The Catholic Historical Review articles from July 2003

The Catholic Historical Review archives from July 2003

Women in the Premonstratensian order of northwestern Germany, 1120-1250.
July 1, 2003... Written sometime before 1226, Jacques de Vitry's description of the Premonstratensian order is frequently cited as evidence of the harsh treatment of women within the order. (1) Although initially celebratory, de Vitry revealed that during his...

Between Islam and Catholicism: Bosnian Franciscan missionaries in Turkish Hungary, 1584-1716.
July 1, 2003... The work of the Bosnian Franciscan missionaries represents a peculiar episode in the history of Catholic renewal in Central Europe. By studying these developments, we may become acquainted with the manner in which the various denominations and...

Luis Martin Garcia, the Jesuit general of the modernist crisis (1892-1906): on historical criticism.
July 1, 2003... Introduction It is of very great importance to... see that the art of history... be no longer made the instrument of great harm.... Upright men, well versed in this branch of knowledge, are required to undertake the writing of history..,...

Confronting the "totalitarian Antichrist": Christopher Dawson and totalitarianism.
July 1, 2003... Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) is usually studied today as the twentieth century's premier British Roman Catholic historian or as a precocious cultural anthropologist. (1) Yet, as Russell Kirk noted in 1984, Dawson was also "one of the...

Gender, coeducation, and the transformation of Catholic identity in American Catholic higher education.
July 1, 2003... Much of the recent scholarship on American Catholic higher education in the twentieth century has focused on the demise of a unified Catholic intellectual tradition and the growing secularism and dependency upon laity in Catholic institutions....

Interpretations of church and state in Cuba, 1959-1961.
July 1, 2003... Unrestrained excitement greeted Fidel Castro when he entered Havana on January 8, 1959. More than any other leader of the revolutionary forces, he personified Cuba's potential to become a progressive and democratic republic. Castro's immense...

The New Jesuit Historical Encyclopedia.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Diccionario Historico de la Compania de Jesus. Edited by Charles E. O'Neill, S.J., and Joaquin M. Dominguez, S.I. 4 vols. (Rome: Institutum Historicum S.I.; Madrid: Universidad Pontificia Comillas. 2001. Pp. 980; 981-2020; 2021-3124; 3125-4110....

I nuovi perseguitati: Indagine sulla intolleranza anticristiana nel nuevo secolo del martirio.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... By Antonio Socci. (Casale Montferrato: Edizioni Piemme, 2002. Pp. 160. 8,90 [euro] paperback.) This book is concerned with the persecution of Christians in our times mainly because of Communism and Islam as a graph at the end of the book...

Gottes Spurensucher: Zwanzig christliche Profile der Neuzeit.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By Victor Conzemius. (Freiburg: Herder. 2002. Pp. 327. 29.90. [euro]) Students of nineteenth- and twentieth-century church history are heavily indebted to the Luxembourg priest, long resident in Luzern, Victor Conzemius. The editor of four...

Say Little, Do Much: Nurses, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By Sioban Nelson. [Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving.] (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. Pp. v, 237. $55.00.) Sioban Nelson's study of Catholic women religious engaged in nursing is a succinct and original...

Cyprian the Bishop.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By J. Patout Burns, Jr. (London and New York: Routledge. 2002. Pp. xi, 240. $29.95 paperback.) Burns's monograph is concentrated on the development of the theology of Cyprian in the middle of the third century, especially of the theology...

Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages: Sight, Spectacle, and the Scopic Economy.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By Madeline H. Caviness (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. Pp. x, 231. $55.00.) Madeline H. Caviness spent the first several decades of her career writing books on medieval stained glass that were widely-acclaimed...

The Crusades: the Essential Readings.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Edited by Thomas F. Madden. [Blackwell Essential Readings in History.] (Williston, Vermont: Blackwell Publishing. 2002. Pp. xii, 276; 2 maps. $62.95 hardback; $26.95 paperback.) This volume is part of Blackwell's series "Essential Readings...

English Episcopal Acta, 19: Salisbury, 1078-1217.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Edited by B. R. Kemp. (New York: Oxford University Press, for The British Academy. 1999. Pp. cxxiii, 213. $74.00.) Episcopal acta are the documented decisions of medieval bishops regarding a variety of administrative concerns encompassing...

The Latin Chronicle of the Kings of Castile.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Translated with an introduction and notes by Joseph F. O'Callaghan. [Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Volume 236.] (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University. 2002. Pp. xlii, 150. $ 24.00.)...

Inquisition and Power. Catharism and the Confessing Subject in Medieval Languedoc.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By John H. Arnold (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. Pp. ix, 311.) John Arnold has chosen as his epigraph this passage from T. J. Jackson Lears: Studying consumers through the eyes of market researchers is a...

The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Volume V. Edited by T. C. B. Timmins. [The Canterbury and York Society, Vol. XCIII.] (Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. x, 241. $50.00.) This fifth volume (Capitula) of Melton's register has not quite reached the halfway...

Selling the Church: the English Parish in Law, Commerce, and Religions, 1350-1550.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By Robert C. Palmer. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. xiii, 330. $49.95.) In this fascinating account of the English parish from a legal point of view, Robert Palmer explores how the Reformation changed the...

Religious Warfare in Europe, 1400-1536.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By Norman Housley. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 238.) Norman Housley, who has already published extensively on the crusades in the later Middle Ages, has now written an analysis of the relation of religion to armed...

Die Heiligenerhebung Bennos von Meissen (1523/24): Spatmittelalterliche Frommigkeit, landesherrliche Kirchenpolitik und reformatorische Kritik im albertinischen Sachsen in der fruhen Reformationszeit.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By Christoph Volkmar. [Reformationsgeschichtliche Studien und Texte, Vol. 146.] (Munster: Aschendorff Verlag. 2002. Pp. vi, 230. 34 [euro] paperback.) For more than thirty years Benno of Meissen--an eleventh-century Saxon bishop, among the...

Hatred in Print: Catholic Propaganda and Protestant Identity during the French Wars of Religion.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By Luc Racaut. [St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing. 2002. Pp. xiv, 161. $74.95.) No one today questions the importance of printing for the success of the Protestant Reformation. Elizabeth...

Litterae missionariorum de Hungaria et Transilvania (1572-1717).(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Vol. I. Edited by Istvan Gyorgy Toth. [Bibliotheca Academiae Hungariae, Roma, Fontes 4.] (Rome-Budapest: History Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 2002, Pp. 756.3000 Forint.) This very thick first volume of a source collection...

Mademoiselle de Joncoux: Polemique Janseniste a la veille de la bulle Unigenitus.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By F. Ellen Weaver. (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf. 2002. Pp. 359. 25 [euro] paperback.) This scholarly biography explores the life and work of an author whose contributions were so veiled in obscurity that she was known to her friends as...

Paris: Capitale religieuse sous le Second Empire.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By Jacques-Olivier Boudon. [Histoire religieuse de la France, Vol. 18] (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf. 2001. Pp. 560. 30 [euro].) In the famous phrase of Walter Benjamin, Paris was "the capital of the nineteenth century." For Benjamin, and...

Wilhelm II. und die Religion: Facetten einer Personlichkeit und ihres Umfelds.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Edited by Stefan Samerski. [Forschungen zur Brandenburgisehen und Preussischen Geschichte, neue Folge, Beiheft 5.] (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 2001. Pp. 320. DM 138.00 paperback.) Recent writings regarding the person, career, and reign of...

Spies in the Vatican: Espionage & Intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By David Alvarez. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2002. Pp. ix, 341. $34.95.) There are few studies in English, or any other language, of the surveillance operations and intelligence activities of the Powers at the Vatican....

Popes and Politics: Reform, Resentment and the Holocaust.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... By Justus George Lawler. (New York: Continuum Publishing Group. 2002. Pp. 252. $24.95.) This is a disappointing book. With all of the controversy over Pope Pins XII and the Holocaust, one would have hoped for a more critical and readable...

American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By Dean Grodzins. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. xv, 632. $39.95.) Among American religious movements, Transcendentalism stirs nearly continual scholarly interest. Intellectualism is part of the...

Father Francis M. Craft: Missionary to the Sioux.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By Thomas W. Foley. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2002. Pp. xvii, 197; 2 maps; 17 photos. $45.00 cloth.) Following the Civil War, the United States government undertook a massive reform of its Indian policy, replacing the...

St. Agnes Chapel of the Parish of Trinity Church in the City of New York 1892-1943.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By Francis J. Sypher, Jr. (New York: Parish of Trinity Church in the City of New York. 2002. Pp. 160. $20.00.) This is a gem of a book. Although small in size--the text is only 160 pages-it is packed with information, the greater part of it...

Religion and Public Life: the Legacy of Monsignor John A. Ryan.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Edited by Robert G. Kennedy, Mary Christine Athans, Bernard V. Brady, William C. McDonough, and Michael J. Naughton. (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. 2001. Pp. vi, 384. Paperback.) This collection of essays emerged from a...

Spanish American Saints and the Rhetoric of Identity, 1600-1810.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By Ronald J. Morgan. (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press. 2002. Pp. x, 238. $45.00.) Spanish American Saints and the Rhetoric of Identity, 1600-1810, develops a topic favored by Latin Americanists in the last decade: How did the...

Lost for Words?: Brazilian Liberationism in the 1990s.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By Goetz Frank Ottmann. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 227. $ 39.95.) Liberation Theology has been, in many quarters, dismissed as a thing of the past, a radical theological fad that ran its course. This...

Bellitto, Christopher M. The General Councils: A History of the Twenty-One Church Councils from Nicaea to Vatican II.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... (Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 156. $16.95 softcover.) In this compact volume, Christopher Bellitto offers a concise overview of the twenty-one general councils from Nicaea In 325 to the Second Vatican Council in the...

Schrems, Suzanne H. Uncommon Women, Unmarked Trails: The Courageous Journey of Catholic Missionary Sisters in Frontier Montana.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... (Norman, Oklahoma: Horse Creek Publications. 2003. Pp. viii, 118. $15.95 paperback.) In her introduction to Uncommon Women, Unmarked Trails, Suzanne Schrems rightly asserts that stories of Jesuit priests dominate the history of...

Weber, Francis J. Santa Margarita de Cortona Asistencia: a Forgotten Missionary Foundation Along California's El Camino Real.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... (Mission Hills, California: Saint Francis Historical Society. 2003. Pp. 45. $7.00 paperback.) Monsignor Weber, noted historian of the California missions, has filled an important gap in the history of Franciscan evangelization on the...

Association news.(American Catholic Historical Association)
July 1, 2003... The president of the American Catholic Historical Association, Bernard McGinn, has appointed Augustine Thompson, O.P., of the University of Virginia, to the Committee on the John Gilmary Shea Prize for a three-year term. The committee now...

The spring meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association.(University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, March 28-29, 2003 )
July 1, 2003... The University of Scranton in Pennsylvania hosted the spring meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association on March 28 and 29, 2003. Fifty-nine papers were presented at twenty-three sessions which took place in the University's...

Meetings, congresses, conferences, and seminars.
July 1, 2003... At the thirty-eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies, held at Kalamazoo, Michigan on May 8-11, 2003, the American Cusanus sponsored two sessions of interest to church historians. In one, entitled "Nicholas of Cusa and Tradition;...

Causes of Saints.
July 1, 2003... In Madrid on May 4, 2003, Pope John Paul II canonized five Spaniards. Two were priests, namely, Pedro Poveda (1874-1936), founder of the Teresian Association (dedicated to the spiritual and pastoral formation of teachers), who was martyred in...

Publications.
July 1, 2003... For its combined number 36-37 (2002) Heresis has published a thematic issue on "Heretiques ou Dissidents? Reflexions sur l'identite de l'heresie au Moyen Age." It contains the papers presented at a seminar organized by the Centre d'Etudes...

Personal notice.(Paul F. Grendler receives American Historical Assocation's 2002 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Paul F. Grendler, professor emeritus of history in the University of Toronto, article editor of Renaissance Quarterly, and past president of the American Catholic Historical Association (1984), was awarded the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize...

Correction.(correction to review of 'Correspondance: Repertoire, Tome I: 1816-1839,' of Henri-Dominique Lacordaire in the April 2003 issue)(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)
July 1, 2003... In the review of the Correspondance: Repertoire, Tome I: 1816-1839, of Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, which was published in the April issue, a typographical error occurred on page 309, line 29. Instead of "and no one needs this edition of the...

Periodical literature.
July 1, 2003... GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS Chiesa romana e Oriente cristiano tra storia ed ecclesiologia. Cesare Alzati. Ricerche di Storia Soctale e Religiosa, XXX (July-Dec., 2002), 7-35. "The Joyous History of Devotion and Memory of the Grandeur of...

Other books received.
July 1, 2003... [Books that were sent to scholars for review but of which no review has been received are indicated by an asterisk.] Amato, Joseph. Mounter and Maritain: A French Catholic Understanding of the Modern World. (Ypsilanti, Mich.: Sapientia...