The Catholic Historical Review articles from July 2008

The Catholic Historical Review archives from July 2008

Pueri, iuvenes, and viri: age and utility in the Gregorian reform.(Report)
July 1, 2008... This article explores the role played by ideas about age and appropriate behavior for different stages of life in shaping the eleventh-century ecclesiastical reformers' vision for an ordered Christian society--notable at a time when the role of...

Catholics and the Italian revolutionary left of the 1960s.(Report)
July 1, 2008... Radical left-wing Catholics played an important role in Italy's extra-parliamentary revolutionary movement of the 1960s, which took as its starting point the need to fill the void created by the growing moderation of the official Communist...

Suffering for Jesus: penitential practices at Fort St. Joseph (Niles, Michigan) during the French regime.(Report)
July 1, 2008... Scholarship on New France often emphasizes the factors that motivated the establishment of the colony, including the desire to promulgate the spread of Catholicism to Native peoples. However, the place of religion in the lives of the French...

Embracing activism in apartheid South Africa: the Sisters of Mercy in Bophuthatswana, 1974-94.(Report)
July 1, 2008... In South Africa in the latter half of the twentieth century, the Church shifted from a stance of seeming complicity with the government's racist policies to a more active role with the country's peoples. Religious congregations such as the...

Histoire du Christianisme: Pour mieux comprendre notre temps.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Histoire du Christianisme: Pour mieux comprendre notre temps. Edited by Alain Corbin, with Nicole LeMaitre, Francoise Thelamon, and Catherine Vincent. [L'Universe Historique.] (Paris: Editions du Seuil. 2007. Pp. 475. [member of]21,00...

Electing Our Bishops. How the Catholic Church Should Choose Its Leaders.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Electing Our Bishops. How the Catholic Church Should Choose Its leaders. By Joseph F. O'Callaghan. [A Sheed and Ward Book.] (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2007. Pp. xiii, 195.) The title and subtitle suggest that...

Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen.(Holy Hatred: Christianity, Antisemilism, and the Holocaust)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen. By Jeremy Cohen. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 313. $29.95) Holy Hatred: Christianity, Antisemilism, and the Holocaust. By Robert Michael. (New...

The Land, the Bible, and History: Toward The Land That I Will Show You.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Land, the Bible, and History: Toward the Land That I Will Show You. By Alain Marchadour, A.A., and David Neuhaus, S.J. [The Abrahamic Dialogues Series.] (New York: Fordham University Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 239. $40.00.) This work of two...

Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World. Edited by Margaret Cormack. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 280. $49.95.) Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World is the fruition of a conference on the...

La chiesa latina in oriente Volume II: Hierarchia latina orientis.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... La chiesa latina in oriente, Volume II: Hierarchia latina orientis. Edited by Giorgio Fedalto. Second edition. [Studi religiosi, 3.] (Verona: Casa Editrice Mazziana. 2006. Pp. 301.[Euro]35,00.) In 1976 Giorgio Fedalto published a companion...

Ukrainian Church History.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Ukrainian Church History. Edited by Halyna Hryn. [Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Volume XXVI, Numbers 1-4, 2002-2003] (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University. 2007. Pp. 376. $30.00 paperback. ISSN 0363-5570.)...

Swiadectwo w rozmowie z Gian Franco Svidercoscbim (Testimony in Conversations with Gian Franco Svidercoschi).(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Swiadectwo w rozmowie z Gian Franco Svidercoscbim (Testimony in Conversations with Gian Franco Svidercoschi). By Stanislaw Dziwisz. (Poznan: TBA. 2007. Pp. 232. 29.00 Polish zloty.) Among the many publications on the late Pope John Paul II,...

Judas: The Definitive Collection of Gospels and Legends about the Infamous Apostle of Jesus.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Judas: The Definitive Collection of Gospels and Legends about the Infamous Apostle of Jesus. By Marvin Meyer. (New York: HarperOne. 2007. Pp. xii, 181. $22.95 paperback. ISBN 978-0-06134-830-3) A number of books about Judas and the Gospel...

A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church. By Calvin R. Stapert. [The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Liturgical Studies Series.] (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2007. Pp. xiv, 232....

Histoire du catechumenat dans l'eglise ancienne.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Histoire du catechumenat dans l'eglise ancienne. By Paul L. Gavrilyuk. Translated from the Russian by Francoise Lhoest, Nina Mojaisky, and Anne-Marie Gueit. [Initiations aux Peres de I'Eglise.] (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf. 2007. Pp. 406....

Five Models of Spiritual Direction in the Early Church.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Five Models of Spiritual Direction in the Early Church. By George E. Demacopoulos. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2007.Pp. x, 275. $30.00 paperback.) Several recent studies have analyzed the relationship among...

Histoire litteraire du mouvement monastique dans I' antiquite, Premiere partie: Le monachisme latin, Tome XI: La Gaule franque et I'Espagne wisigothique (VI (e)-VII (e) siecle).(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Histoire litteraire du mouvement monastique dans I' antiquite, Premiere partie: Le monachisme latin, Tome XI: La Gaule franque et I'Espagne wisigothique (VI (e)-VII (e) siecle). By Adalbert de Vogue, O.S.B. [Patrimoines christianisme.]...

Ignatius of Antioch: A Martyr Bishop and the Origin Of Episcopacy.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Ignatius of Antioch: a martyr bishop and the origin of episcopacy. (New York: Continuum, T&T Clark. 2007. Pp. xii, 180. $110.00. ISBN 978-0-56703-200-3.) Allen Brent has a long-standing interest in the development of church order in the...

Byzantine Style, Religion, and Civilization: In Honour of Sir Steven Runciman.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Byzantine Style, Religion, and Civilization: In Honour of Sir Steven Runciman. Edited by Elizabeth M. Jeffreys. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. lvi, 436. $145.00.) Byzantine Style, Religion and Civilization: In Honour of...

Heresy and the Persecuting Society in the Middle Ages: Essays on the Work of R. I. Moore.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Heresy and the Persecuting Society in the Middle Ages: Essays on the Work of R. I. Moore. Edited by Michael Frassetto. [Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, Volume 129.] (Leiden: Brill. 2006. Pp. xii, 338. $139.00.) Robert Moore...

Muirchu Moccu Mactheni's "Vita Sancti Patricii" Life of Saint Patrick.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Muirchu Moccu Mactheni's "Vita Sancti Patricii" Life of Saint Patrick. By David Howlett. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2006. Pp. 199. $60.00.) This book is the first in a series entitled "Three Great Saints: Patrick, Samson, David," in which...

Shaping a Monastic Identity: Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000-1125.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Shaping a Monastic Identity: Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000-1125. By Susan Boynton. [Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past.] (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 289; 8-page...

Imagining the Sacred Past. Hagiography and Power In Early Normandy.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Imagining the Sacred Past. Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy. By Samantha Kahn Herrick. [Harvard Historical Studies, 156.] (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 256. $49.95.) Based on a 2002 Harvard...

Gesta Pontificum Anglorum: The History of the English Bishops, Vol. 1: Text And Translation.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Gesta Pontificum Anglorum: The History of the English Bishops, Vol. 1: Text and Translation. By William of Malmesbury. Edited and translated by M. Winterbottom with the assistance of R. M. Thomson. [Oxford Medieval Texts.] (Oxford: Oxford...

The Jews of Medieval Western Chritendom, 1000-1500.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Jews of Medieval Western Chritendom, 1000-1500. By Robert Chazan. [Cambridge Medieval Textbooks.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. 360. $75.00 clothbound; $29.99 paperback.) Robert Chazan has written a characteristically...

Manuscripts and Monastic Culture: Reform and Renewal in Twelfth-Century Germany.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Manuscripts and Monastic Culture: Reform and Renewal in Twelfth-Century Germany. Edited by Alison I. Beach. [Medieval Church Studies, 13.] (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. 2007. Pp. xiv, 347. [euro]60,00.) This collection of essays,...

Urkundenbuch des Zisterzienserklosters Altzelle, Erster Teil: 1162-1249.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Urkundenbuch des Zisterzienserklosters Altzelle, Erster Teil: 1162-1249. Edited by Tom Graber. [Codex Diplomaticus Saxoniae, Zweiter Hauptteil: Die Urkunden der Stadte und geistlichen Institutionen in Sachsen, Band 19.] (Hannover: Hahnsche...

Oltre Citeaux: Gioacchino da Fiore e I'Ordine florense.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Oltre Citeaux: Gioacchino da Fiore e I'Ordine florense. By Valeria De Fraja. [Centro Internazionale di Studi Gioachimiti S. Giovanni in Fiore: Opere di Gioacchino da Fiore, Testi e strumenti, 19.](Rome: Viella. 2006. Pp. 301, 2 color plates....

Mary of Oignies: Mother of Salvation.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Mary of Oignies: Mother of Salvation. Edited by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker; translated by Margot H. King and Hugh Feiss, and with additional contributions by Brenda Bolton and Suzan Folkerts. [Medieval Women: Texts and Context, 7.1 (Turnhout:...

The Other Friars: The Carmelite, Augustinian, Sack, and Pied Friars in the Middle Ages.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Other Friars: The Carmelite, Augustinian, Sack, and Pied Friars in the Middle Ages. By Frances Andrews. [Monastic Orders.] (Rochester, New York: Boydell Press. 2006. Pp. x, 261. $47.95.) This book is a very welcome addition to...

The Annals of Ireland.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Annals of Ireland by Friar John Clyn. Edited and translated by Bernadette Williams (Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2007. Pp. 303. $75.00.) Historians of late medieval Ireland make frequent reference to the annals of the Kilkenny Franciscan,...

Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond. By Caroline Walker Bynum. [The Middle Ages Series.] (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2007. Pp. xx, 402. $49.95.) Caroline Bynum's latest...

Eclipse of Empire? Perceptions of the Western Empire and Its Rulers in Late-Medieval France.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Eclipse of Empire? Perceptions of the Western Empire and Its Rulers in Late-Medieval France. By Chris Jones. [Cursor Mundi, 1.] (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. 2007. Pp. xxiv, 4l6. [euro]80,00. ISBN 978-2-503-52478-8.) In an introduction...

Le siecle d'or de la mystique francaise: un autre regard.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Le siecle d'or de la mystique francaise: un autre regard. Etude de la litterature spirituelle de Jean Gerson (1363-1429) a Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples (1450?-1537). By Yelena Mazour-Matusevich. [Collection Fides Nostra, Vol.2.] (Paris:...

Le berger et son troupeau. Prieurs et cures d'Ayent en conflit.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Le berger et son troupeau. Prieurs et cures d'Ayent en conflit (diocese de Sion, [15.sup.eme] siecle). By Lionel Dorthe. [Cahiers lausannois d'histoire medievale, vol. 40.] (Lausanne: Universite de Lausanne. 2007. Pp. 363; 20 maps and...

Gautier de Coinci: Miracles, Music, and Manuscripts.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Gautier de Coinci: Miracles, Music, and Manuscripts. Edited by Kathy M. Krause and Alison Stones. [Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, Vol. 13.] (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. 2006. Pp. xx, 487. [euro]80,00; $108.00.) The...

Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England. By Catherine Sanok. [The Middle Ages Series.] (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2007. Pp. xviii, 256.) In Her Life Historical, Catherine...

The Banquet: Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Banquet: Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe. By Ken Albala. [The Food Series.] (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2007. Pp. xviii, 223. $40.00.) This engaging book utilizes the culinary literature of...

The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera. By Edward Muir. [The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance.] (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 175. $24.95.) This...

Spirituality, Gender, and the Self in Renaissance Italy: Angela Merici and the Company of St. Ursula (1474-1540).(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Spirituality, Gender, and the Self in Renaissance Italy: Angela Merici and the Company of St. Ursula (1474-1540). By Querciolo Mazzonis. (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press. 2007. Pp. xx, 247. $35.95 paperback. ISBN...

Jesuit Writings of the Early Modern Period, 1540-1640 Edited and translated.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Jesuit Writings of the Early Modern Period, 1540-1640 Edited and translated by John Patrick Donnelly, S.J. (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company. 2006. Pp. xx, 263. $37.95 clothbound; $12.95 paperback.) This well-balanced compendium of...

The Pontificate of Clement VII: History, Politics, Culture.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Pontificate of Clement VII: History, Politics, Culture. Edited by Kenneth Gouwens and Sheryl E.R. Reiss. [Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2005. Pp. xxvi, 437. $99.00.) This volume of...

Le risorse dei poveri. Carita e tutela della salute nel principato vescovile di Trento in eta moderna.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Le risorse dei poveri. Carita e tutela della salute nel principato vescovile di Trento in eta moderna. By Marina Garbellotti. [Istituto trentino di cultura: Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento, Monografie, 46.] (Bologna: II...

Behind the Scenes at Galileo's Trial: Including the First English Translation of Melchior Inchofer's Tractatus syllepticus.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Behind the Scenes at Galileo's Trial: Including the First English Translation of Melchior Inchofer's Tractatus syllepticus. By Richard J. Blackwell. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2006. Pp. xiii, 246. $35.00.) ...

Visitas Pastorales y Relaciones Ad Limina. Fuentes para la Geografia Eclesiastica.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Visitas Pastorales y Relaciones Ad Limina. Fuentes para la Geografia Eclesiastica. By [M.sup.a] Milagros Carcel Orti. [Memoria Ecclesiae, Subsidida VI.] (Oviedo: Asociacion de Archiveros de Iglesia en Espana. 2007. Pp. 371; 4 maps. [euro]15.00...

Church Robbers and Reformers in Germany, 1525-1547: Confiscation and Religious Purpose in the Holy Roman Empire.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Church Robbers and Reformers in Germany, 1525-1547: Confiscation and Religious Purpose in the Holy Roman Empire. By Christopher Ocker. [Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 114.] (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 2007. Pp. xx,...

Restoring Christ's Church: John a Lasco and the Forma ac ratio.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Restoring Christ's Church: John a Lasco and the Forma ac ratio. By Michael S. Springer. [St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. 2007. Pp. xii, 177. $99.95.) Johannes a Lasco, as international humanists...

Incorrectly Political: Augustine and Thomas More.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Incorrectly Political: Augustine and Thomas More. By Peter Iver Kaufman. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2007. Pp. viii, 279. $35.00 paperback.) "Incorrectly Political is not a conventional study of influence and...

Mary Queen of Scots: An Illustrated Life.(Catholic Queen, Protestant Patriarchy: Mary Queen of Scots and the Politics of Gender and Religion)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Mary Queen of Scots: An Illustrated Life. By Susan Doran. (London: The British Library. Distributed by the University of Chicago Press. 2007. Pp. 191. $29.95.) Catholic Queen, Protestant Patriarchy: Mary Queen of Scots and the Politics of...

The Irish College at Santiago de Compostela, 1605-1769.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Irish College at Santiago de Compostela, 1605-1769. By Patricia O'Connell. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2007. Pp. 158. $55.00.) Number 44 on Rua Nova in Santiago de Compostella is a typical Galician townhouse in a narrow street, but it...

Don Bosco: History and Spirit, Vol. 1: John Bosco's Formative Years in Historical Context.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Don Bosco: History and Spirit, Vol. 1: John Bosco's Formative Years in Historical Context. By Arthur J. Lenti, edited by Aldo Giraudo. (Rome: Editrice Libreria Ateneo Salesiano. 2007. Pp. xx, 498. [euro]30,00 paperback. This is the first...

Religion y politica en la Espana contemporanea.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Religion y politica en la Espana contemporanea. Edited by Carolyn P Boyd. [Estudios Politicos.] (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Politicos y Constitucionales. 2007. Pp. xii, 305. [euro]18,00 paperback.) This book is based on an international...

We Only Know Men: The Rescue of Jews in France during the Holocaust.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... We Only Know Men: The Rescue of Jews in France during the Holocaust. By Patrick Henry. (Washington, D.C.:The Catholic University of America Press. 2007. Pp. xxiv, 192. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-8132-1493-1.) In 1979 an American professor of...

Alles nur Theater? Zur Rezeption von Rolf Hochhuths "Der Stellvertreter" in der Schweiz, 1963/1964.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Alles nur Theater? Zur Rezeption von Rolf Hochhuths,, Der Stellvertreter" in der Schweiz, 1963/1964. By Nadine Ritzer. [Religion--Politik--Gesellsehaft in der Schweiz, Band 41.] (Fribourg:Academic Press Fribourg. 2006. Pp. 252 [eurro]28,00....

Palmer's Pilgrimage: The Life of William Palmer of Magdalen.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Palmer's Pilgrimage: The Life of William Palmer of Magdalen. By Robin Wheeler. (Pieterlen, Switzerland: Switzerland: Peter Lang. 2007. PP, 427. $74.95, [pounds sterling]44.00 paperback.) The history of the Oxford Movement includes two...

From Ecumenism to Community Relations: Inter-Church Relationships in Northern Ireland, 1980-2005.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... From Ecumenism to Community Relations: Inter-Church Relationships in Northern Ireland, 1980-2005. By Maria Power. (Dublin: Irish Academic Press. 2007. Pp. x, 262. [euro]32.50.) This is a first book by a young, bright, and energetic author...

Death and Dying in New Mexico.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Death and Dying in New Mexico. By Martina Will de Chaparro. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2007. Pp. xxiv, 261. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8263-4163-1.) Martina Will de Chaparro notes that she came to her study by "reading all I...

Situating Mission Santa Clara de Asis: 1776-1851, Documentary and Material Evidence of Life on the Alta California Frontier: A Timeline.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Situating Mission Santa Clara de Asis: 1776-1851, Documentary and Material Evidence of Life on the Alta California Frontier: A Timeline. By Russell K. Skowronek, with Elizabeth Thompson. Translations by Veronica (Lococo) Johnson, with Elizabeth...

Lincoln's Christianity.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Lincoln's Christianity. By Michael Burkhimer. (Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing. 2007. Pp. xiv, 210. $24.95 paperback. ISBN 978-1-59416-053-0.) Abraham Lincoln memorably invoked the Bible in his public speeches and writings. Yet defining...

Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919. By Gerald McKevitt. (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 2007. Pp. xx, 428. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-8047-5357-9.) In 1848, when members of the Society of Jesus...

Lakotas, Black Robes, and Holy Women: German Reports from the Indian Missions in South Dakota, 1886-1900.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Lakotas, Black Robes, and Holy Women: German Reports from the Indian Missions in South Dakota, 1886-1900. Edited by Karl Markus Kreis; translated by Corinna Dally-Starna. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2007. Pp. xviii, 303. $55.00....

Joining the Revolution in Theology: The College Theology Society, 1954-2004.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Joining the Revolution in Theology: The College Theology Society, 1954-2004. By Sandra Yocum Mize. (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. 2007. Pp. xii, 315. $39.95.) This was not an easy book to write. How does one capture...

The New Nuns: Racial Justice and Religious Reform in the 1960s.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The New Nuns: Racial Justice and Religious Reform in the 1960s. By Amy L. Koehlinger. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 304. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-67402-473-1.) In this innovative study,Amy Koehlinger combines...

Challenged by Coeducation: Women's Colleges since the 1960s.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Challenged by Coeducation: Women's Colleges since the 1960s. Edited by Leslie Miller-Bernal and Susan L. Poulson. (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 418. $79.95 clothbound, $29.95 paperback.) Leslie Miller-Bernal and...

The Congregation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox of Power, 1693-1796.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Congregation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox of Power, 1693-1796. By Colleen Gray. [McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, Series 2, No. 48.] (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2007. Pp. xxxvi, 250. $75.00....

Latin American: Another Face of Empire: Bartolome de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Another Face of Empire: Bartolome de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism. By Daniel Castro. [Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations.] (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 233....

Convent Life in Colonial Mexico: A Tale of Two Communities.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Convent Life in Colonial Mexico: A Tale of Two Communities. By Stephanie L. Kirk. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2007. Pp. x, 241. $59.95 clothbound. ISBN 978-0-8130-3030-2.) In this latest contribution to Latin American...

The Stroessner Regime and Indigenous Resistance in Paraguay.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Stroessner Regime and Indigenous Resistance in Paraguay.By Rene D. Harder Horst. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 225. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-8-130-3056-2.) This monograph deals with the interactions among...

Asian: Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724. By Liam Matthew Brockey. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 496. $35.00.) The celebration of the Jesuit mission to China started early. Barely...

Association news.(NOTES AND COMMENTS)(American Catholic Historical Association)
July 1, 2008... The president of the American Catholic Historical Association, Robert Bireley, S.J., has appointed Paul W. Knoll, professor emeritus of history in the University of Southern California, to be chairman of the Committee on Program for the...

Exhibitions.(NOTES AND COMMENTS)('Rome in the 1400s' and 'Catholics in New York, 1808-1964')(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... From May until September 7, 2008, the exhibition "Rome in the 1400s" will run in the Museo del Corso in Rome. The exhibition focuses on the city (maps), the popes (medallions and portraits), antiquity (Trajan's column, Nero's Golden House),...

Causes of saints.(NOTES AND COMMENTS)(Father Theodore Foley)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... The cause for the beatification of Father Theodore Foley (1913-74) of the Congregation of the Passion was officially opened on May 9, 2008. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, of Irish immigrant parents and baptized with the name of Daniel, he...

Workshops.(NOTES AND COMMENTS)(Folger Institute's 'Forms of Religious Experience in the Seventeenth-Century British Atlantic World')(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... The Folger Institute of Washington, DC, will sponsor a year-long monthly colloquium on Fridays on "Forms of Religious Experience in the Seventeenth-Century British Atlantic World," directed by David D. Hall and Laura Lunger Knoppers. For more...

Conferences and lectures.(NOTES AND COMMENTS)
July 1, 2008... On June 2-3, 2008, the Canadian Catholic Historical Association celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary by holding a conference at the University of British Columbia and St. Mark's and Corpus Christi Colleges. There were six sessions devoted...

Publications.(NOTES AND COMMENTS)
July 1, 2008... The Zeitschrift fur Kirchengeschichte has devoted vol. 118, no. 3 (2007) to Elisabeth von Thuringen on the eighth centenary of her birth. Edited by Jochen-Christoph Kaiser, the fascicle contains the following articles: Joachim Schmiedl,...

Personals.(NOTES AND COMMENTS)(Caroline M. Hibbard and Ralph Frasca)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Dr. Caroline M. Hibbard, associate professor of history in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was named a fellow for 2008-09 at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Professor Ralph Frasca of Belmont Abbey College was honored with...

Obituary.(NOTES AND COMMENTS)(Michael Goodich)(Obituary)
July 1, 2008... Michael Goodich (1944-2006) was an exceptionally productive and personable medieval historian. Although American-born and educated (BA, City College of New York; MA, University of Pennsylvania; PhD, Columbia University), Goodich spent almost...

General and miscellaneous.(PERIODICAL LITERATURE)(Brief article)(List)
July 1, 2008... Los Romanos Pontifices del siglo XX y el Derecho canonico (III parte). Luis de Jesus Hernandez Mercado. Revista Mexicana de Derecho Canonico, 13 (2, 2007), 245-79. Un'enciclica da non dimenticare:la Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907). Roberto...

Ancient.(PERIODICAL LITERATURE)(List)
July 1, 2008... Three against Tertullian: The Second Tradition about Marcion's Life. Sebastian Moll. Journal of Theological Studies, 59 (Apr., 2008), 169-80. Negotia Christianorum... (Apologeticum 39, 1-20). A Study of Some Salient Themes of the Moral...

Medieval.(PERIODICAL LITERATURE)(List)
July 1, 2008... Paganism in Conversion-Age Anglo-Saxon England: The Evidence of Bede's Ecclesiastical History Reconsidered. S. D. Church. History, 93 (Apr., 2008), 162-80. Onomastics, gender, office and images on Byzantine lead seals: a means of...

Sixteenth Century.(PERIODICAL LITERATURE)(List)
July 1, 2008... L'extraordinaire au service de I'ordinaire. Les jubiles parisiens aux [XVIsup.e]-[XVIII sup.e] siecles. Jean-Marie Le Gall. Revue d'histoire ecclesiaslique, 102 (July-Dec., 2007), 837-78. Renaissance Liturgical Reforms: Reflections on...

Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries.(PERIODICAL LITERATURE)(List)
July 1, 2008... Why Are Nuns Funny? Frances E. Dolan. Huntington Library Quarterly, 70 (4, 2007), 509-34. The Sojourn of the Ulster Earls at Louvain (November 1607 until February 1608): Movements, Meetings and Partings. James McEvoy. Seanchas Ard Mhacha,...

Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.(PERIODICAL LITERATURE)(List)
July 1, 2008... The 19th Century Pasuquin [Ilocos Norte] and Its Pastors. Ericson M. Josue. Philippiniana Sacra, XLII (Sept.-Dec. 2007), 595-621. La Escuela Pia de Manila: Breve Noticia Historica. Fernando Guillen. Archivum Scholarum Piarum, XXXII (63,...

American and Canadian.(PERIODICAL LITERATURE)(List)
July 1, 2008... Presidio Los Adaes: Worship, Kinship, and Commerce with French Natchitoches on the Spanish-Franco-Caddo Borderlands, 1721-1773. Francis Xavier Galan. Louisiana History, XLIX (Spring, 2008), 191-208. Schism on the Susquehanna: Community and...