The Journal of Ecclesiastical History articles from April 1999

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History archives from April 1999

St James in Tuscany: the Opera di San Jacopo of Pistoia and pilgrimage to Compostela.
April 1, 1999... Pilgrimage is universally recognised by historians as a principal feature of medieval popular religion, if by 'popular' we mean something in which the ordinary laity fully participated. While we can be confident of the fact of this...

The Oxford martyrs in Oxford: the local history of their confinements and their keepers.
April 1, 1999... Early in March 1554 the three English reformers and later Oxford martyrs, the archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, the former bishop of Worcester, Hugh Latimer, and the bishop of London, Nicholas Ridley, were transported to the...

Reconciliation and retirement in the Restoration Scottish Church: the neo-Stoicism of Robert Leighton.
April 1, 1999... Religious politics in Scotland during the middle decades of the seventeenth century have always attracted much historical attention. The conflict of the Covenant, the tensions of the Cromwellian occupation and the troubled Restoration period...

'A church for the poor': high-church slum ministry in Anderston, Glasgow, 1845-51.
April 1, 1999... In December 1845 Bishop Michael Russell of Glasgow and Galloway wrote to a keen young Episcopalian layman, Alexander James Donald DOrsey, a teacher at the High School in Glasgow, suggesting ordination.(1) Conscious of the growing numbers of...

The defence of an alien priory: Modbury (Devon) in the 1450s.
April 1, 1999... Alien priories, the small dependencies of foreign religious houses established in the years following the Norman Conquest, were partly thank-offerings for military success and partly civilising centres and reminders of home for England's new...

Jahrbuch fur Antike und Christentum, 40 - 1997.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by Ernst Dassmann and others. Pp. 251 incl. 13 ills+l pull-out plan and 2 plates. Munster Westfalen: Aschendorff, 1997. DM 100. 3 402 08131 8; 0075 2541 The present volume of the Jahrbuch fur Antike und Christentum provides an...

Theologische Realenzyklopadie, XXVIII: Purstinger - Religionsphilosophie.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by Gerhard Muller. Pp. iv + 804 + 18 plates. Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1997. DM 394. 3 11 015580 X A volume with Religion in it, together with all the Religion-ands - art, socialism (which runs not from F. D. Maurice but...

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3d ed.(Review)
April 1, 1999... 3rd edn. Edited by F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone. Pp. xxxvii + 1786. Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 1997 (first publ. 1957, 1974, 1983 [reprint]). [pounds]70. 0 19 211655 X The reviewer approaches these two enormous volumes...

The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by John Bowker. Pp. xxiv + 1111. Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. [pounds]30. 0 19 213965 7 The reviewer approaches these two enormous volumes with a sense of awe. Each aims at comprehensiveness in a vast field, and...

Toward the Origins of Christmas.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Susan K. Roll. (Liturgia Condenda, 5.) Pp. 296. Kampen: Kok Pharos, 1995. B.Fr. 1, 452 (paper). 90 390 0531 1; 1381 2041 The two major winter festivals of the western and eastern Churches - Christmas and Epiphany-find extensive...

The Origins of the Celebration of the Christian Feast of Epiphany: An Ideological, Cultural and Historical Study.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Merja Merras. (University of Joensuu Publications in the Humanities, I6.) Pp. x+219+5 ills. Joensuu: Joensuu University Press, 1995. Fin. Mk 155.952 9800 14 2; 0781 0396 The two major winter festivals of the western and eastern...

The Armenian People: From Ancient to Modern Times, 2 vols.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by Richard G. Hovannisian. Pp. xii+372 incl. to maps and 4 dynastic tables; xii + 493 incl. 6 maps. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997. [pounds]33.50 each. 0 333 61973 0; 0 333 61974 9 These well-edited and organised volumes provide a...

Constructing Early Christian Families: Family as Social Reality and Metaphor.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by Halvor Moxnes. Pp. xvi+267 incl. 6 figs and I table. London-New York: Routledge, 1997. [pounds]45 (cloth), [pounds]14.99 (paper). 0 415 14638 0; 0 415 14639 9 This collection of thirteen essays, mostly revised papers from the...

Irenaeus of Lyons.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Robert M. Grant. (The Early Church Fathers.) Pp. vi + 214. London-New York: Routledge, 1997. [pounds]45 (cloth), [pounds]14.99 (paper). 0 415 11837 9; 0 415 11838 4 This book is the second in a series intended to make available '...

Christiana Respublica: Elemens d'une enquete sur le Christianisme antique, 3 vols.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Charles Pietri. (Collection de l'Ecole francaise de Rome, 234:) Pp. iv + 767 incl. 7 ills; v + 771-1403 incl. 6 ills; v + 1407-1684. Rome: Ecole francaise de Rome, 1997. 2 7283 0385 5; 2 7283 0384 3; 2 7283 0385 1; 2 7283 0382 7 (set);...

God and Gold in Late Antiquity.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Dominic Janes. Pp. xii + 211 incl. frontispiece and 13 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. [pounds]37.50. 0521 59403 0 This study addresses itself to a paradox, one that is more apparent to the Protestant than to the...

Alexandria in Late Antiquity: Topography and Social Conflict.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Christopher Haas. (Ancient Society and History.) Pp. xviii+495. Baltimore, MD-London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. [pounds]37. 0 8018 5377 X This detailed and valuable study of the Egyptian metropolis, covering the period...

Optatus: Against the Donatists.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Translated and edited by Mark Edwards. (Translated Texts for Historians, 27.) Pp. xxxi + 22: incl. 2 maps. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1997. [pounds]12.50 (paper). 0 85323 752 2 The inclusion of Optatus of Milevis's tract...

Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Lynda L. Coon. (The Middle Ages Series.) Pp. xxiii + 228 incl. 5 ills. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. $39.95. 0 8122 3371 9 Linda Coon's clearly expressed and carefully argued book has three introductory...

Gregory von Nyssa, Briefe.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited and translated with an introduction by Dorte Teske. (Bibliothek der Griechischen Literatur, 43.) Pp. vii + 152. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1997. DM 168. 3 7772 9701 1; 0340 7853 The letters of Gregory of Nyssa were definitively...

Augustinus-Lexikon, II, Fasc. 1/2: Cor - Deus.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Augustinus-Lexikon, II, Fasc. 1/2: Cor-Deus. Edited by Cornelius Mayer and others. Pp. i-xlviii incl. frontispiece+320 cols. Basle: Schwabe, 1996. DM 78. 3 7965 0854 5; 3 7965 1007 8 This splendid and authoritative guide to a prince among...

The Church Retrospective: Papers Read at the 1995 Summer Meeting and the 1996 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by R. N. Swanson. (Studies in Church History, 33.) Pp. xxii+587 incl. 30 plates+colour plate frontispiece. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Ecclesiastical History Society), 1997. [pounds]40. 0 9529733 0 8; 0424 2084 This volume...

Socrates of Constantinople: Historian of Church and State.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Theresa Urbainczyk. Pp. xi + 215. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. $39.50. 0 472 10737 1 The appearance in 1995 of a new critical edition of the Ecclesiastical history of Socrates (fifth century AD) by G. C. Hansen in...

The Finding of the True Cross: The Judas Kyriakos Legend in Syriac: Introduction, Text and Translation.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Han J. W. Drijvers and Jan Willem Drijvers. (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 565. Subsidia, 93.) Pp. 99 incl. 21 ills. Louvain: Peeters, 1997. B.Fr. 1,400 (paper). 90 6831 8918; 2 87723 313 8; 0070 0444 Few tales from...

The Medieval Gospel of Nicodemus: Texts, Intertexts, and Contexts in Western Europe.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by Zbigniew Izydorczyk. (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 158.) Pp. xv + 573. Tempe, Az: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1997. $45. 0 86698 1985 The Gospel of Nicodemus is the generic name of the tripartite...

Admonitio und Praedicatio: Zur Religios-Pastoralen Dimention von Kapitularien und Kaputulariennahen Texten.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Thomas Martin Buck. (Freiburger Beitrage zur mittelalterlichen Geschichte. Studien und Texte, 9). Pp. xlv + 427. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1997. [pounds]48. 3 631 31293 8 The capitularies had long been recognised by historians as...

Lives of the Visigothic Fathers.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited and translated by A. T. Fear. (Translated Texts for Historians, 26.) Pp. xxxix + 167 incl. I map. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1997. [pounds]9.95 (paper). 0 85323 582 1 Translated texts are a boon, if only as helpful...

Monks of England: The Benedictines in England from Augustine to the Present Day.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by Daniel Rees. Pp. xii+259. London: SPCK, 1997. [pounds]27.50. 0 281 05074 0 This volume of essays was designed to present an accessible account of the Benedictine contribution to English religion and society from its...

Die Konzilsordines des Fruh- und Hochmittelalters.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by Herbert Schneider. (Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Ordines de celebrando concilio.) Pp. xxviii + 654. Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1996. DM 248. 3 7752 5149 9 The gathering described in Acts XV may or may not be the first...

Images of Faith in English Literature, 700-1500: An Introduction.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Dee Dyas. (Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library.) Pp. xii + 332. London-New York: Longman, 1997. [pounds]38. 0 582 30192 0; 0 582 30191 2 This book is most obviously one for university teachers of early English literature to put...

The Homilies of the Emperor Leo VI.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Theodora Antonopoulou. (The Medieval Mediterranean, Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400-1453, 14.) Pp. x+ 310. Leiden-New York-Cologne: Brill, 1997. Nlg 187.5. 90 04 108149; 0928 5520 There are two good reasons for welcoming this book,...

Libellus de Nativitate Sanctae Mariae: Textus et Commentarius.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited and translated, with intro, and comm., by Rita Beyers. (Corpus Christianorum, Series Apocryphorum, 10.) Pp. 456. Turnhout: Brepols, 1997. B.Fr. 7,000. 2 503 41 101 X; 2 503 41102 9; 2 503 41000 6 A major motive behind many of the...

Trinity and Incarnation in Anglo-Saxon Art and Thought.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Barbara C. Raw. (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 21.) Pp. x+ 221 + 23 plates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [pounds]37.50. 0 521 55371 7 Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England comes of age, so...

Medieval Stereotypes and Modern Antisemitism.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Robert Chazan. Pp. xiii+ 189. Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: University of California Press, 1997. [pounds]24.95. 0 520 20394 1 In 1990, Gavin Langmuir produced two substantial volumes, the first being a collection of his major articles...

Otto III.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Gerd Althoff. Pp. x + 243 + 1 black-and-white and 7 colour plates and genealogical table. Darmstadt: Primus, 1997. DM 58. 3 89678 021 2 Otto III is hard to pin down. Into his short life (he was not yet twenty-two when he died) he...

Monastic Revival and Regional Identity in Early Normandy.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Cassandra Potts. (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, II.) Pp. xvi+ 170 incl. 5 maps. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1997. [pounds]40. 0 851 15 702 5; 0955 2480 At 137 pages of text (the final thirty of so pages consist mainly of...

Church Reform and Social Change in Eleventh-Century Italy: Dominic of Sora and His Patrons.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By John Howe. (The Middle Ages Series.) Pp. xxiii + 220. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. [pounds]35. 0 8122 3412 X John Howe argues that the life of Dominic of Sora (d. 1032) is an important and largely ignored...

Konigsherrschaft im Streit: Konfliktaustragung in der Regierungszeit Heinrichs IV: Zwischen Gewalt, Gesprach und Schriftlichkeit.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Monika Suchan. (Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelatters, 42.) Pp. xix+337. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1997. DM 258. 3 7772 9721 6 This densely argued and highly rewarding book is essential reading for all concerned with the conflicts...

Church and Polity in Pre-Norman Ireland: The Case of Glendalough.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Ailbhe Seamus Mac Shamhrain. (Maynooth Monographs, 7.) PP. xxv + 274 incl. 28 figs and maps. Maynooth: An Sagart, 1996. [pounds]24. 1 870684 68 0; 0790 8806 The aim of this book is to examine the relationship between a major Irish...

Die Verteidigung der Priesterehe in der Reformzeit.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Erwin Frauenknecht. (Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Studien und Texte, 16) Pp. xix + 332. Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1997. DM 80. 3 7752 5415 3; 0938 6432 The church reform of the eleventh century and its significance for the...

The Aristocracy of Norman Ireland.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Judith A. Green, Pp. xv+497 incl. 14 ills, 1 map and 1 table. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [pounds]45. 0 521 33509 4 This is an extremely useful book, providing a wide-ranging survey of the composition, power and...

Monasteries and Landscape in North East England: The Medieval Colonisation of the North York Moors.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Bryan Waites. Pp. x+214 incl. frontispiece and 47 ills. Oakham: Multum in Parvo Press, 1997. [pounds]15.95 (paper) plus [pounds]1.50 post and packing, 0 9524544 3 2 The publication of this volume by Bryan Waites is to be welcomed as...

A Distinctive Voice: Medieval Studies in Honor of Leonard E. Boyle, O.P.(Review)
April 1, 1999... O.P. Edited by Jaqueline Brown and William P. Stoneman. Pp. xiii + 668 incl frontispiece, numerous figs and tables. Notre Dame, South Bend, IND: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. [pounds]55.95. 0 268 00883 3 This weighty volume...

Die Kanzlei der Lateinischen Konige von Jerusalem.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Hans Eberhard Mayer. (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Schriften, 40.) Pp. lxxii + 906; ix + 1027. Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1996. DM 360. 3 7752 5740 3; 3 7752 5741 1; 3 7752 5440 4 (set); 0080 6951 It has been recognised for a...

The Latin Church in Cyprus: 1195-1312.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Nicholas Coureas. Pp. xiv+ 361 incl. 3 maps. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997. [pounds]45. 1 85928 447 7 This book will replace the older works, particularly those of Count Louis de Mas Latrie and Sir George Hill, and also the recent...

The First Universities: Studium Generale and the Origins of University Education in Europe.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Olaf Pedersen, translated by Richard North. Pp. xvi + 310. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [pounds]40. 0 521 59431 6 Claiming, incorrectly, that there has been no general book on medieval universities since Hastings...

The Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century Leon and Castile.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Simon Barton. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th Ser., 34.) Pp. xvi+368 incl. 6 maps and 8 tables. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [pounds]45. 0521 49727 2 This study is based on a wide-ranging...

Roger II: von Sizilien: Herrscher Zwischen Orient und Okzident.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Hubert Houben. Pp. x+ 235 incl. 10 ills+ 2 tables and maps. Darmstadt: Primus, 1997. DM 58. 3 89678 024 7 Though there have been studies of a number of important aspects of medieval southern Italy in recent years, there has been no...

The Cartulary of the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom of Nicosia.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by Nicholas Coureas and Christopher Schabel. (Texts and Studies in the History of Cyprus, 25.) Pp. 347 incl. 12 notarial signs. Nicosia: Cyprus Research Centre, 1997. 9963 0 8036 7 This important cartulary consists of 140...

Klerikale Karrieren: Das Landliche Chorherrenstift Embrach und Seine Mitglieder im Mittelalter.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Beatrice Wiggenhauser. Pp. 649. Zurich: Chronos, 1997. 3 905312 45 X This work, a PhD dissertation from the University of Zurich, consists of a list of the identifiable canons and petitioners for prebends at the collegiate church of...

Miracula Sancti Dominici Mandato Magistri Berengarii Collecta: Petri Calo Legendae Sanct Dominici.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by Simon Tugwell OP (Monumenta Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum Historica, 26. Corpus Hagiographicum Sancti Dominici.) Pp. 339. Rome: Istituto Storico Domenicano, 1997. L. 60,000. With this volume the noble series of MOPH is...

Thomas de Chobham, Summa de Commendatione Virtutum et Extirpatione Vitiorum.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by Franco Morenzoni). (Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis, 82 B.) Pp. xviii+309. Turnhout: Brepols, 1997. B.Fr. 5,000 (paper). 2 503 03825 5; 0 503 03826 3; 0 503 03000 9 Thomas of Chobham has emerged from relative...

Santita, Culti, Agiografia. Temi e Prospettive. Atti del I Convegno di Studio dell' Associazione Itialiane per lo Studio della Santita, dei Culti e dell' Agiografia, 24-26 Ottobre 1996.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by Sofia Boesch Gajano. Pp. 382 incl. 22 figs. Rome: Viella, 1997. L. 75,000 88 85669 662 This volume is the product of the first conference of the AISSCA (Italian Society for the Study of Hagiography, Saints and Cults), but...

The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Michael Costen. Pp. x-t-229 incl. 26 figs. Manchester-New York: Manchester University Press, 1997. [pounds]40 (cloth), [pounds]14.99 (paper). 0 7190 4331 X; 0 7190 4332 8 Both these books are primarily concerned with the history of...

Paolo Marangon: Ad Cognitionem Scientiae Festinare: Gli Studi nell'universita e nei Conventi di Padova nei Secoli XIII e XIV.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by Tiziana Pesenti (Centro per la Storia dell'Universita di Padova, 31.) Pp. xxxi + 531. Trieste: Edizioni Lint, 1997. L.82,500. 88 86179 57 X Paola Marangon died in 1984 at the age of thirty-six. His achievement as a scholar of...

A History of Merton College, Oxford.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By G. H. Martin and J. R. L. Highfield. Pp. xxii+436 incl. 2 figs. + frontispiece, 47 black-and-white plates and 8 colour plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. [pounds]45. 0 19 920183 8 This is an outstandingly successful college...

'Songes of Rechelesnesse': Langland and the Franciscans.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Lawrence M. Clopper. (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization.) Pp. xviii+368 incl. frontispiece. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. [pounds]39.50 ($52.50). 0 472 10744 5 Piers Plowman has a patent and urgent...

Secretaries of God: Women Prophets in Late Medieval and Early Modern England.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Diane Watt. Pp. ix+198 incl. 7 ills. Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 1997. [pounds]35. 0 85991 524 7 After a brief discussion of continuities and discontinuities between women who took it upon themselves to exercise a prophetic role in...

Royal Writs Addressed to John Buckingham, Bishop of Lincoln, 1363-1398: Lincoln Register 12B: A Calendar.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by A. K. McHardy. (Canterbury and York Society, 86.) Pp. xxix+ 197. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for The Canterbury and York Society and The Lincoln Record Society), 1997. [pounds]30. 0 907239 58 7; 0 901503 63 0; 0262 995X Royal...

Entre dieu et Satan: Les Visions d'Ermine de Reims.(...1396)(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by Claude Arnaud-Gillet with Jean Le Graveur. (Millenio Medievale, 3. La tradizione profetica, 1.) Pp. 295. Firenze: SISMEL, 1997. L. 80,000. 88 87027 07 2 In 1401 Gerson, as chancellor of the University of Paris gave a Judicium...

Die Kirche des Heiligen Andreas an der Treska: Geschichte, Architektur und Malerei Einer Palaiologenzeitlichen Stiftung des Serbischen Prinzen Andreas.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Jadranka Prolovic. (Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkschriften, 253. Veroffentlichungen der Kommission fur Byzantinistik, 7.) Pp. 308+22 colour plates and 144 black-and-white plates. Vienna:...

The Reformations in Ireland: Tradition and Confessionalism, 1400-1690.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Samantha A. Meigs. (Early Modern History: Society and Culture.) Pp. xii+ 209 incl. 2 maps. Basingstoke: Macmillan/New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. [pounds]45. 0 333 67825 7; 0 333 71194 7; 0 312 17582 5. The study of religious...

The Imitation of Christ: The First English Translation of the 'Imitatio Christi.'.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by B. J. H. Biggs. (Early English Text Society, 309.) PP. lxxxix + 249 + frontispiece and 3 plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the Early English Text Society), 1997. [pounds]30. 0 19 722312 5 Dr Biggs's new edition of...

Toward the Inquisition: Essays on Jewish and Converso History in Late Medieval Spain.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By B. Netanyahu. Pp. xiii + 269. Ithaca-London: Cornell University Press, 1997. [pounds]25.95. 0 8014 3410 6 Both these volumes deal with important aspects of the religion of two of the major faiths of the Iberian peninsula in early...

Faith and Fanaticism: Religious Fervour in Early Modern Spain.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by Lesley Twomey, Pp viii + 18I. Aldershot-Vermont: Ashgate, 1997. [pounds]39.50. 0 86078 665 X Both these volumes deal with important aspects of the religion of two of the major faiths of the Iberian peninsula in early modern...

Ioannis Pici Mirandulae Expositiones in Psalmos.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by Antonino Raspanti, translated by Antonino Raspanti and Giacomo Raspanti. (Centro Internazionale di Cultura. 'Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola'. Studi Pichiani, 4.) Pp. 267. Florence: Olschki, 1997. L. 59,000. 88 222 4464 8 The...

Prierias: The Life and Works of Silvestro Mazzolini da Prierio, 1465-1527.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Michael Tavuzzi. (Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 160.) Pp. viii + 189 incl. frontispiece. Durham, NC-London: Duke University Press, 1997-[pounds]37-95. 0 8523 1976 4 Long under-rated by Protestant and Catholic...

Conversing with God: Prayer in Erasmus' Pastoral Writings.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Hilmar M. Pabel. (Erasmus Studies, 13.) Pp. ix + 264 incl. frontispiece. Toronto-Buffalo-London: University of Toronto Press, 1997. [pounds]45. 1 8020 4101 9; 0318 3319 Specialists and non-specialists alike will welcome this handsomely...

Wolfgang Musculus (1497-1563) und die Oberdeutsche Reformation.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by Rudolf Dellsperger, Rudolf Freudenberger and Wolfgang Weber. (Institut fur Europaische Kulturgeschichte der Universitat Augsburg. Colloquia Augustana, 6.) Pp. 434 incl. frontispiece. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1997. DM 78. 3 05 003204...

Philipp Melanchthon 1497-1997: Drei Reden, Vorgetragen am Melanchthon-Dies der Theologischen Fakultat in der Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin: 23: April 1997.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Kurt-Victor Selge, Reimer Hansen and Christof Gestrich. (Offentliche Vorlesungen, 87.) Pp. 71 incl. frontispiece. Berlin: Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Theologische Fakultat, 1997 The year 1997 saw several celebrations to mark the...

England's Long Reformation: 1500-1800.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by Nicholas Tyacke. (The Neale Colloquium in British History.) Pp. xii + 347 incl. frontispiece. London: UCL Press, I998 [1997]. [pounds]40. 1 85728 756 8 This collection comprises papers from a colloquium held on the theme at UCL...

Organum Deitatis: Die Christologie des Thomas de Vio Cajetan.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Marcel Nieden. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, 62.) Pp. xiii + 247. Leiden - New York: Brill, 1997. Nlg 160. 90 04 10801 7; 0585-6914 In 1522 Cardinal Cajetan completed his commentary on book III of the Summa theologiae...

The Religion of the Poor: Rural Missions in Europe and the Formation of Modern Catholicism, c. 1500-1800.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Louis Chatellier. (Trans. by Brian Pearce of La religion des pauvres. Les missions rurales en Europe et la formation du catholicisme moderne xvi-emexix-eme siecles, Paris: Aubier, 1993.) Pp. xiii + 246 incl. 14 maps and 3 figs. Cambridge:...

Christopher Plantin's Books of Hours: Illustration and Production.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Karen Lee Bowen. (Bibliotheca Bibliographica Neerlandica, 32.) Pp. xxxi + 301 + 156 figs. Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1997. Nlg. 250. 90 6004 427 4 Karen Lee Bowen's Christopher Plantin's books of hours: illustration and production is...

A Social History of the Domestic Chaplain: 1530-1840.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By William Gibson. Pp. vi + 250. London: Leicester University Press, 1997. [pounds]49.95. 0 7185 0093 8 A spiritual adviser revered by the household in which he served, a clerical retainer occupying a position not unlike that of a...

Proceedings in the Parliaments of Elizabeth I, II: 1584-1589; III: 1593-1601.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by T. E. Hartley. Pp. xi + 508; xxxi + 507. London-New York: Leicester University Press, 1995. [pounds]85 each. o 7185 1890 X; 0 7185 2246 X The first volume of Proceedings in the parliaments of Elizabeth I, covering the years...

Unity in Multiformity: The Minutes of the Coetus of London, 1575 and the Consistory Minutes of the Italian Church of London, 1570-1591.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by O. Boersma and A. J. Jelsma. (Publications of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Quarto Ser., 59.) Pp. x + 278-London: Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1997. [pounds]12. 0 906100 25 9 This...

Nuntiaturberichte aus Deutschland: Nebst Erganzenden Aktenstucken: Dritte Abteilung. 1572-1585, VIII: Nuntiatur Giovanni Dolfins (1575-1576).(Review)
April 1, 1999... Edited by Daniels Neri. Pp. li + 795 incl. frontispiece. Tubingen: Niemeyer (for the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom), 1997. DM 238. 3 484 80149 2 Impressively edited by Daniela Neri, this latest addition to the multi-volume...

Die Hauptinstruktionen Gregors XV fur die Nuntien und Gesandten an den Europaischen Furstenhofen, 1621-1623. Im Auftrag des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom.(Review)
April 1, 1999... 2 vols. Edited by Klaus Jaitner. (Instructiones Pontificum Romanorum.) Pp. vii + 516 incl. 8 genealogical tables + 3 plates; xi + 517-1302. Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1997. DM 374.3 484 80147 7; 3 484 80148 4; 3 484 80146 8 As part of a...

The 'Divine' Guido: Religion, Sex, Money and Art in the World of Guido Reni.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Richard E. Spear. Pp. vi + 430 incl. 173 black-and-white and colour plates. New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 1997. [pounds]40. 0 300 07035 7 Justification through devotional works alone is enough to guarantee the 'divine'...

The Churches in England from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II, II: 1689-1833.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Kenneth Hylson-Smith. Pp. xvii + 398. London: SCM Press, 1997. [pounds]40 (cloth), [pounds]19.95 (paper). 0 334 02667 9; 0 334 02668 7 This second volume of an ambitious programme is organised around six themes; the growth of, and...

The Anglican Crisis: A Brief History of the Origin and Development of Independent Anglican Churches.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By G. H. Thomann. Pp. 108 incl. II ills. London: Gunther Thomann, 1997. [pounds]15 from Gunther Thomann, Kesslerstr. 18, 90489 Nurnberg, Germany For a mere [pounds]15, readers of this JOURNAL can acquire this slender volume of 108 pages,...

The Enthusiastical Concerns of Dr Henry More: Religious Meaning and the Psychology of Delusion.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Daniel C. Fouke. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 7I.) Pp. xi + 260. Leiden-New York-Cologne: Brill, 1997. Nlg. 130. 90 04 10600 6; 0920 8607 These two works illustrate some of the riches and diversity of seventeenth-century...

Pagan Religion: A Translation of De Religione Gentilium.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Edward Herbert, edited and translated by John Anthony Butler. (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 152.) Pp. 379. Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions/Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1996. $30. 0 86698 193 4 These...