The Catholic Historical Review articles from January 2006

The Catholic Historical Review archives from January 2006

Being "British" in Rome: the Welsh at the English College, 1578-1584.(English College of Rome)
January 1, 2006... In 1580, nearly four hundred years after Pope Innocent III terminated Welsh hopes of ecclesiastical independence by upholding Canterbury's jurisdiction over Wales, Gregory XIII followed in his predecessor's footsteps by again quashing Welsh...

Diplomats and missionaries: the role played by the German embassies in Moscow and Rome in the relations between Russia and the Vatican from 1921 to 1929.
January 1, 2006... The radical changes undergone by the Church in 1917/18, and the course subsequently taken by religious affairs in Russia, had an impact on Europe that has not up to now been given the attention it deserves. (1) The tsar was replaced as the head...

The Franciscan mission to the Navajos: mission method and indigenous religion, 1898-1940.
January 1, 2006... The first permanent mission to the Navajo (1) people of New Mexico and Arizona began in 1898 when three Franciscan fathers journeyed to Arizona to found St. Michael's Mission. In response to the conditions that they encountered, they devised a...

Eating, drinking, and being married: epidemic cholera and the celebration of marriage in Montreal and Mexico City, 1832-1833.
January 1, 2006... For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they did not know until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be...

Doubting Thomas.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Doubting Thomas. By Glen W. Most. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. xviii, 267. $27.95.) The first central mystery of Christian faith is the Resurrection of Jesus after his crucifixion. A second mystery is how...

Sanctorum Societas: Recits latins de saintete (IIIe-XIIe siecles).(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Sanctorum Societas: Recits latins de saintete (IIIe-XIIe siecles). By Francois Dolbeau. 2 vols. [Subsidia hagiographica, LXXXV.] (Brussels: Societe des Bollandistes. 2005. Pp. xii, 436; 437-1007. [euro]175.) Francois Dolbeau is one of the...

Trasgressioni: Seduzione, concubinato, adulterio, bigamia (XIV-XVIII secolo).(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Trasgressioni: Seduzione, concubinato, adulterio, bigamia (XIV-XVIII secolo). Edited by Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quagliono. [Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento, Quaderni, Vol. 64: I processi matrimoniali degli archivi...

Hierarchia Catholica medii et recentioris aevi, sive, Summorum Pontificum, S. R. E. Cardinalium, Ecclesiarum Antistitum series, e documentis tabularii praesertim Vaticani collecta, digesta, edita, Volume IX: A Pontificatu Pii PP. X (1903) usque ad Pontificatum Benedicti PP. XV (1922).(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Hierarchia Catholica medii et recentioris aevi, sive, Summorum Pontificum, S. R. E. Cardinalium, Ecclesiarum Antistitum series, e documentis tabularii praesertim Vaticani collecta, digesta, edita, Volume IX: A Pontificatu Pii PP. X (1903) usque...

A Mirror for the Church: Preaching in the First Five Centuries.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... A Mirror for the Church: Preaching in the First Five Centuries. By David Dunn-Wilson. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2005. Pp. xvi, 224. $22.00 paperback.) David Dunn-Wilson, professor emeritus of theology...

Hellenisme et Christianisme.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Hellenisme et Christianisme. Edited by Michel Narcy and Eric Rebillard. [Collection "Mythes, Imaginaires, Religions."] Published with the support of the CNRS. (Villeneuve d'Asq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. 2004. Pp. 198. [euro]21...

Lives and Miracles of the Saints: Studies in Medieval Latin Hagiography.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Lives and Miracles of the Saints: Studies in Medieval Latin Hagiography. By Michael Goodich. [Variorum Collected Studies Series.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2004. Pp. xii, 306. $109.95.) This welcome volume brings...

The Island of St. Patrick: Church and Ruling Dynasties in Fingal and Meath, 400-1148.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Island of St. Patrick: Church and ruling dynasties in Fingal and Meath, 400-1148. Edited by Ailbhe MacShamhrain. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. Distributed in the United States by ISBS, Portland, Oregon. 2004. Pp. 192. $35.00.) This...

Colman of Cloyne: A Study.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Colman of Cloyne: A Study. By Paul MacCotter. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. Distributed by ISBS, Portland, Oregon. 2004. Pp. 152. $35.00.) The Bollandists hold that every saint's cult has two anchor points attached to the name: a place of...

From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800-1200.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary. By Rachel Fulton. (New York: Columbia University Press. 2002. Pp. xx, 676; 8 plates. $40.00.) The subject of this book--the origin and development of medieval European...

Documentary Sources of Maltese History, Part IV: Documents at the Vatican, No. 2, Archivio Segreto Vaticano, Cancelleria Apostolica and Camera Apostolica and Related Sources at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana 416-1479.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Documentary Sources of Maltese History, Part IV: Documents at the Vatican, No. 2: Archivio Segreto Vaticano: Cancelleria Apostolica and Camera Apostolica and Related Sources at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana 416-1479. Edited by George...

Women's Space: Parish, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Women's Space: Parish, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church. Edited by Virginia Chieffo Raguin and Sarah Stanbury. (Albany: State University of New York Press. 2005. Pp. x, 261. $85.00.) This welcome volume of essays addresses the...

Lives of the Anchoresses: The Rise of the Urban Recluse in Medieval Europe.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Lives of the Anchoresses: The Rise of the Urban Recluse in Medieval Europe. By Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker. Translated by Myra Heerspink Scholz. [The Middle Ages Series.] (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. Pp. vii, 300. $55.00.)...

The Barons' Crusade: A Call to Arms and Its Consequences.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Barons' Crusade: A Call to Arms and Its Consequences. By Michael Lower. [The Middle Ages Series.] (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 256. $49.95.) The subject of this study is the crusade of 1239-1241, which...

Convent Chronicles: Women Writing about Women and Reform in the Late Middle Ages.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Convent Chronicles: Women Writing about Women and Reform in the Late Middle Ages. By Anne Winston-Allen. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2004. Pp. xviii, 345. $55.00.) Religious life for women in the late Middle Ages...

From Sin to Insanity: Suicide in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... From Sin to Insanity. Suicide in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Jeffrey R. Watt. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 240. $39.95.) Practices and attitudes related to suicide provide historians with rich sources of...

Nuntiaturberichte aus Deutschland nebst erganzenden Aktenstucken, Section 3: 1572-1585, vol. 9, Nuntiaturen des Giovanni Delfino und Bartolomeo Portia (1577-1578).(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Nuntiaturberichte aus Deutschland nebst erganzenden Aktenstucken, Section 3: 1572-1585, Vol. 9: Nuntiaturen des Giovanni Delfino und Bartolomeo Portia (1577-1578). Ed. Alexander Koller. Im Auftrage des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom....

Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age. Edited by R. Po-Chia Hsia and Henk F. K. van Nierop. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. viii, 187. $55.00.) Toleration is part of what may be called the national myth...

Herz, Gott, Kreuz: Die Spiritualitat des Anatomen, Geologen und Bischofs Dr. Med. Niels Stensen (1638-86).(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Herz, Gott, Kreuz: Die Spiritualitat des Anatomen, Geologen und Bischofs Dr. Med. Niels Stensen (1638-86). By Frank Sobiech. [Westfalia Sacra, Band 13.] (Munster: Aschendorff Verlag. 2004. Pp. xx, 392, plus ill. [euro]64.) The literature...

Marie-Joseph Lagrange: Une biographie critique.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Marie-Joseph Lagrange. Une biographie critique. By Bernard Montagnes. (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf. 2004. Pp. 625. [euro]49 paperback.) Through his publication of correspondence, related documents, and his own interpretive writings,...

Basil Hume: The Monk Cardinal.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Basil Hume: The Monk Cardinal. By Anthony Howard. (London: Headline Book Publishing. 2005. Pp. 342. [pounds sterling]29.) In February, 1976, Pope Paul VI reached over the heads of all his bishops in England to select Basil Hume, then Abbot...

The Spiritual Conversion of the Americas.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Spiritual Conversion of the Americas. Edited by James Muldoon. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2004. Pp. viii, 273. $65.00.) I have been reading and writing about Christian missionary activity among American Indian peoples...

Early New England: A Covenanted Society.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Early New England: A Covenanted Society. By David A. Weir. [Emory University Studies in Law and Religion.] (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2005. Pp. xviii, 460. $34.00 paperback.) This monograph undertakes...

Historic Sacred Places of Philadelphia.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Historic Sacred Places of Philadelphia. By Roger W. Moss, with photographs by Tom Crane. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. Pp. xiii, 314. $34.95 cloth.) Conceived as a companion to Historic Houses of Philadelphia...

Edward Dominic Fenwick Papers 1803-1832: Founding American Dominican Friar and Bishop.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Edward Dominic Fenwick Papers 1803-1832: Founding American Dominican Friar and Bishop. Edited and annotated by Luke Tancrell O.P. (New York: The Dominican Province of St. Joseph. Distributed by Dominican Publications, 487 Michigan Avenue, N.E.,...

"To Work for the Whole People": John Ireland's Seminary in St. Paul.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... "To Work for the Whole People": John Ireland's Seminary in St. Paul. By Mary Christine Athans, B.V.M. (New York and Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press. 2002. Pp. xxii, 543. $39.95.) This is a substantial and illuminating history of one of...

Rome in America: Transnational Catholic Ideology from the Risorgimento to Fascism.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Rome in America: Transnational Catholic Ideology from the Risorgimento to Fascism. By Peter R. D'Agostino. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 2004. Pp. xiii, 393. $59.95 clothbound; $22.50 paperback.) This is an...

American Apostle of the Family Rosary: The Life of Patrick J. Peyton, CSC.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... American Apostle of the Family Rosary: The Life of Patrick J. Peyton, CSC. By Richard Gribble, CSC. (New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company. 2005. Pp. xviii, 474. $45.00.) This valuable book marks the rediscovery of one of the most...

Padre: The Spiritual Journey of Father Virgil Cordano.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Padre. The Spiritual Journey of Father Virgil Cordano. Edited by Mario T. Garcia. (Santa Barbara: Capra Press. 2005. Pp. xxx, 233. $17.95 paperback.) As aptly described in Garcia's preface to this autobiography, Father Virgil Cordano "is a...

The Case for Fr. Charles Dominic Ffrench (1775-1851).(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Case for Fr. Charles Dominic Ffrench (1775-1851). By Lawrence A. Desmond and Donna M. Norell. (Yorkton, Saskatchewan: Laverdure & Associates, Historians & Publishers. 2004. Pp. 207. Cdn$14.95 paperback.) Charles Ffrench, a Dominican...

Les congregations religieuses: De la France au Quebec, 1880-1914, Tome 3, Vers des eaux plus calmes 1905-1914.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Les congregations religieuses: De la France au Quebec, 1880-1914, Tome 3: Vers des eaux plus calmes 1905-1914. By Guy Laperriere. (Quebec: Les Presses de l'Universite Laval. 2005. Pp. 730. Paperback.) Following upon volume 1 (1996) and...

The Other Mexican Muse: Sor Maria Anna Agueda de San Ignacio (1695-1756).(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Other Mexican Muse. Sor Maria Anna Agueda de San Ignacio (1695-1756). By Jennifer Eich. [Latin American Studies, 13.] (New Orleans: University Press of the South. 2004. Pp. x, 294. Paperback.) Sor Maria Anna Agueda de San Ignacio...

Minorities, Modernity and the Emerging Nation: Christians in Indonesia, a Biographical Approach.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Minorities, Modernity and the Emerging Nation: Christians in Indonesia, a Biographical Approach. By Gerry van Klinken. [Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Institut voor Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde, 199.] (Leiden: KITLV Press. 2003. Pp. v, 285....

Fulfilled in Our Hearing: History and Method of Christian Preaching.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... DeBona, Guerric, OSB. Fulfilled in Our Hearing: History and Method of Christian Preaching. (New York and Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 228. $19.95 paperback.) The subtitle of Fulfilled in Our Hearing is a little...

Die religiosen Bewegungen im Italien des 16: Jahrhunderts.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Ganzer, Klaus. Die religiosen Bewegungen im Italien des 16. Jahrhunderts. [Katholisches Leben und Kirchenreform im Zeitalter der Glaubensspaltung. Vereinsschriften der Gesellschaft zur Herausgabe des Corpus Catholicorum, 63.] (Munster:...

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Weber, Francis J. Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. (Mission Hills, California: Saint Francis Historical Society and the Archival Center, Archdiocese of Los Angeles. 2004. Pp. xi, 364. $29.00.) Church tradition establishes a diocese's...

Notes and Comments.
January 1, 2006... Review News After forty-three years of dedicated and skillful service that has made the Catholic Historical Review into a world-class journal, Msgr. Robert Trisco has turned its editorship over to Nelson H. Minnich, a professor of...

Periodical literature.
January 1, 2006... General and Miscellaneous A Crisis of Law? Reflections on the Church and the Law over the Centuries. Charles Donahue, Jr. The Jurist, 65 (1, 2005), 1-30. Censura e disciplina sociale. Problemi storiografici. Lucia Bianchin. Annali...

Other books received.
January 1, 2006... Berlinerblau, Jacques. The Secular Bible: Why Non-Believers Must Take Religion Seriously. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 217. $55.00 clothbound; $19.99 paperback.) Blobaum, Robert (Ed.). Antisemitism and Its Opponents...