The Catholic Historical Review articles from October 2007

The Catholic Historical Review archives from October 2007

Bishop Lucas of Tuy and the Latin chronicle tradition in Iberia.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2007... Lucas, bishop of Tuy, was a canon of the shrine of San Isidoro in Leon, protege of Queen Berenguela, and figure at the court of her son, King Fernando III, of Leon-Castile. He was also the compiler and author of a world chronicle, Chronicon...

Giacomo Antonio Marta: antipapal lawyer and English spy, 1609-1618.(Essay)
October 1, 2007... Giacomo Antonio Marta (1557/58-1629) of Naples was a distinguished legal scholar and professor at several Italian universities. His education, warm feelings for the Jesuits, and career should have made him a papal defender in an era of...

Colleges, schools, teachers: between church and state in northern Italy (XVI-XVII centuries).(Report)
October 1, 2007... This study investigates the network of secondary education in northern Italy in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Citing specific examples, the Republic of Venice, the State of Milan, the Duchy of Savoy, it brings into the...

Profession and faith: the National Guild of Catholic Psychiatrists, 1950-1968.(Essay)
October 1, 2007... In the early 1950's, Roman Catholics in America were underrepresented as psychiatric patients and practitioners, and a group of lay Catholic psychiatrists organized a National Guild of Catholic Psychiatrists and published the Bulletin of the...

Religious Foundations of Western Civilization: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Religious Foundations of Western Civilization: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Edited by Jacob Neusner. (Nashville: Abingdon Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 686. Paperback.) With Religious Foundations of Western Civilization, Jacob Neusner has...

Introduction to the History of Christianity.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Introduction to the History of Christianity. By George Herring. (New York: New York University Press. 2006. Pp. xx, 370. $70.00 cloth, $22.00 paperback.) If you are looking for an introduction to church history that gives a balanced...

Renewed by the Word: The Bible and Christian Revival since the Reformation.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Renewed by the Word: The Bible and Christian Revival since the Reformation. By J. N. Morris. (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers. 2005. Pp. 160. $16.95.) The tension between structured organization and changing circumstances...

The Petrine Ministry. Catholics and Orthodox in Dialogue. Academic symposium held at the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Petrine Ministry. Catholics and Orthodox in Dialogue. Academic symposium held at the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Edited by Walter Kasper. (New York and Mahwah, New Jersey: The Newman Press, Paulist Press. 2006. Pp. vi,...

Rereading Paul Together: Protestant and Catholic Perspectives on Justification.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Rereading Paul Together: Protestant and Catholic Perspectives on Justification. Edited by David E. Aune. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic. 2006. Pp. 272. $24.99 paperback.) This collection of essays derives, in part, from a symposium...

The 33 Doctors of the Church.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The 33 Doctors of the Church. By Christopher Rengers, O.F.M. Cap. (Rockford, Illinois: Tan Books and Publishers. 2003. Pp. xxx, 692. $33.00 paperback.) Since Benedict XIV, a pope with a penchant for bringing order to disorder, laid out...

Spirituality and Mysticism: A Global View.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Spirituality and Mysticism: A Global View. By James A. Wiseman. [Theology in Global Perspective Series.] (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books. 2006. Pp. xiv, 242. $20.00 paperback.) The author of this book is a Benedictine monk of St. Anselm's...

The Origin and Development of the Christian Liturgy According to Cultural Epochs: Political, Cultural, and Ecclesial Backgrounds: History of the Liturgy.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Origin and Development of the Christian Liturgy According to Cultural Epochs: Political, Cultural, and Ecclesial Backgrounds: History of the Liturgy. By Attila Mikloshazy. 5 volumes. (Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press. 2006. Pp....

Histoire des cures.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Histoire des cures. By Michel Lagree, Nicole Lemaitre, Luc Perrin, and Catherine Vincent. (Paris: Fayard. 2002. Pp. 523. [euro]23,00.) The four authors of this work have set themselves a formidable task. Drawing on a vast body of...

Satan: A Biography.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Satan: A Biography. By Henry Ansgar Kelly. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 360. $65.00 hardback; $19.99 paperback.) There is no shortage of recent interest in the Old Enemy. A study of his "birth" appeared in 2005,...

Antisemitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Antisemitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present. By Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002.) Pp. x, 309. $35.00.) Two professors, respectively at Baruch College and Manhattan College,...

Kingship: The Politics of Enchantment.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Kingship: The Politics of Enchantment. By Francis Oakley. (Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing. 2006. Pp. xiv, 193. $34.95.) This is an ambitious undertaking which considers kingship as a form of government over a period of five...

Covenant Marriage in Comparative Perspective.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Covenant Marriage in Comparative Perspective. Edited by John Witte, Jr., and Eliza Ellison. [Religion, Marriage, and Family.] (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2005. Pp. xiv, 342. $34.00 paperback.) The term...

Historiam perscrutari: Miscellanea di studi offerti al prof. Ottorino Pasquato.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Historiam perscrutari: Miscellanea di studi offerti al prof. Ottorino Pasquato. Edited by Mario Maritano. [Biblioteca di Scienze Religiose, 180.] (Rome: Editrice L. A. S. 2002. Pp. 882. [euro]50,00 paperback.) Ottorino Pasquato, S.D.B., is...

The Cambridge History of Christianity.(Origins to Constantine)(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Cambridge History of Christianity. Volume 1: Origins to Constantine. Edited by Margaret M. Mitchell and Frances M. Young. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xlviii, 740. $180.00.) The Cambridge "histories" often include...

The Biblical Canon: Its Origin, Transmission, and Authority.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Biblical Canon: Its Origin, Transmission, and Authority. By Lee Martin McDonald. (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers. 2007. Pp. xlii, 546. $29.95 paperback.) Anyone with an interest in the development of the Christian...

Why This New Race: Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Why This New Race: Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity. By Denise Kimber Buell. (New York: Columbia University Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 257. $45.00.) In Why This New Race, Denise Kimber Buell offers a theoretically sophisticated analysis of...

Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church. By Michael Philip Penn. [Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion.] (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. Pp. viiii, 186. $42.50.) Michael Penn...

The Life of Antony.(The Life of Antony by Athanasius of Alexandria; The Greek Life of Antony, The Coptic Life of Antony, and Encomium on Saint Antony by John of Shmun, and A Letter to the Disciples of Antony by Serapion of Thmuis)(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Life of Antony by Athanasius of Alexandria; The Greek Life of Antony, The Coptic Life of Antony, and Encomium on Saint Antony by John of Shmun, and A Letter to the Disciples of Antony by Serapion of Thmuis. Translated by Tim Vivian and...

Psalmody and Prayer in the Writings of Evagrius Ponticus.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Psalmody and Prayer in the Writings of Evagrius Ponticus. By Luke Dysinger, O.S.B. [Oxford Theological Monographs.] (Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 245. [pounds sterling]55.00.) Within months of his death, and possibly...

A Sociophilological Study of Late Latin.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... A Sociophilological Study of Late Latin. By Roger Wright. [Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 10.] (Turnhout: Brepols. 2002. Pp. viii, 389. [euro]65,00.) Roger Wright's scholarly work has focused on a single problem: when and how did...

Saint Mary of Egypt: Three Medieval Lives in Verse.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Saint Mary of Egypt: Three Medieval Lives in Verse. Translated and introduced by Hugh Feiss and Ronald E. Pepin. [Cistercian Studies Series, 209.] (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications. 2005. Pp. x, 159. Paperback.) This volume...

Medieval European Pilgrimage, c.700-c.1500.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Medieval European Pilgrimage, c.700-c.1500. By Diana Webb. [European Culture and Society.] (New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xvii, 185. $69.95.) Pilgrimage, defined as a religiously motivated journey to a sacred place, is practiced in most of...

The Making of Christian Malta: From the Early Middle Ages to 1530.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Making of Christian Malta: From the Early Middle Ages to 1530. By Anthony T. Luttrell. [Variorum Collected Studies Series.] (Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Co. 2002. Pp. viii, 342. $105.95.) Dr. Anthony T. Luttrell has over...

Im Zeichen von Kirchenreform und Reformation: Gesammelte Studien zur Kirchengeschichte in Spatmittelalter und fruher Neuzeit.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Im Zeichen von Kirchenreform und Reformation: Gesammelte Studien zur Kirchengeschichte in Spatmittelalter und fruher Neuzeit. By Heribert Smolinsky. Edited by Karl-Heinz Braun, Barbara Henze, and Bernhard Schneider. [Reformationsgeschichtliche...

Medieval Allegory and the Building of the New Jerusalem.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Medieval Allegory and the Building of the New Jerusalem. By Ann R. Meyer. (Rochester, New York: D. S. Brewer, an imprint of Boydell and Brewer Ltd. 2003. Pp. x, 214. $70.00.) This is a book with an ambitious agenda: the correlation of...

The White Mantle of Churches. Architecture, Liturgy, and Art around the Millennium.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The White Mantle of Churches. Architecture, Liturgy, and Art around the Millennium. Edited by Nigel Hiscock. [International Medieval Research, Volume 10: Art History Subseries 2.] (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. 2003. Pp. xix, 283....

The Nave Sculpture of Vezelay: The Art of Monastic Viewing.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Nave Sculptures of Vezelay: The Art of Monastic Viewing. By Kirk Ambrose. [Studies and Texts, 154.] (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies. 2006. Pp. xiv, 148; Plates 26, Figures 110 capitals. $95.00.) This study, the...

The Ordinal of the Abbey of the Holy Trinity Fecamp: Fecamp, Musee de la [Palais] Benedictine, Ms 186.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Ordinal of the Abbey of the Holy Trinity Fecamp: Fecamp, Musee de la [Palais] Benedictine, Ms 186. Edited by David Chadd. [Henry Bradshaw Society, Vols. 111-112.] (Rochester, New York: Published for the Henry Bradshaw Society by the Boydell...

Aelred of Rievaulx: On Love and Order in the World and the Church.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Aelred of Rievaulx: On Love and Order in the World and the Church. By John R. Sommerfeldt. [The Newman Press Significant Scholarly Studies.] (Mahwah, New Jersey: The Newman Press. 2006. Pp. xxii, 232. $24.95 paperback.) John R....

Narratives of a New Order: Cistercian Historical Writing in England, 1150-1220.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Narratives of a New Order: Cistercian Historical Writing in England, 1150-1220. By Elizabeth Freeman. [Medieval Church Studies, 2.] (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. 2002. Pp. x, 245.) The twelfth and the thirteenth centuries...

The Franciscans in the Middle Ages.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Franciscans in the Middle Ages. By Michael Robson. [Monastic Orders.] (Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 239. $47.95.) Author of a favorably reviewed book on Saint Francis, Michael Robson here attacks the larger...

The Privilege of Poverty: Clare of Assisi, Agnes of Prague, and the Struggle for a Franciscan Rule for Women.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Privilege of Poverty: Clare of Assisi, Agnes of Prague, and the Struggle for a Franciscan Rule for Women. By Joan Mueller. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 182. $40.00.) With Clare of Assisi, it is...

Isabelle of France: Capetian Sanctity and Franciscan Identity in the Thirteenth Century.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Isabelle of France: Capetian Sanctity and Franciscan Identity in the Thirteenth Century. By Sean L. Field. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 288. $35.00 paperback.) Isabelle of France (d. 1270), daughter...

Women, Men and Spiritual Power: Female Saints and Their Male Collaborators.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Women, Men and Spiritual Power: Female Saints and Their Male Collaborators. By John W. Coakley. (New York: Columbia University Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 354. $45.00.) Ever since medievalists rediscovered holy women a generation ago, the men...

The Medieval Court of Arches.(The Medieval Court of Arches: The Canterbury and York Society, vol. 95)(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Medieval Court of Arches. Edited by F. Donald Logan. [The Canterbury and York Society, Volume 95.] (Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press. 2005. Pp. xlviii, 240. $49.95.) The metropolitan appellate court of the archbishop of...

Raising Arms: Liturgy in the Struggle to Liberate Jerusalem in the Late Middle Ages.(Raising Arms: Liturgy in the Struggle to Liberate Jerusalem in the Late Middle Ages, Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, vol. 2)(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Raising Arms: Liturgy in the Struggle to Liberate Jerusalem in the Late Middle Ages. By Amnon Linder. [Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Volume 2.] (Turnhout: Brepols. 2003. Pp. xx, 423. $113.00, [euro]90,00.) In...

Theology, Rhetoric, Manuduction, or Reading Scripture Together on the Path to God.(Theology, Rhetoric, Manuduction, or Reading Scripture Together on the Path to God: Radical Traditions, Theology in a Postcritical Key)(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Theology, Rhetoric, Manuduction, or Reading Scripture Together on the Path to God. By Peter M. Candler, Jr. [Radical Traditions: Theology in a Postcritical Key.] (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2006. Pp. xii,...

Teaching and Learning in Northern Europe, 1000-1200.(Teaching and Learning in Northern Europe, 1000-1200, Studies in the Early Middle Ages, vol. 8)(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Teaching and Learning in Northern Europe, 1000-1200. Edited by Sally N. Vaughn and Jay Rubenstein. [Studies in the Early Middle Ages, Vol. 8.] (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. 2006. Pp. xxii, 362. [euro]60.00.) The editors of this volume,...

Peter Lombard.(Peter Lombard: Great Medieval Thinkers)(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Peter Lombard. By Philipp W. Rosemann. [Great Medieval Thinkers.] (Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. xvi, 272. Paperback.) With this volume, Philipp Rosemann has produced a very readable introduction to Peter Lombard, master of...

The Dominicans and the Pope: Papal Teaching Authority in the Medieval and Early Modern Thomist Tradition.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Dominicans and the Pope: Papal Teaching Authority in the Medieval and Early Modern Thomist Tradition. By Ulrich Horst, O.P Translated by James D. Mixson. [The Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies, 2002.] (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of...

Schule und Universitat. Bildungsverhaltnisse in norddeutschen Stadten des Spatmittelalters: Gesammelte Aufsatze.(Studieren an mittelalterlichen Universitaten. Chancen und Risiken. Gesammelte Aufsatze)(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Schule und Universitat. Bildungsverhaltnisse in norddeutschen Stadten des Spatmittelalters: Gesammelte Aufsatze. By Klaus Wriedt. [Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Volume 23.] (Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers....

Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570. By Eamon Duffy. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 202. $35.00.) In his History of Illuminated Manuscripts, after discussing books designed for emperors, for...

Art and Devotion in Late Medieval Ireland.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Art and Devotion in Late Medieval Ireland. Edited by Rachel Moss, Colman O Clabaigh, O.S.B., and Salvador Ryan. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2006. Pp. xxii, 234. [euro]55.00.) The later Middle Ages in Ireland were described by the late Robin...

Painter and Priest: Giovanni Canavesio's Visual Rhetoric and the Passion Cycle at La Brigue.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Painter and Priest: Giovanni Canavesio's Visual Rhetoric and the Passion Cycle at La Brigue. By Veronique Plesch. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2006. Pp. xxix, 488. $55.00.) Veronique Plesch's study of Giovanni...

Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy. By Alison Knowles Frazier. (New York: Columbia University Press. 2005. Pp. xx, 527.) Alison Knowles Frazier's Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy is a scholarly...

Renaissance Siena. Art in Context.(Renaissance Siena: Art in Context, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, vol. 71)(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Renaissance Siena. Art in Context. Edited by A. Lawrence Jenkens. [Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, Volume 71.] (Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 208. $39.95 paperback.) In the opening line of his...

Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon.(Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon, New Studies in European History)(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon. By David Lederer. [New Studies in European History.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xx, 361. $90.00.) This challenging book makes a significant...

Angels in the Early Modern World.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Angels in the Early Modern World. Edited by Peter Marshall and Alexandra Walsham. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 326. $99.00.) In the post-medieval period, angels were very nearly erased, both literally and...

Beyond the Reformation? Authority, Primacy and Unity in the Conciliar Tradition.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Beyond the Reformation? Authority, Primacy and Unity in the Conciliar Tradition. By Paul Avis. (New York: T and T Clark. 2006. Pp. xx, 234. $120.00.) The times are not long since gone when, for church historians, the fourteenth and...

"Just as in the Time of the Apostles": Uses of History in the Radical Reformation.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... "Just as in the Time of the Apostles": Uses of History in the Radical Reformation. By Geoffrey Dipple. (Kitchener, Ontario: Pandora Press. 2006. Pp. 324. $30.00 paperback.) This book examines the ideas about history of different individuals...

Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura: Meaning and Invention.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura: Meaning and Invention. By Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xiv, 267,12 color plates, 31 figs. $75.00.) Anyone who writes a book on the meaning of the most famous...

Heresy, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern Italy: Contexts and Contestations.(Heresy, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern Italy: Contexts and Contestations, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies Series, vol. 76)(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Heresy, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern Italy: Contexts and Contestations. Edited by Ronald K. Delph, Michelle M. Fontaine, and John Jeffries Martin. [Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies Series, 76.] (Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State...

Vainglorious Death: A Funerary Fracas in Renaissance Brescia.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Vainglorious Death: A Funerary Fracas in Renaissance Brescia. Translated and annotated by J. Donald Cullington. Edited and introduced by Stephen Bowd. (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 2006. Pp. lxx, 232. $48.00.) ...

La geografia celeste dei duchi di Savoia. Religione, devozioni e sacralita in uno Stato di eta moderna (secoli XVI-XVII).(Book review)
October 1, 2007... La geografia celeste dei duchi di Savoia. Religione, devozioni e sacralita in uno Stato di eta moderna (secoli XVI-XVII). By Paolo Cozzo. [Istituto trentino di cultura: Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento, Monografie, 43.]...

The Spanish Inquisition: A History.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Spanish Inquisition: A History. By Joseph Perez. Translated by Janet Lloyd. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005. Pp. viii, 248.) After writing on political rebellions, monarchy, humanism, and the Jewish expulsion in early modern...

The Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1614: An Anthology of Sources.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1614: An Anthology of Sources. Edited and translated by Lu Ann Homza. (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company. 2006. Pp. xlvi, 272. $37.95 clothbound; $12.95 paperback.) Those of us who teach the history of...

Inventing the Sacred: Imposture, Inquisition, and the Boundaries of the Supernatural in Golden Age Spain.(Inventing the Sacred: Imposture, Inquisition, and the Boundaries of the Supernatural in Golden Age Spain, The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, vol. 25)(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Inventing the Sacred: Imposture, Inquisition, and the Boundaries of the Supernatural in Golden Age Spain. By Andrew W. Keitt. [The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, Volume 25.] (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 2005. Pp. viii, 229.)...

Lutherforschung im 20. Jahrhundert: Ruckblick--Bilanz--Ausblick.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Lutherforschung im 20. Jahrhundert: Ruckblick--Bilanz--Ausblick. Edited by Rainer Vinke. [Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fur europaische Geschichte Mainz: Abteilung fur abendandische Religionsgeschichte, Beiheft 62.] (Mainz: Verlag Phillip...

Protestants and the Cult of the Saints in German-Speaking Europe, 1517-1531.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Protestants and the Cult of the Saints in German-Speaking Europe, 1517-1531. By Carol Piper Heming. [Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies Series.] (Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press. 2003. Pp. xiii, 170. $48.95.) The...

The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France (1590-1615).(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France (1590-1615). By Eric Nelson. [Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700; Bibliotheca Instituti Historici Societatis Iesu, Volume 58.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing...

La bure et le sceptre: La congregation des Feuillants dans l'affirmation des Etats et des pouvoirs princiers (vers 1560-vers 1660).(Book review)
October 1, 2007... La bure et le sceptre: La congregation des Feuillants dans l'affirmation des Etats et des pouvoirs princiers (vers 1560-vers 1660). By Benoist Pierre. [Histoire Moderne--47.] (Paris: Publications de La Sorbonne. 2006. Pp. 590. [euro]35,00...

Local Politics in the French Wars of Religion: The Towns of Champagne, the Duc de Guise, and the Catholic League, 1560-95.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Local Politics in the French Wars of Religion: The Towns of Champagne, the Duc de Guise, and the Catholic League, 1560-95. By Mark W. Konnert. (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Co. 2006. Pp. ix, 300. $109.95.) This book is an...

Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early-Modern France.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early-Modern France. By Keith P. Luria. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2005. Pp. xl, 357. $69.95.) This new book by Keith P. Luria on religious...

The Low Countries in the Sixteenth Century: Erasmus, Religion and Politics, Trade and Finance.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Low Countries in the Sixteenth Century: Erasmus, Religion and Politics, Trade and Finance. By James D. Tracy. [Variorum Collected Studies Series, 808.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2005. Pp. xii, 346. $124.95.) One...

Religious Identities in Henry VIII's England.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Religious Identities in Henry VIII's England. By Peter Marshall. [St. Andrew's Studies in Reformation History.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Co. 2006. Pp. x, 291. $114.95.) Ever since Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance...

Catholic Collecting, Catholic Reflection, 1538-1850, Objects as a Meassure of Reflection on a Catholic Past and the Construction of Recusant Identity in England and America.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Catholic Collecting, Catholic Reflection, 1538-1850, Objects as a Meassure of Reflection on a Catholic Past and the Construction of Recusant Identity in England and America. Catalogue of the exhibition edited by Virginia Chieffo Raguin....

The Battle for the Bible in England, 1557-1582.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Battle for the Bible in England, 1557-1582. By Cameron A. MacKenzie. (New York: Peter Lang Publishing Group. 2002. Pp. xi, 338. $69.95.) "The Bible says so." That should end the argument, but truth and certainty are not that simple...

Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription. By Gerard Kilroy. (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Co. 2005. Pp. xii, 262. $89.95, [pounds sterling]45.00.) Over the past decade Edmund Campion has assumed quasi-iconic status in...

James II: The Triumph and the Tragedy.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... James II: The Triumph and the Tragedy. By John Callow. [English Monarchs: Treasures from the National Archives.] (Kew, Surrey: The National Archives. 2005. Pp. xii, 116. [pounds sterling]4.99, $22.95 paperback.) This brief, lavishly...

Gunpowder: The Players behind the Plot.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Gunpowder: The Players behind the Plot. By James Travers. (Richmond, Surrey, UK: National Archives. 2005. Pp. 192. $36.00.) The accession of James I to the English throne in 1603 raised the hopes of several of the various religious factions...

The Antichrist's Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Antichrist's Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England. By Peter Lake with Michael Questier. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 2002. Pp. xxxiv, 731. $45.00.) In his vivid title, Peter Lake refers to the...

Religion and Reformation in the Tudor Diocese of Meath.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Religion and Reformation in the Tudor Diocese of Meath. By Brendan Scott. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2006. Pp. 174. $65.00.) This short book forms part of an increasing body of local and regional studies which collectively are bringing...

South Tipperary 1570-1841: Religion, Land and Rivalry.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... South Tipperary 1570-1841: Religion, Land and Rivalry. By David J. Butler (Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2006. Pp. 336. $65.00.) David J. Butler's book South Tipperary 1570-1841: Religion, Land and Rivalry explores and analyzes the...

Catholic Reformation in Ireland: The Mission of Rinuccini, 1645-1649.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Catholic Reformation in Ireland: The Mission of Rinuccini, 1645-1649. By Tadhg O hAnnrachain. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp xiii, 324. [pounds sterling]48.) The mission of GianBattista Rinuccini, archbishop of Fermo, to...

Imperial City. Rome, Romans and Napoleon, 1796-1815.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Imperial City. Rome, Romans and Napoleon, 1796-1815. By Susan Vandiver Nicassio. (Welwyn Garden City, UK: Ravenhall Books, Linden Publishing Limited. 2005. Pp. 255. $34.95.) This book is evidently intended for a broad readership intrigued...

Don Bosco, His Pope and His Bishop. The Trials of a Founder.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Don Bosco, His Pope and His Bishop. The Trials of a Founder. By Arthur J. Lenti, S.D.B. [Centro studi Don Bosco: Studi Storici-15.] (Rome: LAS [Libreria Ateneo Salesiano]. 2006. Pp. 251. [euro]15 paperback.) Arthur J. Lenti teaches at the...

Fear and Trembling.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Fear and Trembling. By Soren Kierkegaard. Edited by C. Stephen Evans and Sylvia Walsh. Translated by Sylvia Walsh. [Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xxxviii, 115. $55.00 clothbound;...

The War against Catholicism. Liberalism and the Anti-Catholic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Germany.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The War Against Catholicism. Liberalism and the Anti-Catholic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Germany. By Michael B. Gross. [Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany.] (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2004. Pp. xii,...

Volksfrommigkeit und Katholisches Milieu: Marienerscheinungen in Heede, 1937-1940 im Spannungsfeld von Volksfrommigkeit, nationalsozialistischem Regime und kirchlicher Hierarchie.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Volksfrommigkeit und Katholisches Milieu: Marienerscheinungen in Heede 1937-1940 im Spannungsfeld von Volksfrommigkeit, nationalsozialistischem Regime und kirchlicher Hierarchie. By Maria Anna Zumholz. [Schriften des Instituts fur Geschichte...