The Catholic Historical Review articles from October 2003

The Catholic Historical Review archives from October 2003

Dreams and divination in early medieval canonical and narrative sources: the question of clerical control.
October 1, 2003... It is commonly stated, and correctly so, that the most frequently reported dreams of Antiquity and the early Middle Ages were those of saints and kings.' However, the unprofessed laity, "ordinary" Christians of the Christian community, were...

"In the confident hope of a miracle": the Spanish Armada and religious mentalities in the late sixteenth century.
October 1, 2003... Within national and religious groups, as with individuals, ambivalent mentalities sometimes exist, which can threaten a sense of wholeness and lead to shifting alliances--and strange bedfellows--in terms of political and religious affinities....

Pio Nono and the Jews: from "reform" to "reaction," 1846-1878.
October 1, 2003... Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, elected pope on June 16, 1846, assumed the name Pins IX, in honor of Pius VII, who had issued the dispensation which allowed the epileptic Giovanni to enter the priesthood. Ordained in 1819, he received holy...

"A character of extravagance": establishment of the second archdiocese in the United States.
October 1, 2003... On January 5, 1846, Francis Norbert Blanchet, Vicar Apostolic of Oregon and Bishop of Drasa, arrived in the Eternal City. His road to Rome had been a long one indeed. Born on September 3, 1795, in Quebec Province, Canada, Blanchet studied...

Cardinal Raul Silva Henriquez, the Catholic Church, and the Pinochet regime, 1973-1980: public responses to a national security state.
October 1, 2003... After the military coup of 1973 Augusto Pinochet created the means to reinvent Chile in terms of a country that was under attack from foreign elements. As political parties and all public organizations were banned, the Catholic Church assumed...

Papal corporality and the papacy's immortality.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Pope's Body. By Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani. Translated by David S. Peterson. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2000. Pp. xxii, 396. $28.00.) This translation of II corpo del papa (Turin, 1994) contains an introduction,...

Historia da Ordem do Carmo em Portugal.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Balbino Velasco Bayon, O. Carm. (Lisbon: Paulinas. 2001. Pp. 755; 29 plates.) Fifty years ago, very little was known about the history of the Carmelite Order on the Iberian peninsula. As far as Spain is concerned, this lack was amply...

Corpus Librorum Emblematum. The Jesuit Series. Part Three (F-L).(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Edited by Peter M. Daly and G. Richard Dimler, S.J. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2002. Pp. lix, 375. $125.00.) This is the third part of an important project, undertaken by two authors who have made their mark in the world of...

Jerome.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Stefan Rebenich. [The Early Church Fathers.] (London and New York: Routledge. 2002. Pp. xi, 211. $14.95 paperback.) This is a splendid book, which admirably meets its series' goal by being at once scholarly and popular (the epigraph to...

Wandering, Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Daniel Caner. [Transformation of the Classical Heritage, Volume XXXIII.] (Berkeley: University of California Press. 2002. Pp. xv, 325. $65.00.) For many, the history of early Christian monasticism has lingered in remote spaces, whether...

The Orphans of Byzantium: Child Welfare in the Christian Empire.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Timothy S. Miller. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2003. Pp. xv, 340. $44.95.) Some forty-five years ago, I began working on philanthropia in the Byzantine Empire. My original plan was to produce a series of...

The Life of the Jura Fathers: the Life and Rule of the Holy Fathers Romanus, Lupicinus, and Eugendus, Abbots of the Monasteries in the Jura Mountains, with appendices, Avitus of Vienne, Letter XVIII to Viventiolus, and Eucherius of Lyon, The Passion of the Martyrs of Agaune, Saint Maurice and His Companions, and In Praise of the Desert.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Translated by Tim Vivian, Kim Vivian, and Jeffrey Burton Russell with the assistance of Charles Cummings, O.C.S.O. [Cistercian Studies Series, No. 178.] (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications. 1999. Pp. 240. $49.95.) At the core of...

Women in a Celtic Church: Ireland 450-1150.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Christina Harrington. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 329. 40 [pounds sterling].) The attitudes of Irish clerics toward women have always been contradictory, at best. Father Jack Hackett, a character in the RTE...

The Otherworld Voyage in Early Irish Literature. An Anthology of Criticism.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Edited by Jonathan M. Wooding. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. Distributed in the United States by ISBS, Portland, Oregon. 2000. Pp. xxviii, 290. $55.00.) Despite the indisputable importance of early Irish literature in European medieval...

Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Joseph F. O'Callaghan. [The Middle Ages Series.] (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. Pp. xviii, 322. $39.95.) Joseph O'Callaghan's study of the medieval Spanish reconquest serves a dual purpose. First, it updates the...

Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses: Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Gabor Klaniczay. Translated by Eva Palmai. [Past and Present Publications.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xviii, 490. $95.00.) Although the author of this book turns to his topic in a most original manner--the...

"Every Valley Shall Be Exalted": the Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Constance Brittain Bouchard. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 2003. Pp. xv, 171. $29.95.) Admired for her finely crafted studies of social, economic, and ecclesiastical history in twelfth-century Burgundy and her impeccable...

La Commanderie, institution des ordres militaires dans l'Occident medieval.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Edited by Anthony Luttrell and Leon Pessouyre. [Archeologie et d'histoire de l'art, Vol. 14.] (Paris: Comite des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Ministere de l'Education nationale, Ministere de la Recherche. 2002. Pp. 361. 46 [euro].) ...

The Leper King and His Heirs: Baldwin IV and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Bernard Hamilton. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. xxv, 288; 10 figs. $59.95.) "The reason for the loss of the Kingdom of Jerusalem was the seizure of this caravan," wrote the continuator of William of Tyre with...

The Poverty of Riches: St. Francis of Assisi Reconsidered.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Kenneth Baxter Wolf. [Oxford Studies in Historical Theology.] (New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. x, 165.) Wolf contends that Francis of Assisi embraced poverty in a way that made the lives of the involuntary poor harder. In his...

Agnes Blannbekin, Viennese Beguine: Life and Revelations.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Translated from the Latin by Ulrike Wiethaus, with introduction, notes, and interpretive essay. [Library of Medieval Women.] (Rochester, New York: D. S. Brewer. 2002. Pp. vii, 184. $60.00.) Agnes Blannbekin (ca. 1244-1315), Austrian mystic,...

Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones, Book VIII: Liber celestis imperatoris ad reges.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Edited by Hans Aili. With a reprint of Alfonso of Jaen, Epistola solitarii ad reges. Edited by Arne Jonsson. (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International. 2002. Pp. 229. SEK 230.) Any visitor to the Nordic countries, especially those...

Humanism and Secularization from Petrarch to Valla.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Riccardo Fubini. Translated by Martha King. [Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 18.] (Durham and London: Duke University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 306. $64.95.) In this book, Riccardo Fubini deals with one of the most...

The Universities of the Italian Renaissance.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Paul F. Grendler. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002. Pp. xx, 511. $49.50.) Reviled by contemporaries and neglected by modern scholars, the Italian Renaissance universities have finally received their due, and over the...

Das Konzil von Pavia-Siena 1423-1424.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Walter Brandmuller. [Konziliengeschichte, Reihe A: Darstellungen.] (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh. 2002. Pp. xxiv, 371. 50 [euro], 20.) According to the decree Frequens of the Council of Constance, an ecumenical council was to be...

Der Traktat des Antonio Roselli "De Conciliis ac Synodis Generalibus." Historisch-kanonistische Darstellung und Bewertung.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Thomas A. Weitz. [Konziliengeschichte. Reihe B: Untersuchungen.] (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh. 2002. Pp. xli, 463. 67.40 [euro].) Antonio Roselli (ca. 1380-1466) as shown in this study was a man of some unusual characteristics. He had...

Court and Politics in Papal Rome, 1492-1700.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Edited by Gianvittorio Signorotto and Maria Antonietta Visceglia, translated by Mark Roberts, Thomas V. Cohen, Domenico Sella, Joseph Bergin, et al. [Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture (Nr. 23).] (New York: Cambridge University...

Inquisition, Index, Zensur: Wissenskulturen der Neuzeit im Widerstreit.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Edited by Hubert Wolf. [Romische Inquisition und Indexkongregation, Bd. 1.] (Paderborn: Ferdinand Sch6ningh. 2001. Pp. 340. 46.40 [euro].) The opening of the archives of the Roman Inquisition and the Congregation of the Index in 1998 was a...

Huguenot Heartland: Montauban and Southern French Calvinism during the Wars of Religion.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Philip Conner. [St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.] (Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Co. 2002. Pp. xiv, 257. $84.95.) The place of Montauban in the chaotic religious history of early modern France is widely appreciated,...

Perfect Wives, Other Women: Adultery and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Georgina Dopico Black. (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. 2001. Pp. xx, 307. $59.95 clothbound; $19.95 paperback.) This book's title is somewhat misleading, since it treats three literary works in the light of what Dopico...

Femmes et gens d'Eglise dans la France classique XVIIe-XVIIIe siecle.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Marcel Bernos. (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf. 2003. Pp. 404. 33 [euro] paperback.) If the historiography of ancien-regime France were carved on stone tablets, we would find, writ large, the axiom that this was a society that held its...

The Seashell on the Mountaintop: a Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Alan Cutler. (New York: Dutton. 2003. Pp. xii, 228. $23.95.) Nicolaus Steno studied medicine in his native Denmark, spent time in the Netherlands, where he befriended Baruch Spinoza, traveled to France, and then to Italy, and became...

Le Synode Libanais de 1736. Tome One: Son influence sur la restructuration de l'Eglise maronite. Tome Two: Traduction du texte orginal arabe.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Elias Atallah. (Paris: Cero-Letouzey & Ane. 2002. Pp. xii, 308, 388. 44 [euro].) The Synod of Mt. Lebanon of 1736, held under the auspices of a papal legate and approved in 1741 by Pope Benedict XIV informa specifica, was one of the...

John Henry Newman: the Challenge to Evangelical Religion.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Frank M. Turner. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 740. $35.00.) The continued interest in the life of John Henry Newman (1801-1890) is remarkable. One wonders why a nineteenth-century author should continue to attract...

Father Mathew's Crusade: Temperance in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Irish America.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By John F. Quinn. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 263. $60.00 library cloth edition. $18.95 paperback.) Father Theobald Mathew, according to John F. Quinn, "should be seen as a man behind his times" (p. 7). During...

The Catholic Church in Spain, 1875-1998.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By William J. Callahan (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2000. Pp. xix, 695. $49.95.) Nearly two decades have elapsed since William Callahan brought out his prize-winning study on Church, Society and Politics in...

The Holy See, British Policy and the Plan of Campaign in Ireland, 1885-93.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Ambrose Macaulay. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. Distributed in the U.S.A. by ISBS, Portland, Oregon. 2002. Pp. xiv, 386. $45.00.) Few periods of Irish history present as daunting a nexus of competing interests, agendas, schemes, and...

Widerstand ist nicht das richtige Wort. Katholische Priester, Bischofe und Theologen im Dritten Reich.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Georg Denzler. (Zurich: Pendo Verlag. 2003. Pp. 304. sFr 39,90; 23,60 [euro].) The theme of this book is summed up in a quotation from Karl Rahner in the final chapter: "Church officeholders, and the clergy in general, suffer from...

Lexikon der Christlichen Demokratie in Deutschland.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Edited by Winfried Becket, Gunter Buchstab, Anselm Doering-Manteuffel, and Rudolf Morsey. (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh. 2002. Pp. 809.) At first glance, scholars might be skeptical of this work's scholarly value and integrity, as it is...

The Lonely Cold War of Pius XII: the Roman Catholic Church and the Division of Europe, 1943-1950.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Lonely Cold War of Pius XII: The Roman Catholic Church and the Division of Europe, 1943-1950. By Peter C. Kent. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2002. Pp. xv, 321. Can$45.00.) Vatikanische Ostpolitik unter...

Bund oder Schar--Verband oder Pfarrjugend? Katholische Jugendarbeit im Erzbistum Paderborn nach 1945.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Matthias Schulze. [Paderborner Studien zur Jugendarbeit, Band 1.] (Paderborn: BDKJ [Bund der Deutschen Katholischen Jugend] Verlag. 2001. Pp. 420.) In a revision of his dissertation, Matthias Schulze provides a superb organizational...

Building the Church in America. Studies in Honor of Monsignor Robert F. Trisco on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Edited by Joseph C. Linck, C.O., and Raymond J. Kupke. [Melville Studies in Church History.] (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 1999. Pp. xi, 292. $39.95.) Priest, professor, scholar, historian, editor, Robert...

After "The Year Eighty": the Demise of Franciscan Power in Spanish New Mexico.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Jim Norris. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Published in cooperation with the Academy of American Franciscan History. 2000. Pp. xi, 212. $39.95.) In 1680 New Mexico's Spanish rulers, after more than a century of seeming...

In Search of an American Catholicism: a History of Religion and Culture in Tension.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Jay P. Dolan. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. viii, 312. $28.00.) Two-thirds of the way through this well-written description and analysis of the interaction of American and Catholic over the past two centuries, Jay P....

Jonathan Edwards: a Life.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By George M. Marsden. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 2003. Pp. 640. $35.00.) Since the initiation of the Yale University letterpress edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards nearly fifty years ago, twentieth- and (now) twenty-first...

Stained Glass in Catholic Philadelphia.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Edited by Jean M. Farnsworth, Carmen R. Croce, Joseph F. Chorpenning, O.S.F.S. (Philadelphia: St. Joseph's University Press. 2002. Pp. xx, 505. $70.00 plus $8.00 postage and handling.) This is a weighty book in every sense of the term. With...

Adapting in Eden: Oregon's Catholic Minority, 1838-1986.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Patricia Brandt and Lillian A. Pereyra. (Pullman: Washington State University Press. 2002. Pp. viii, 216. $21.95 paperback.) Far to the west of the original Eden, another land of unspoiled beauty and unshackled freedom arose that became...

Slovaks on the Hudson: Most Holy Trinity Church, Yonkers, & the Slovak Catholics of the Archdiocese of New York, 1894-2000.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Thomas J. Shelley. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2002. Pp. xv, 273.) Over the past several decades, regional or local studies of Slovaks in the United States have increasingly replaced previous broad...

A Mission for Justice: the History of the First African American Catholic Church in Newark, New Jersey.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Mary A. Ward. (Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press. 2002. Pp. xv, 215. $35.00.) In the latter pages of this work, Mary Ward quotes a "man from Georgia" who said, there "ain't no special religion called Black Catholicism" The...

Contending for the Faith: Southern Baptists in New Mexico, 1938-1995.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Daniel R. Carnett. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2002. Pp. x, 230. $29.95.) This careful account could have easily been presented as a kind of company history, or worse, as a dry compendium of statistics drawn from the...

The U.S, Catholic Press on Central America: From Cold War Anticommunism to Social Justice.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Edward T Brett. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2003. Pp. viii, 265. $45.00 clothbound; $22.00 paperback.) Edward T. Brett asserts that during approximately the last sixty-five years, a remarkable transformation has...

God Aboveground: Catholic Church, Postsocialist State, and Transnational Processes in a Chinese Village.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By Eriberto P. Lozada, Jr. (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 250. $45.00.) Contemporary observers of Chinese Catholicism will find much to ponder in this 1990's interdisciplinary case-study of a rural Hakka...

Cohn-Sherbok, Lavinia. Who's Who in Christianity.(Book Review)(Brief Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... (London and New York: Routledge. 1998, 2002. Pp. xvi, 361. $14.95 paperback.) According to the preface this work is intended as "an introduction to the lives and ideas of twelve hundred of the most prominent people in the history of the...

Review news.(Notes And Comments)
October 1, 2003... Nelson H. Minnich, professor of church history in the Catholic University of America, has been appointed associate editor of the Catholic Historical Review.

Association news.(Notes And Comments)
October 1, 2003... The president of the American Catholic Historical Association, Bernard McGinn of the University of Chicago, has appointed Uta-Renate Blumenthal of the Catholic University of America, Marvin R. O'Connell of the University of Notre Dame, and...

Meetings and conferences.(Notes And Comments)
October 1, 2003... At the forty-sixth Colloque international d'etudes humanistes, which was sponsored by the Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance and held at Tours from June 30 to July 4, 2003, three papers were read by scholars from North America....

Exhibitions.(Notes And Comments)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... To mark the 200th anniversary of the secularization of monasteries, a Grosse Landesausstellung Baden Wurttemberg was held in the Neues Kloster of Bad Schussenried under the title "Alte Kloster, neue Herren: Sakularisation im deutschen...

Fellowships.(Notes And Comments)
October 1, 2003... The Academy of American Franciscan History is accepting applications for four dissertation fellowships, each worth $10,000. As many as two of these fellowships will be awarded for projects dealing with some aspect of the history of the...

Causes of saints.(Notes And Comments)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... During his apostolic visit to Slovakia Pope John Paul II on September 14, 2003, at a Mass in the Petrzalka Esplanade in Bratislava, beatified Bishop Basil Hopko (1904-1976) and Sister Zdenka Schelingova (1916-1955). In execution of the...

Prizes and awards.(Notes And Comments)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... At the annual meeting of the Texas Catholic Historical Society that was held in El Paso on March 7, 2003, the Carlos Eduardo Castaneda Award was presented to E. Victor Niemeyer, Jr.; the Paul J. Foik Award was presented to Jacinto Quirarte for...

Publications.(Notes And Comments)
October 1, 2003... "A historiografia religiosa medieval, hoje: temas e problemas" is the theme of the double volume of Lusitania Sacra for 2001-2002 (2nd Series, Volume XIII-XIV), which contains the following articles: Elisa Maria Domingues da Costa Carvalho, "A...

Personal notice.(Notes And Comments)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... William Wolkovich-Valkavicius, pastor of St. George Parish in Norwood, Massachusetts, will be awarded, by unanimous vote of the Senate of the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, an honorary doctorate in recognition of his countless...

Obituary.(Notes And Comments)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
October 1, 2003... Joan Lueder Coffey, as associate professor of history in Sam Houston University who specialized in late modern French religious history, died on August 13, 2003, after suffering from Waldenstrom's macroglulinemia for more than eight years. Born...

Periodical literature.
October 1, 2003... GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS On Teaching the History of Christianity: Traditions and Presuppositions. E. Brooks Holifield. Church History, 72 (June, 2003), 237-250. Corruptio optimi, pessima. Tra fascino della Pentecoste e splendore...

Other books received.
October 1, 2003... Allen, A. J., and Emilie Amt (Eds.). The Crusades: A Reader. [Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures: VIII.] (Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press. 2003. Pp. xix, 430. $36.95 CDN; $29.95 US.) Babcock, Robert G. Reconstructing a...