The Catholic Historical Review articles from January 2005

The Catholic Historical Review archives from January 2005

Power made visible: Pope Sixtus IV as Urbis Restaurator in Quattrocento Rome.
January 1, 2005... A single medal, commemorating the completion of the bridge, the Ponte Sisto, captures the duality of Pope Sixtus IV's (Francesco della Rovere, 1471-1484) official role as spiritual leader and his chosen role as urban renovator. The medal...

The Procurator General of the Castilian Assembly of the Clergy, 1592-1741.
January 1, 2005... In early modern Europe, princes regularly convened representative institutions to obtain financial contributions. Some of these institutions, such as the Iberian Cortes, the English Parliament, or the French Estates General, were constitutional...

"The Indians generally love their wives and children": Native American marriage and sexual practices in Missions San Francisco, Santa Clara, and San Jose.
January 1, 2005... "Fornication," wrote Fathers Magin Catala and Jose Viader in 1814, ranked "first" among "the most dominant vices of the Indians" at Mission Santa Clara, near the San Francisco Bay in Alta California. (1) Other missionaries agreed. "The dominant...

Sankt Raphaels Verein and German-Catholic emigration to Canada from 1919 to 1939.
January 1, 2005... By the 1860's members of the Catholic Church administration had observed German emigrants suffering in domestic harbors and paying exorbitant prices for basic goods. They became concerned about the health and welfare of these emigrants...

Quoniam abundavit iniquitas: Dominicans as inquisitors, inquisitors as Dominicans.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Praedicatores, Inquisitores. I. The Dominicans and the Medieval Inquisition. Acts of the 1st International Seminar on the Dominicans and the Inquisition. Edited by Wolfram Hoyer, O.P. [Institutum Historicum Fratrum Praedicatorum Romae,...

The Sword of the Lord: Military Chaplains from the First to the Twenty-First Century.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Sword of the Lord: Military Chaplains from the First to the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Doris L. Bergen. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2004. Pp. xiv, 298. $37.50 hardback; $18.00 paperback.) Military...

Sacred Tracks: 2000 Years of Christian Pilgrimage.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Sacred Tracks: 2000 Years of Christian Pilgrimage. By James Harpur. (Berkeley: University of California Press. 2002. Pp. 192. $29.95 paperback.) This nicely illustrated and well written volume focuses on some of the most famous pilgrimage...

L'archivio particolare di Pio X: Cenni storici e inventario.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... L'archivio particolare di Pio X: Cenni storici e inventario. By Alejandro M. Dieguez. [Collectanea Archivi Vaticani, vol. 51.] (Vatican City: Archivio Segreto Vaticano. 2003. Pp. xxxii, 500. [euro]30 paperback.) The title of this oversized...

Kirche und Katholizimus seit 1945. Band 4: Die britischen Inseln und Nordamerika.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Kirche und Katholizimus seit 1945. Band 4: Die britischen Inseln und Nordamerika. Edited by Erwin Gatz. (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh. 2002. Pp. 150. [euro]22.80.) In four chapters of unequal length this modest but well produced book...

L'Opera Salesiana dal 1880 al 1922: Significativita e portata sociale. Volume I: Contesti, quadri generali, interpretazioni; Volume II: Esperienze particolari in Europa, Africa, Asia; Volume III: Esperienze particolari in America Latina.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... L'Opera Salesiana dal 1880 al 1922: Significativita e portata sociale. Volume I: Contesti, quadri generali, interpretazioni; Volume II: Esperienze particolari in Europa, Africa, Asia; Volume III: Esperienze particolari in America Latina. Edited...

Historia contra Mythos. Die Schriftauslegung Diodors von Tarsus und Theodors von Mopsuestia im Widerstreit zu Kaiser Julians und Salustius' allegorischem Mythenverstandnis.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Historia contra Mythos. Die Schriftauslegung Diodors von Tarsus und Theodors von Mopsuestia im Widerstreit zu Kaiser Julians und Salustius' allegorischem Mythenverstandnis. By Felix Thome. [Hereditas: Studien zur Alten Kirchengeschichte, 24.]...

On the Communion of Damasus and Meletius: Fourth-Century Synodal Formulae in the Codex Veronensis LX (with critical edition and translation).(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... On the Communion of Damasus and Meletius: Fourth-Century Synodal Formulae in the Codex Veronensis LX (with critical edition and translation). By Lester L. Field, Jr. [Studies and Texts 145.] (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies....

Spiritual Seeing: Picturing God's Invisibility in Medieval Art.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Spiritual Seeing: Picturing God's Invisibility in Medieval Art. By Herbert L. Kessler. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2000. Pp. xv, 265.) This fascinating book is largely composed of eight essays in which the author in...

Early Medieval Bible Illumination and the Ashburnham Pentateuch.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Early Medieval Bible Illumination and the Ashburnham Pentateuch. By Dorothy Verkerk. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2004. Pp. x, 262; 36 black-and-white illustrations. $75.00.) It is important to recognize what the book is not, and...

The Seafaring Saint: Sources and Analogues of the Twelfth-Century Voyage of Saint Brendan.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Seafaring Saint: Sources and Analogues of the Twelfth-Century Voyage of Saint Brendan. By Clara Strijbosch. Translated by Thea Summerfield. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. Distributed by ISBS, Portland, Oregon. 2000. Pp. x, 325. $65.00.) ...

Queenship and Sanctity: The "Lives" of Mathilda and the "Epitaph" of Adelheid.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Queenship and Sanctity: The "Lives" of Mathilda and the "Epitaph" of Adelheid. Translated with an introduction and notes by Sean Gilsdorf. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2004. Pp. xviii, 221. $24.95 paperback.) ...

Bernard of Clairvaux on the Life of the Mind.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Bernard of Clairvaux: On the Life of the Mind. By John R. Sommerfeldt. (Mahwah, New Jersey: Newman Press/Paulist Press. 2004. Pp. xviii, 197. $19.95 paperback.) Bernard of Clairvaux: On the Spirituality of Relationship. By John R....

Adrian IV the English Pope (1154-1159): Studies and Texts.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Adrian IV the English Pope (1154-1159): Studies and Texts. Edited by Brenda Bolton and Anne J. Duggan. [Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West.] (Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Co. 2002. Pp. xv, 343, $84.95.) The occasion...

The History of the Holy War: Ambroise's Estoire de la Guerre Sainte, Volume I: Text edited by Marianne Ailes and Malcolm Barber. The History of the Holy War: Ambroise's Estoire de la Guerre Sainte; Volume II: Translation by Marianne Ailes with notes.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The History of the Holy War: Ambroise's Estoire de la Guerre Sainte, Volume I: Text edited by Marianne Ailes and Malcolm Barber. The History of the Holy War: Ambroise's Estoire de la Guerre Sainte; Volume II: Translation by Marianne Ailes with...

God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages. By Barbara Newman. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. Pp. xv, 446. $42.50.) In God and the Goddesses, Barbara Newman addresses the intrusion of...

Rome 1300: On the Path of the Pilgrim.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Rome 1300: On the Path of the Pilgrim. By Herbert L. Kessler and Johanna Zacharias. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2000. Pp. 288. $35.00.) Late in the year 1299 pilgrims imbued with expectations of plenary indulgences began...

The Lollards.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Lollards. By Richard Rex. [Social History in Perspective.] (New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xv, 188. $65.00 hardback, $21.95 paperback.) The stated aspiration of this short volume, by the Tudor historian Richard Rex, is to replace K. B....

Sanctifying Signs: Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Sanctifying Signs: Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England. By David Aers. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2004. Pp. xiii, 281. $55.00 cloth; $25.00 paper.) In Sanctifying Signs, David Aers continues his...

Les suppliques de la Penitencerie Apostolique pour les Dioceses de Cambrai, Liege, Therouanne et Tournai (1410-1411).(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Les suppliques de la Penitencerie Apostolique pour les Dioceses de Cambrai, Liege, Therouanne et Tournai (1410-1411). Edited by Monique Maillard-Luypaert. [Analecta Vaticano-Belgica, Premiere Serie, Volume 34.] (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols...

Dai margini la memoria. Johannes Hinderbach (1418-1486).(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Dai margini la memoria. Johannes Hinderbach (1418-1486). By Daniela Rando. [Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento. Monografie, 37.] (Bologna: Societa editrice il Mulino. 2003. Pp. 575. [euro]33.00 paperback.) This book is...

Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews & Other Heretics.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews & Other Heretics. Edited and translated by Richard L. Kagan and Abigail Dyer. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. Pp. xiv, 199. $48.00 hardcover; $19.95 paper-back.) ...

The Beginnings of English Protestantism.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Beginnings of English Protestantism. Edited by Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 242. $55.00 hardback; $20.00 paperback.) For generations the first English Protestants were regarded as...

Pirro Ligorio: The Renaissance Artist, Architect, and Antiquarian.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Pirro Ligorio: The Renaissance Artist, Architect, and Antiquarian. By David R. Coffin. (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2004. Pp. xv, 226. $55.00.) The present volume is the most authoritative exploration of the...

Silent Music: The Life, Work, and Thought of St. John of the Cross.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Silent Music: The Life, Work, and Thought of St. John of the Cross. By R. A. Herrera. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2004. Pp. viii, 166. $16.00 paperback.) In the four hundred years since his death, St....

The Anointment of Dionisio: Prophecy and Politics in Renaissance Italy.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Anointment of Dionisio: Prophecy and Politics in Renaissance Italy. By Marion Leathers Kuntz. (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2001. Pp. xviii, 446. $55.00.) In February of 1563, a certain Dionisio Gallo,...

John Foxe and His World.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... John Foxe and His World. Edited by Christopher Highley and John N. King [St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing. 2002. Pp. xix, 297. $99.95.) Scholarly investigation of what Christopher Highley...

From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris. By Barbara B. Diefendorf. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 340.) The era of the "Mystical Invasion," that time of extraordinary religious...

Le Gallicanisme de Sorbonne: Chroniques de la Faculte de Theologie de Paris (1657-1688).(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Le Gallicanisme de Sorbonne: Chroniques de la Faculte de Theologie de Paris (1657-1688). By Jacques M. Gres-Gayer. [Bibliotheque d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, Vol. 11.] (Paris: Honore Champion Editeur. 2002. Pp. 579.) The Faculty of...

L'eresia dei perfetti: Inquisizione romana ed esperienze mistiche nel Seicento italiano.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... L'eresia dei perfetti: Inquisizione romana ed esperienze mistiche nel Seicento italiano. By Adelisa Malena. [Temi e testi, 47: "Tribunali della fede."] (Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura. 2003. Pp. xviii, 318. [euro]39.00 paperback.) ...

Das Ende der doppelten Schutzherrschaft: Der Heilige Stuhl und die Juden am Ubergang zur Moderne (1775-1870).(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Das Ende der doppelten Schutzherrschaft: Der Heilige Stuhl und die Juden am Ubergang zur Moderne (1775-1870). By Thomas Brechenmacher. ["Papste und Papsttum," Band 32.] (Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann. 2004. Pp. viii, 513; 5 plates.) This is...

Discussions and Arguments on Various Subjects.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Discussions and Arguments on Various Subjects. By John Henry Cardinal Newman. With an Introduction by James Tolhurst and Notes by the late Gerard Tracey, completed by James Tolhurst. [The Works of Cardinal John Henry Newman, Birmingham Oratory,...

The Letters of Baron Friedrich von Hugel and Maude D. Petre: The Modernist Movement in England.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Letters of Baron Friedrich von Hugel and Maude D. Petre: The Modernist Movement in England. Edited with Introduction by James J. Kelly. [Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia, Vol. XLIV.] Leuven: Peeters. 2003. Pp. xxxiii, 196. Paperback.) For...

Edith Stein.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Edith Stein. By Sarah Borden. [Outstanding Christian Thinkers.] (New York: Continuum. 2003. Pp. x, 155. $23.95 paperback.) Sarah Borden has created in Edith Stein a welcome volume about Edith Stein (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross,...

Resisting the Third Reich. The Catholic Clergy in Hitler's Berlin.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Resisting the Third Reich. The Catholic Clergy in Hitler's Berlin. By Kevin P. Spicer. (De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 254. $36.00.) In 1933 the majority of German Catholics greeted the Nazis' rise to power...

Religious Pioneers: Building the Faith in the Archdiocese of New Orleans.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Religious Pioneers: Building the Faith in the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Edited by Dorothy Dawes and Charles Nolan. (Chelsa, Michigan: Sheridan Books. 2004. Pp. xxvi, 398. $30.00.) Archivists Dorothy Dawes and Charles Nolan have made a...

The Origins of Women's Activism: New York and Boston, 1797-1840.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Origins of Women's Activism: New York and Boston, 1794-1840. By Anne M. Boylan. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. xv, 343. $49.95 clothbound; $19.95 paperback.) Few historians have attempted to incorporate...

He Spared Himself in Nothing: Essays on the Life and Thought of St. John Nepomucene Neumann, C.Ss.R.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... He Spared Himself in Nothing: Essays on the Life and Thought of St. John Nepomucene Neumann, C.Ss.R. Edited by Joseph F. Chorpenning, O.S.F.S. (Philadelphia: St. Joseph's University Press. 2003. Pp. xx, 220. $35.00.) Celebrating the...

The Navajo as Seen by the Franciscans, 1898-1921: A Sourcebook.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Navajo as Seen by the Franciscans, 1898-1921: A Sourcebook. Edited by Howard M. Bahr. [Native American Resources Series, No. 4.] (Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2004. Pp. xxxviii, 606. $60.00.) Howard Bahr's The Navajo as...

Prophet of the Christian Social Manifesto: Joseph Husslein, S.J.: His Life, Work, & Social Thought.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Prophet of the Christian Social Manifesto: Joseph Husslein, S.J.: His Life, Work, & Social Thought. By Stephen A. Werner. [Marquette Studies in Theology, No. 24.] (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press. 2001. Pp. 187. $20.00 paperback.) ...

The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing. By E. Michael Jones. (South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine's Press. 2004. Pp. x, 668. $40.00.) This is one of the worst books I have ever read, at least of the academic variety. It...

A Catholic in the White House? Religion, Politics, and John F. Kennedy's Presidential Campaign.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... A Catholic in the White House? Religion, Politics, and John F. Kennedy's Presidential Campaign. By Thomas J. Carty. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. Pp. viii, 215. $39.95 hardcover.) The author, Thomas J. Carty, assistant professor of...

Archbishop A.-A. Tache of St. Boniface: The "Good Fight" and the Illusive Vision.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Archbishop A.-A. Tache of St. Boniface: The "Good Fight" and the Illusive Vision. By Raymond J.A. Huel. (Edmonton, Alberta: The University of Alberta Press, Western Canadian Publishers. 2003. Pp. xxv, 439. Paperback.) For years,...

Iglesia, Justicia y Sociedad en la Nueva Espana. La Audiencia del Arzobispado de Mexico, 1528-1668.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Iglesia, Justicia y Sociedad en la Nueva Espana. La Audiencia del Arzobispado de Mexico, 1528-1668. By Jorge E. Traslosheros. (Mexico City: Editorial Porrua Mexico and Universidad Iberoamericana. 2004. Pp. xvi, 219. Paperback.) While most...

The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong, 1650-1785.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong, 1650-1785. By David E. Mungello. (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield. 2001. Pp. xiv, 210. $70.00 clothbound; $26.95 paperback.) Catholicism first reached China in the Mongol period, when...

Francis of Assisi: Performing the Gospel Life.(BRIEF NOTICES)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Cunningham, Lawrence S. Francis of Assisi: Performing the Gospel Life. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: W.E. Erdmans Publishing Company. 2004. Pp. xii, 160. $14.00 paperback.) The life of Saint Francis of Assisi has been interpreted by a...

The Catholic Church in the Land of the Holy Cross: A History of the Diocese of Portland, Maine.(BRIEF NOTICES)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Lapomarda, Vincent A. The Catholic Church in the Land of the Holy Cross: A History of the Diocese of Portland, Maine. (Strasbourg: Editions du Signe. 2003. Pp. 160.) During the past quarter-century scholars have found many ways to approach...

Notes and comments.
January 1, 2005... Conferences, Congresses, and Meetings A conference in honor of Christopher Kauffman will be held at the University of Notre Dame on April 8 and 9, 2005, under the title, "The Future of American Catholic History." Full information may be...

Periodical literature.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2005... GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS Mary. Miri Rubin. History Workshop Journal, No. 58 (Autumn, 2004), 1-16. Su alcuni nuovi orientamenti nella storiografia del papato, della curia, del governo pontificio. Giacomo Martina, S.I. Archivum...

Other books received.
January 1, 2005... Bailey, Michael D. Battling Demons: Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages. [The Magic in History Series.] (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 200. $65.00 hardback; $22.50 paperback.) ...