The Journal of Ecclesiastical History articles from January 1999

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History archives from January 1999

Dizionario degli Istituti di Perfezione, IX: Spiritualita - Vezelay.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Guerrino Pelliccia and Giancarlo Rocca. Pp. xxvi + 1959 cols incl. numerous ills. Rome: Edizioni Paoline, 1997 The basic article here is the history of spirituality, a notorious theme for historians who still depend on the good...

Prophecy: The Power of Inspired Language in History, 1300-2000.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Bertrand Taithe and Tim Thornton. (Themes in History.) Pp. viii+216. Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1997.[pounds]40 (cloth), [pounds]12.99 (paper). 0 7509 x 1331 2; 0 7509 1332 0 Prophecy is a slippery word and the collection of...

Christmas in America: A History.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Penne L. Restad. Pp. x + 219 + 12 ills. New York-Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. [pounds]9.99.0 0 19 509300 3; 0 19 510980 5 Restad's Christmas in America is snappy, readable and immensely stimulating. It concentrates heavily on...

The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Ronald Hutton. Pp. xx + 542 incl. 5 maps and 1 fig. + 30 plates. Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. [pounds]17.99. 0 19 820570 8 Restad's Christmas in America is snappy, readable and immensely stimulating. It concentrates...

The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages, I: 350-950; II:950-1250; III: 1250-1520.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Robert Fossier; translated by: I: Janet Sondheimer; II: Stuart Airlie and Robyn Marsack; III: Sarah Hanbury Tenison. (Trans. of Le Moyen Age, Paris: Armand Colin, 1980-3). Pp. xxiii + 556 incl. numerous ills+24 colour plates;...

Ambroise de Milan.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Herve Savon. Pp. 382 incl. 2 maps. Paris-Tournai: Desclee, 1997. Fr. 138. 2 7189 0687 1 Already known for his work on the chronology of Ambrose's writings, his exegetical methods, and his intention in the De officiis, Herve Savon now...

Christo vivere: Studien zum literarischen Christusbild des Paulinus von Nola.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Matthias Skeb. (Hereditas. Studien zur Alten Kirchengeschichte, 11.) Pp. xxix + 298. Bonn: Borengasser, 1997. DM 62. 3 923946 32 5 In this study Skeb presents 'Paulinus's literary image of Christ'. He begins by discussing the current...

Isidore de Peluse. Letters, I: 1214-1413.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Pierre Evieux. (Sources Chretiennes, 422.) Pp. 563 incl. 2 maps. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1997. Fr. 245 (paper). 2 204 05557 3; 0750 1978 Isidore of Pelusium was an Egyptian holy man in the early fifth century, who was actively...

Saint Patrick's World: The Christian Culture of Ireland's Apostolic Age.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Translations and commentary by Liam De Paor. Pp. x+335 incl. numerous ills. Notre Dame-London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996 (first publ. 1993). [pounds]15.95 (paper). 0 268 01757 3 This is an unaltered paperback reprint of a book...

Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by F. A. C. Mantello and A. G. Rigg. Pp. xiv + 774. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1996. [pounds]43.95 (cloth), [pounds]31.95 (paper). 0 8132 0841 6; 0 8132 0842 4 This fat and handsome book 'has been...

Govan and Its Early Medieval Sculpture.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Anna Ritchie. Pp. xiv + 168 incl. 67 ills. Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1994. [pounds]25. 0 7509 0717 7 'Govan Old', as the parish church at Govan in Glasgow is known in Scotland, has many claims to fame, cultural and social, not least...

Two Old English Apocrypha and Their Manuscript Source: The "Gospel of Nichodemus' and the 'Avenging of the Saviour'.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by J. E. Cross with contributions by Denis Brearley, Julia Crick, Thomas N. Hall and Andy Orchard. (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 19.) Pp. xi+307+4 plates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. [pounds]40. 0 521...

The Old English Lives of St. Margaret.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Mary Clayton and Hugh Magennis. (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 9.) PP. xi + 239 incl. 2 plates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. [pounds]37.50. 0 521 43382 7 The two Old English Lives of St Margaret edited here...

Biographical Register of the English Cathedral Priories of the Province of Canterbury: c. 1066 to 1540.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Joan Greatrex. Pp. xxiv + 954. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. [pounds]95. 0 19 820424 8 Joan Greatrex's massive book divides into eight sections, one for each of the cathedral priories of the province of Canterbury. Each section...

The Bishops and Monks of Rochester: 1076-1214.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Colin Flight. (Monograph Series of the Kent Archaeological Society, 6.) Pp. xii + 320 incl. 29 figs. + 16 plates. Stroud: Sutton Publishing (for Kent Archaeological Society), 1997. [pounds]30. 0 906746 20 5 The purpose of this study...

Notre-Dame-en-Vaux. Studien zur Baugeschichte des 12. Fahrhunderts in Chalons-sur-Marne.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Katharina Corsepius. (Forschungen zur Kunstgeschichte und Christlichen Archaologie, 18.) Pp. 251 + 355 black-and-white plates + 51 figs. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1997. DM 198. 3 515 06602 0 The collegiate church of Notre-Dame-en-Vaux...

L'aubre de Hugues de Saint-Victor, I: De institutione novitiorum; De virtue orandi; De laude caritatis; De arrha animae.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited and translated by P. Sicard, H. B. Feiss, D. Poirel and H. Rochais. (Sous la Regle de Saint Augustin.) PP- 335 + 1 colour plate. Turnhout: Brepols, 1997. B.Fr. 1,700. 2 503 50561 9 The existence of a market for texts among the...

The Buildwas Books: Book Production, Acquisition and Use at an English Cistercian Monastery, 1165-c. 1400.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Jennifer M. Sheppard. (Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications, 3rd Ser., 2.) Pp. 1x + 277 incl. 36 figs. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1997. [pounds]36. 0 901420 53 0 The forty-nine manuscripts from Buildwas (several...

The Western Mediterranean Kingdoms, 1200-1500: The Struggle for Dominion.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By David Abulafia (The Medieval Word.) Pp. xix + 300 incl. 4 maps and 4 genealogical tables. Longman: London-New York, 1997. [pounds]14.99 (paper), 0 582 07821 0; 0 582 07820 2 David Abulafia's ambitious study of the western Mediterranean...

Studio e scuola in Arezzo durante il Medioevo e il Rinascimento: I documenti d'archivio fino al 1530.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Robert Black. Pp. 873. Rome: Herder, 1996. L. 150,000. 88 86830 00 99 This is a book of great value to the small but important band of scholars dedicated to the institutional history of education in the later Middle Ages and...

Stories of the Rose: The Making of the Rosary in the Middle Ages.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Anne Winston-Allen. Pp. xiv + 210 incl. frontispiece and 40 ills. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, 1997. [pounds]25.50 ($28.50). 0 271 01631 0 The traditional legend that the rosary was invented by St Dominic was...

Katharismus im Untergrund: Die Reorganisation durch Petrus Auterii, 1300-1310.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Hans Christoph Stoodt. (Spatmittelalter und Reformation. Neue Reihe, 5.) Pp. ix + 373 incl. 1 fig. + 1 pull-out map. Tubingen: J. C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1996. DM 198. 3 16 146156 8 This book, sister to M. Benad's Domus und Religion...

Omne bonum: A Fourteenth-Century Encyclopedia of Universal Knowledge. British Library MSS Royal 6 E VI-6 E VII, I: Text; II: Illustrated Catalogue.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Lucy Freeman Sandler. Pp. 208 + 118 ills; 272 incl. 760 ills. London: Harvey Miller, 1996. [pounds]120. 1 872501 75 3 The universalising outlook of the Middle Ages, the attempt to capture' a moment in medieval thought' in some vast...

Carnevale e Quaresima: Comportamenti sociali e cultura a Firenze nel Rinascimento.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Giovanni Ciapelli. (Temi e Testi. Nuova Serie, 37.) PP. 376. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1997. L. 75,000 (paper). 88 900138 7 7 The thesis of this richly researched book is that carnival and Lent defined the Florentine...

The Chronicle of Adam Usk: 1377-1421.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited and translated by C. Given-Wilson. (Oxford Medieval Texts.) Pp. xciv + 290. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. [pounds]45. 0 19 820483 3 Adam Usk was born c. 1360 and died early in 1430. He was Welsh, of gentle birth, largely but not...

Kardinal Jeann Jouffroy (1473): Leben und Werk.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Claudia Martl. (Beitrage zur Geschichte und Quellenkunde des Mittelalters, 18.) Pp. 400. Sigmaringen: Thorbecke, 1996. DM 108. 3 7995 5718 0 The career of Jean Jouffroy is not unknown to specialists in fifteenth-century history, as an...

Rechtsentscheide mittelalterlicher englischer Rabbinen: Aus dem Hebraischen und Aramaischen.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Translation and notes by Hans-Georg von Mutius. (Judentum und Unwelt. Realms of Judaism, 60.) Pp. x + 149. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1995.3 631 48493 3; 0721 3131 This is the latest volume in a series devoted to the publication of...

Reformations Old and New: Essays on the Socio-Economic Impact of Religious Change, c. 1470-1630.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Beat Kumin. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xiv + 272 incl. 5 tables, 5 figs and 2 maps. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996. [pounds]45. 1 85928 220 2 It is easy for reviewers to gauge their standing with editors....

The Culture of English Puritanism: 1560-1700.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Christopher Durston and Jacqueline Eales. (Themes in Focus.) Pp. viii + 332. Basingstoke-London: Macmillan, 1996. [pounds]40 (cloth), [pounds]13.99 (paper). 0 333 59745 1; 0 333 59746 X It is easy for reviewers to gauge their...

Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Jeffrey F. Hamburger. (California Studies in the History of Art, 37.) Pp. xxvi + 318 incl. frontispiece, 1 map and 117 figs + 12 colour plates. Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: University of California Press, 1997. [pounds]40. 0 520 20386 0...

Church Art and Architecture in the Low Countries before 1566.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs. (Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies, 37.) PP. xii + 244 incl. 222 ills. Kirksville, Mo: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1997. $65. 0 940474 39 5 This well-illustrated book admirably focuses on a...

Biblical Interpretation in the Era of Reformation: Essays Presented to David C. Steinmetz in Honor of His Sixtieth Birthday.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Richard A. Muller and John L. Thompson. Pp. xvi + 351 incl. frontispiece. Grand Rapids, Mich.Cambridge: Eerdmans, 1996. $35. 0 8028 3819 7 David Steinmetz has made his mark on a number of areas of sixteenth-century scholarship,...

Art and Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Rome: The Sistine and Pauline Chapels in S. Maria Maggiore.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Steven F. Ostrow. (Monuments of Papal Rome.) Pp. xxi + 385 incl. 160 ills + 10 colour plates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. [pounds]55 ($85). 0 521 47031 5 Off the nave aisles of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome are two...

Art and Faith in Tridentine Spain (1545-1690).(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Alain Saint-Saens. (Iberica, 14.) Pp. xii + 225. New York: Peter Lang, 1995. [pounds]22 (paper). 0 8204 2644 X; 1056 5000 Off the nave aisles of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome are two balancing baroque chapels, one called 'Sistine' after...

The Freedom of Spirit, Social Privilege, and Religious Dissent: Caspar Schwenckfeld and the Schwenckfelders.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By R. Emmet McLaughlin. (Bibliotheca Dissidentium. Scripta et Studia, 6.) Pp. 271 incl. frontispiece. Baden-Baden-Bouxwiller: Editions Valentin Koerner, 1996. DM 220. 3 87320 886 5 Emmet McLaughlin's new book is the latest in the series,...

Robert Ferrrar, Yorkshire Monk, Reformation Bishop, and Martyr in Wales (c.1500-1555).(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Andrew J. Brown. Pp. 351. London: Inscriptor Imprints, 1997. [pounds]25. 0 9528271 15 Andrew J. Brown has previously shed new light on William Tyndale's early career, and his full-length study of Ferrar is likewise a...

Devoted People: Belief Religion in Early Modern Ireland.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Raymond Gillespie. (Social and Cultural Values in Early Modern Europe.) Pp. x+ 198. Manchester-New York: Manchester University Press, 1997. [pounds]40. 0 1790 4200 3 Though the study of religious belief from below is hardly a new...

Civic Agendas and religious Passion: Chalons-sur-Marne during the French Wars of Religion, 1560-1594.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Mark W. Konnert. (Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies, 35.) Pp. x + 182 incl. 7 figs. Kirksville, Mo: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1997. $40. 0 940474 This book seeks to explore the reasons why a small town theoretically under...

The First Chapter Act Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin: 1574-1634.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Raymond Gillespie. (A History of Christ Church, Dublin. Documents, 3.) Pp. 252 incl. frontispiece and 2 plates. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997. [pounds]25. 1 85182 247 X Anyone who has followed the debate on religious change in...

Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Henry Phillips. Pp. ix+334. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [pounds]40. 0 521 57023 9 Henry Phillips here examines the attempts of the Catholic Church in France to extend its spiritual and moral influence throughout the...

Pursuing the Muses: Female Education and Nonconformist Culture, 1700-1900.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Marjorie Reeves. Pp. viii+216 incl. 10 figs, 1 map and I family tree. London-Washington: Leicester University Press, 1997. [pounds]45. 0 7185 0105 5 Pursuing the muses is an engaging and charming study of the lives and writings of a...

Avengelical Faith and Public Zeal: Evangelicals and Society in Britain, 1780-1980.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by John Wolffe. Pp. viii+221. London: SPCK, 1995. [pounds]10.99 (paper). 0 281 04782 0 Pursuing the muses is an engaging and charming study of the lives and writings of a network of Wiltshire Dissenting families across several...

Retelling US Religious History.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Thomas A. Tweed. Pp. xii+302. Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: University of California Press, 1997. [pounds]32 ($50) (cloth), [pounds]10.95 ($17) (paper). 0 520 20569 3; 0 520 20570 7 Thomas Tweed, Associate Professor of Religious...

Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-Catholicism.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By John Shelton Reed. Pp. xxiv + 359 + 27 plates. Nashville-London: Vanderbilt University Press, 1996. $34.95. 0 8265 1274 7 Whereas the Oxford Movement up to 1845 has received a great deal of attention from historians, studies of the...

Religion im Kaiserreich. Milieus - Mentalitaten - Krisen.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Olaf Blaschke and Frank-Michael Kuhlemann. (Religiose Kulturen der Moderne, 2.) Pp. 542. Gutersloh: Chr. Kaiser/Gutersloher Verlagshaus, 1996. 3 579 02601 1 Until very recently the social history of modern German religion was a...

Mexico's Hidden Revolution: The Catholic Church in Law and Politics Since 1929.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Peter Lester Reich. (A title from the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies.) Pp. x + 193. Notre Dame-London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995. 828.95. 0 268 01418 3 Church-State relations in Latin America are always a...

The original condemnation of Asian Montanism.(prophetic movement)
January 1, 1999... The object of this article is to describe the social and theological setting of primitive Montanism within second-century Asia in order to account for its appearance and its subsequent condemnation. According to an anonymous source employed...

Publicising the crusade: English bishops and the jubilee indulgence of 1455.
January 1, 1999... According to the Byzantine scholar Andronicus Callistus, the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks on 29 May 1453 was a cataclysm of such magnitude that it was mourned not only by the Greeks, but by people of every nation.(1) This may...

Ecclesiastical representation in Parliament in post-Reformation Scotland: the two kingdoms theory in practice.
January 1, 1999... Jean Calvin, in his Institutes of the Christian religion, wrote that 'there is a twofold government of man; one aspect is spiritual... the second is political.... There are in man, so to speak, two worlds, over which different kings and...

Annie Besant's quest for truth: Christianity, secularism and New Age thought.(19th century secular advocate turned theosophist)
January 1, 1999... Annie Besant was arguably the most famous, or rather infamous, woman of her age. For much of the 1870s and 1880s she promoted the secularist cause with remarkable vigour. She became a vice-president of the National Secular Society, the...

'Solo saluador': printing the 1543 New Testament of Francisco de Enzinas (Dryander).(translator)
January 1, 1999... I Spain in the sixteenth century was not exempt from the movements of reform sweeping over Europe. Its enthusiastic but short-lived reception of Erasmian humanism in the 1520s is well-documented.(1) So is its even more enthusiastic...

Apologia pro vitis veteriorum hominum.(review of the book 'The Oxford Movement in Context: Anglican High Churchmanship, 1760-1857)
January 1, 1999... The Oxford Movement in context. Anglican High Churchmanship, 1760-1857. By Peter Benedict Nockles. Pp. xvii + 342. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. [pounds]40 (cloth), [pounds]15.95 (paper). 0 521 38162 2; 0 521 58719 0 This...

The Oxford Movement in Context: Anglican High Churchmanship, 1760-1857.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Oxford Movement in context. Anglican High Churchmanship, 1760-1857. By Peter Benedict Nockles. Pp. xvii + 342. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. [pounds]40 (cloth), [pounds]15.95 (paper). 0 521 38162 2; 0 521 58719 0 This...

The Examination of Anne Askew.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Elaine V. Beilin. (Women Writers in English, 1350-1850.) Pp. lxi + 198 incl. 3 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. [pounds]25 (cloth), [pounds]12.99 (paper). 0 19 510848 5; 0 19 510849 3 Before her execution as a...