The Catholic Historical Review articles from January 2008

The Catholic Historical Review archives from January 2008

The assassin-saint: the life and cult of Carino of Balsamo.
January 1, 2008... The year 2003 was the 750th anniversary of the canonization of Peter of Verona, the martyred Dominican inquisitor of Lombardy. (1) In 1251 Pope Innocent IV appointed Peter, already a popular preacher, as inquisitor. After only nine months, a...

Catholic men in support of the women's suffrage movement in England.
January 1, 2008... Historians of religion know that Catholicism was never without critics in Victorian and Edwardian England. To a great many people, the word Catholic meant parochial and reactionary; to others it evoked "visions of a suffering and cowed laity at...

From an indefinite homogeneity: Catholic colleges in antebellum America.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... According to Herbert Spencer's famous definition of evolution, the process is one by which primitive undifferentiated matter gradually assumes more complex forms made up of specialized subunits interacting together in a pattern of...

More light on Vatican Council II.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Carnets conciliaires de Mgr Gerard Philips, secretaire adjoint de la Commission doctrinale. Texte neerlandais avec traduction francais et commentaires. Edited by Karim Schelkens. [Maurits Sabbebibliotheek, Faculteit Godgeleerdheid, Instrumenta...

Recent works on the early modern history of Spanish Muslims.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568-1614. By Benjamin Ehlers. [The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 124th series (2006), volume 1.] (Baltimore: The Johns...

The Germans and the Papal Penitentiary: Repertorium Poenitentiariae Germanicum.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Verzeichnis der in den Supplikenregistern der Ponitentiarie Eugens IV. vorkommenden Personen, Kirchen und Orte des Deutscben Reiches 1431-1447. Edited by Ludwig Schmugge with Paolo Ostinelli and Hans Braun. [Repertorium Poenitentiariae...

God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition. By John Witte, Jr. [Emory University Studies in Law and Religion.] (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2006. Pp. xiv, 498. $30.00 paperback.)...

Herrschaftspraxis und soziale Ordnungen im Mittelalter und in der fruhen Neuzeit. Ernst Schubert zum Gedenken.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Herrschaftspraxis und soziale Ordnungen im Mittelalter und in der fruhen Neuzeit. Ernst Schubert zum Gedenken. Edited by Peter Aufgebauer and Christine van den Heuvel. [Veroffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission fur Niedersachsen und...

Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877-1902.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877-1902. By Mariano Artigas, Thomas E Glick, and Rafael A. Martinez. [Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context.] (Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2006....

The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume 9: World Christianities c. 1914-2000.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume 9: World Christianities c. 1914-2000. Edited by Hugh McLeod. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xviii, 716. $180.00.) Surveys of Christianity in the Modern Era are difficult to...

Katholiken in den USA und Deutschland: Kirche, Gesellschaft und Politik.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Katholiken in den USA und Deutschland: Kirche, Gesellschaft und Politik. Edited by Wilhelm Damberg and Antonius Liedhegener. (Munster: Aschendorff Verlag. 2006. Pp. viii, 393. [euro]24.80.) At the time of the Second Vatican Council, Germany...

Macht, Moral und Mehrheiten. Der politische Katholizismus in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und den USA seit 1960.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Macht, Moral und Mehrheiten. Der politische Katholizismus in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und den USA seit 1960. By Antonius Liedhegener. [Jenaer Beitrage zur Politikwissenschaft, Vol. 11.] (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. 2006. Pp....

L'Anticristo, Volume I: Il nemico dei tempi finali: Testi dal II al IV secolo.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... L'Anticristo, Volume I: Il nemico dei tempi finali: Testi dal II al IV secolo. Edited by Gian Luca Potesta and Marco Rizzi. [Scrittori Greci e Latini. Fondazione Lorenzo Valla.] (Milan: Arnaldo Mondadori Editore. 2005. Pp. xxxviii, 582....

Christian Persecution, Martyrdom, and Orthodoxy.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Christian Persecution, Martyrdom, and Orthodoxy. By G. E. M. de Ste. Croix. Edited by Michael Whitby and Joseph Streeter. (Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 394.) Geoffrey de Ste. Croix, who died in February 2000, was one of...

Konzilien und Synoden im spatantiken Gallien von 314 bis 696 nach Christi Geburt.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Konzilien und Synoden im spatantiken Gallien von 314 bis 696 nach Christi Geburt. Teil 1: Chronologische Darstellung; Teil 2: Zusammenschau wichtiger Themenkreise. By Josef Limmer. [Wissenschaft und Religion: Veroffentlichungen des...

Lo Spirito soffia nel deserto: Carismi, discernimento e autorita nel monachesimo egiziano antico.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Lo Spirito soffia nel deserto: Carismi, discernimento e autorita nel monachesimo egiziano antico. By Fabrizio Vecoli. [Scienze e Storia delle Religioni, Vol. 6.] (Brescia: Morcelliana. 2006. Pp. 279. [euro]20,00 paperback.) The subject of...

Two Nations in Your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Two Nations in Your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. By Israel Jacob Yuval. Translated by Barbara Horshav and Jonathan Chipman. (Berkeley: University of California Press. 2006. Pp. xxii, 313....

Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire. By Walter Goffart. [The Middle Ages Series.] (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. Pp. x, 372. $69.95. ISBN 0-8122-3939-3.) The Roman Empire is being...

Giovanni Climaco: La Scala del Paradiso.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Giovanni Climaco: La Scala del Paradiso. Edited and translated by Rosa Maria Parrinello. (Rome: Paoline Publications. 2007. Pp. 638. [euro]48,00.) Less than three decades ago, one would not have expected the ascetical writings of John...

Die Lebensbeschreibungen Bischof Burchards von Wurzburg: Vita Antiquior--Vita Posterior--Vita Metrica.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Die Lebensbeschreibungen Bischof Burchards von Wurzburg: Vita Antiquior--Vita Posterior--Vita Metrica. Edited by Desiree Barlava. [Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi, LXXVI.]...

De presbiteris criminosis: Ein Memorandum Erzbischof Hinkmars von Reims uber straffallige Kleriker.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... De presbiteris criminosis: Ein Memorandum Erzbischof Hinkmars von Reims uber straffallige Kleriker. Edited by Gerhard Schmitz, [Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Studien und Texte, Band 34.] (Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung. 2004. Pp. xii, 124....

Europa in costruzione. La forza delle identita, la ricerca di unita (secoli IX-XIII).(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Europa in costruzione. La forza delle identita, la ricerca di unita (secoli IX-XIII). Edited by Giorgio Cracco, Jacques Le Goff, Hagen Keller and Gherardo Ortalli. [Istituto trentino di cultura. Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in...

Salvo Burci. Liber suprastella.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Salvo Burci. Liber suprastella. Edited by Caterina Bruschi. [Fonti per la storia dell'Italia medievale. Antiquitates, 15.] (Rome: Istituto storico italiano per il Medio Evo. 2002. Pp. xxxvii, 528. [euro]98.00 paperback.) This work,...

The Corruption of Angels: The Great Inquisition of 1245-1246.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Corruption of Angels: The Great Inquisition of 1245-1246. By Mark Gregory Pegg (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2001. Pp. x, 238. $35.00.) William Blake had no use for a vision that was general and not focused on the particular,...

Promissory Notes on the Treasury of Merits: Indulgences in Late Medieval Europe.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Promissory Notes on the Treasury of Merits: Indulgences in Late Medieval Europe. Edited by R. N. Swanson. [Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, Vol. 5.] (Leiden: Brill. 2006. Pp. xii, 360. $124.00; [euro]95,00.) Since indulgences...

The Front-Runner of the Catholic Reformation: The Life and Works of Johann von Staupitz.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Front-Runner of the Catholic Reformation: The Life and Works of Johann von Staupitz. By Franz Posset. [St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishers. 2003. Pp. xxii, 398. $104.95.) Franz Posset's...

La Nativite et le temps de Noel, XVIIe-XXe siecle.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... La Nativite et le temps de Noel, XVIIe-XXe siecle. Edited by Regis Bertrand. (Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Universite de Provence. 2003. Pp. 254. [euro]24,00 paperback.) The two-thousandth anniversary of the date traditionally...

Das Papstzeremoniell der Renaissance. Texte--Musik--Performanz.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Das Papstzeremoniell der Renaissance. Texte--Musik--Performanz. By Jorg Boiling, [Tradition-Reform-Innovation: Studien zur Modernitat des Mittelalters, Band 12.] (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 2006. Pp. 330. $62.95 paperback.) In the...

Paralella cosmographica de sede et apparitionibus daemonum. Liber unus.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Paralella cosmographica de sede et apparitionibus daemonum. Liber unus. By Federico Borromeo. Edited by Francesco di Ciaccia. [Accademia di San Carlo, Fonti e studi, 5.] (Rome: Bulzoni Editore; Milan: Biblioteca Ambrosiana. 2006. Pp. 228....

La Venerable M. Maria de Jesus de Agreda y la Inmaculada Concepcion: El proceso eclesiastico a la "Mistica Ciudad de Dios.".(Book review)
January 1, 2008... La Venerable M. Maria de Jesus de Agreda y la Inmaculada Concepcion: El proceso eclesiastico a la "Mistica Ciudad de Dios." By Benito Mendia, O.F.M. [dagger], and Antonio M. Artola Arbiza, C.P. (Agreda, Spain: Monasterio de la Concepcion. 2004....

Bossuet a Metz (1652-1659). Les annees de formation et leurs prolongements. Actes du Colloque international de Metz (21-22 mai 2004).(Bossuet: Le Verbe et l'Histoire)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Bossuet a Metz (1652-1659). Les annees de formation et leurs prolongements. Actes du Colloque international de Metz (21-22 mai 2004). Edited by Anne-Elisabeth Spica. [Recherches en litterature et spiritualite, Vol. 10.] (Berne: Peter Lang....

Emblemata Sacra: Emblem Books from the Maurits Sabbe Library, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven [Exhibited in the] Francis A. Drexel Library, Saint Joseph's University.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Emblemata Sacra: Emblem Books from the Maurits Sabbe Library, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven [Exhibited in the] Francis A. Drexel Library, Saint Joseph's University. With a Preface by Joseph F. Chorpenning, O.S.F.S. Introduction by Rob Faesen,...

The Low Countries in the Sixteenth Century: Erasmus, Religion and Politics, Trade and Finance.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Low Countries in the Sixteenth Century: Erasmus, Religion and Politics, Trade and Finance. By James D. Tracy. [Variorum Collected Studies Series, 808.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2005. Pp. xii, 346. $124.95.) One...

A Poisoned Chalice.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... A Poisoned Chalice. By Jeffrey Freedman. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2002. Pp. xvii, 236. $32.95. ISBN 0-691-00233-9.) Jeffrey Freedman has written an engaging microhistory of an alleged poison plot in late eighteenth-century...

Heresy, Literature, and Politics in Early Modern English Culture.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Heresy, Literature, and Politics in Early Modern English Culture. Edited by David Loewenstein and John Marshall. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 318. $90.00.) This coherent and useful set of essays could be read with...

Le Pontificat de Leon XIII: Renaissances du Saint-Siege?(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Le Pontificat de Leon XIII: Renaissances du Saint-Siege? Edited by Philippe Levillain and Jean-Marc Ticchi. [Collection de l'Ecole francaise de Rome, Volume 368.] (Rome: Ecole Francaise de Rome. 2006. Pp.x, 523. paperback. ISBN: 2-7283-0754-7.)...

Vatican II and the Ecumenical Way.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Vatican II and the Ecumenical Way. By George H. Tavard. [Marquette Studies in Theology, No. 52.] (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press. 2006. Pp. $20.00 paperback.) During the last third of the twentieth century, the Second Vatican...

Catholicism, Popular Culture, and the Arts in Germany, 1880-1933.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Catholicism, Popular Culture, and the Arts in Germany, 1880-1933. By Margaret Stieg Dalton. (Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 378. $35.00 paperback.) "In the absence of anything better, kitsch with a Catholic...

Hitler's Bavarian Antagonist: Georg Moenius and the Allgemeine Rundschau of Munich, 1929-1933.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Hitler's Bavarian Antagonist: Georg Moenius and the Allgemeine Rundschau of Munich, 1929-1933. By Gregory Munro. (Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press. 2006. Pp. xxvi, 510. $139.95.) Gregory Munro's well-researched intellectual study...

Katholische Kirche und Nationalsozialismus, 1930-1945: Ein Bericht in Quellen.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Katholische Kirche und Nationalsozialismus, 1930-1945: Ein Bericht in Quellen. By Hubert Gruber. (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh Verlag. 2006. Pp. liv, 534. [euro]48,00.) This extensive volume adeptly puts together more than 250 documents...

Catholicism, Culture, Conversion: The History of the Jesuits in Albania (1841-1946).(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Catholicism, Culture, Conversion: The History of the Jesuits in Albania (1841-1946). By Ines A. Murzaku. [Orientalia Christiana Analecta, 277.] (Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale. 2006. Pp. 282,13 pages of photographs. Paperback.) The...

The Orthodox Church and Civil Society in Russia.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Orthodox Church and Civil Society in Russia. By Wallace L. Daniel. [Eugenia and Hugh M. Stewart '26 Series on Eastern Europe.] (College Station: Texas A & M University Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 251. $29.95.) Most works that assess the role...

The Church of England and the Holocaust: Christianity, Memory and Nazism.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Church of England and the Holocaust: Christianity, Memory and Nazism. By Tom Lawson. [Studies in Modern British Religious History, 12.] (Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press. 2006. Pp. x, 207. $80.00.) This book is a valuable addition...

The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past. Edited by Catherine A. Brekus. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2007. Pp. x, 340. $59.95 clothbound; $19.95 paperback.) Forty years ago there was little writing...

Citizens or Papists? The Politics of Anti-Catholicism in New York, 1685-1821.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Citizens or Papists? The Politics of Anti-Catholicism in New York, 1685-1821. By Jason K. Duncan. [Hudson Valley Heritage Series, 3.] (New York: Fordham University Press. 2005. Pp. xviii, 253. $70.00.) Jason Duncan analyzes the political...

The Rainbow Never Fades: Niagara University, 1856-2006.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Rainbow Never Fades: Niagara University, 1856-2006. By John B. Stranges. (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. 2007. Pp. xiv, 256. $42.95 paperback.) Niagara is the oldest, but least well known, of the nation's three Vincentian...

Ambition and Arrogance: Cardinal William O'Connell of Boston and the American Catholic Church.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Ambition and Arrogance: Cardinal William O'Connell of Boston and the American Catholic Church. By Douglas J. Slawson. (San Diego: Cobalt Productions. 2007. Pp. xiv, 232. $17.95 paperback.) This "is the story," Douglas J. Slawson writes, "of...

An Archbishop for the People: The Life of Edward J. Hanna.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... An Archbishop for the People: The Life of Edward J. Hanna. By Richard Gribble, C.S.C. (New York and Mahwah: Paulist Press. 2006. Pp. x, 416. $24.95 paperback.) Richard Gribble's biography of Archbishop Edward Hanna is both satisfying and...

The Sacred Scriptures and the Lutheran Confessions. Selected Writings of Arthur Carl Piepkorn.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Sacred Scriptures and the Lutheran Confessions. Selected Writings of Arthur Carl Piepkorn. Volume Two. Edited and Introduced by Philip J. Secker (Mansfield, Connecticut: CEC Press. 2007. Pp. xlviii, 313). Arthur Carl Piepkorn (1907-73)...

Needs of the Heart: A Social and Cultural History of Brazil's Clergy and Seminaries.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Needs of the Heart: A Social and Cultural History of Brazil's Clergy and Seminaries. By Kenneth P. Serbin. [Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies.] (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2006. Pp. xx, 476. $60.00.)...

Clerical Ideology in a Revolutionary Age: The Guadalajara Church and the Idea of the Mexican Nation (1788-1853).(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Clerical Ideology in a Revolutionary Age: The Guadalajara Church and the Idea of the Mexican Nation (1788-1853). By Brian F. Connaughton, Translated by Mark Alan Healey. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado and University of Calgary Press....

El Concilio Plenario de America Latina: Roma 1899.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... El Concilio Plenario de America Latina: Roma 1899. Edited by Anton Pazos and Diego Piccardo. [Acta Coloniensia: Estudios Ibericos y Latinoamericanos.] (Madrid: Iberoamericana, and Frankfurt am Main:Vervuert Verlag. 2002. Pp. 204 paperback.) ...

Francisco Varo's Glossary of the Mandarin Language. Volume I: An English and Chinese Annotation of the Vocabulario de la Lengua Mandarina. Volume II: Pinyin and English Index of the Vocabulario de la Lengua Mandarina.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Francisco Varo's Glossary of the Mandarin Language. Volume I: An English and Chinese Annotation of the Vocabulario de la Lengua Mandarina. Volume II: Pinyin and English Index of the Vocabulario de la Lengua Mandarina. By W. South Coblin....

Noble Patronage and Jesuit Missions: Maria Theresia von Fugger-Wellenburg (1690-1762) and Jesuit Missionaries in China and Vietnam.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Noble Patronage and Jesuit Missions: Maria Theresia von Fugger-Wellenburg (1690-1762) and Jesuit Missionaries in China and Vietnam. Edited by Ronnie Po-chia Hsia. [Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu, Series Nova, Volume 2.] (Rome: Institutum...

Breaking the Bounds: An Inaugural Lecture Given in the University of Cambridge, 16 February 2004.(BRIEF NOTICES)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Evans, G. R. Breaking the Bounds: An Inaugural Lecture Given in the University of Cambridge, 16 February 2004. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2004. Pp. 43. $11.00 paperback.) In 2003 Charles Clarke, the then Secretary of Education...

The People from Nowhere: An Illustrated History of Carpatho-Rusyns.(BRIEF NOTICES)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Magocsi, Paul Robert. The People from Nowhere: An Illustrated History of Carpatho-Rusyns. Commentary to illustrations by Valerii Padiak. (Uzhorod, Ukraine: V. Padiak Publishers. Distributed by Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center, 5304 Perry Highway,...

Heresies and How to Avoid Them: Why It Matters What Christians Believe.(BRIEF NOTICES)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Quash, Ben, and Michael Ward (Eds.). Heresies and How to Avoid Them: Why It Matters What Christians Believe. (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers. 2007. Pp. xii, 148. $16.95 paperback.) Within this book, edited by Ben Quash and...

Notes and comments.(Philatelic and Numismatic Museum, American Catholic History Research Center)
January 1, 2008... Vatican Library, Vatican Philatelic Museum, and Research Tools Among the various changes at the Vatican Library is the retirement of Father William Sheehan, C.S.B., as director of the Printed Books Department. He will remain at the library...

Periodical literature.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2008... General and Miscellaneous El Vaticano y la evolucion. La recepcion del darwinismo en el Archivo del Indice. Rafael A. Martinez. Scripta Theologica, XXXIX (May-Aug., 2007), 529-49. 100 Jahre nach der Modernismusenzyklika. Das Problem...

Other books received.
January 1, 2008... Akenson, Donald Harman. Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself. (Montreal and Kingston, London, and Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 349. $29.95.) Bergin, Liam (Ed.). According to Your Word:...