The Journal of Ecclesiastical History articles from April 1994

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History archives from April 1994

Why did St Maximilian refuse to serve in the Roman army? (Saint Maximilian)
April 1, 1994... On 23 January 295 a young recruit named Maximilian, a Christian by religion and twenty-one years old, appeared in court before Dion, proconsul of Africa, in the town of Theveste in Numidia.(1) He was accused of refusing a summons to serve in...

The musicians of the Lady Chapel of Winchester Cathedral Priory, 1402-1539. (Lady Chapel choir)
April 1, 1994... In any evaluation of the character and accomplishments of the English Reformation, an essential ingredient must be a sympathetic but, so far as possible, objective assessment of the nature -- in all its strengths and weaknesses -- of the...

The 'True and Zealouse Seruice of God': Robert Parsons, Edmund Bunny, and 'The First Booke of the Christian Exercise.' (Jesuit missionary Robert Parsons)(preacher Edmund Bunny)
April 1, 1994... I It appeareth (I saye) what an exacte lyfe the trew lyfe of a Christian is: which is a continuall resistance of all sinne, bothe in thought, word and deede, and a performance or exercise of all good woorkes, that possiblie he can...

'Adapt Yourselves to the People's Capabilities': missionary strategies, methods and impact in the Kingdom of Naples, 1600-1800.
April 1, 1994... At a time when European missionaries were active in the New World to capture the souls of the 'healthen' for Catholicism, their confreres were conducting missions throughout Europe itself. For more than two centuries these missions --...

Alessandro Manzoni and the Oxford Movement: his politics and conversion in a new English source. (nineteenth-century freedom fighter Alessandro Manzoni)
April 1, 1994... In the summer of 1847, nine years after a notable visit by Gladstone,(1) three less exalted British travellers called on Manzoni during a brief tour of northern Italy. They were carrying a letter of introduction from Manzoni's Parisian friend...

English Reformations: Religion, Politics and Society under the Tudors.
April 1, 1994... A recent foray into A-level marking brought me two insights on the perception of the English Reformation among sixth-formers. First, among a few of the better-informed, there is awareness of a phenomenon called revisionism, with which the...

Community and Clergy: Bristol and the Reformation c. 1530-c. 1570.
April 1, 1994... A recent foray into A-level marking brought me two insights on the perception of the English Reformation among sixth-formers. First, among a few of the better-informed, there is awareness of a phenomenon called revisionism, with which the...

Women and Religion in England 1600-1720.
April 1, 1994... A recent foray into A-level marking brought me two insights on the perception of the English Reformation among sixth-formers. First, among a few of the better-informed, there is awareness of a phenomenon called revisionism, with which the...

Fountain of Life: In Memory of Niels K. Rasmussen OP.
April 1, 1994... It appears to be the case that under the broad heading of liturgical studies (or some variant thereof) two kinds of approaches are current, so diverse in their methods and emphases as to call into question whether there should not be some...

The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship: Sources and Methods for the Study of Early Liturgy.
April 1, 1994... It appears to be the case that under the broad heading of liturgical studies (or some variant thereof) two kinds of approaches are current, so diverse in their methods and emphases as to call into question whether there should not be some...

Sources et methodes de l'hagiographie medievale.
April 1, 1994... It appears to be the case that under the broad heading of liturgical studies (or some variant thereof) two kinds of approaches are current, so diverse in their methods and emphases as to call into question whether there should not be some...

Early Christian Baptism and the catechumenate, I: West and East Syria; II, Italy, North Africa, and Egypt.
April 1, 1994... It appears to be the case that under the broad heading of liturgical studies (or some variant thereof) two kinds of approaches are current, so diverse in their methods and emphases as to call into question whether there should not be some...

Les lectures liturgiques et leurs livres.
April 1, 1994... It appears to be the case that under the broad heading of liturgical studies (or some variant thereof) two kinds of approaches are current, so diverse in their methods and emphases as to call into question whether there should not be some...

Worship: Wonderful and Sacred Mystery.
April 1, 1994... It appears to be the case that under the broad heading of liturgical studies (or some variant thereof) two kinds of approaches are current, so diverse in their methods and emphases as to call into question whether there should not be some...

Social Reality and the Early Christians: Theology, Ethics, and the World of the New Testament.
April 1, 1994... In a number of previous publications Gerd Theissen, who is Professor of New Testament at Heidelberg, and a leading biblical scholar, has shown himself a protagonist in the application of social analysis to the interpretation of the New...

From Synagogue to Church: Public Services and Offices in the Earliest Christian Communities.
April 1, 1994... In a number of previous publications Gerd Theissen, who is Professor of New Testament at Heidelberg, and a leading biblical scholar, has shown himself a protagonist in the application of social analysis to the interpretation of the New...

Christians and the Holy Places: The Myth of Jewish-Christian Origins.
April 1, 1994... The origin of Christian holy places has long been highly controversial. A consensus has been emerging in recent years that in any full-blown sense Christian pilgrimage did not exist until after the time of Constantine; and that...

Manuscrits hagiographques et travail des hagiographes.
April 1, 1994... The appearance in one year of two volumes of papers devoted to western European hagiography and saints' cults is an indication of the current popularity of the subject. The collection edited by Heinzelmann stems from the project which he...

Melanges de l'Ecole Francaise de Rome: Moyen age, La Madeleine (VIIIe-XIIIe siecle).
April 1, 1994... The appearance in one year of two volumes of papers devoted to western European hagiography and saints' cults is an indication of the current popularity of the subject. The collection edited by Heinzelmann stems from the project which he...

Liudprand of Cremona, Relatio de legatione Constantinopolitana (The Mission to Constantinople).
April 1, 1994... While there is an obvious disadvantage in publishing an edition and translation of Liudprand's Relatio in isolation from his other famous work, the Antapodosis, there are compensations. Professor Scott is able to offer a full commentary and...

Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar: Six Essays on Political, Cultural and Ecclesiastical Revival.
April 1, 1994... These six essays constitute a powerful volume of challenging studies by one of our most distinguished Anglo-Saxon and Celtic scholars, intended to stimulate a reevaluation of developments in England from the late ninth to the later tenth...

The Second Crusade and the Cistercians.
April 1, 1994... The Second Crusade was the largest military undertaking of the twelfth century, and involved campaigns in the Iberian peninsula and the Baltic, as well as an expedition to the Latin East. It was also a spectacular failure, and until recently...

Native Law and the Church in Medieval Wales.
April 1, 1994... The history of the Church in medieval Wales is arguably one of the most complex issues in the already complex field of early Welsh history, and this new study by Huw Pryce makes an illuminating contribution to our understanding of it. The...

Revival Preachers and Politics in Thirteenth-Century Italy: The Great Devotion of 1233.
April 1, 1994... Both these books relate to preaching and to Italy, but the themes treated are quite different, so there is no question of either author being handicapped by not having been able to see the other's book. Augustine Thompson is surely right...

Preaching Friars and the Civic Ethos: Siema, 1380-1480.
April 1, 1994... Both these books relate to preaching and to Italy, but the themes treated are quite different, so there is no question of either author being handicapped by not having been able to see the other's book. Augustine Thompson is surely right...

Church and Society in Late Medieval England.
April 1, 1994... Dr Swanson has tackled a subject where his work will inevitably be compared with that of Hamilton Thompson in The English clergy and their organisation in the later Middle Ages; some of the ground is bound to be the same. But Swanson's is a...

Women of the Renaissance.
April 1, 1994... It is a daunting task to endeavour to write the history of all European women in a period here defined as covering the three centuries between 1350 and 1650. Professor King herself admits that this exercise can hardly embrace 'half humankind'...

England, Rome and the Papacy, 1417-1464: The Study of a Relationship.
April 1, 1994... In a memorable essay some thirty years ago Professor F. R. H. Du Boulay described the relationship between England and the papacy during the fifteenth century as founded upon a 'desire for mutual political support based unfruitfully on...

God in La Mancha: Religious Reform and the People of Cuenca, 1500-1650.
April 1, 1994... In the sixteenth century a Portuguese archbishop making a diocesan visit was astounded to meet a procession of peasants chanting 'Blessed be the Holy Trinity and His sister the Virgin Mary'. The same prelate asserted that half the...

Princes and Propaganda: Electoral Saxon Art of the Reformation.
April 1, 1994... Christensen defines the material of his informative study as 'works of Saxon provenance -- in whatever medium -- which combine the following: (a) obvious unambiguous portraits of one or more of the Ernestine electors of the first half of the...

La Liberte de Conscience (XVIe-XVIIe siecles): Actes du colloque de Mulhouse et Bale (1989).
April 1, 1994... This is the printed, French-language version of eighteen papers by new and established scholars of remarkable erudition and insight, originally presented at an international conference on post-Reformation liberty of conscience, occasioned by...

Reformacja w Polsce: Szkice o ludziach i doktrynie.
April 1, 1994... Janusz Tazbir is among the most talented and prolific of the post-war generation of Reformation historians in Poland. The subtitle of his book The Polish Reformation, 'Sketches concerning people and doctrine', gives the key to its contents....

Geschichte des Pietismus, I: Der Pietismus vom siebzehnten bis zum fruhen achtzehnten Jahrhundert.
April 1, 1994... Different in scope and scale as these two volumes are, they both illustrate two important features of the current state of Pietist studies, one welcome and the other less so. There is now, as there has frequently not been in the past, a...

Der Pietismus in seiner europaischen und aussereuopaischen Ausstrahlung: Suomenkieliset tiivistelmat.
April 1, 1994... Different in scope and scale as these two volumes are, they both illustrate two important features of the current state of Pietist studies, one welcome and the other less so. There is now, as there has frequently not been in the past, a...

Religious Dissent in East Anglia: Historical Perspectives, The Proceedings of the Second Symposium on the History of Religious Dissent in East Anglia.
April 1, 1994... It was a central tenet of the early Nonconformist congregations that the church was not expressed in buildings but in the gathering of godly souls, whose worship often took place in structures such as barns designed for more worldly purposes....

A History of the Nonconformist Churches of York.
April 1, 1994... It was a central tenet of the early Nonconformist congregations that the church was not expressed in buildings but in the gathering of godly souls, whose worship often took place in structures such as barns designed for more worldly purposes....

The Deserted Village: The Diary of an Oxfordshire Rector, James Newton of Nuneham Courtenay 1736-86.
April 1, 1994... Here are three excellent additions to the library of anyone interested in the history of the Church of England as it affects village life. The deserted village is the diary of the Revd James Newton, rector of Nuneham Courtenay, just...

Victorian Village: The Diaries of the Reverend John Coker Egerton, Curate and Rector of Burwash, East Sussex 1857-1888.
April 1, 1994... Here are three excellent additions to the library of anyone interested in the history of the Church of England as it affects village life. The deserted village is the diary of the Revd James Newton, rector of Nuneham Courtenay, just...

The Country Parson.
April 1, 1994... Here are three excellent additions to the library of anyone interested in the history of the Church of England as it affects village life. The deserted village is the diary of the Revd James Newton, rector of Nuneham Courtenay, just...

Seelsorge und Diakonie in Berlin: Bietrage zum Verhaltnis von Kirche und Grossstadt im 19, und beginnenden 20, Jahrhundert.
April 1, 1994... The Berlin Historical Commission produces scholarly blockbusters with the regularity of liturgical amens; this particular amen embodies their blessing on the celebrations of the 750th anniversary of the founding of their city held in 1987,...

A la veille de Vatican II: Vota et reactions en Europe et dans le Catholicisme oriental.
April 1, 1994... The serious scientific history of the Second Vatican Council (1962--5) can now begin. On Whit Sunday 1959 Cardinal Domenico Tardini, secretary of state, set in motion the vast machinery required to get the council under way. Bishops and...

Defendere la dottrina o annuciare l'evangelo: Il dibattito nella commissione centrale preparatoria del Vaticano II.
April 1, 1994... The serious scientific history of the Second Vatican Council (1962--5) can now begin. On Whit Sunday 1959 Cardinal Domenico Tardini, secretary of state, set in motion the vast machinery required to get the council under way. Bishops and...

The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes (Liber Pontificalis).
April 1, 1994... In the eighth century the popes were able to extract themselves from Byzantine influence, only, in the course of resisting advances from the Lombards, to let themselves be drawn into the orbit of the Franks. The general appreciation of the...

English Caroline Script and Monastic History: Studies in Benedictinism, A.D. 950-1030.
April 1, 1994... David Dumville's productivity is as prodigious as his learning: everything he has published in recent years (and it is a great deal) reveals an impressive familiarity with the surviving manuscripts of pre-1066 England, and a scepticism about...

Bernard de Clairvaux: Histoire, Mentalites, Spiritualites, Colloque de Lyon-Citeaux-Dijon.
April 1, 1994... This book contains twenty-four papers given at the circulating Bernard colloquium held in June 1990, together with a preface (from which I deduce the names of the editors, which are not on the title-page) and epilogue. It also is intended as...

Deutsche Universitatsstiftungen von Prag bis Koln: Die Intentionen des Stifters und die Wege und Chancen ihrer Verwirklichung im spatmittelalterlichen deutschen Territorialstaat.
April 1, 1994... This volume surveys the universities founded in the German empire in the fourteenth century and embraces the universities of Prague, Vienna, Kulm, Heidelberg and Cologne. Curiously, apart from one or two incidental references, there is no...

Regesta Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Conventualium, I: (1488-1494).
April 1, 1994... Students of Franciscan history will welcome the publication of these two texts which illuminate the history both of the order at the end of the fifteenth century and of the rich archive of the Sacro Convento, the friary adjacent to the...

Inventario e regesti dell'archivio del Sacro Convento d'Assisi.
April 1, 1994... Students of Franciscan history will welcome the publication of these two texts which illuminate the history both of the order at the end of the fifteenth century and of the rich archive of the Sacro Convento, the friary adjacent to the...

Peasant Fires: The Drummer of Niklashausen.
April 1, 1994... The episode of the Drummer of Niklashausen is well known as one of those curious religio-social movements that bridged the world of late-medieval piety and the Reformation. As a movement precipitated by the vision and preaching of the...

Das Domkapitel zu Eichstatt: Von der Reformationszeit bis zur Sakularisation (1535-1806), Verfassung und Personalgeschichte.
April 1, 1994... This impressive study provides both an outline sketch of the internal structure and constitution of the cathedral chapter of Eichstatt and an invaluable prosopography of its members throughout the early modern period to its secularisation....

Werden und Wertung der Reformation: Vom Wegestreit zum Glaubenskampf.
April 1, 1994... It is rare for a university history to go into a second edition, much less a third within a dozen years of its first publication. This is a tribute to the achievement of Heiko Oberman, who with this book brought the genre of 'university...

A Reformation Debate: Karlstadt, Emser and Eck on Sacred Images, Three Treatises in Translation.
April 1, 1994... Discussion of the theme of removal of images, so central to debates on the reformation of religious cult in the 1520s, has always been a little one-sided. The focus of attention has been the clash of ideas between Karlstadt and Luther, while...

Die Furstbischofe von Wurzburg und das Konzil von Trient.
April 1, 1994... Based on extensive research among the archives of Wurzburg as well as on the more widely available materials relating to the proceedings of the Council of Trent, this tidy and detailed monograph offers a complete account of the curious...

Protestantesimo nei secoli: Fonti e documenti, I, Cinquecento e seicento.
April 1, 1994... This is a conventional collection of extracts which presents the major figures of the Reformation, its major centres and its manifestations in different regional contexts. It is a collection produced for an Italian readership. That said,...

The Irish Catholic Petition of 1805: The Diary of Denys Scully.
April 1, 1994... Here, amply documented, is the history of an abortive episode in the long struggle of the Irish Catholics for emancipation. Denys Scully, an ambitious young barrister, was a member of the Catholic Committee which petitioned parliament in 1805...

Scottish Catholic Secular Clergy 1879-1989.
April 1, 1994... This is a most valuable compilation listing alphabetically all secular priests ordained since 1879 for each of the Scottish dioceses, followed by summaries of parishes with all the priests who served in them (and in related situations such as...