The Journal of Ecclesiastical History articles from July 2000

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History archives from July 2000

Revivalism as a Medieval Religious Genre.
July 1, 2000... Perhaps because the classification of religious behaviour in the Middle Ages has not received much attention, there seems to be no scholarly consensus concerning the number or nature of its genres. This means that at present we tend to have...

The Registers of Common Letters of Pope Urban V (1362-1370) and Pope Gregory XI (1370-1378).
July 1, 2000... The importance to scholars of the papal registers and other records in the Vatican Archives as a source for later medieval history scarcely needs to be emphasised. From the thirteenth century onwards, the different series of records...

Edmund Dudley and the Church.
July 1, 2000... Edmund Dudley, minister of Henry VII, was a man both personally extraordinary and yet representative of his age. He abandoned the normal cursus honorum of the legal profession to enter the king's service more suddenly than any of his...

The Theology of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan.(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2000... In his greatest piece of political philosophy, the Leviathan of 1651, Thomas Hobbes dedicated the astonishing mass of eighteen voluminous chapters solely to the discussion of religious matters. Although his earlier political treatises, The...

A Persecuted Church: Roman Catholicism in Early Nineteenth-Century Korea.
July 1, 2000... The Catholic Church in Korea dates its foundation from 1784 when Yi Sting-hun returned from Beijing where he had been baptised by a member of the resident Catholic mission. He had sought out the Catholic priests at the instigation of Yi Pyok...

Revisionism and the Irish Reformation.(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2000... The Irish Reformation remains a troubled subject, and not from lack of recent scholarly attention. It has attracted an abundance of high-quality work, [1] but its vexed nature as a topic is illuminated by a long, authoritative essay published...

Revisionism and the Irish Reformation A Rejoinder.(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2000... Karl Bottigheimer succeeds in consigning my study of the 'English Reformation in Wales and Ireland' to a genre of outmoded nationalist historiography by means of a distortingly reductionist account of it. In the first place, despite its title...

The encyclopedia of Christianity.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The encyclopedia of Christianity, I: A-D. Edited by Erwin Fahlbusch, Jan Milic Lochman, John Mbiti, Jaroslav Pelikan and Lukas Vischer (Trans. by Geoffrey W. Bromiley of Evangelisches Kirchenlexikon, Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1986,...

Death, burial and rebirth in the religions of antiquity.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Death, burial and rebirth in the religions of antiquity. By Jon Davies. (Religion in the First Christian Centuries.) Pp. xiii+246+ 14 plates. London-New York: Routledge, 1999. [pound]50 (cloth), [pound]16.99 (paper). 0 415 12990 7; 0 415...

The virgin and the bride. Idealized womanhood in late antiquity.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The virgin and the bride. Idealized womanhood in late antiquity. By Kate Cooper. Pp. xii + 180. Cambridge, Mass.-London: Harvard University Press, 1999 (first publ. 1996). [pound]10.50 (paper). 0 674 93949 2; 0 674 93950 6 Kate Cooper...

Making Christians. Clement of Alexandria and the rhetoric of legitimacy.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Making Christians. Clement of Alexandria and the rhetoric of legitimacy. By Denise Kimber Buell. Pp. xiv+222. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. [pound]23.95. 0 691 05980 2 In Making Christians, Buell explores the ways in which...

Augustine through the ages. An encyclopedia.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Augustine through the ages. An encyclopedia. Edited by Allan D. Fitzgerald. Pp. il + 902. Grand Rapids, Mich.--Cambridge: Eerdmans, 1999. [pound]45.0 8028 3843 X At less than the price of many a hardback monograph, Allan Fitzgerald and...

Athanasius von Alexandrien. De sententia Dionysii. Einleitung, Ubersetzung und Kommentar.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Athanasius von Alexandrien. De sententia Dionysii. Einleitung, Ubersetzung und Kommentar. By Uta Heil. (Patristische Texte und Studien, 52.) Pp. ix + 344. Berlin--New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1999. DM 208. 3 11 016520 1; 0553 4003 Uta...

Platonismus im Christentum.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Platonismus im Christentum. By Werner Beierwaltes. (Philosophische Abhandlungen, 73) Pp. 222. Frankfurt-am-Main: Klostermann, 1998. DM 78. 3 465 02975 5 This collection is a companion piece to the essays Werner Beierwaltes published five...

Perceptions of angels in history. An inaugural lecture delivered in the University of Oxford on 14 November 1997.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Perceptions of angels in history. An inaugural lecture delivered in the University of Oxford on 14 November 1997. By Henry Mayr-Harting. Pp. ii + 28 + 5 figs. Oxford: Glarendon Press, 1998. [pound]6. 0 19 951386 4 Here a large subject is...

Vision and image in early Christian England.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Vision and image in early Christian England. By George Henderson. Pp. xviii + 292, incl. 95 black-and-white ills + 8 colour plates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. [pound]55. 0 521 55130 7 This attractively produced, if...

Opus Caroli regis contra synodum (Libri Carolini) & Das Konzil von Aachen 809.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Opus Caroli regis contra synodum (Libri Carolini). Edited by Ann Freeman (with Paul Meyvaert). (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Leges: 4, Concilia, T. 2, Suppl. I.) Pp. x+666+16 plates. Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1998. DM 248. 3 7752...

Les fausses Terreurs de l'an mil. Attente de la fin des temps ou approfondissement de la foi?(Review)
July 1, 2000... Les fausses Terreurs de l'an mil. Attente de la fin des temps ou approfondissement de la foi? By Sylvain Gouguenheim. Pp. 232. Paris: Picard, 1999. Fr. 240 (paper). 2 7084 0566 7 The title says it all; this is polemic, though polemic of a...

Die Urkunden und Briefe der Markgrafin Mathilde non Tuszien.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Die Urkunden und Briefe der Markgrafin Mathilde non Tuszien. Edited by Elke Goez and Werner Goez. (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Diplomata: [5]. Laienfursten-/und Dynastenurkunden der Kaiserzeit, 2.) Pp. xliii + 666 + 17 plates. Hanover:...

Anglo-Norman political culture and the twelfth-century renaissance. Proceedings of the Borchard conference on Anglo-Norman history, 1995.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Anglo-Norman political culture and the twelfth-century renaissance. Proceedings of the Borchard conference on Anglo-Norman history, 1995. Edited by C. Warren Hollister. Pp. xi + 80 incl. I map and I genealogical table. Woodbridge: Boydell...

Gorze au XIe siecle. Contribution a l'histoire du monachisme benedictin dans l'empire.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Gorze au XIe siecle. Contribution a l'histoire du monachisme benedictin dans l'empire. By Anne Wagner, preface by Michel Parisse. (Atelier de recherche sur les textes medievaux.) Pp. 543 incl. 14 ills. Turnhout: Brepols, 1996. 2 503 50507 4...

Bistumschroniken des Hochmittelalters. Die politische Instrumentalisierung von Geschichtsschreibung.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Bistumschroniken des Hochmittelalters. Die politische Instrumentalisierung von Geschichtsschreibung. By Dirk Schlochtermeyer. Pp. 222. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh, 1998. DM 68. 3 506 77898 6 This is an interesting study of eight German...

God's peace and king's peace. The laws of Edward the Confessor.(Review)
July 1, 2000... God's peace and king's peace. The laws of Edward the Confessor. By Bruce R. O'Brien. (The Middle Ages Series.) Pp. xv+305 incl. map. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. [pound]41 ($55). 0 8122 3461 8 This is a curious...

Jutta and Hildegard. The biographical sources.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Jutta and Hildegard. The biographical sources. Translated and introduced by Anna Silvas. (Medieval Women. Texts and Contexts, 1.) Pp. xxvii + 299 incl. 2 maps, 2 plans and 3 genealogical tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 1998. B.Fr. 2,138. 0503...

Life and thought in the northern Church, c. 1100-c. 1700. Essays in honour of Claire Cross.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Life and thought in the northern Church, c. 1100-c. 1700. Essays in honour of Claire Cross. Edited by Diana Wood. (Studies in Church History. Subsidia, 12.) Pp. xiv+595 incl. frontispiece, 22 plates, 4 tables and 3 figs. Woodbridge: Boydell...

Medieval monastic preaching.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Medieval monastic preaching. Edited by Carolyn Muessig. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 90.) Pp. xv + 368. Leiden-Boston--Cologne: Brill, 1998. Nlg 215. 90 04 10883 1; 0920 8607 This is a collection of sixteen papers given at a...

The idea of natural rights. Studies on natural rights, natural law and church law, 1150-1625.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The idea of natural rights. Studies on natural rights, natural law and church law, 1150-1625. By Brian Tierney. (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion, 5.) Pp. xi+380. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1997. $24.95. 0 7885 0355 3 In a...

Thomas Becket. His last days.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Thomas Becket. His last days. By William Urry, edited by Peter A. Rowe. Pp. xv + 192 incl. 61 plates. Stroud: Sutton, 1999. [pound]20. 0 7509 2179 X A life of St Thomas Becket, in well over 100,000 words which Urry left in manuscript at...

Mendicants, military orders and regionalism in medieval Europe.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Mendicants, military orders and regionalism in medieval Europe. Edited by Jurgen Sarnowsky. Pp. xiv + 334 incl. 2 figs and 7 plates. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. [pound]45. 1 84014 623 0 The extent to which international religious orders...

England's Jewish solution. Experiment and expulsion, 1262-1290.(Review)
July 1, 2000... England's Jewish solution. Experiment and expulsion, 1262-1290. By Robin R. Mundill. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th ser., 37.) Pp. xxix + 334 incl. 7 figs and 12 tables. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998....

Kirche und Macht im romischen Trecento. Die Colonna und ihre Klientel auf dem kurialen Pfrundenmarkt (1278-1378).(Review)
July 1, 2000... Kirche und Macht im romischen Trecento. Die Colonna und ihre Klientel auf dem kurialen Pfrundenmarkt (1278-1378). By Andreas Rehberg. (Bibliothek des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom, 88.) Pp. x+658. Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1999. DM 192. 3...

Hadewijch. Das Buch der Visionen, I: Einleitung, Text und Ubersetzung; II: Kommentar.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Hadewijch. Das Buch der Visionen, I: Einleitung, Text und Ubersetzung; II: Kommentar. Edited by Gerald Hofmann. (Mystik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Texte und Untersuchungen. Abt. I. Christliche Mystik, 12, 13.) Pp. 212+1 colour plate; 294....

Charles I of Anjou. Power, kingship and state-making in thirteenth-century Europe.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Charles I of Anjou. Power, kingship and state-making in thirteenth-century Europe. By Jean Dunbabin. (The Medieval World.) Pp. xii + 252. London-New York: Longman, 1998. [pound]43.99. 0 582 25371 3; 0 582 25370 5 Jean Dunbabin here gives...

St Birgitta of Sweden.(Review)
July 1, 2000... St Birgitta of Sweden. By Bridget Morris. (Studies in Medieval Mysticism, 1.) Pp. xiv + 202 incl. 2 maps and 7 plates. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1999. [pound]35. 0 85115 727 0; 1465 5683 This book, tracing the life and influence of this...

And some fell into good soil. A history of Christianity in Iceland.(Review)
July 1, 2000... And some fell into good soil. A history of Christianity in Iceland. By Michael Fell. (American University Studies. Series VII. Theology and Religion, 201.) Pp. xxii + 405 incl. 24 ills. New York: Peter Lang. 1999. [pound]38. 0820438812;...

Magic and divination at the courts of Burgundy and France. Text and context of Laurens Pignon's Contre les devineurs (1411).(Review)
July 1, 2000... Magic and divination at the courts of Burgundy and France. Text and context of Laurens Pignon's Contre les devineurs (1411). By J. R. Veenstra. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 83.) Pp. xiii + 433. Leiden--New York--Cologne: Brill,...

Die Rotamanualien des Basler Konzils. Verzeichnis der in den Handschriften der Basler Universitatsbibliothek behandelten Rechtsfalle.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Die Rotamanualien des Basler Konzils. Verzeichnis der in den Handschriften der Basler Universitatsbibliothek behandelten Rechtsfalle. Edited by Hans-Jorg Gilomen. Pp. xxxix + 1336 cols. Tubingen: Max Niemeyer, 1998. DM 198. 3 484 80141 7 ...

Die Ablasstheologie Kardinal Cajetans (1469-1534).(Review)
July 1, 2000... Die Ablasstheologie Kardinal Cajetans (1469-1534). By Bernhard Alfred R. Felmberg. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, 66.) Pp. Xvi + 444. Leiden--Boston--Cologne: Brill, 1998. Nlg 265. 90 04 11091 7; 0585 6014 Martin Luther...

Northern humanism in European context, 1469-1625. From the 'Adwert Academy' to Ubbo Emmius.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Northern humanism in European context, 1469-1625. From the 'Adwert Academy' to Ubbo Emmius. Edited by F. Akkerman, A. J. Vanderjagt and A. H. Van der Laan. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 94). Pp. xiii + 278 incl. frontispiece and 6...

La France et le Concile de Trent (1518-1563).(Review)
July 1, 2000... La France et le Concile de Trent (1518-1563). By Alain Tallon. (Bibliotheque des Ecoles francaises d'Athenes et de Rome, Fascicule 295). Pp. vii+975. Rome: Ecole francaise de Rome, 1997. 2 7283 0386X This magnificent work, originally a...

Erneuerung der Kirche durch Bildung und Belehrung des Volkes. Der Beitrag des Dortmunder Humanisten Jacob Schoepper zur Formung der Frommigkeit in der fruhen Neuzeit.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Erneuerung der Kirche durch Bildung und Belehrung des Volkes. Der Beitrag des Dortmunder Humanisten Jacob Schoepper zur Formung der Frommigkeit in der fruhen Neuzeit. By Ursula Olschewski. (Reformationsgeschichtliche Studien und Texte, 141.)...

Il tramonto della curia nepotista. Papi, nipoti e burocrazia curiale tra XVI e XVII secolo.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Il tramonto della curia nepotista. Papi, nipoti e burocrazia curiale tra XVI e XVII secolo. By Antonio Menniti Ippolito. (La carte dei papi, 5.) Pp. 190. Rome: Viella, 1999. L.30,000 (paper). 88 85669 91 3 Building on his earlier work on...

Peter Martyr Vermigli and predestination. The Augustinian inheritance of an Italian reformer.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Peter Martyr Vermigli and predestination. The Augustinian inheritance of an Italian reformer. By Frank A. James III. (Oxford Theological Monographs.) Pp. xiv+290. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. [pound]40. 0 19 826969 2 This book -- of...

Studies in Scottish church history.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Studies in Scottish church history. By A. C. Cheyne. Pp. ix + 325. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1999. [pound]24.95. 0 567 08644 5 A new publication in the field of Scottish church history is to be welcomed, especially when it is written by...

The Reformation and the book.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The Reformation and the book. Edited by Jean-Francois Gilmont. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) (Trans. by Karin Maag of La Reforme et le livre: l'Europe de l'imprime (157-v. 1570), Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1990.) Pp. xxii + 498...

City on the ocean sea. La Rochelle, 1530-1650. Urban society, religion, and politics on the French Atlantic frontier.(Review)
July 1, 2000... City on the ocean sea. La Rochelle, 1530-1650. Urban society, religion, and politics on the French Atlantic frontier. By Kevin C. Robbins. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, 64.) Pp. xvii + 466 incl. 17 figs and 17 tables....

Die reformatorischen Kirchen Litauens. Ein historischer Abriss.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Die reformatorischen Kirchen Litauens. Ein historischer Abriss. Edited by Arthur Hermann and [Wilhelm.sup.+] Kahle. Pp. 360. Erlangen: Martin-Luther-Verlag, 1998. 3 87513 1169 With contributions from Inge Luksaite, Aldona Prasmantaite,...

Loyola's acts. The rhetoric of the self.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Loyola's acts. The rhetoric of the self. By Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle. (The New Historicism, 36.) Pp. xv + 274 incl. I ill. Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: University of California Press, 1997. $45. 0 520 20937 0 In 1553 Ignatius of Loyola...

An Irish prisoner of conscience of the Tudor era. Archbishop Richard Creagh of Armagh, 1523-86.(Review)
July 1, 2000... An Irish prisoner of conscience of the Tudor era. Archbishop Richard Creagh of Armagh, 1523-86. By Colm Lennon. Pp. 166 incl. 2 ills. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000 (1999). [pound]24.95. I 85182 473 I Colm Lennon is one of the most...

Catherine de' Medici.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Catherine de' Medici. By R. J. Knecht. (Profiles in Power.) Pp. 340 incl. 2 maps and 5 genealogical tables. London-New York: Longman, 1998. [pound]42. 0 582 08242 0; 0 582 08241 2 This is, as the author points out in his preface, only the...

Kepler's Tubingen. Stimulus to a theological mathematics.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Kepler's Tubingen. Stimulus to a theological mathematics. Charlotte Methuen. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xii + 280 incl. 3 maps. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. [pound]45. 185928 397 7 This book seeks to bridge a gap the...

The theatre of death. The ritual management of royal funerals in Renaissance England, 1570-1625.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The theatre of death. The ritual management of royal funerals in Renaissance England, 1570-1625. By Jennifer Woodward. Pp. xiv + 250 incl. 2 lists of succession + 22 ills. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1997. [pounds]40.0 85115 704 1 This is...

Zisterzienser zwischen Zentralisierung und Regionalisierung. 400 Jahre Furstenfelder Abtetreffen Furstenfelder Reformstatuten von 1595-1995.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Zisterzienser zwischen Zentralisierung und Regionalisierung. 400 Jahre Furstenfelder Abtetreffen Furstenfelder Reformstatuten von 1595-1995. Edited by Hermann Nehlsen and Klaus Wollenberg. 2 vols. Pp. 515 incl. 21 ills; vi + 517-879 incl. 2...

John Eliot's mission to the Indians before King Philip's war.(Review)
July 1, 2000... John Eliot's mission to the Indians before King Philip's war. By Richard W. Cogley. Pp. xiv+33i incl. map. Cambridge, Mass. - London: Harvard University Press, 1999. [pound]27.95. 0 674 47537 2 The emergence of new approaches to Indian...

Die Reunionsgesprache im Niedersachsen des 17. Jahrhunderts. Rojas y Spinola - Molan - Leibniz.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Die Reunionsgesprache im Niedersachsen des 17. Jahrhunderts. Rojas y Spinola - Molan -- Leibniz. Edited by Hans Otte and Richard Schenk. (Studien zur Kirchengeschichte Niedersachsens, 37.) Pp. 258. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999 DM...

Enthusiasm and enlightenment in Europe, 1650-1850.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Enthusiasm and enlightenment in Europe, 1650-1850. Edited by Lawrence E. Klein and Anthony J. La Vopa. Pp. vi + 206 incl. 5 figs. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1998. $15 (paper). 0 87328 200 0 This collection of essays had its...

Church and society in eighteenth-century France, I: The clerical establishment and its social ramifications; II: The religion of the people and the politics of religion.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Church and society in eighteenth-century France, I: The clerical establishment and its social ramifications; II: The religion of the people and the politics of religion. By John McManners. (Oxford History of the Christian Church.) Pp....

Thomas Seeker. An eighteenth-century primate.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Thomas Seeker. An eighteenth-century primate. By Leslie W. Barnard. Pp. vii + 234. Lewes: The Book Guild, 1998. [pound]15. 185776 302 5 Coming after the publication of the Autobiography of Thomas Seeker (1988) and the Speculum of...

Scandal in the Church. Dr Edward Drax Free, 1764-1843.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Scandal in the Church. Dr Edward Drax Free, 1764-1843. By R. B. Outhwaite. Pp. xvi+ 180 incl. 10 ills + 12 plates. London-Rio Grande: Hambledon Press, 1997. [pound]19.95. 185285 1651 Dr Edward Drax Free, an unknown and cantankerous...

Politicians in the pulpit. Christian radicalism in Britain from the fall of the Bastille to the disintegration of Chartism.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Politicians in the pulpit. Christian radicalism in Britain from the fall of the Bastille to the disintegration of Chartism. By Eileen Groth Lyon. Pp. x+280 incl. 22 figs. Ashgate: Aldershot, 1999. [pound]45.07546 0029 7 This is an...

Controversial concordats. The Vatican's relations with Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Controversial concordats. The Vatican's relations with Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler. Edited by Frank J. Coppa. Pp. vii + 248. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1999. [pound]35.95 (cloth), [pound]19.95 (paper). 0 8132...

For God and race. The religious and political leadership of AMEZ Bishop James Walker Hood.(Review)
July 1, 2000... For God and race. The religious and political leadership of AMEZ Bishop James Walker Hood. By Sandy Dwayne Martin. Pp. xxiv + 248. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, $39.95. 1 57003 261 0 Modern historians concur that...

Stolen daughters, virgin mothers. Anglican sisterhoods in Victorian Britain.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Stolen daughters, virgin mothers. Anglican sisterhoods in Victorian Britain. By Susan Mumm. Pp. xvi + 440 incl. 7 figs. London--New York: Leicester University Press, 1999. [pound]45. 0 7185 0151 9 The growth of interest in women's...

Good citizens. British missionaries and imperial states, 1870 to 1918.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Good citizens. British missionaries and imperial states, 1870 to 1918. By James G. Greenlee and Charles M. Johnston. (McGill--Queen's Studies in the History of Religion. Series Two.) Pp. xxi + 274. Montreal/Kingston--London--Ithaca:...

Rerum Novarum. Ecriture, contenu et reception d'une encyclique. Actes du colloque international organise' par l'Ecole francaise de Rome et le Greco no. 2 du CNRS (Rome, 18-20 avril 1991).(Review)
July 1, 2000... Rerum Novarum. Ecriture, contenu et reception d'une encyclique. Actes du colloque international organise' par l'Ecole francaise de Rome et le Greco no. 2 du CNRS (Rome, 18-20 avril 1991). (Collection de l'Ecole francaise de Rome, 232.) Pp. iv...

The unknown pope, Benedict XV (1914-1922) and the pursuit of peace.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The unknown pope, Benedict XV (1914-1922) and the pursuit of peace. By John F. Pollard. Pp. XV + 240 + 16 plates. London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1999. [pound]16.99. 0 225 66844 0 Pope Benedict XV has generally been assigned a minor role in the...

Christen judischer Herkunft im Dritten Reich. Verfolgung und organisierte Selbsthilfe 1993-1939.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Christen judischer Herkunft im Dritten Reich. Verfolgung und organisierte Selbsthilfe 1993-1939. By Aleksandar-Sasa Vuletic. (Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fur Europaische Geschichte Mainz. Abteilung Universalgeschichte, 169.) Pp. X+310....

Nothing sacred. Nazi espionage against the Vatican, 1939-1945.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Nothing sacred. Nazi espionage against the Vatican, 1939-1945. By David Alvarez and Robert A. Graham SJ (Cass Series. Studies in Intelligence.) Pp. xiv + 193. London-Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1997. [pound]29.50 (cloth), [pound]14.50 (paper)....