The Catholic Historical Review articles from October 2006

The Catholic Historical Review archives from October 2006

The evolution of the Utraquist Mass, 1420-1620.
October 1, 2006... The description of the evolution of the Mass is based on liturgical documents of the period whose authenticity as witnesses of the Utraquist Mass is guaranteed by their former use in worshiping communities. The Utraquists retained the (Latin)...

The Spanish Minerva: imagining Teresa of Avila as patron saint in seventeenth-century Spain.
October 1, 2006... In the early seventeenth-century, a movement began to elevate Teresa of Avila to co-patron saint of Spain (alongside the traditional patron, Santiago); this movement changed the ways in which the saint was imagined in both visual images and...

The contemporary papacy from Paul VI to Benedict XVI: a bibliographical essay.(Bibliography)
October 1, 2006... During the long pontificate of John Paul II (1978-2005) there has been a renewed interest in the papacy, head of the universal church and the world's oldest transnational institution. This is reflected in the spate of one-volume dictionaries...

New light on Vatican Council II.(Breve storia del Concilio Vaticano II)(La fatica della liberta. L'elaborazione della dichiarazione Dignitatis humanae sulla liberta religiosa del Vaticano II)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Il concilio inedito. Fonti del Vaticano II. Edited by Massimo Faggioli and Giovanni Turbanti. [Istituto per le scienze religiose--Bologna, Testi e ricerche di scienze religiose, Serie Fonti e strumenti di ricerca, 1.] (Bologna: Il Mulino. 2001....

The Encyclopedia of Christianity.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Volume 1:A-D; Volume 2: E-I; Volume 3: J-O; Volume 4: P-SH. Edited by Erwin Fahlbusch Jan Milic Lochman, John Mbiti, Jaroslav Pelikan, and Lukas Vischer; English-language editor Geoffrey W. Bromiley;...

The Church Unfinished: Ecclesiology through the Centuries.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Church Unfinished: Ecclesiology through the Centuries. By Bernard P. Prusak. (Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press. 2004. Pp. x, 404. $22.95 paperback.) Understanding the complex nature of the Christian Church has been a continual...

Dos Mil Anos de Evangelizacion: Los Grandes Ciclos Evangelizadores.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Dos Mil Anos de Evangelizacion: Los Grandes Ciclos Evangelizadores. Edited by Enrique de la Lama, Marcelo Merino, Miguel Lluch-Baixauli, and Jose Enerez. [XXI Simposio Internacional de Teologia de la Universidad de Navarra.] (Pamplona: Servicio...

Eccentric Culture: A Theory of Western Civilization.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Eccentric Culture: A Theory of Western Civilization. By Remi Brague. Translated by Samuel Lester. (South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine's Press. 2002. Pp. vi, 205. $28.00.) Western civilization has at times been conceived of as the...

The Christian Communities of Jerusalem and the Holy Land: Studies in History, Religion and Politics.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Christian Communities of Jerusalem and the Holy Land: Studies in History, Religion and Politics. Edited by Anthony O'Mahony. (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 210.) This well-conceived collection of eight essays on...

The Church and Mary.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Church and Mary. Edited by R. N. Swanson. [Studies in Church History, Volume 39.] (Rochester, New York: Boydell Press. 2004. Pp. xvi, 376. $75.00, [pounds sterling]45.00.) Volume 39 of the "Studies in Church History" series published...

The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield and the Wesleys.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield and the Wesleys. By Mark A. Noll. [A History of Evangelicalism: People, Movements and Ideas in the English-Speaking World, Volume 1.] (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press. 2003....

From Dogma to History: How Our Understanding of the Early Church Developed.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... From Dogma to History: How Our Understanding of the Early Church Developed. By William H. C. Frend. (London: SCM Press. 2003. Pp. viii, 212. [pounds sterling]12.99 paperback.) This, William Frend's last book, is a fitting summary of his...

Die Vorstellung vom Norden und der Eurozentrismus. Eine Auswertung der patristischen und mittelalterlichen Literatur.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Die Vorstellung vom Norden und der Eurozentrismus. Eine Auswertung der patristischen und mittelalterlichen Literatur. By Piotr Kochanek. [Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fur europaische Geschichte Mainz: Abteilung fur abendlandische...

The Cartulary of Montier-en-Der, 666-1129.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Cartulary of Montier-en-Der, 666-1129. Edited by Constance Brittain Bouchard. [Medieval Academy Books, 108.] (Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2004. Pp. ix, 404. $75.00.) The absence of an edition of Montier-en-Der's charters has...

The Reform of the Frankish Church: Chrodegang of Metz and the Regula Canonicorum in the Eighth Century.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Reform of the Frankish Church: Chrodegang of Metz and the Regula canonicorum in the Eighth Century. By M.A. Claussen. [Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought--Fourth Series, Vol. 61.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp....

The Chrodegang Rules: The Rules for the Common Life of the Secular Clergy from the Eighth and Ninth Centuries: Critical Texts with Translations and Commentary.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Chrodegang Rules: The Rules for the Common Life of the Secular Clergy from the Eighth and Ninth Centuries. Critical Texts with Translations and Commentary. By Jerome Bertram. [Church, Faith, and Culture in the Medieval West.] (Burlington,...

Send Me God: The Lives of Ida the Compassionate of Nivelles, Nun of La Ramee, Arnulf, Lay Brother of Villers, and Abundus, Monk of Villers by Goswin of Bossut.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Send Me God: The Lives of Ida the Compassionate of Nivelles, Nun of La Ramee, Arnulf, Lay Brother of Villers, and Abundus, Monk of Villers by Goswin of Bossut. Translated by and with an introduction by Martinus Cawley O.C.S.O. [Brepols Medieval...

A Translation of the "Chronicle" of the Abbey of Morigny, France, c. 1100-1150.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... A Translation of the "Chronicle" of the Abbey of Morigny, France, c. 1100-1150. Edited and translated by Richard Cusimano. [Mediaeval Studies, Vol. 22.] (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 233.) Several monastic...

The Secular Jurisdiction of Monasteries in Anglo-Norman and Angevin England.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Secular Jurisdiction of Monasteries in Anglo-Norman and Angevin England. By Kevin L. Shirley. [Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, Vol. XXI.] (Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, Inc. 2004. Pp. xii, 184.) Beginning from...

Gesammelte Abhandlungen und Aufsatze, 2 vols.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Gesammelte Abhandlungen und Aufsatze: Volume 1: Von Dante zum Risorgimento. Studien zur Geistesgeschichte und Sozialgeschichte Italiens; Volume 2/1: Studien zur Papst- und Reichsgeschichte, zur Geschichte des Mittelmeerraumes und zum...

The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages. By Robert Bartlett. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2004. Pp. xiv, 168. $14.95 paperback.) Robert Bartlett has previously devoted scholarly attention to...

The Crusade against Heretics in Bohemia, 1418-1437. Sources and Documents for the Hussite Crusades.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Crusade against Heretics in Bohemia, 1418-1437. Sources and Documents for the Hussite Crusades. By Thomas A. Fudge. [Crusade Texts in Translation, Volume 9.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2002. Pp. xix, 419, 6 maps....

Pilgrimage to Images in the Fifteenth Century: The Origins of the Cult of Our Lady of Czestochowa.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Pilgrimage to Images in the Fifteenth Century: The Origins of the Cult of Our Lady of Czestochowa. By Robert Maniura. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press. 2004. Pp. x, 238. [pounds sterling]50.) Among the many...

Ritual in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Ritual in Early Modern Europe. By Edward Muir. Second edition. [New Approaches to European History, 33.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 320. $70.00 clothbound; $24.99 paperback.) In 1997 Edward Muir published the first...

Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits: Traditional Belief and Folklore in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits: Traditional Belief and Folklore in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Kathryn A. Edwards. [Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, 62.] (Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press. 2002. Pp. xxii,...

Husbands, Wives, and Concubines: Marriage, Family, and Social Order in Sixteenth-Century Verona.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Husbands, Wives, and Concubines: Marriage, Family, and Social Order in Sixteenth-Century Verona. By Emlyn Eisenach. [Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, 69.] (Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press. 2004. Pp. xxiv, 240. $36.95...

A Convent Tale: A Century of Sisterhood in Spanish Milan.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... A Convent Tale: A Century of Sisterhood in Spanish Milan. By P. Renee Baernstein. (New York: Routledge. 2002. Pp. xxii, 270. $27.50.) Renee Baernstein's book about the Angelic nuns of the convent of San Paolo Converso in sixteenth- and...

The Saint as Censor: Robert Bellarmine between Inquisition and Index.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Saint as Censor. Robert Bellarmine between Inquisition and Index. By Peter Godman. [Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, Volume LXXX.] (Leiden: Brill. 2000. Pp. xxi, 503. $215.00.) Since the Second Vatican Council, Robert...

A Catholic Response in Sixteenth-Century France to Reformation Theology: The Works of Pierre Dore.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... A Catholic Response in Sixteenth-Century France to Reformation Theology: The Works of Pierre Dore. By John Langlois. [Roman Catholic Studies, Volume 18.] (Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 307. $119.95.) Despite his...

The Church in the Republic: Gallicanism and Political Ideology in Renaissance France.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Church in the Republic: Gallicanism and Political Ideology in Renaissance France. By Jotham Parsons. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2004. Pp. xiv, 322. $59.95.) Gallicanism was self-invented, as early...

Le Nain de Tillemont et l'historiographie de l'Antiquite romaine: Actes de Colloque international organise par le Centre Le Nain de Tillemont et tenu a la Fondation Singer-Polignac presidee par Monsieur Edouard Bonnefous les 19 et 20 novembre 1998 et a l'Institut de France le 21 novembre 1998.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Le Nain de Tillemont et l'historiographie de l'Antiquite romaine: Actes de Colloque international organise par le Centre Le Nain de Tillemont et tenu a la Fondation Singer-Polignac presidee par Monsieur Edouard Bonnefous les 19 et 20 novembre...

Crown, Church, and Episcopate under Louis XIV.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Crown, Church and Episcopate under Louis XIV. By Joseph Bergin. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 526. $60.00.) Following his very important and very convincing study of The Making of the French Episcopate,...

Erudition hagiographique au XVIIIe siecle, Jean Lebeuf et les Bollandistes: Correspondance.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Erudition hagiographique au XVIIIe siecle, Jean Lebeuf et les Bollandistes: Correspondance. Edited by Bernard Joassart. [Tabularium hagiographicum, 3.] (Brussels: Societe des Bollandistes. 2003. Pp. 209. Paperback.) The controversy over...

Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture. By Mita Choudhury. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 2004. Pp.xi, 234. $42.50.) On July 17, 1794, sixteen Carmelite nuns went to the guillotine, accused of...

Felipe V y su tiempo: Congreso internacional celebrado en Zaragoza, 15 al 19 de Enero de 2001.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Felipe V y su tiempo: Congreso internacional celebrado en Zaragoza, 15 al 19 de Enero de 2001. Edited by Eliseo Serrano. 2 vols. (Zaragoza: Institucion "Fernando el Catolico," C.S.I.C. 2004. Pp. 1062,898. Paperback.) For decades,...

Thinking of the Laity in Late Tudor England.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Thinking of the Laity in Late Tudor England. By Peter Iver Kaufman. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2004. Pp. xiv, 175. $40.00 clothbound; $20.00 paperback.) Thinking of the Laity is not quite a counter-factual...

Wotton and His Worlds: Spying, Science and Venetian Intrigues.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Wotton and His Worlds: Spying, Science and Venetian Intrigues. By Gerald Curzon. (Philadelphia: Xlibris Corporation. 2003. Pp. 341. $32.99 hardcover; $22.99 paperback.) Sir Henry Wotton was one of the multi-talented political figures whose...

Religion and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Religion and the Early Modern State. Views from China, Russia, and the West. Edited by James D. Tracy and Marguerite Ragnow. [Studies in Comparative Early Modern History, Center for Early Modern History, University of Minnesota, Vol. 5.] (New...

Por la vida y el honor: el Presbitero Felix Varela en las Cortes de Espana, 1822-1823.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Por la vida y el honor: el Presbitero Felix Varela en las Cortes de Espana, 1822-1823. By Manuel Pablo Maza Miquel, S.J. (Santo Domingo, Domincan Republic: Instituto Pedro Francisco Bono. 2000. Pp. 358.) In Por la Vida y el Honor, Maza...

Holy Tears, Holy Blood: Women, Catholicism, and the Culture of Suffering in France, 1840-1970.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Holy Tears, Holy Blood: Women, Catholicism, and the Culture of Suffering in France, 1840-1909. By Richard D. E. Burton. (Ithaca, NewYork: Cornell University Press. 2004. Pp. xxviii, 291. $45.00.) Richard Burton's haunting study of the...

La Republique contre les Congregations: Histoire d'une passion francaise (1899-1914).(Book review)
October 1, 2006... La Republique contre les Congregations: Histoire d'une passion francaise (1899-1914). By Christian Sorrel. (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf. 2003. Pp. 265. [euro]23.00.) Timed to coincide with the centenary of the association laws in France...

Pour une histoire du monde catholique au 20e siecle, Wallonie-Bruxelles: Guide du chercheur.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Pour une histoire du monde catholique au 20e siecle, Wallonie-Bruxelles: Guide du chercheur. Edited by Jean Pirotte and Guy Zelis. [Collection Sillages.] (Louvain-la-Neuve: Archives du monde Catholique Eglise-Wallonie. 2003. Pp. 784.) In...

Vom Seelenhirten zum Wegfuhrer. Sondierungen zum bischoflichen Selbstverstandnis im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Die Antrittshirtenbriefe der Germanikerbischofe (1837-1962).(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Vom Seelenhirten zum Wegfuhrer. Sondierungen zum bischoflichen Selbstverstandnis im 19. und 20.Jahrhundert. Die Antrittshirtenbriefe der Germanikerbischofe (1837-1962). By Martin Leitgob. [Romische Quartalscrhift fur christliche Altertumskunde...

Johann Sebastian Drey. Praelectiones Dogmaticae (1815-1834): Gehalten zu Ellwangen und Tubingen, 2 vols.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Johann Sebastian Drey. Praelectiones Dogmaticae (1815-1834). Gehalten zu Ellwangen und Tubingen. Edited and Introduction by Max Seckler. 2 volumes. (Tubingen: Francke Verlag. 2003. Pp. xviii, 775. [euro]129.) Ever since the Reformation,...

Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc. By Joseph Pearce. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press. 2002. Pp. x, 318. $24.95.) Robert Speaight's The Life of Hilaire Belloc was published in 1957, a mere four years after the death of his subject. As is...

Der Staat und die katholische Kirche in Litauen seit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Der Staat und die katholische Kirche in Litauen seit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges. By Martin Jungraithmayr. [Zeitgeschichtliche Forschungen, Band 16.] (Berlin: Duncker und Humblot. 2002. Pp. 423. [euro]76 paperback.) This law...

The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life.(From "Higher Law" to "Sectarian Scruples", vol. 2)(The Odyssey of the Religion Clauses, vol. 1)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life. Vol. I: The Odyssey of the Religion Clauses; Vol. II: From "Higher Law" to "Sectarian Scruples." By James Hitchcock. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2004. Pp. x, 218; viii, 261. $32.95;...

Sacred Song in America: Religion, Music, and Public Culture.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Sacred Song in America: Religion, Music, and Public Culture. By Stephen A. Marini. [Public Expressions of Religion in America.] (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2003. Pp. xiv, 400. $34.95.) Stephen Marini's latest book...

Dominicans at Home in a Young Nation, 1786-1865.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Dominicans at Home in a Young Nation, 1786-1865. Volume 1 of The Order of Preachers in the United States: A Family History. Edited by Mary Nona McGreal, O.P. (Strasbourg, France: Editions du Signe. 2001. Pp. 304.) Before the publication of...

Creating Community: Mary Frances Clarke and Her Companions.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Creating Community: Mary Frances Clarke and Her Companions. By Ann M. Harrington. (Dubuque, Iowa: Sisters of Charity, BVM. 2004. Pp. xv, 198. $10.00.) Like scholars in other historical fields, at least some of those concerned with the...

Charles Hodge Revisited: A Critical Appraisal of His Life and Work.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Charles Hodge Revisited: A Critical Appraisal of His Life and Work. Edited by John W. Stewart and James H. Moorhead. (Grand Rapids: William. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 2002. Pp. x, 375. $25.00 paperback.) In his summary chapter, coeditor...

The Kingdom is Always But Coming: A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Kingdom Is Always But Coming: A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch. By Christopher H. Evans. [Library of Religious Biography.] (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2004. Pp. xxx, 348. $25.00 paperback.) Evans's...

Catholic Higher Education in Protestant America: The Jesuits and Harvard in the Age of the University.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Catholic Higher Education in Protestant America: The Jesuits and Harvard in the Age of the University. By Kathleen A. Mahoney. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 348. $42.95.) Kathleen Mahoney has undertaken the...

Rock Beneath the Sand: Country Churches in Texas.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Rock Beneath the Sand: Country Churches in Texas. Text by Lois E. Myers and Rebecca Sharpless. Photographs by Clark G. Baker. [Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, no. 5.] (College Station: Texas A & M University Press. 2003. Pp. xx, 197.) ...

Habits of Devotion. Catholic Religious Practice in Twentieth-Century America.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Habits of Devotion. Catholic Religious Practice in Twentieth-Century America. Edited by James M. O'Toole. [Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America.] (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 2004. Pp. viii, 289....

Dictionnaire biographique des eveques catholiques du Canada: Les dioceses catholiques canadiens des Eglises latine et orientales et leurs eveques, reperes chronologiques et biographiques, 1658-2002.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Dictionnaire biographique des eveques catholiques du Canada: Les dioceses catholiques canadiens des Eglises latine et orientales et leurs eveques; reperes chronologiques et biographiques, 1658-2002. By Jean LeBlanc. [Instruments de Recherche.]...

Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint. By Paul J. Vanderwood. (Durham: Duke University Press. 2004. Pp. xvi, 333. $22.95 paperback.) Where does guilt end and faith begin? This seems to be the prevailing leitmotiv of this splendid...

Notes and comments.(2008 Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association)
October 1, 2006... The 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association The First Vice-President of the American Catholic Historical Association, the Reverend Joseph J. Chinnici, O.F.M., will be chair of the Committee on Program for the...

Periodical literature.(Bibliography)
October 1, 2006... General and Miscellaneous A Mirror for Every Age: The Reputation of Roger Bacon. Amanda Power. English Historical Review, CXXI (June, 2006), 657-692. Die Bedeutung des Minoriten-Ordens fur die musikalische Stilentwicklung in Europa....

Other books received.
October 1, 2006... Aston, Nigel. Christianity and revolutionary Europe, 1750-1830. [New Approaches to European History.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xiv, 379. $24.00 paperback.) Aubert, R. Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Geographie...