The Catholic Historical Review articles from July 2005

The Catholic Historical Review archives from July 2005

The cult of St. Anianus in the Carolingian period.
July 1, 2005... According to Sidonius Apollinaris, Anianus was the bishop of Orleans and the defender of the city against the attack of the Huns under Attila in 451. (1) This paper will examine the process of the development of Anianus's cult in the...

The intellectual origins of popular Catholicism: Catholic moral theology in the age of Enlightenment.
July 1, 2005... 1. Introduction: Catholic Enlightenment and Popular Catholicism One of the greatest paradoxes of modern Catholic history is that a seemingly moribund Old Regime Church gave way to a broad-based popular Catholic revival in the nineteenth...

Fighting over the fight in Spain: the pro-Franco campaign of Bishop Peter Amigo of Southwark.
July 1, 2005... For several decades historians, literary scholars, and others have investigated a relatively wide spectrum of British responses to and involvement in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. A cross-section of their production illustrates the...

Black, white, and Catholic: Southern Jesuits confront the race question, 1952.
July 1, 2005... In the summer of 1952, the New Orleans Province of the Society of Jesus rejected the practice of racial segregation. Basing their decision on Catholic philosophical and theological precepts, the Jesuits of the New Orleans Province examined the...

Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics, Past and Present.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics, Past and Present. By Oliver O'Donovan and Joan Lockwood O'Donovan. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2004. Pp. vi, 324. $35.00 paperback.) The authors of the dozen...

Religion and the Cold War.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Religion and the Cold War. Edited by Dianne Kirby. [Cold War History Series.] (New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. Pp. xiii, 245. $95.00.) Dianne Kirby, lecturer in the School of History and International Affairs at the University of...

Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature. By Gay L. Byron (New York: Routledge. 2002. Pp. xii, 223. $31.95.) Interest in ancient ethnic, cultural, and religious identities has experienced a dramatic increase...

Religion et Sepulture: L'Eglise, les vivants et les morts dans l'Antiquite tardive.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Religion et Sepulture: L'Eglise, les vivants et les morts dans l'Antiquite tardive. By Eric Rebillard. [Civilisations et societes, Vol. 15.] (Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales. 2003. Pp. 243. [euro]22.00.) ...

Didymus the Blind and his Circle in Late-Antique Alexandria: Virtue and Narrative in Biblical Scholarship.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Didymus the Blind and his Circle in Late-Antique Alexandria: Virtue and Narrative in Biblical Scholarship. By Richard A. Layton. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2004. Pp. ix, 217. $44.95.) Although well-known to patristic...

Word, Image and Experience: Dynamics of Miracle and Self-Perception in Sixth-Century Gaul.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Word, Image and Experience. Dynamics of Miracle and Self-Perception in Sixth-Century Gaul. By Giselle de Nie. [Variorum Collected Studies Series CS 771.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. 2003. Pp. xiv, 374. $114.95.) The seventeen published...

A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment. By Chris Lowney. (New York: Free Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 320. $26.00.) Lowney's contribution to the post-September 11, 2001, debate on interfaith relations takes the form of a...

The First Crusade. A New History.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... The First Crusade. A New History. By Thomas Asbridge. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. xvi, 408. $35.00.) This is essentially a popular history of the First Crusade, intended to provide a synthesis of the great volume of recent...

L'incontro tra due "invenzioni" medievali: Universita e Ordini Mendicanti.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... L'incontro tra due "invenzioni" medievali: Universita e Ordini Mendicanti. By Luigi Pellegrini. [Scienze storiche, Volume 13.] (Naples: Liguori Editore. 2003. Pp. ix, 175. [euro]14,00 paperback.) This book had its beginning in classroom...

Ecrire sa mort, decrire sa vie: Testaments de laics lausannois (1400-1450).(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Ecrire sa mort, decrire sa vie: Testaments de laics lausannois (1400-1450). By Lisane Lavanchy. [Cahiers lausannois d'histoire medievale, 32.] (Lausanne: Bureau d'histoire medievale, Faculte des Lettres, Universite de Lausanne. 2003. Pp. 381....

Sons, couleurs, odeurs dans la Cathedrale de Tournai au 15e siecle, Vol. I: Edition du ceremonial et des ordinaires, suivie du commentaire (I): Les acteurs, les lieux et le mobilier liturgique.(by Jacques Pycke)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Sons, couleurs, odeurs dans la Cathedrale de Tournai au 15e siecle, Vol. I: Edition du ceremonial et des ordinaires, suivie du commentaire (I): Les acteurs, les lieux et le mobilier liturgique. By Jacques Pycke. [Bibliotheque de la Revue...

The Reformation of the Image.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... The Reformation of the Image. By Joseph Leo Koerner. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2004. Pp. 493; 216 illustrations.) Koerner was born in the United States, and his early education was in both the English and German languages....

Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits: Traditional Belief and Folklore in Early Modern Europe.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits: Traditional Belief and Folklore in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Kathryn A. Edwards. [Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies, Vol. 62.] (Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press. 2002. Pp....

Exorcism and Its Texts: Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Exorcism and Its Texts: Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain. By Hilaire Kallendorf. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2003. Pp. xxi, 327. $65.00.) Over the last two decades there has been an explosion of...

Kozep-Europa harca a torok ellen a 16 szazad elso feleben [The Central-Europeans' struggle with the Turks during the former half of the sixteenth century].(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Kozep-Europa harca a torok ellen a 16 szazad elso feleben [The Central-Europeans' struggle with the Turks during the former half of the sixteenth century]. Edited by Istvan Zombori. (Budapest: METEM. 2004. Pp. 219.) When the new Ottoman...

Temps, Culture, Religions: Autour de Jean-Pierre Massaut.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Temps, Culture, Religions: Autour de Jean-Pierre Massaut. Edited by M. E. Henneau, C. Havelange, Ph. Denis, and J.-P. Delville. (Brussels: Editions Nauwelaerts; Louvain-la-Neuve: College Erasme. 2004. Pp. 386. Paperback.) Gathered together...

The Trail of Martyrdom: Persecution and Resistance in Sixteenth-Century England.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... The Trail of Martyrdom: Persecution and Resistance in Sixteenth-Century England. By Sarah Covington. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 288. $55.00 clothbound; $28.00 paperback.) This book is an...

Monumenta Borgia, VI (1478-1551). Sanctus Franciscus Borgia, Quartus Gandiae Dux et Societatis Iesu Praepositus Generalis Tertius (1510-1572).(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Monumenta Borgia, VI (1478-1551). Sanctus Franciscus Borgia, Quartus Gandiae Dux et Societatis Iesu Praepositus Generalis Tertius (1510-1572). Edited and with an introductory study by Enrique Garcia Hernan. [Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu,...

The Duke of Alba.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... The Duke of Alba. By Henry Kamen. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 2004. Pp. viii, 204; maps ix. $30.00.) This book aims not to replace William Maltby's now standard account (Alba: A Biography of Fernando Valvarez de Toledo, 1507-1582,...

The Politics of Piety: Franciscan Preachers during the Wars of Religion, 1560-1600.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... The Politics of Piety: Franciscan Preachers during the Wars of Religion, 1560-1600. By Megan C. Armstrong. (Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press. 2004. Pp. vii, 278. $75.00.) When I began my work on the French Wars of Religion...

Le istruzioni generali di Paolo V ai diplomatici pontifici 1605-1621.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Le istruzioni generali di Paolo V ai diplomatici pontifici 1605-1621. Edited by Silvano Giordano, O.C.D. 3 vols. [Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma.] (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. 2003. Pp. 1684, numbered consecutively.) Without...

Ferdinand von Furstenberg, Furstbischof von Paderborn und Munster: Friedensfurst und Guter Hirt.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Ferdinand von Furstenberg, Furstbischof von Paderborn und Munster: Friedensfurst und Guter Hirt. Edited by Nobert Borste and Jorg Ernesti. [Paderborner Theologische Studien, Band 42.] (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh. 2004. Pp. 634....

La Paix Clementine. Defaite et victoire du premier jansenisme francais sous le pontificat de Clement IX (1667-1669).(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... La Paix Clementine. Defaite et victoire du premier jansenisme francais sous le pontificat de Clement IX (1667-1669). By Philippe Dieudonne. [Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium, 167.] (Leuven: Leuven University Press, Uitgeverij...

The Catholic Church and Russia: Popes, Patriarchs, Tsars, and Commissars.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... The Catholic Church and Russia: Popes, Patriarchs, Tsars and Commissars. By Dennis J. Dunn. (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2004. Pp. xii, 260. $89.95.) Dunn's emphasis, seven of ten chapters, is on the era since 1917....

Baroness of the Ripetta: Letters of Augusta von Eichthal to Franz Xaver Kraus.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Baroness of the Ripetta: Letters of Augusta von Eichthal to Franz Xaver Kraus. By Robert Curtis Ayers. (Scottsdale, Arizona: Cloudbank Creations, Inc. 2004. Pp. iv, 245. $36.95 hardcover; $24.95 paperback.) Franz Xaver Kraus (1840-1901),...

Los anos de seminario de Josemaria Escriva en Zaragoza (1920-1925). El seminario de San Francisco de Paula.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Los anos de seminario de Josemaria Escriva en Zaragoza (1920-1925). El seminario de San Francisco de Paula. By Ramon Herrando Prat de la Riba. [Instituto Historico Josemaria Escriva--Roma, Monografias.] (Madrid: Ediciones Rialp, S.A. 2002. Pp....

Luigi Sturzo a Londra: Carteggi e documenti (1925-1946).(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Luigi Sturzo a Londra: Carteggi e documenti (1925-1946). Edited and with an introduction by Giovanna Farrell-Vinay. Translated from the English by Clara De Rosa. [Opera Omnia di Luigi Sturzo, Terza Serie, Scritti Vari, Volume IV-5.] (Soveria...

Philippe Aries and the Politics of French Cultural History.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Philippe Aries and the Politics of French Cultural History. By Patrick H. Hutton. [Critical Perspectives on Modern Culture.] (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2004. Pp. xxvii, 304; 20 illustrations. $80.00 clothbound; $24.95...

Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits. By Allan Greer. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 249. $30.00.) Allan Greer is Professor of American Colonial History at the University of Toronto, with several works to...

Unaffected by the Gospel. Osage Resistance to the Christian Invasion, 1673-1906: A Cultural Victory.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Unaffected by the Gospel. Osage Resistance to the Christian Invasion, 1673-1906: A Cultural Victory. By Willard Hughes Rollings. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 243. $45.00 hardcover; $22.95 paperback.) What...

Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions. By James A. Sandos. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 2004. Pp. xix, 251. $35.00.) James A. Sandos set a formidable task for himself in writing this new treatment of a...

The Irish in New Jersey: Four Centuries of American Life.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... The Irish in New Jersey: Four Centuries of American Life. By Dermot Quinn. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. 2004. Pp. x, 226. $26.95.) When I first opened The Irish in New Jersey I was a little put off by the first...

Catholic Daughters of the Americas: A Century in Review.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Catholic Daughters of the Americas: A Century in Review. By Berard L. Marthaler, OFM Conv., and Carol Dorr Clement. (New York: Catholic Daughters of the Americas and Mercury Publishing Services. 2003. Pp. vi, 151. $40.00.) The Catholic...

Mountain Sisters: From Convent to Community in Appalachia.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Mountain Sisters: From Convent to Community in Appalachia. By Helen M. Lewis and Monica Appleby. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2003. Pp. xxiv, 299. $35.00.) Mountain Sisters: From Convent to Community in Appalachia documents...

The Jesuit and the Incas: The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, S.J.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... The Jesuit and the Incas: The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, S.J. By Sabine Hyland. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 269. $30.00 clothbound; $18.95 paperback.) Hyland's thought-provoking biography of Father...

Missionaries on the Move: A Pastoral History of the Scalabrinians in Australia and Asia 1952-2002.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Missionaries on the Move: A Pastoral History of the Scalabrinians in Australia and Asia 1952-2002. By Desmond Cahill. (New York: Center for Migration Studies. 2004. Pp. xviii, 504. $29.95 paperback.) In 1878 Giovanni Battista Scalabrini was...

The Papacy Confronts the Modern World.(BRIEF NOTICES)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... COPPA, FRANK J. The Papacy Confronts the Modern World. [The Anvil Series.] (Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company. 2003. Pp. xii, 178. $19.50 paperback.) Dr. Frank J. Coppa, professor of history at St. John's University, has...

L'obituaire de Saint-Michel-sur-Orge.(BRIEF NOTICES)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... LEMAITRE, NICOLE. L'obituaire de Saint-Michel-sur-Orge. Avant-propos by Jean Favier. [Recueil des Historiens de la France, Obituaires, serie in-8[degrees], volume V.] (Paris: Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Diffusion de Boccard....

Gerhard Schundelen (1808-1876). Uebersetzer von Werken John Henry Newmans in Deutschland. Ein Beitrag zur Newman-Rezeption.(BRIEF NOTICES)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... SOBOTTA, JOHANNES. Gerhard Schundelen (1808-1876). Uebersetzer von Werken John Henry Newmans in Deutschland. Ein Beitrag zur Newman-Rezeption. (Leutesdorf: Johannes-Verlag. 2004. Pp. 190.) J. H. Newman's writings were especially since his...

Notes and comments.(American Catholic Historical Association's appintments and conferences)
July 1, 2005... Association News The President of the American Catholic Historical Association, Thomas Kselman of the University of Notre Dame, has appointed Maureen C. Miller of the University of California at Berkeley and Charles J. T. Talar of the...

Periodical literature.
July 1, 2005... GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS Die Katholische Kirche und die Fehler der Vergangenheit. Bruno Forte. Zeitschrift fur Missionswissenschaft und Religionswissenschaft, 89 (1, 2005), 3-11. New-Old Gospels: Rediscovering a Spurious History....

Other books received.
July 1, 2005... [Books that were sent to scholars for review but of which no review has been received are indicated by an asterisk.] Baker-Smith, Dominic. Collected Works of Erasmus, Volume 64. Expositions of the Psalms. Concionalis Interpretatio in...