomas J. Shelley. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2003. Pp. xvii, 306. $34.95 cloth.) A Saint...

The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History.(American)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History. Edited by Daniel H. Bays and Grant Wacker. (Tuscaloosa and London: The University of Alabama Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 343. $60.00.) The scholarly...

Dreadful Conversions: The Making of a Catholic Socialist.(American)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Dreadful Conversions: The Making of a Catholic Socialist. By John C. Cort. (New York: Fordham University Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 355. $30.00.) We are lucky to have this memoir from John Cort. Born in 1913, Cort has been fighting the good...

The Guarani under Spanish Rule in the Rio de la Plata.(Latin American)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Guarani under Spanish Rule in the Rio de la Plata. By Barbara Ganson. (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 2003. Pp. xiii, 290. $65.00.) Barbara Ganson is the first historian to understand the mission Guarani of Paraguay....

Singing the Tears: The Immigrant Journey.(Brief Notice)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Gustaff, Leona Shierant. Singing the Tears: The Immigrant Journey. (Frederick, Maryland: Albert J. Gustaff, P.O. Box 4294, 21705-4294. 2003. Pp. xxxii, 206.) Tears is a genealogical family album for a casual perusal on a coffee table. In...

Notes and comments.
January 1, 2004... Conferences A conference on "Women and American Religion" was held at the University of Chicago Divinity School on October 8-10, 2003. Among the papers presented were "Hail Mary Down by the Riverside: Black and White Catholic Women in...

Periodical literature.
January 1, 2004... GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS Saving a Fabled Sanctuary. Conservators struggle to restore Justinian's Great Church in Istanbul. Sengul Aydingun and Mark Rose. Archaeology, 56 (6, 2003), 20-28. Glastonbury and the Shround of Christ. Paul...

Other books received.
January 1, 2004... [Books that were sent to scholars for review but of which no review has been received are indicated by an asterisk.] Abrams, Douglas Carl. Selling the Old-Time Religion: American Fundamentalists and Mass Culture, 1920-1940. (Athens and...