The Journal of Ecclesiastical History articles from January 1997

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History archives from January 1997

The World of Rural Dissenters: 1520-1725.
January 1, 1997... Some time in the early 1980s an animated discussion among then youngish historians of the English Reformation who had spent their doctoral years in the '60s and '70s ploughing through diocesan archives was subdued by a remark of Cliff Davies to...

Buckinghamshire Dissent and Parish Life: 1669-1712.
January 1, 1997... Some time in the early 1980s an animated discussion among then youngish historians of the English Reformation who had spent their doctoral years in the '60s and '70s ploughing through diocesan archives was subdued by a remark of Cliff Davies to...

Chippenham to the World. A Macrocosm to Microcosm.
January 1, 1997... Some time in the early 1980s an animated discussion among then youngish historians of the English Reformation who had spent their doctoral years in the '60s and '70s ploughing through diocesan archives was subdued by a remark of Cliff Davies to...

Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Early Modern Europe. Essays Presented to David Underdown.
January 1, 1997... Some time in the early 1980s an animated discussion among then youngish historians of the English Reformation who had spent their doctoral years in the '60s and '70s ploughing through diocesan archives was subdued by a remark of Cliff Davies to...

Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin. With an Appendix of Latin Expressions Defined and Clarified.
January 1, 1997... 'This dictionary is being prepared with the hope that it will be a handy and practical manual for seminary students once they have completed introductory courses in the Latin language.' Stelten's attractively produced volume should indeed serve...

'Martyrivmsucht' in der Alten Kirche? Studien zur Darstellung und Deutung fruhchristlicher Martyrien.
January 1, 1997... 'I wish to die, for I am a Christian."Today we are martyrs in heaven. Thanks be to God.' The ecstatic exclamations of Euplus of Catania during the Great Persecution and the Scillitan martyrs at Carthage in July 180 reflect a mood among some of...

Irenaeus.
January 1, 1997... With exemplary scholarship and clarity, the Dominican authors of these two valuable books on Irenaeus treat his theology in relation to the Gnostics and the Church of his time. Both insist on the importance of debates over the meaning of...

La theologie d'Irenee. Lecture des ecritures en reponse a l'exegese gnostique. Une approche trinitaire.
January 1, 1997... With exemplary scholarship and clarity, the Dominican authors of these two valuable books on Irenaeus treat his theology in relation to the Gnostics and the Church of his time. Both insist on the importance of debates over the meaning of...

Arnobius of Sicca. Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian.
January 1, 1997... Here is a large book on a very minor figure; but the prevailing lack of interest in Arnobius could justify a really thorough investigation of this obscure North African writer. This is what Michael Simmons provides. On the strength of a careful...

Athanasius and the Politics of Asceticism.
January 1, 1997... David Brakke has turned his 1992 Yale PhD thesis into a fine book. Among its many admirable features is a long appendix which offers an English translation of select ascetic and pastoral writings of Athanasius: scholars who have not mastered...

Theodosius. The Empire at Bay.
January 1, 1997... This 'imperial biography' is the latest in a series from Batsford which boasts several distinguished works, notably on the Julio-Claudian emperors. As the subtitle suggests, the book aims to look more widely at the Roman empire of the late...

Gregory of Nyssa's Treatise on the Inscriptions of the Psalms. Introduction, Translation and Notes.
January 1, 1997... The critical edition of Gregory's works founded by Werner Jaeger presents no translation or comment. Heine has done a fine job making the Treatise on the inscriptions to the Psalms available in English from James McDonough's text. There is no...

Uber das Priestertum. Historische und systematische Untersuchung zum Priesterbild des Chrysostomus.
January 1, 1997... This latest in a series which consists of dissertations submitted to German Catholic theological faculties deserves notice, even though it will probably be read by only a small number of specialists who are willing to come to grips with the...

Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe.
January 1, 1997... The three volumes under review are collections of essays which stem from three conferences on hagiography and the cult of saints held respectively at Barnard College in 1987, at the Ecole francaise de Rome in 1988, and at the Konstanzer...

Les fonctions des saints dans le monde occidental (IIIe-XIIIe siecle). Actes du colloque organise par l'Ecole francaise de Rome avec le concours de l'Universite de Rome 'La Sapienza'. Rome, 27-29 octobre 1988.
January 1, 1997... The three volumes under review are collections of essays which stem from three conferences on hagiography and the cult of saints held respectively at Barnard College in 1987, at the Ecole francaise de Rome in 1988, and at the Konstanzer...

Politik und Heiligenverehrung im Hochmittelalter.
January 1, 1997... The three volumes under review are collections of essays which stem from three conferences on hagiography and the cult of saints held respectively at Barnard College in 1987, at the Ecole francaise de Rome in 1988, and at the Konstanzer...

Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita. Uber die Mystische Theologie und Briefe.
January 1, 1997... This book completes an invaluable edition of the Dionysian corpus with a discussion of its origins and a survey of its influence in the Church. Whereas ecclesiastical tradition has been happy to mistake him for Paul's first Athenian convert or...

Studies in Medieval Language and Culture.
January 1, 1997... In 1994 a monograph by Michael Richter appeared, entitled The formation of the medieval West: studies in the oral culture of the barbarians, its subject the transformation of the Roman world, the oral cultures of northern Europe and the...

Biblical Commentaries from the Canterbury School of Theodore and Hadrian.
January 1, 1997... In the year 690 Theodore the Greek, who had been for twenty-one years the seventh archbishop of Canterbury, died. It was one of the dates included by the Venerable Bede in his list of dates important for the history of Anglo-Saxon Christianity....

The 'Laterculus Malalianus' and the School of Archbishop Theodore.
January 1, 1997... In the year 690 Theodore the Greek, who had been for twenty-one years the seventh archbishop of Canterbury, died. It was one of the dates included by the Venerable Bede in his list of dates important for the history of Anglo-Saxon Christianity....

Archbishop Theodore. Commemorative Studies of His Life and Influence.
January 1, 1997... In the year 690 Theodore the Greek, who had been for twenty-one years the seventh archbishop of Canterbury, died. It was one of the dates included by the Venerable Bede in his list of dates important for the history of Anglo-Saxon Christianity....

Het tripartite boeteboek. Overlevering en betekenis van vroegmiddeleeuwse biechtvoorschriften (met editie en vertaling van vier tripartita).
January 1, 1997... This 1994 thesis for the Catholic University of Nijmegen deals with a specific group of early medieval penitentials, the so-called Paenitentialia tripartita. The name Tripartitum derives from the three sources of these books, the Iudicia...

Kings and Kingship in Medieval Europe.
January 1, 1997... An international conference on kingship at King's College London in 1992 was apparently designed to emphasise the 'differences in scale and practice between different regions and different periods' and to 'focus attention' on some less...

Women, the Book and the Godly. Selected Proceedings of the St Hilda's Conference, 1993, vol. 1.
January 1, 1997... To divide the publication of the papers read at St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1993 according to their religious and secular contents is an arbitrary decision, as the editors recognise, prompted by arguments of space more than by academic...

Die Originale der Papsturkunden in Baden-Wurttemberg: 1198-1417, 2 vols.
January 1, 1997... The series in which the present volumes appear contains the results of the censimento of papal documents proposed in 1953 by Franco Bartoloni. The purpose of the censimento is to trace and calendar original papal documents of the years...

Auf den Spuren des heiligen Antonius. Festschrift fur Adalbert Mischlewski zum 75. Geburtstag.
January 1, 1997... Adalbert Mischlewski has been a lifelong scholar of one theme: the history of the hospital order of St Anthony from its eleventh-century inception to the Reformation. The Antonine brothers specialised in medical care, in particular the cure of...

Anglo-Norman Durham: 1093-1193.
January 1, 1997... Only five years after publishing a widely acclaimed volume to commemorate the 1300th anniversary of the death of St Cuthbert, the Boydell Press has now produced an equally impressive tribute to an even more significant date in ecclesiastical...

Pilger, Mirakel und Alltag. Formen des Verhaltens im skandinavischen Mittelalter (12.-15. Jahrhundert).
January 1, 1997... Krotzl presents an extremely detailed study of pilgrimage in Scandinavia, using diplomatic and epigraphic evidence, but based principally upon minute dissection of the miracle collections (involving 825 miracles) of fourteen Scandinavian...

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades.
January 1, 1997... This is a collaborative work 'written by a team of leading Crusade scholars' yet at first sight it appears unpromising. Its gaudy dust-jacket is reminiscent of a children's book and its many pictures suggest it is intended for coffee tables....

Gilbert of Sempringham and the Gilbertine Order c. 1130-c. 1300.
January 1, 1997... The Gilbertine Order has not been neglected: the pioneer work of Rose Graham (1901) was followed in the 1930s and 40s by the studies based on The Book of St Gilbert by David Knowles and Raymonde Foreville; Professor Foreville, with Gillian...

Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe, vol. 1, Foundations.
January 1, 1997... The startling and apparently incongruous coupling of ideas in the title of this work introduces a bold and persuasive thesis which brings the reflections of many years of labour to bear on what is now a central concern both within and beyond...

Modern Questions About Medieval Sermons. Essays on Marriage, Death, History and Sanctity.
January 1, 1997... The intriguing title of this book raises a reviewer's expectations. Nicole Beriou and David D'Avray are already known for their work on medieval sermons, with the latter's work on thirteenth-century Franciscan material disseminated from Paris...

Des Ecoles aux paroisses. Thomas de Chobham et la promotion predication au debut du XIIIe siecle.
January 1, 1997... Returning to Salisbury from the school of Peter the Chanter in Paris, Thomas of Chobham, subdean of the chapter (d. 1233-6), composed both a Summa confessorum (c. 1215) and a Summa de arte praedicandi (before 1222) for the use of his fellow...

A Letter to the Friars Minor and Other Writings.
January 1, 1997... The crucial importance of Ockham as a political thinker has long been acknowledged, but until now the detailed study of his ideas has been confined to those with a good knowledge of Latin (and, for some works, to those with the relevant...

Knighton's Chronicle: 1337-1396.
January 1, 1997... Few would dispute Professor Martin's claim that Henry Knighton's chronicle 'deserves a place amongst the major chronicles of the [fourteenth] century' (p. lxxiv), and this splendid new edition with translation of its latter portion will ensure...

The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr.
January 1, 1997... The revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr, which began in 1400, is the central event in the history of late medieval Wales. J. E. Lloyd's Owen Glendower (Oxford 1931) has long been the standard account, but Professor Davies has now brought together the...

The Shaping of a Community. The Rise and Reformation of the English Parish c. 1400-1560.
January 1, 1997... Churchwardens' accounts are fast threatening to oust wills from their position as the first port of call for historians seeking to recreate the religious and social experience of 'ordinary' English people in the fifteenth and sixteenth...

Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy. A Religious and Artistic Renaissance.
January 1, 1997... This collection of conference essays provides a novel and variegated account of the creativity of women within the restrictions of the roles allowed them by Italian society in the medieval and early modern period - on the one hand setting...

Erasmus' Annotations on the New Testament, Galatians to the Apocalypse.
January 1, 1997... This volume is the last of three; earlier volumes presented Erasmus' annotations on the New Testament: the Gospels (London 1986), and Erasmus' annotations on the New Testament: Acts - Romans - I and II Corinthians (Leiden 1990). Readers must...

Erasmus of Europe. The Prince of Humanists, vol. 2, 1501-1536.
January 1, 1997... This volume brings to completion a biographical study of Erasmus, the first part of which appeared in 1990 (reviewed this JOURNAL xliii [1992], 481-2). That covered the years 1467-1500 so in this second part, which extends down to the death of...

The Face of the Pastoral Ministry in the East Riding: 1525-1595.
January 1, 1997... Peter Marshall provides a valuable vignette of the parish clergy and their assistants through the Reformation, revealing unsurprisingly that at the end of his timespan East Riding religion was still a far cry from the determinedly Low Church...

The Rhetorics of Life-Writing in Early Modern Europe. Forms of Biography from Cassandra Fedele to Louis XIV.
January 1, 1997... Collectively, these three books make a significant contribution to the intellectual history of the Renaissance. Charles Nauert's study of Renaissance humanism is a masterful synoptic account of the social, intellectual and cultural forces...

Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe.
January 1, 1997... Collectively, these three books make a significant contribution to the intellectual history of the Renaissance. Charles Nauert's study of Renaissance humanism is a masterful synoptic account of the social, intellectual and cultural forces...

Johann Sturm on Education. The Reformation and Humanist Learning.
January 1, 1997... Collectively, these three books make a significant contribution to the intellectual history of the Renaissance. Charles Nauert's study of Renaissance humanism is a masterful synoptic account of the social, intellectual and cultural forces...

Giovanni Ludovico Madruzzo (1532-1600). Katholische Reformation zwischen Kaiser und Papst. Das Konzept zur praktischen Gestaltung der Kirche der Neuzeit im Anschluss an das Konzil von Trient.
January 1, 1997... The somewhat unwieldy title of this monograph betrays it as the published version of a thesis, originally written between 1986 and 1989; so does its meticulous, sometimes pedestrian approach. One can only assume that this topic came as an...

Robert Persons. The Biography of an Elizabethan Jesuit, 1546-1610.
January 1, 1997... Everyone has always acknowledged the importance of the English Jesuit Robert Persons but he has until now lacked a biographer. In part this was because of the immense range of his activities and ideas. He was a prolific writer within several...

John of the Cross. The Living Flame of Love. Versions A and B.
January 1, 1997... This volume is a marvellous instrument containing a very fine English translation of both recensions of John of the Cross's Living flame of love. Using the critical edition of the Obras completas edited by Lucinio Ruano de la Iglesia, Ackerman...

Das Papsttum, die Christenheit und die Staaten Europas 1592-1605. Forschungen zu den Hauptinstruktionen Clemens' VIII.
January 1, 1997... This book collects together the papers presented at the conference organised in 1985 by the German Historical Institute in Rome on 'Edition und Auswertung papstlicher Hauptinstruktionen'. The occasion for the seminar was the publication, in...

The Counter-Reformation. Religion and Society in Early Modern Europe.
January 1, 1997... At last, a genuinely innovative and thoroughly refreshing brief introduction to the Counter-Reformation, one which harvests, processes, and packages recent research in a clear and accessible format. Though designed primarily for A-Level use,...

Catholic and Reformed. The Roman Protestant Churches in English Protestant Thought, 1600-1640.
January 1, 1997... When historians disagree about the theology of the early seventeenth-century Church of England - as they do very often - their disagreement tends to focus on terms like 'orthodoxy' and 'consensus'. By defining the normal, they attempt to locate...

God and Government in an 'Age of Reason.'
January 1, 1997... In this interesting study, David Nicholls moves from his examination of Deity and domination (London-New York 1989) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to investigate in an illuminating way the reciprocal relationship between notions of...

Cardinal Giuseppe Garampi (1725-1792). An Enlightened Ultramontane.
January 1, 1997... This study of Cardinal Garampi, adapted from a dissertation in Dutch completed in 1992, is in the high tradition of Roman Catholic scholarship. Garampi, born to an Italian noble family in Rimini, was successively assistant archivist (1746-51)...

Reform, Revolution and Reaction. Archbishop John Thomas Troy and the Catholic Church in Ireland, 1787-1817.
January 1, 1997... Anyone who studies Irish history for the period of the Union comes across the name of Archbishop Troy, and although it has always been clear that here was an important figure in the formative years of Catholic revival in Ireland, the man...

The Dissenters, vol. 2, The Expansion of Evangelical Nonconformity, 1791-1859.
January 1, 1997... When the first volume of Michael Watts's Dissenters appeared nearly twenty years ago it was clear that he could not compass the nineteenth century by the methods which had led to the production of the denominational compendium he had achieved;...

The English Baptists of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 3.
January 1, 1997... Briggs's English Baptists of the nineteenth century is the third volume in a four-part series on English Baptist history. In writing this book, the author rejects the chronological approach for a somewhat varied collection of essays that...

Parson and Parish in Eighteenth-Century Hampshire. Replies to Bishops' Visitations.
January 1, 1997... One of the most useful activities of local record societies over the last few years has been the editing of visitation returns from a period in which the Church has often had a bad press. Recent historiography, aided by these editions, has...

Religion in Hertfordshire: 1847-1851.
January 1, 1997... One of the most useful activities of local record societies over the last few years has been the editing of visitation returns from a period in which the Church has often had a bad press. Recent historiography, aided by these editions, has...