The Journal of Ecclesiastical History articles from April 1993

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History archives from April 1993

Hellenists and Hebrews: Reappraising Division Within the Earliest Church.
April 1, 1993... By Craig C. Hill. Pp. X + 237. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992. $24.95. 0 8006 2505 6 Two recent works by New Testament scholars appear likely to affect strongly understanding of the development of the Early Church for some time to...

The Gospels in Context: Social and Political History in the Synoptic Tradition.
April 1, 1993... By Gerd Theissen. (Trans. Linda M. Maloney.) Pp. XVI + 320. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1992. 19-95 [pounds]. 0 567 09602 5 Two recent works by New Testament scholars appear likely to affect strongly understanding of the development of the...

Helena Augusta: The Mother of Constantine the Great and the Legend of her Finding of the True Cross.
April 1, 1993... By J. W. Drijvers. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 27.) Pp. VIII + 228. Leiden: Brill, 1992. Gld. 115. 90 04 09435 0; 0920 8607 Drivers's excellent study of Helena, the mother of Constantine, was originally written in Dutch as...

How the Holy Cross Was Found: From Event to Medieval Legend.
April 1, 1993... By Stephen Borgehammar. (Bibliotheca Theologiae Practicae, 47.) Pp. VIII + 326. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1991. SEK 95.91 22 01432 2 Drivers's excellent study of Helena, the mother of Constantine, was originally written in Dutch as...

William de Montibus (c. 1140-1213): The Schools and Literature of Pastoral Care.
April 1, 1993... By Joseph Goering. (Studies and Texts, 108.) Pp. XII + 638. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1992. Can. $95-0 88844 1088; 0082 5328 Towards the end of the twelfth century, Paris was the theological centre of Europe, and...

Between Church and State: The Lives of Four French Prelates in the Late Middle Ages.
April 1, 1993... By Bernard Guende. (Trans. by Arthur Goldhammer of Entre l'Eglise et l'Etat, Editions Gallimard, 1987.) Pp. 447. Chicago-London: University of Chicago Press, 1991. 31-95[pounds]. 0 226 31032 9 Published in 1987 as Entre l'Eglise et...

The Italian Renaissance: The Origins of Intellectual and Artistic Change Before the Reformation.
April 1, 1993... By John Stephens. Pp. XVIII + 248 incl. 8 plates and I 3 figs. London-New York: Longman, 1990. 22-50[pounds] (cloth), 10.95[pounds] (paper). 0582 o6425 2; 0 582 49337 4 This promisingly titled book aims to confront many of the...

Church and City: 1000-1500, Essays in Honour of Christopher Brooke.
April 1, 1993... Edited by David Abulafia, Michael Franklin and Miri Rubin. Pp. XXIV + 354 incl. 3 ills and 12 plates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 55[pounds]. 0521 35611 3 The friends and colleagues who have produced this Festschrift for...

Die Territorien des Reichs im Zeitalter der Reformation und Konfessionalisierung, Land und Konfession 1500-1650, vols. 1-3.
April 1, 1993... Edited by Anton Schindling and Walter Ziegler. (Katholisches Leben und Kirchenreform im Zeitalter der Glaubensspaltung, 49, 50, 51.) Pp. 152 incl. map, 233 incl. maps, 235 incl. maps. Munster: Aschendorff, 1989, 1990, 1991. DM32, Dm 49.80, DM...

Konfessionalisierung in Kurkoln. Untersuchungen zur Durchsetzung der katholischen Reform in den Dekanaten Ahrgau und Bonn anhand von Visitationsprtokollen, 1583-1761.
April 1, 1993... By Thomas Paul Becker. (Veroffentlichungen des Stadtarchivs Bonn, 43.) Pp. XXVI + 367 incl. map. Bonn: Rohrscheid, 1989. 3 7928 0592 8; 0524 0352 The editors of the first three volumes of Die Territorien des Reichs, which is planned to...

Plays of Persuasion: Drama and Politics at the Court of Henry VIII.
April 1, 1993... By Greg Walker. Pp. XII + 244. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 30[pounds]. 0521 37436 7 Tudor court revels accounts display, in wonderful detail, Henry VIII as a deviser of entertainments, but reveal almost nothing about him...

Revolution in Religion: The English Reformation, 1530-1570.
April 1, 1993... By David Loades. (The Past in Perspective.) Pp. viii + 134 incl. maps. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1992. 5.95.[pounds] 0 7083 1141 5 In the reign of Edward VI, all the important structures of the future Church of England were put...

The Reformation of the Ecclesiastical Laws of England: 1552.
April 1, 1993... Ed. and trans. by James C. Spalding. (Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, xix.) Pp. xviii + 320 incl. 9 ills. Kirksville, Mo: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1992. $35. 0 940474 20 4 In the reign of Edward VI, all the important...

In Defence of the Church Catholic: The Life of Stephen Gardiner.
April 1, 1993... By G. Redworth. Pp. xii+354 Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. 45[pounds]. 0 631 163921 Stephen Gardiner has been fortunate in his students. The work of J. A. Muller and Pierre Janelle early this century set standards of scholarship hard to...

Emden and the Dutch Revolt: Exile and the Development of Reformed Protestantism.
April 1, 1993... By Andrew Pettegree. Pp. XII+350 incl. maps, figs and table. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 40.[pounds] 0 19 822739 6 There is a long tradition of Calvinist, notably Genevan, historiography according to which all roads lead to Geneva and...

Richard Hooker's Doctrine of the Royal Supremacy.
April 1, 1993... By W. J. Torrance Kirby. (Studies in the History of Christian Thought, XLIII.) Pp. xi + 136 incl. frontispiece. Leiden: Brill, 1990. Gld. 72. 90 04 08851 2; 0081 8607 This resolutely argued study offers both less and more than its title...

The Restoration Church of England: 1646-1689.
April 1, 1993... By John Spurr. Pp. xvii + 445. New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 1991. 32.50[pounds] 0 300 050712 This book might have been called |Anglican attitudes'. It is not primarily about theology, nor the church courts, nor clerical career...

Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age.
April 1, 1993... By Sylvia R. Frey. Pp. XII + 376. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. $29-95. 0 691 04784 7 In the past twenty years probably no area of American history has witnessed higher-quality scholarship than the work produced on...

Two Worlds: The Protestant Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ontario.
April 1, 1993... By William Westfall. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, 2.) Pp. xii + 273 + 22 figs. Kingston-Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989. 23.95[pounds]. 0 7735 0669 1 These volumes are respectively the second and the...

The Evangelical Century: College and Creed in English Canada from the Great Revival to the Great Depression.
April 1, 1993... By Michael Gauvreau. (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, 5.) Pp. xvii + 398 + ills. Montreal & Kingston-London-Buffalo: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991. 37-95[pounds]. 0 7735 0769 8; 1181 7445 These volumes are...

God and History: Aspects of British Theology, 1875-1914.
April 1, 1993... By Peter Hinchliff. Pp. 267. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 32.50[pounds]. 0 19 826333 3 Professor Hinchliffs elevation to the Regius Chair of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford coincides with the publication of a sequence of studies...

Church and State: The English Experience.
April 1, 1993... By Adrian Hastings. (The Prideaux Lectures 1990.) Pp. ix + 84. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1991. 7.95[pounds] Adrian Hastings has made a distinctive contribution to the study of recent church history, as these volumes testify. His...

A History of English Christianity: 1920-1990, new ed.
April 1, 1993... By Adrian Hastings. Pp. xxxix + 720. London: SCM Press/Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1991 (first publ. 1986). 17.50[pounds]. 0 334 02496 X Adrian Hastings has made a distinctive contribution to the study of recent church...

Modern Catholicism: Vatican II and After.
April 1, 1993... Edited by Adrian Hastings. Pp. xvii + 473. London: SPCK/New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 20[pounds]. 0 281 04470 8. Adrian Hastings has made a distinctive contribution to the study of recent church history, as these volumes...

Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina antiquae et mediae aetatis: Novum Supplementum.
April 1, 1993... Edited by Henricus Fros. (Subsidia Hagiographica, 70.) Pp. xxi + 961. Brussels: Societe des Bollandistes, 1986. B. Fr. 4,500. This new supplement to the Bollandists' unique guide to Latin hagiographical texts is indispensable and...

Regnum Caelorum: Patterns of Future Hope in Early Christianity.
April 1, 1993... By Charles E. Hill. (Oxford Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xvii + 236. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 27.50[pounds. 0 19 826738 X Questions raised about the afterlife in the first three centuries AD could tell us a great deal about society...

The Letters of St. Cyprian of Carthage, vol. 4, Letters 67-82.
April 1, 1993... Translated and annotated by G. W. Clarke. (Ancient Christian Writers, 47.) Pp. vi + 345. New York, NY-Mahwah, NJ: Newman Press, 1989. 0 8091 0341 9 Translated and annotated by Thomas Halton. (Ancient Christian Writers, 49.) Pp. viii+230....

Theodoret of Cyrus: On Divine Providence.
April 1, 1993... Theodoret of Cyrus. On divine providence. Translated and annotated by Thomas Halton. (Ancient Christian Writers, 49.) Pp. viii+230. New York, NY-Mahwah, NJ: Newman Press, 1989. 0 8091 0420 2 These two very useful translations are...

Christians and Pagans in Roman Britain.
April 1, 1993... By Dorothy J. Watts. Pp. xiii + 301 incl. 29 ills. London-New York: Routledge, 1991. 35[pounds]. 0 415 05071 5 The basic problem of Romano-British Christianity is its relative failure. After progressing in the first half of the fourth...

El Concilio de Toledo; XIV Centario, 589-1989.
April 1, 1993... XIV Centenario. 589-1989. Pp. 885 incl. numerous ills. Toledo: Arzobispado de Toledo/Caja Toledo, 1991. 84 404 9 971X With the Catholics so very much in the ascendant there were no doctrinal ructions at Toledo in May 589. It was...

Gregoire le Grand: Registre des Lettres, Books I and II, 2 vols.
April 1, 1993... Edited by Pierre Minard. (Sources Chretiennes, 370, 371.) Pp. 307; 308-540+ folding map. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1991. Book I Fr. 191, Book II Fr. 170. 2 204 04150 5; 0750 1978 Pierre Minard has edited the first two books of Gregory's...

Visual Polemics in the Ninth-Century Byzantine Psalters.
April 1, 1993... By Kathleen Corrigan. Pp. xv + 325 incl. 113 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 50[pounds]. 0 521 40050 3 The ninth-century marginal psalters are among the most important responses to Byzantine Iconoclasm created by the...

Province and Empire: Brittany and the Carolingians.
April 1, 1993... By Julia M. H. Smith. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th ser., 18.) Pp. xx + 237 incl. 2 figs and 2 maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 35[pounds]. 0 521 38285 8 C'est en majeure partie grace a des sources...

The Journal of Medieval Latin.
April 1, 1993... Edited by Michael W. Herren. (A publication of the North American Association of Medieval Latin, I.) Pp. 212. Turnhout: Brepols, 1991. B.Fr. 1,250 This new periodical is intended to encourage |new and original investigations in the field...

The Rule of the Templars: The French Text of the Rule of the Order of the Knights Templar.
April 1, 1993... Translated and introduced by J. M. Upton-Ward. (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, iv.) (Trans. of Henri de Curzon's 1886 edn of La regle du Temple.) Pp. viii + 200 incl. map. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1992. 29-50[pounds]. 0 85115...

Studien zur Uberlieferungsgeschichte der lateinischen Legenda Aurea.
April 1, 1993... By Barbara Fleith. (Subsidia hagiographica, 72.) Pp. l + 529. Bruxelles: Societe des Bollandistes, 1991. B. Fr. 4,000. 2 87365 001 X; 0777 8112 Fifteen years ago Konrad Kunze, doyen of Legenda Aurea studies, announced in Analecta...

Church and Chronicle in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to John Taylor.
April 1, 1993... Edited by Ian Wood and G. A. Loud. Pp. XXVI + 270 + ills. London-Rio Grande: Hambledon Press, 1991. 36[pounds]. 1 85285 046 9 John Taylor has written with authority and distinction on a wide range of topics, but principally on historical...

Les six premieres chartreuses de Belgique au XIVeme siecle; Une manifestation de l'orientation nouvelle de la mentalite cartusienne.
April 1, 1993... Benoit Goffin. (Analecta Cartusiana, 51: 2.) Pp. 220 incl. ills. Salzburg: Universitat Salzburg: Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik/Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991. 3 7052 0205 6 One of the more surprising features of later...

Medieval Thought: An Introduction.
April 1, 1993... By Betsey B. Price. Pp. X + 261. Cambridge, Mass.-Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1992. 40[pounds] (cloth), 11.95[pounds] (paper). 0 631 17508 3; 0 631 17509 1 The aim of this volume is to provide a survey of medieval thought which will be...

Jean Gerson and De Consolatione Theologiae: 1418, The Consolation of a Biblical and Reforming Theology for a Disordered Age.
April 1, 1993... By M. S. Burrows. (Beitrage zur historischen Theologie, 78.) Pp. XIV + 312. Tubingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1991. DM 148. 316 145600 9; 0340 6741 That the fifteenth century is properly regarded, in the context of ecclesiastical...

The Welsh Saints: A Study in Patterned Lives.
April 1, 1993... By Elissa R. Henken. Pp. VII + 212. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991. 35.00.[pounds]. 0 85991 317 1 This volume is a companion and sequel to Elissa Henken's Traditions of the Welsh Saints (this Journal XL [1989], 107-9), and, like that...

The Immortal Emperor: The Life and Legend of Constantine Palaiologos, Last Emperor of the Romans.
April 1, 1993... By Donald M. Nicol. Pp. XIII + 148 + 17 plates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 18.95[pounds]. 0 521 41456 3 Donald Nicol has written widely on the history of the last centuries of the Byzantine Empire. In The Immortal...

Chiese, strade e fortezze nell'Italia medievale.
April 1, 1993... By Aldo A. Settia. (Italia Sacra. Studi e Documenti di Storia Ecclesiastica, 46.) Pp. XI + 42 7. Rome: Herder. 1991. L. 60,000. 88 85876 137 This collection brings together ten studies in historical geography set mostly in northern...

The Archepiscopal and Deputed Seals of York: 1114-1500.
April 1, 1993... By John P. Dalton. (Borthwick Texts and Calendars, 17.) Pp. XVIII + 81 + 23 plates. York: Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, University of York, 1992. 8[pounds] + 70p post and packing from the Borthwick Institute, St Anthony's Hall,...

Locality and Polity: A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society, 1401-1499.
April 1, 1993... By Christine Carpenter. Pp. XVIII + 793 incl. 13 figs and 7 tables. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 75[pounds]. 0 521 37016 7 Christine Carpenter's book is among the latest and the most comprehensive of a series of studies of...

The Ruined and Disused Churches of Norfolk.
April 1, 1993... By Neil Batcock. (East Anglian Archaeology report 51.) Pp. xvi + 199 incl. numerous ills and 9 microfiches. Dereham: Norfolk Archaeological Unit, 1991. 16.95 [pounds] available from the Centre of East Anglian Studies, University of East...

The Spirit of the Oxford Movement: Tractarian Essays.
April 1, 1993... By Owen Chadwick. Pp. viii + 324. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 13.95 [pounds] (paper). 0 521 42440 2 The origin of this seductive collection of essays, now making a welcome appearance in paperback, lay in the suggestion...

Religion, Society and Politics in France Since 1789.
April 1, 1993... Edited by Frank Tallett and Nicholas Atkin. Pp. xvi + 224. London-Rio Grande: Hambledon Press, 1991. 32 [pounds]. 1 85285 057 4 The history of religion, indispensable for understanding the modern history of France, has produced...

Clerge et Pastorale en Angleterre au XVIIIe siecle: Le diocese de Londres.
April 1, 1993... By Viviane Barrie-Curien. Pp. ix + 442 incl. tables. Paris: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1992. Fr. 280. 2 222 04680 7 Despite the rich archival sources of the Established Church in the Hanoverian period, many...

The Huguenot Population of France: 1600-1685, The Demographic Fate and Customs of a Religious Minority.
April 1, 1993... By Philip Benedict. (Transactions... 81, 5.) Pp. ix + 164 incl. tables, maps and figs. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1991. $22. 90 56477; 0065 9746 Louis XIV allegedly believed that Protestantism in France was almost...

L'Inquisizione Romana in Italia nell'eta moderna: Archivi, problemi di metodo e nuove richerche, Atti del seminario internazionale Trieste, 18-20 maggio 1988.
April 1, 1993... Edited by Andrea del Col and Giovanna Paolin. (Pubblicazioni degli Archivi di Stato, 19.) Pp. 404 incl. ills. Rome: Ministero per i beni Culturali e Ambientali, Ufficio Centrale per i beni Archivistici, 1991. 88 7125 045 1 This volume...

The Causes of the English Civil War.
April 1, 1993... By Ann Hughes. (British History in Perspective.) Pp. VII + 211. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991. 7.50[pounds] (paper). This book appears in the accessible and highly successful British History in Perspective series which has already brought...

Religious Dissent in East Anglia.
April 1, 1993... Edited by E. S. Leedham-Green. Pp. vi+ 153. Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1991.[pounds] 15.95 + [pounds]1 post and packing from the Society, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Downing Street, Cambridge [CB.sub.2] [3.sup.DZ]....

The Welsh and Their Religion: Historical Essays.
April 1, 1993... By Glanmor Williams. Pp. XII + 237 incl. 17 ills- Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1991. 27-50.[pounds] 0 7083 1097 4 Professor Glanmor Williams has long made the field of the history of religion in Wales his own, presenting over forty...

The Forms and Orders of Western Liturgy from the Tenth to the Eighteenth Century: A Historical Introduction and Guide for Students and Musicians.
April 1, 1993... A historical introduction and guide for students and musicians. By John Harper. Pp. XVI + 337 incl. 5 figs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.,12.95.[pounds] 0 19 316128 1 The real intention of this book by the professor of music at the...

Lordship, Kingship, and Empire: The Idea of Monarchy, 1400-1525.
April 1, 1993... The idea of monarchy 1400-1525. By J. H. Burns. (The Carlyle Lectures i988.) Pp. XI + 178. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 25.[pounds]. 0 19 820206 7 The publication of Professor Burns's 1988 Carlyle Lectures, felicitously phrased and the...

The Register of John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury: 1486-1500, vol. 2.
April 1, 1993... Archbishop of Canterbury 1486-1500, II. Edited by Christopher Harper-Bill. (Canterbury and York Society, 78.) Pp. XXI + 246 incl. 2 tables. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Canterbury and York Society), 1991. 25.[pounds] 0 907239 47 1 ;...

The Cartae of the Carthusian General Chapter: London, Lambeth Palace MS 413, I:1411-39, Ff. 1-135.
April 1, 1993... London, Lambeth Palace Ms 413, I: 1411-39 (Ff. 1-135). Edited by James Hogg and Michael Sargent. (Analecta Cartusiana, 100:10.) Pp. VIII + 225. Salzburg: Universitat Salzburg: Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1988 From his home...

Un Charteux: Maitre Bruno, Pere des Chartreux.
April 1, 1993... (Analecta Cartusiana, 115.) Pp. XIV + 212. Salzburg: Universitat Salzburg: Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1990 From his home base, the Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik at the University of Salzburg, Dr James Hogg, the...

Theodor Gottlieb's Edition of the Medieval Library Catalogue of the Charterhouse of Aggsbach, Sunte Birgitten openbaringe: Introduction.
April 1, 1993... Edited by James Hogg. (Analecta Cartusiana, 35. Spiritualitat heute and Gertern, 7.) Pp. 213. Salzburg: Universitat Salzburg: Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1990. 3 7052 0041 0 From his home base, the Institut fur Anglistik und...

Sunte Birgitten openbaringe: Text, La Chartreuse de Liget.
April 1, 1993... Edited by James Hogg and Albert Philippon. (Analecta CArtusiana, 35. Spiritualitat Heute und Gertern, 8.) Pp.372. Salzburg: Universitat Salzburg: Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1989. 3 7052 0041 0 From his home base, the...

Carthusian World View: Bodeleian MS. E Museo 160, A Brigittine Legislative Collection.
April 1, 1993... A Brigittine Legislative Collection. Edited by C.B Rowntree and James Hogg. (Analecta Cartusiana, 35. Spiritualist Heute and Gestern, 9.) Pp. 155. Salzburg: Universitat Salzburg: Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1990. 7052 0041 0 ...

Extracts from Writings on the Solitary Life in MS. Bodleian Library Lat. Th. d. 27, ff. 196v-200v. Syon Abbey Ms. 6 - A Medieval Briggitine Lectionary for the use of the Syon Sisters.
April 1, 1993... A Medieval Brigittine Lectionary for the use of the Syon Sisters. Edited by J.P.H. Clark and James Hogg. (Analecta Cartusiana, 35. Spiritualistat Heute und Gestern, 10.) Pp. 252. Salzburg: Universitat Salzburg: Institut fur Anglistik und...

Medical Care as Reflected in the Cartae of the Carthusian General Chapter: Processionale for the Use of the Sisters of Syon Abbey.
April 1, 1993... By James Hogg. (Analecta Cartusiana, 35. Spiritualistat Heute und Gestern, 11.) Pp. 299 incl. ills. Salzburg: Universitat Salzburg: Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik/Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991. 3 7052 0203 07 From his...

Ammonius, teacher of Origen.
April 1, 1993... Porphyry and Eusebius, antagonistic witnesses, agree that one of Origen's early tutors was called Ammonius. This was also the name of the tutor of Origen's younger contemporary Plotinus, and it has long been the fashion to argue or assume...

Beth Miqdash Me'at: the synagogues of Medieval England.
April 1, 1993... Thus saith the Lord God; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come: Ezek. xi....

Equivocation and recantation during the English Reformation: the 'subtle shadows' of Dr Edward Crome.
April 1, 1993... Writing from prison during the Marian persecution, Nicholas Ridley praised the elderly Dr Edward Crome to his friend John Hooper, who was incarcerated with Crome. Ridley had heard of Crome's |most godly and fatherly constancy in confessing...

The East India Company and Roman Catholic missionaries.
April 1, 1993... The general opinion of historians has been that the East India Company was opposed to the presence of Christian missionaries in India. It is generally held also that when the Charter Act Of 1813 left the Company with no option but to admit...