The Catholic Historical Review articles from July 2007

The Catholic Historical Review archives from July 2007

Abbot Hugh: an overlooked brother of Henry I, count of Champagne.
July 1, 2007... Hugh (d. 1171), a natural son of Count Thibaut IV of Blois and II of Champagne (d.1152), was a half-brother of Count Henry I of Champagne (1127-1181) and Adele (d. 1206), queen of France and mother of Philip Augustus. A knight wounded in...

The human body as a universe: understanding Heaven by visualization and sensibility in Jesuit cartography in China.
July 1, 2007... This paper discusses the religious meaning of Jesuit world maps that were produced in China by their missionaries from the late sixteenth to the seventeenth centuries. These world maps serve as a visual proof to emphasize the greatness of the...

Avery Dulles, St. Benedict's center, and no salvation outside the Church, 1940-1953.
July 1, 2007... This essay argues that historians of American Catholicism have paid little attention to the issue of the relationship between the Church and salvation. The issue has been important in American Catholic thought since the time of John Carroll,...

My life of learning.(MISCELLANY)(religious learning)(Personal account)
July 1, 2007... Aunt Annie, Uncle, and their grown son Paul lived next door to us. They were Easthoms, my mother's family on her mother's side. The Easthoms were supposedly Methodists, but they smoked, drank, carried on, and never were known to darken a church...

English Catholicism under Mary Tudor.(Reforming Catholicism in the England of Mary Tudor: The Achievement of Friar Bartolome Carranza)(The Church of Mary Tudor)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Reforming Catholicism in the England of Mary Tudor: The Achievement of Friar Bartolome Carranza. Edited by John Edwards and Ronald Truman. (Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2005. Pp. xx, 235. $94.95.) The Church of Mary...

Laicization and its discontents in early twentieth-century France.(Le Grand Exil des congregations religieuses francaises, 1901-1914: Colloque international de Lyon Universite Jean-Moulin-Lyon-III 12-13 juin 2003)(Les paroisses parisiennes devant la Separation des Eglises et de l'Etat, 1901-1908)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Le Grand Exil des congregations religieuses francaises, 1901-1914: Colloque international de Lyon Universite Jean-Moulin-Lyon-III 12-13 juin 2003. Edited by Patrick Cabanel and Jean-Dominique Durand. (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf. 2005. Pp. 489....

Reforming the Church before Modernity: Patterns, Problems, and Approaches.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Reforming the Church before Modernity: Patterns, Problems, and Approaches. Edited by Christopher M. Bellitto and Louis I. Hamilton. [Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West.] (Aldershot, England and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate...

Six Hundred Years of Reform: Bishops and the French Church, 1190-1789.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Six Hundred Years of Reform: Bishops and the French Church, 1190-1789. By J. Michael Hayden and Malcolm R. Greenshields. [McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, volume 37.] (Montreal, Kingston, London, and Ithaca: McGill-Queen's...

The Sheed and Ward Anthology of Catholic Philosophy.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Sheed and Ward Anthology of Catholic Philosophy. Edited by James C. Swindal and Harry J. Gensler, S.J. (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. 2005. Pp. xvi, 585. $90.00 clothbound; $35.00 paperback.) In a foreword to...

Les jesuites a Lyon XVIe-XXe siecles.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Les jesuites a Lyon XVIe-XXe siecles. Edited by Etienne Fouilloux and Bernard Hours. [Collection Societe, Espaces, Temps.] (Lyon: ENS editions. 2005. Pp. 274. [euro]32.00 paperback.) The thirteen studies on Jesuit history presented here,...

Der Ursprung des Apostolikums im Urteil der kritischen Forschung.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Der Ursprung des Apostolikums im Urteil der kritischen Forschung. By Markus Vinzent. [Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte, Band 89.] (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2006. Pp. 480. [euro]79,90.) Markus Vinzent has...

Wandering Monks, Virgins, and Pilgrims: Ascetic Travel in the Mediterranean World, A.D. 300-800.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Wandering Monks, Virgins, and Pilgrims: Ascetic Travel in the Mediterranean World, A.D. 300-800. By Maribel Dietz. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2005. Pp. ix, 270. $50.00.) In this study, Maribel Dietz assesses the...

The Manichean Debate. Introductions and notes.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Manichean Debate. Introductions and notes by Roland Teske, S.J. [The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century, Part I: Books, Volume 19.] (Hyde Park, New York: New City Press. 2006. Pp. 424. $44.00.) The writings of...

Saint Augustine and the Fall of the Soul: Beyond O'Connell and His Critics.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Saint Augustine and the Fall of the Soul: Beyond O'Connell and His Critics. By Ronnie J. Rombs. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2006. Pp. xxviii, 228. $64.95.) Robert J. O'Connell, S.J., was arguably the most...

Augustine of Hippo: Instructing Beginners in Faith.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Augustine of Hippo: Instructing Beginners in Faith. Translation, introduction, and notes by Raymond Canning. [The Augustine Series, Volume V.] (Hyde Park, New York: New City Press. 2006. Pp. 173. $13.95 paperback.) In late 403, Augustine...

Stewards of the Poor: The Man of God, Rabbula, and Hiba in Fifth-Century Edessa.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Stewards of the Poor: The Man of Cod, Rabbula, and Hiba in Fifth-Century Edessa. Translations and introductions by Robert Doran. [Cistercian Studies Series, 208.] (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications. 2006. Pp. xx, 204. Paperback.) ...

A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408-450).(Book review)
July 1, 2007... A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408-450). By Fergus Millar. [Sather Classical Lectures, 64; The Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature.] (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press....

Sacred Images and Sacred Power in Byzantium.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Sacred Images and Sacred Power in Byzantium. By Gary Vikan. [Variorum Collected Studies Series.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Co. 2003. Pp. 246.) Beginning in the late 1970's, Gary Vikan began to publish a series of articles...

Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium. By Bissera V. Pentcheva. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2006. Pp. xviii, 302. $60.00.) The generality of the title of this book, evocative of the titles of recent...

Byzantine Christianity.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Byzantine Christianity. Edited by Derek Krueger. [A People's History of Christianity, vol. 3.] (Minneapolis: Fortress Press. 2006. Pp. xx, 252.) In introducing these ten articles, Derek Krueger emphasizes that this volume proposes to study...

Les croix-reliquaires pectorales byzantines en bronze.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Les croix-reliquaires pectorales byzantines en bronze. By Brigitte Pitarakis. (Paris: Editions A. et J. Picard. 2006. Pp. 446. [euro]65.00 paperback.) The author makes available in an intelligent format and with crisp illustrations a large...

Metamorphosis and Identity.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Metamorphosis and Identity. By Caroline Walker Bynum. (New York: Zone Books, distributed by The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2001/2005. Pp. 280. $32.95 clothbound; $19.95 paperback.) In Metamorphosis and Identity, Caroline Walker...

Feastdays of the Saints. A History of Irish Martyrologies.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Feastdays of the Saints. A History of Irish Martyrologies. By Padraig O Riain. [Subsidia Hagiographica, 86.] (Brussels: Societe des Bollandistes. 2006. Pp. xxviii, 416. [euro]75.00 paperback.) For the first three centuries of the Christian...

Jewish Dogs: An Image and Its Interpreters.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Jewish Dogs: An Image and Its Interpreters. By Kenneth Stow. [Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture.] (Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2006.Pp. xxii, 316. $55.00.) Kenneth Stow remains one of the best interpreters of medieval...

Satan the Heretic. The Birth of Demonology in the Medieval West.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Satan the Heretic. The Birth of Demonology in the Medieval West. By Alain Boureau. Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2006. Pp. 216. $30.00, [pounds sterling]19.00.) In this book Alain Boureau...

Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages. By Don C. Skemer. [Magic in History.] (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2006. Pp. viii, 327. $75.00 clothbound, $25.00 paperback.) The topic of "magic" never fails...

A Place to Believe In: Locating Medieval Landscapes.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... A Place to Believe In: Locating Medieval Landscapes. Edited by Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 272. $65.00 clothbound; $25.00 paperback.) A collection of ten essays,...

The Transformation of a Religious Landscape: Medieval Southern Italy, 850-1150.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Transformation of a Religious Landscape. Medieval Southern Italy, 850-1150. By Valerie Ramseyer. [Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past.] (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 2006. Pp. xviii, 222. $42.50.) In...

AElfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... AElfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England. By Mechthild Gretsch. [Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Volume 34.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 263. $90.00, [pounds sterling]47.50.) The modern...

St. William of York.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... St. William of York. By Christopher Norton. [York Studies in Medieval Theology, V.] (Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer. 2006. Pp. xvi, 271. $80.00.) St. William, William of York, William fitzHerbert, is best known as the archbishop...

Ramsey: the Lives of an English Fenland Town.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Ramsey: the Lives of an English Fenland Town, 1200-1600. By Anne Reiber DeWindt and Edwin Brezette DeWindt. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 455. Attached data CD.) Anne and Edwin DeWindts'...

Contesting the Crusades.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Contesting the Crusades. By Norman Housley. (Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing. 2006. Pp. xiv, 198. Paperback.) Contesting the Crusades is without question the best introduction on the market to the modern historiography of the...

God's War: A New History of the Crusades.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... God's War: A New History of the Crusades. By Christopher Tyerman. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 1024. $35.00.) It seems that there is no end to books about the crusades. A great...

Homilies: In Praise of God's Holy Mother, On Our Lord's Words to His Disciples at the Last Supper.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Homilies: In Praise of God's Holy Mother, On Our Lord's Words to His Disciples at the Last Supper. By Ogier of Locedio. Translated and annotated by D. Martin Jenni, [Cistercian Fathers Series, 70.] (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications....

Magistri Johannis Hus: Questiones.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Magistri Johannis Hus: Questiones. Edited by Jiri Kejr. [Corpus Christianorum: Continuatio Mediaeualis, 205; Magistri Johannis Hus Opera Omnia, Tomus XIXA.] (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. 2004. Pp. xx, 201.) The continued recovery...

Magistri Johannis Hus: Quodlibet, Disputationis de Quolibet Pragae in Facultate Artium Mense Ianuario anni 1411 habitae Enchiridion.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Magistri Johannis Hus: Quodlibet, Disputationis de Quolibet Pragae in Facultate Artium Mense Ianuario anni 1411 habitae Enchiridion. Edited by Bohumil Ryba. [Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 211.] (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers....

Cusanus: The Legacy of Learned Ignorance.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Cusanus: The Legacy of Learned Ignorance. Edited by Peter J. Casarella. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2006. Pp. xxxii, 280. $74.95.) In October 2001, the sixth centenary of the birth of Nicholas of Cusa...

Moderate Voices in the European Reformation.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Moderate Voices in the European Reformation. Edited by Luc Racaut and Alec Ryrie. [St. Andrew's Studies in Reformation History.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2005. Pp. xiv, 219. $94.95.) As the editors of this volume...

Renaissance Florence: A Social History.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Renaissance Florence: A Social History. Edited by Roger J. Crum and John T. Paoletti (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xviii, 674. $150.00.) This welcome collection of essays on the society and art of Renaissance Florence...

Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence. By Lauro Martines. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 336. $30.00.) Lauro Martines, prolific author of books on the Italian Renaissance,...

The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence: The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence: The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community. By Stephanie B. Siegmund. [Stanford Series in Jewish History and Culture.] (Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2005. Pp. xxvi, 624. $70.00.)...

Missioni in terra di frontiera. La Controriforma nelle Valli del Pinerolese. Secoli XVI-XVIII.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Missioni in terra di frontiera. La Controriforma nelle Valli del Pinerolese. Secoli XVI-XVIII. By Chiara Povero. [Bibliotheca Seraphico-Capuccina, Volume 77.] (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini. 2006. Pp. 442. [euro]30.00 paperback.) ...

La legazione di Ferrara del Cardinale Giulio Sacchetti, 1627-1631.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... La legazione di Ferrara del Cardinale Giulio Sacchetti (1627-1631). Edited by Irene Fosi with the collaboration of Andrea Gardi. Two volumes. [Collectanea Archivi Vaticani, 58.] (Vatican City: Archivio Segreto Vaticano. 2006. Pp. Ivi, 341....

Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art and Gender in the Spanish Empire.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art and Gender in the Spanish Empire. By Charlene Villasenor Black. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2006. Pp. 259. $60.00.) This study assembles a wealth of material pertaining to the rich...

L'Universite de Caen aux XVe et XVIe siecles. Identite et representation.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... L'Universite de Caen aux XVe et XVIe siecles. Identite et representation. By Lyse Roy. [Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Vol. 24.] (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 2006. Pp. xii, 314. $161.00; [euro]119.00.) ...

Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France. The Early History of the Daughters of Charity.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France. The Early History of the Daughters of Charity. By Susan E. Dinan. [Women and Gender in the Early Modern Word.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2006. Pp. x, 190. $89.95...

Adrien Gambart's Emblem Book (1664): The Life of St. Francis de Sales in Symbols.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Adrien Gambart's Emblem Book (1664): The Life of St. Francis de Sales in Symbols. A facsimile edition with a study by Elisabeth Stopp. Edited by Terence O'Reilly. (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 385. $60.00.) ...

Gilles Caillotin, Pelerin: Le Retour de Rome d'un Sergier Remois, 1724.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Gilles Caillotin, Pelerin: Le Retour de Rome d'un Sergier Remois, 1724. Edited and presented by Dominique Julia. [Collection de l'Ecole Francaise de Rome, no. 356.] (Rome: Ecole Francaise de Rome. 2006. Pp. iv, 395. [euro]48.00 paperback) ...

Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England: Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c. 1550-1640.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England: Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c. 1550-1640. By Michael C. Questier. [Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xxii,...

The Succession, Bye and Main Plots of 1601-1603.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Succession, Bye and Main Plots of 1601-1603. By Francis Edwards, S.J. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2006. Pp. 327. $65.00.) This is, in effect, the second volume in Francis Edwards' overview, principally from printed sources, of the...

London and the Restoration, 1659-1683.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... London and the Restoration, 1659-1683. By Gary S. De Krey. [Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xx, 472. $100.00.) Gary De Krey's study of the politics of Restoration...

John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture: Religious Intolerance and Arguments for Religious Toleration in Early Modern and 'Early Enlightenment' Europe.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture: Religious Intolerance and Arguments for Religious Toleration in Early Modern and 'Early Enlightenment' Europe. By John Marshall. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp viii, 767....

1715: The Great Jacobite Rebellion.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... 1715: The Great Jacobite Rebellion. By Daniel Szechi. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 351. $50.00.) The Fifteen, perhaps the last feasible rebellion aimed at restoring a Catholic dynasty in Britain, has been overshadowed...

The Origins of Sectarianism in Early Modern Ireland.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Origins of Sectarianism in Early Modern Ireland. Edited by Alan Ford and John McCafferty. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 249. $90.00.) This volume (the product of a University College Dublin symposium organized by...

The Correspondence of Wolfgang Capito, 1507-1523, vol. 1.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Correspondence of Wolfgang Capito, Volume 1: 1507-1523. Edited and translated by Erika Rummel, with the assistance of Milton Kooistra. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2005. Pp. xlii, 285. $95.00.) This is the first volume (of...

Nails in the Wall: Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germany.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Nails in the Wall: Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germany. By Amy Leonard. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 218. $45.00.) This study, which is based on a Georgetown University dissertation, offers a...

Undankbare Gaste: Abendmahlsverzicht und Abendmahlsasschluss in der Reichsstadt Ulm urn 1600: Ein interkultureller Prozess.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Undankbare Gaste: Abendmahlsverzicht und Abendmahlsasschluss in der Reichsstadt Ulm urn 1600: Ein interkultureller Prozess. By Oliver Kaul. [Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fur Europaische Geschichte Mainz, Abteilung fur Abendlandische...

Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland: A Beleaguered Church in the Post-Reformation Era.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland: A Beleaguered Church in the Post-Reformation Era. By Magda Teter. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xxxvi, 272. $65.00.) Scintillating her audience, Dr. Teter begins with her own life...

Small-Town Martyrs and Murderers: Religious Revolution and Counterrevolution in Western France, 1774-1914.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Small-Town Martyrs and Murderers: Religious Revolution and Counterrevolution in Western France, 1774-1914. By Edward J. Woell. [Marquette Studies in History, 1.] (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press. 2006. Pp. 292. $32.00 paperback.) ...

Des resistances religieuses a Napoleon (1799-1813).(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Des resistances religieuses a Napoleon (1799-1813). By Bernard Plongeron. [Memoire Chretienne au Present, 3.] (Paris: Letouzey & Ane. 2006. Pp. 366. [euro]31,50 paperback.) The Abbe Bernard Plongeron, emeritus professor at the Institut...

Kontinuitat und Innovation um 1803. Sakularisation als Transformations-prozess: Kirche-Theologie-Kultur-Staat.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Kontinuitat und Innovation um 1803. Sakularisation als Transformations-prozess: Kirche-Theologie-Kultur-Staat. Edited by Rolf Decot. [Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fur Europaische Geschichte Mainz, Abteilung fur abendlandische...

Mgr Fr.-J. Hirn (1751-1819), Premier Eveque Concordataire du Diocese de Tournai (1802-1819): Un Episcopat difficile.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Mgr Fr.-J. Hirn (1751-1819), Premier Eveque Concordataire du Diocese de Tournai (1802-1819): Un Episcopat difficile. By Albert Milet. [Bibliotheque de la Revue d'Histoire Ecclesiastique, Fascicule 83.] (Brussels: Editions Nauwelaerts. 2002. Pp....

The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism. By Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall. [The S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies.] (Berkley: University of California Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 341. $55.00.) ...

Les Dames de la Ligue des Femmes francaises (1901-1914).(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Les Dames de la Ligue des Femmes francaises (1901-1914). By Bruno Dumons. [Histoire religieuse de la France, 28.] (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf. 2006. Pp. 526. [euro]48,00 paperback.) Bruno Dumons' study of the Ligue des Femmes francaises...

Dom Gabriel Sortais: An Amazing Abbot in Turbulent Times.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Dom Gabriel Sortais: An Amazing Abbot in Turbulent Times. By Guy Oury, OSB. Translated by Brian Kerns, OCSO. (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications. 2006. Pp. xi, 333. $34.95.) The prolific Benedictine, Guy Oury, wrote a mostly...

Les carnets du cardinal Baudrillart (26 decembre 1928-12 fevrier 1932).(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Les carnets du cardinal Baudrillart (26 decembre 1928-12 fevrier 1932). Edited by Paul Christophe. (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf. 2003. Pp. 1136. [euro]65,00.) Since 1993 Paul Christophe has published, with the Dominicans' Editions du Cerf,...

Archivo Goma: Documentos de la Guerra Civil.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Archivo Goma: Documentos de la Guerra Civil. Edited by Jose Andres-Gallego and Anton M. Pazos. Vols. 7, 8. (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas. 2005. Pp. 666, 747. Paperback.) These volumes of the personal archive of...

Spain during World War II.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Spain during World War II. By Wayne H. Bowen. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2006. Pp. x, 279. $39.95 hardcover.) Wayne H. Bowen's study of Spain during World War II fills a gap in English-language historiography. General studies...

The Old Enemies: Catholic and Protestant in Nineteenth-Century English Culture.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Old Enemies: Catholic and Protestant in Nineteenth-Century English Culture. By Michael Wheeler. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 352. $80.00.) In the preface Michael Wheeler describes himself as a "Modern Catholic"...

The Ghost in the Garden Room.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Ghost in the Garden Room. By Elizabeth Gaskell. Edited with an introduction and notes by Fran Baker. [Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Volume 86, Number 1 (Spring, 2004).] (Manchester: The John Rylands...

Le carte del "Sacro Tavolo": Aspetti del Pontificato di Pio X dai documenti del suo archivio privato.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Le carte del "Sacro Tavolo": Aspetti del Pontificato di Pio X dai documenti del suo archivio privato. Edited by Alejandro M. Dieguez and Sergio Pagano. 2 volumes. [Collectanea Archivi Vaticani, 60.] (Vatican City: Archivio Segreto Vaticano....

Russicum: Pioneers and Witnesses of the Struggle for Christian Unity in Eastern Europe, vol. 1.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Russicum: Pioneers and Witnesses of the Struggle for Christian Unity in Eastern Europe. By Constantin Simon, S.J. Volume 1: Leonid Feodorov, Vendelin Javorka, Theodore Romza: Three Historical Sketches. (Rome: Opere Religiose Russe. Pontificio...

In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890-1944.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism 1890-1944. By Paul A. Hanebrink. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 255. $39.95.) Rarely have I come across a more engaging, better composed...

The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland. By Genevieve Zubrzycki. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2006. Pp. xx, 277. $67.50 clothbound; $27.50 paperback.) This is a brilliant book, both...

The American Religious Experience: A Concise History.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The American Religious Experience: A Concise History. By Lynn Bridgers. (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group. 2006. Pp. vii, 254. $65.00 clothbound; $22.95 paperback.) The paperbound edition of this book is clearly...

Defying the Inquisition in Colonial New Mexico: Miguel de Quintana's Life and Writings.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Defying the Inquisition in Colonial New Mexico: Miguel de Quintana's Life and Writings. Edited and translated by Francisco A. Lomeli and Clark A. Colahan. [Series on the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage.] (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico...

Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community Among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community Among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871. By David J. Silverman. [Studies in North American Indian History.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xxiv,...

The Captors' Narrative: Catholic Women and Their Puritan Men on the Early American Frontier.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Captors' Narrative: Catholic Women and Their Puritan Men on the Early American Frontier. By William Henry Foster. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 205. $29.95.) The Captors' Narrative is a revelation. Through...

Children of Coyote, Missionaries of St. Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Children of Coyote, Missionaries of St. Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850. By Steven W. Hackel. [Early American History and Culture, Published for the Omohundro Institute of Williamsburg, Virginia.] (Chapel...

Charles Carroll of Carrollton: Faithful Revolutionary.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Charles Carroll of Carrollton: Faithful Revolutionary. By Scott McDermott. (New York: Scepter Publishers. 2002. Pp. 352. $24.95.) Faithful and revolutionary. Catholic and American. So the portrait of Charles Carroll emerges from the pages...

The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880. By Candy Gunther Brown. (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press. 2004. Pp. xv, 336. $59.95 clothbound; $19.95 paperback.) ...

Horse-and-Buggy Mennonites: Hoofbeats of Humility in a Postmodern World.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Horse-and-Buggy Mennonites: Hoofbeats of Humility in a Postmodern World. By Donald B. Kraybill and James P. Hurd. (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 362. $40.00 clothbound; $19.95 paperback.) The...

A Coat of Many Colors: Religion and Society along the Cape Fear River of North Carolina.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... A Coat of Many Colors: Religion and Society along the Cape Fear River of North Carolina. By Walter H. Conser, Jr. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. 2006. Pp. xi, 372. $50.00.) In A Coat of Many Colors, Walter H. Conser, Jr., has...

The Civil War as a Theological Crisis.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. By Mark A. Noll [The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era.] (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 199. $29.95.) Historians have argued for years about what...