The Catholic Historical Review articles from July 2004

The Catholic Historical Review archives from July 2004

Teaching in the "Schole of Christ": law, learning, and love in early Lollard pacifism.
July 1, 2004... In June, 1391, while in hiding after being charged with heresy, Leicester's notorious Wycliffite preacher, William Swinderby, wrote a letter to his accuser, the bishop of Hereford, John Trefnant, in which he retracted his earlier recantation...

Baffling the Blatant Beast: Robert Persons' anti-appellant rhetoric, 1601-1602.(Biography)
July 1, 2004... In Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book VI (published in 1596), Sir Calidore, the patron knight of courtesy, is commissioned to baffle the Blatant Beast of slander and repair the damage he has caused. In an ecclesiastical context, it appears...

Propaganda wars: Stimmen der Zeit and the Nazis, 1933-1935.
July 1, 2004... By 1935 Adolf Hitler had silenced most politically suspect organizations and publications in Germany. Among those targeted were operations associated with political parties, labor unions, socialism, and unco-operative or undesirable ethnic...

Public presence, public silence: nuns, bishops, and the gendered space of early Chicago.
July 1, 2004... When the Sisters of Mercy arrived from Ireland in 1843, on the way to their first American home in Pittsburgh, William Quarter joined the priests who greeted them at the New York City dock. Recently appointed bishop of the new diocese of...

Liturgical expressions of episcopal power: Juan de Palafox y Mendoza and Tridentine reform in colonial Mexico.
July 1, 2004... When the Minister of Culture for the State of Puebla, Hector Azar, organized the 350th anniversary festivities for the Biblioteca Palafoxiana in 1996, he included a concert of epigraphs and sonnets set to classical music in the city's...

Religious Art in the Nineteenth Century in Europe and America.(General)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Religious Art in the Nineteenth Century in Europe and America. By Thomas Buser. Book 1 and Book 2. [Studies in Art and Religious Interpretation, Volumes 28a and 28b.] (Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press. 2002. Pp. xv, 242; iv, 243-566.)...

Modern Catholic Social Teaching: The Popes Confront the Industrial Age, 1740-1958.(General)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Modern Catholic Social Teaching: The Popes Confront the Industrial Age 1740-1958. By Joe Holland. (New York and Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 404. $29.95 paperback.) This is an original and notable treatment of the...

Roman Catholics and Shi'i Muslims: Prayer, Passion, & Politics.(General)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Roman Catholics and Shi'i Muslims: Prayer, Passion, & Politics. By James A. Bill and John Alden Williams. (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. xiv, 194. $24.95; $17.95 paperback.) Seldom has the...

Studi su Clemente Romano: Atti degli Incontri di Roma, 29 marzo e 22 novembre 2001.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Studi su Clemente Romano: Atti degli Incontri di Roma, 29 marzo e 22 novembre 2001. Edited by Philippe Luisier, S.J. [Orientalia Christiana Analecta 268.] (Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale. 2003. Pp. 226. Paper-back.) The eight essays...

The Medieval Cult of Saint Dominic of Silos.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The Medieval Cult of Saint Dominic of Silos. By Anthony Lappin. [Modern Humanities Research Association Texts and Dissertations, Volume 56.] (Leeds: Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association. 2002. Pp. xiii, 445....

Gregor VII. Papst zwischen Canossa und Kirchenreform.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Gregor VII. Papst zwischen Canossa und Kirchenreform. By Uta-Renate Blumenthal. [Gestalten des Mittelalters und der Renaissance.] (Darmstadt: Primus Verlag. 2001. Pp. xiii, 376; 8 illus. DM 59.) Modern examinations of Gregory's skeletal...

Robert of Arbrissel: A Medieval Religious Life.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Robert of Arbrissel: A Medieval Religious Life. Translated and annotated by Bruce L. Venarde. [Medieval Texts in Translation.] (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2003. Pp. xxxv, 156. $21.95 paperback.) The...

The Second Crusade: Scope and Consequences.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The Second Crusade: Scope and Consequences. Edited by Jonathan Phillips and Martin Hoch. (Manchester: Manchester University Press. Distributed in the United States by Palgrave, New York. 2001. Pp. xxi, 234. Paperback.) This is a collection...

Individuals, Families, and Communities in Europe, 1200-1800: The Urban Foundations of Western Society.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Individuals, Families, and Communities in Europe, 1200-1800: The Urban Foundations of Western Society. By Katherine A. Lynch. [Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, 37.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003....

Between God and Man: Six Sermons on the Priestly Office.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Pope Innocent III, Between God and Man: Six Sermons on the Priestly Office. Translated with an Introduction by Corinne J. Vause and [dagger]Frank C. Gardiner. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2004. Pp. xxxi, 131....

The Roman Curia, the Apostolic Penitentiary and the Partes in the Later Middle Ages.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The Roman Curia, the Apostolic Penitentiary and the Partes in the Later Middle Ages. Edited by Kirsi Salonen and Christian Krotzl. [Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, Vol. 28.] (Rome: Institutum Romanum Finlandiae. 2003. Pp. iii, 213. $30.00...

Philosophy and Politics in the Thought of John Wyclif.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Philosophy and Politics in the Thought of John Wyclif. By Stephen E. Lahey. [Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought (Fourth Series).] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. x, 241. $60.00.) In this highly technical work,...

Erfurter Juristen im Spatmittelalter: Die Karrieremuster und Tatigkeitsfelder einer gelehrten Elite des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Erfurter Juristen im Spatmittelalter: Die Karrieremuster und Tatigkeitsfelder einer gelehrten Elite des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts. By Robert Gramsch. [Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Vol. 17.] (Leiden: E.J. Brill. 2003....

Tannenberg and After: Lithuania, Poland, and the Teutonic Order in Search of Immortality.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Tannenberg and After: Lithuania, Poland, and the Teutonic Order in Search of Immortality. By William Urban. (Chicago: Lithuanian Research and Studies Center. 1999. Pp. xxxii, 500. $38.50 paperback.) For more than three decades, Urban has...

Tyranny under the Mantle of St Peter: Pope Paul II and Bologna.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Tyranny under the Mantle of St Peter: Pope Paul II and Bologna. By Ian Robertson. [Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies (formerly Binghamton Medieval and Early Modern Studies), Volume 5.] (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers N.V. 2002. Pp. x, 245....

Europa Sacra: Raccolte agiografiche e identita politiche in Europa fra Medioevo ed Eta moderna.(Ancient and Medieval)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Europa Sacra: Raccolte agiografiche e identita politiche in Europa fra Medioevo ed Eta moderna. Edited by Sofia Boesch Gajano and Raimondo Michetti. (Rome: Carocci Editore. 2002. Pp. 432. [euro]26.40 paperback.) The papers reproduced in...

Creating Christian Granada: Society & Religious Culture in an Old-World Frontier City, 1492-1600.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Creating Christian Granada: Society & Religious Culture in an Old-World Frontier City, 1492-1600. By David Coleman. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 252. $39.95 clothbound.) "When did Granada become a Christian...

Camaldolese Extraordinary: The Life, Doctrine, and Rule of Blessed Paul Giustiniani.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Camaldolese Extraordinary: The Life, Doctrine, and Rule of Blessed Paul Giustiniani. By Dom Jean Leclercq and Blessed Paul Giustiniani. Edited by the Camaldolese Hermits of Monte Corona. (Bloomington, Ohio: Ercam Editions. 2003. Pp. xii, 536....

The Correspondence of Reginald Pole, Vol. 1.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The Correspondence of Reginald Pole. Volume 1: A Calendar, 1518-1546: Beginnings to Legate of Viterbo. By Thomas F. Mayer. [St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History.] (Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Co. 2002. Pp. xvi, 378. $89.95.)...

Popular Politics and the English Reformation.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Popular Politics and the English Reformation. By Ethan H. Shagan. [Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xiv, 341. $75.00 hardbound; $28.00 paperback.) A great deal of...

Die doppelte Konfessionalisierung in Irland: Konflikt und Koexistenz im 16. Jahrhundert und in der ersten Halfte des 17. Jahrhunderts.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Die doppelte Konfessionalisierung in Irland: Konflikt und Koexistenz im 16. Jahrhundert und in der ersten Halfte des 17. Jahrhunderts. By Ute Lotz-Heumann. (Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck. 2000. Pp. xi, 510. DM 198,00.) Traditionally,...

Registres du Consistoire de Geneve au temps de Calvin, Tome II (1545-1546).(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Registres du Consistoire de Geneve au temps de Calvin, Tome II (1545-1546). Edited by Thomas A. Lambert, Isabella M. Watt, and Wallace McDonald under the direction of Robert M. Kingdon. [Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, No. CCCLII.] (Geneva:...

Olympia Morata. The Complete Writings of an Italian Heretic.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Olympia Morata. The Complete Writings of an Italian Heretic. Edited and Translated by Holt N. Parker. [The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe.] (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 2003. Pp. xxxiii, 275. $22.50 paperback.) ...

The Politics of Religion in the Age of Mary, Queen of Scots, the Earl of Argyll and the Struggle for Britain and Ireland.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The Politics of Religion in the Age of Mary, Queen of Scots, The Earl of Argyll and the Struggle for Britain and Ireland. By Jane E. A. Dawson [Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp....

The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors. By Robert Bireley. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 300. $65.00.) Thanks to the scholarship of Professor Bireley, a Jesuit historian at Loyola...

Glimpses of Glory: John Bunyan and English Dissent.(Early Modern European)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Glimpses of Glory: John Bunyan and English Dissent. By Richard L. Greaves. (Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2002. Pp. xxi, 693. $75.00.) Richard Greaves is a redoubtable historian of seventeenth-century English Protestantism. Since...

Bernadette of Lourdes: Her Life, Death and Visions.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Bernadette of Lourdes: Her Life, Death and Visions. By Therese Taylor. (London and New York: Burns and Oates, A Continuum Imprint. 2003. Pp. ix, 335.) Therese Taylor sets herself the task of writing a "scholarly biography" of Bernadette of...

Stuart Headlam's Radical Anglicanism: The Mass, the Masses, and the Music Hall.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Stuart Headlam's Radical Anglicanism: The Mass, the Masses, and the Music Hall. By John Richard Orens. [Studies in Anglican History.] (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 184. $29.95.) The nineteenth-century...

A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People. By Nadieszda Kizenko [The Penn State Series in Lived Religious Experience.] (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2000. Pp. xiv, 376. $65.00 clothbound;...

Kirchengeschichte der Ukraine im 20. Jahrhundert: Von der Epochenwende des ersten Weltkrieges bis zu den Anfangen in einem unabhangigen ukrainischen Staat.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Kirchengeschichte der Ukraine im 20. Jahrhundert: Von der Epochenwende des ersten Weltkrieges bis zu den Anfangen in einem unabhangigen ukrainischen Staat. By Friedrich Heyer. (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2003. Pp. 556.) The first...

Religion and Nation in Modern Ukraine.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Religion and Nation in Modern Ukraine. By Sherhii Plokhy and Frank E. Sysyn. (Edmonton and Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 216.) This is a collection of eleven papers on religious-national trends in...

Catholic Theologians in Nazi Germany.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Catholic Theologians in Nazi Germany. By Robert Krieg. (New York: Continuum. 2004. Pp. x, 234. $24.95.) Krieg's study of Catholic theologians during the Hitlerzeit complements Robert Ericksen's study of Protestants, Theologians under...

The Battle for Rome. The Germans, the Allies, the Partisans, and the Pope, September 1943-June 1944.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The Battle for Rome. The Germans, the Allies, the Partisans, and the Pope, September 1943-June 1944. By Robert Katz. (New York: Simon & Schuster. 2003. Pp. xxiv, 418. $28.00 clothbound; $16.00 paperback.) We know what happened afterward:...

The Very Rich Hours of Jacques Maritain: A Spiritual Life.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The Very Rich Hours of Jacques Maritain: A Spiritual Life. By Ralph M. McInerny. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2003. Pp. viii, 235. $32.00.) Jacques Maritain: An Intellectual Profile. By Jude P. Dougherty....

Quelle neutralite face a l'horreur? Le courage de Charles Journet.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Quelle neutralite face a l'horreur? Le courage de Charles Journet. By Guy Boissard. (Saint-Martin: Editions Saint-Augustin. 2000. Pp. 455. [euro]22.71.) Cardinal Charles Journet (1891-1975) is remembered principally as the Swiss theologian...

The Communitarian Third Way: Alexandre Marc's Ordre Nouveau, 1930-2000.(Late Modern European)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The Communitarian Third Way: Alexandre Marc's Ordre Nouveau, 1930-2000. By John Hellman. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2002. Pp. xxiv, 296. Cdn $55.00, US $39.95.) The decade of the 1930's produced massive...

The Protestant Voice in American Pluralism.(American)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The Protestant Voice in American Pluralism. By Martin E. Marty. [George H. Shriver Lecture Series in Religion in American History, No. 2.] (Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 84. $22.95.) Based on a series of lectures...

Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday.(American)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday. By Alexis McCrossen. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 2000. Pp. xiii, 209. $39.95.) This well-written study of Sunday in the United States provides a fascinating cultural history of rest...

The Jesuits in the United States: The Italian Heritage.(American)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The Jesuits in the United States: The Italian Heritage. By Vincent A. Lapomarda. (Worcester, Massachusetts: The Jesuits of Holy Cross College, Inc. 2004. Pp. x, 178. Paperback.) In his second volume of Italian-American History, entitled The...

In the Richness of the Earth: A History of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee 1843-1958.(American)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... In the Richness of the Earth: A History of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee 1843-1958. By Steven M. Avella. (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press. 2002. Pp. xiv, 799. $45.00 paperback.) In the Richness of the Earth by Steven M. Avella is, in...

Fordham: A History and Memoir.(American)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Fordham: A History and Memoir. By Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. (Chicago: Loyola Press. 2002. Pp. xxx, 424. $16.95 paperback.) Raymond A. Schroth makes good on both parts of his subtitle: his Fordham is both a history and a memoir. Since he...

The History of the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn in Ireland and America.(American)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The History of the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn in Ireland and America. By Emmett Corry, O.S.F. (New York: St. Francis College. 2003. Pp. xxiv, 365. $15.00 paperback.) Brother Emmett Corry's book is not so much a history of the Brooklyn...

Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy in the Presbyterian Church.(American)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy in the Presbyterian Church. By Bonnie Sue Lewis. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2003. Pp. xix, 304. $34.95 hardcover.) Until recently most historians who have examined encounters between...

The Passion of Abby Hemenway: Memory, Spirit, and the Making of History.(American)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The Passion of Abby Hemenway: Memory, Spirit, and the Making of History. By Deborah Pickman Clifford. (Montpelier: Vermont Historical Society. Distributed by University Press of New England, Hanover. 2001. Pp. x, 350. $40.00 cloth; $24.95...

Leper Priest of Moloka'i: The Father Damien Story.(American)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Leper Priest of Moloka'i: The Father Damien Story. By Richard Stewart. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2000. Pp. ix, 444. $49.00 clothbound; $24.95 paperback.) Blessed Damien DeVeuster of Moloka'i (1840-1889) attracted the...

Religion in America Since 1945: A History.(American)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Religion in America Since 1945: A History. By Patrick Allitt. [Columbia Histories of Modern American Life.] (New York: Columbia University Press. 2004. Pp. xviii, 313. $30.00.) Any writer who has attempted to track a subject through a long...

Governing Charities: Church and State in Toronto's Catholic Archdiocese, 1850-1950.(Canadian)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Governing Charities: Church and State in Toronto's Catholic Archdiocese, 1850-1950. By Paula Maurutto. [McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, Series Two.] (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2003. Pp. xiv, 194....

Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome: A Descriptive Catalogue: Japonica-Sinica I-IV.(Chinese)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome. A Descriptive Catalogue: Japonica-Sinica I-IV. By Albert Chan, S.J. (Armonk, New York, and London: M. E. Sharpe. 2002. Pp. xliii, 626. $145.00.) After the death of Francis Xavier...

O God of Players: The Story of the Immaculata Mighty Macs.(Brief Notices)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Byrne, Julie. O God of Players: The Story of the Immaculata Mighty Macs. (New York: Columbia University Press. 2003. Pp. xix, 291. $59.50 clothbound; $22.50 paperback.) In this book, a reworked dissertation, the author examines religion by...

The Office of a Bishop (De Officio viri boni et probi episcopi).(Brief Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Contarini, Gasparo. The Office of a Bishop (De Officio viri boni et probi episcopi). Introduced, Translated and Edited by John Patrick Donnelly, S.J. [Reformation Texts with Translation, 1350-1650.] (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press. 2002....

Was the Church Too Democratic? Councils, Collegiality and the Church's Future.(Brief Notices)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Tanner, Norman, S.J. Was the Church Too Democratic? Councils, Collegiality and the Church's Future. [Bishop Jonas Thaliath Endowment Lectures No. 5.] (Bangalore, India: Dharmaram Publications [e-mail address: thotaka@bgl.vsnl.net.in]. 2003. Pp....

Warriors of the Lord: The Military Orders of Christendom.(Brief Notices)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Walsh, Michael. Warriors of the Lord: The Military Orders of Christendom. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2003. Pp. 208. $28.00.) Warriors of the Lord surveys the history of the Christian military religious...

Notes and comments.
July 1, 2004... Association News The President of the American Catholic Historical Association, Christopher J. Kauffman, has appointed Mary Elizabeth Brown of Marymount Manhattan College to the Committee on the John Gilmary Shea Prize for a three-year...

Periodical literature.
July 1, 2004... GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS "Vicarius Petri": la mutevole continuita di un'antica denominazione. Maurizio Barba. Ephemerides Liturgicae, CXVII (Oct.-Dec., 2003), 385-399. De la gloire a la survie: les Facultes de theologie en France du...

Other books received.
July 1, 2004... Adorno, Rolena, and Ivan Boserup. New Studies of the Autograph Manuscript of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's "Nueva coronica y buen gobierno". (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. Distributed in the United States by ISBS, Portland, Ore. 2003....