The Journal of Ecclesiastical History articles from January 1998

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History archives from January 1998

Crusading as social revolt: the Hungarian peasant uprising of 1514.
January 1, 1998... On 9 April 1514 Tamas Bakocz, archbishop of Esztergom and cardinal-legate of Pope Leo X, initiated the preaching of a crusade against the Turks in Hungary. On 24 April Gyorgy Dozsa Szekely, a minor nobleman serving with the garrison of Belgrade...

Richard Hooker and the problem of authority in the Elizabethan Church.
January 1, 1998... In the spring of 1593 Richard Hooker published the first part of his work Of the laws of ecclesiastical polity which has come to be known as the most famous attempt to persuade Elizabethan Puritans to conform to the laws of the English...

The Olney autobiographers: English conversion narrative in the mid-eighteenth century.
January 1, 1998... Consider the central religious crisis in the life of each of three individuals. First, on 21 March 1748, in the belly of a ship in the dead of night, awakened by a raging North Atlantic storm which threatened to sweep all on board to a watery...

German free churches and the Nazi regime.
January 1, 1998... There are a number of excellent studies on the Protestant Churches in the Third Reich, but none contains a thorough treatment of the smaller Free Churches. Ernst Christian Helmreich included a short chapter on these in his 1979 work on The...

The second generation of the 'Sambin Revolution': new writings on the Humiliati.(Bibliographical Survey)
January 1, 1998... Until recently, the Humiliati of northern Italy have not been fortunate in their historiography. If they are known to Anglophone medievalists, it is usually in walk-on parts, either as the heretics condemned in the bull Ad abolendam at the...

Basilides und seine. Eine Studie zur Theologie- und Kirchengeschichte des zweiten Jahrhunderts.
January 1, 1998... This careful and scholarly work on Basilides, his son Isidore and his immediate circle, is Lohr's Bonn Habilitation, following hard on the heels of Markschies's massive work on the - even fewer - fragments of Valentinus, and suggesting a...

Les Romains chretiens face a l'histoire de Rome. Histoire, christianisme et romanites en Occident dans l'Antiquite tardive (IIIe-Ve siecles).
January 1, 1998... It has been said that when French historians write on a massive scale they surpass those of any other nation. This assertion - clearly a debateable one - may seem to students of early church history to be supported by the writings of Paul...

Basil of Caesarea.
January 1, 1998... The three books reviewed here all make important contributions, in different ways, to the study of Basil of Caesarea and thus to our understanding of one of the most vital periods in the development of Christian doctrine and institutions in the...

Basil of Caesarea, Homilien zum Hexaemeron.
January 1, 1998... The three books reviewed here all make important contributions, in different ways, to the study of Basil of Caesarea and thus to our understanding of one of the most vital periods in the development of Christian doctrine and institutions in the...

Die Entwicklung der Trinitatslehre des Basilius von Casarea. Sen Weg vom Homousianer zum Neonizaner.
January 1, 1998... The three books reviewed here all make important contributions, in different ways, to the study of Basil of Caesarea and thus to our understanding of one of the most vital periods in the development of Christian doctrine and institutions in the...

A History of Canterbury Cathedral.
January 1, 1998... This fine volume appeared just two years before Canterbury Cathedral celebrated the 1400th anniversary of the mission of St Augustine to the kingdom of Kent, and is an important addition to the many commemorations of that event. Twelve...

Symeon the Holy Fool. Leontius's Life and the Late Antique City.
January 1, 1998... This publication represents a valuable contribution to discussion on the nature of the holy in the late ancient world in the east Mediterranean basin, on the development of the genre of hagiography and on the fate of late ancient urban culture....

The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity. A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation.
January 1, 1998... In Germany the topic of the 'Germanisation of Christianity' was as much an argument for, as a result of, National Socialism; worse than that, an argument for a 'German Christianity'. Small wonder, then, that scarcely anyone in Germany still...

Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, IV: South-East England.
January 1, 1998... The first foray into the south by the Corpus is an exciting landmark in the history of the project. Covering, as it does, the regions containing the cradle of Anglo-Saxon Christianity and education, Canterbury, and what has been described as...

Charters of Shaftesbury Abbey.
January 1, 1998... In its edition of all the pre-Conquest English charters, the British Academy has now reached vol. v, Charters of Shaftesbury Abbey. Shaftesbury, though one of the more prosperous religious houses, and provided with two richly varied...

St Oswald of Worcester. Life and Influence.
January 1, 1998... The later Anglo-Saxon saints Dunstan and AEthelwold have recently been the subjects of millenially commemorative volumes of essays in which the traditional scholarly and 'hagiographical' picture of the reformer bishops, as presented by Knowles,...

Popular Religion in Late Saxon England. Elf Charms in Context.
January 1, 1998... This is another of those books that would have been better had they been shorter. The first three chapters treat of the conversion of the Saxons (or as most call them, the Anglo-Saxons) to Christianity, the spread of churches and the...

Benzo von Alba. Sieben Bucher an Kaiser Heinrich IV.
January 1, 1998... Bishop Benzo of Alba was in possession of his Ligurian see by 1059, and his literary activity culminated in his collection of his writings made in 1085 or soon after for presentation to the Emperor Henry IV of Germany. He was Henry's strident...

Charters of St Bartholomew's Priory, Sudbury.
January 1, 1998... The monastic establishment which is the focus of this immaculately produced contribution to the series of Suffolk Charters was distinguished by its obscurity. Created in the early twelfth century as a dependency of Westminster Abbey, St...

Celtic Christianity in Early Medieval Wales. The Origins of the Welsh Spiritual Tradition.
January 1, 1998... This is a welcome introduction to a difficult but rewarding subject. Its first chapter discusses the Latin and Welsh Lives of the Celtic saints Samson, Beuno and David, written long after they were dead. The second and third chapters deal with...

Defenders of the Holy Land. Relations Between the Latin East and the West.
January 1, 1998... In a seminal article, published in 1969, R. C. Smail drew attention to the numerous contacts between the Frankish Levant and Catholic Europe that took place in the period between the Second and Third Crusades, and claimed that about once in...

Texts of the Passion. Latin Devotional Literature and Medieval Society.
January 1, 1998... This stimulating volume seeks to establish the social context for the production of medieval devotional texts centring on Christ's Passion. It is more a collection of essays than a sustained analysis - there are chapters, but no conclusion, and...

Notre-Dame, Cathedral of Amiens. The Power of Change in Gothic.
January 1, 1998... The name of Amiens conjures up not only a great French Gothic cathedral but also the presence of a great English critic, John Ruskin, whose The Bible of Amiens (1884) still carries weight in a tradition of appreciation now associated most...

Pflichtbeichte. Untersuchungen zum Busswesen im Hohen und Spaten Mittelalter.
January 1, 1998... In dealing with mandatory confession Martin Ohst focuses on a medieval institution which still has some importance for the religious life, at least of Catholic Christians. He investigates the origins of mandatory confession, theoretical...

Runaway Religious in Medieval England.
January 1, 1998... This humane and absorbing study is devoted to the religious of medieval England who left their houses after profession without lawful reason for doing so. Had the men and women in question intended to enter other houses or orders, especially...

The Pipe Roll of the Bishopric of Winchester, 1301-2.
January 1, 1998... The pipe rolls of the bishopric of Winchester are among the most remarkable records to survive from anywhere in medieval Europe. Beginning in 1208, they form a series with few gaps down to 1456 and (as volumes, not rolls) beyond: for each year...

Criminal Churchmen in the Age of Edward III. The Case of Bishop Thomas de Lisle.
January 1, 1998... This book seeks to distinguish itself from other biographies of leading churchmen by setting the career of Thomas de Lisle (bishop of Ely, 1345-61) within the social and economic milieu of the mid fourteenth century. In so doing the author also...

English Wycliffite Sermons, IV, V.
January 1, 1998... The appearance of these two volumes brings to a successful conclusion one of the most important scholarly enterprises of the last half century concerning the late medieval English Church. The three earlier volumes (reviewed this JOURNAL XXXV...

Scotichronicon, VII: Books XIII and XIV.
January 1, 1998... This volume completes the publication of the text and translation of the Scotichronicon. It covers the period from 1320 to 1390, and concentrates almost exclusively upon Scottish history and the reigns of David II and Robert II. Bower wrote in...

Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany.
January 1, 1998... The study of marriage in early modern Europe has attracted renewed attention over the last decade or so. Viewed as the very basis of all social order in the early modern period, shifting marriage patterns and changing legal and moral/religious...

Clandestine Marriage in England, 1500-1850.
January 1, 1998... The study of marriage in early modern Europe has attracted renewed attention over the last decade or so. Viewed as the very basis of all social order in the early modern period, shifting marriage patterns and changing legal and moral/religious...

'Romeo and Juliet of Stonegate'. A Medieval Marriage in Crisis.
January 1, 1998... The study of marriage in early modern Europe has attracted renewed attention over the last decade or so. Viewed as the very basis of all social order in the early modern period, shifting marriage patterns and changing legal and moral/religious...

La Teologia e la Grammatica. La Controversia tra Erasmo ed Edward Lee.
January 1, 1998... Edward Lee, a gentleman of good family in Kent, was a person of consequence in his time, almoner and ambassador of Henry VIII, and archbishop of York from 1531 to 1544. Earlier, at more than thirty years old, in orders and a member of both...