The Journal of Ecclesiastical History articles from October 1997

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History archives from October 1997

Donatus 'paene totam Africam decepit'. How? (condemnation of the Donatist Church in north Africa by Augustine)
October 1, 1997... Jerome was writing De viris illustribus in c. 393, and his verdict on Donatus of Carthage conceded that he had indeed 'deceived nearly the whole of Africa ', an aim echoed by Augustine in his satirical anti-Donatist poem composed the same...

Crisis, liturgy and the Crusade in the Twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
October 1, 1997... The First Crusade has been described as a 'church in procession' and a 'military monastery on the move'.(1) The progress of the first crusading armies to the Holy Land was indeed accompanied by regular liturgical practices, acts of devotion and...

Heresy and factionalism at Merton College in the early fifteenth century.
October 1, 1997... In his biography of Archbishop William Courtenay published in 1966, Joseph Dahmus wrote that until documented evidence to the contrary is provided, one may assume that the connection between Wycliffitism at Oxford and Lollardy was hardly more...

Religion and the rise of liberalism: the first disestablishment campaign in Scotland, 1829-1843.
October 1, 1997... On 18 May 1843, the Established Church of Scotland was broken up by the Disruption, as most of the Evangelical party walked out of the annual meeting of the General Assembly. They left in protest over lay patronage in appointments to church...

Philipp Melanchthon: image and substance. (theologian)
October 1, 1997... In conferences, symposia and a modest number of publications, 1997 is being marked as the Melanchthon-year. However excellent in their own kind the results of the year's commemoration may be, neither in quantity nor in diversity will they...

Armenica veritas. (Armenian translation of Socrates' works)
October 1, 1997... Historians of the Roman Empire, of the Christian Church and of Christian theology between the conversion of Constantine and the fateful appointment of Nestorius as bishop of Constantinople in 428 are all alike heavily dependent for much basic...

Sokrates Kirchengeschichte.
October 1, 1997... Historians of the Roman Empire, of the Christian Church and of Christian theology between the conversion of Constantine and the fateful appointment of Nestorius as bishop of Constantinople in 428 are all alike heavily dependent for much basic...

Theodoros Anagnostes Kirchengeschichte, 2d rev ed.
October 1, 1997... Historians of the Roman Empire, of the Christian Church and of Christian theology between the conversion of Constantine and the fateful appointment of Nestorius as bishop of Constantinople in 428 are all alike heavily dependent for much basic...

A New History of Christianity.
October 1, 1997... This is the third general history of Christianity to appear in the last few years and, as is to be expected from a past master of the overview, it represents a well-paced narrative which divides itself equally between the years before 1800 and...

Religion and the Rise of Democracy.
October 1, 1997... At a time when the future of democracy is open to question, a book which takes seriously the religious influence on its nature and development is refreshing and of some importance. Maddox traces its history from the biblical perspectives of the...

The Fifth Gospel: Isaiah in the History of Christianity.
October 1, 1997... The book of Isaiah has had an extraordinary and profound influence on the language and imagery of Christianity. In this book, Professor Sawyer traces the way in which Isaiah has been interpreted from the time of the New Testament (where it was...

Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture.
October 1, 1997... This is a book of outstanding interest and outstanding quality, beautifully produced and beautifully illustrated. It is the work of a scholar of international renown, above all in the field of the history of Christian doctrine. Jaroslav Pelikan...

The Origin of Satan.
October 1, 1997... Elaine Pagels is a distinguished Princeton professor, and her book is characteristically lucid, well-documented and well-argued, though it does not perhaps do quite what its title might lead readers to expect. It does not investigate how ideas...

The Devil: A Mask Without a Face.
October 1, 1997... Elaine Pagels is a distinguished Princeton professor, and her book is characteristically lucid, well-documented and well-argued, though it does not perhaps do quite what its title might lead readers to expect. It does not investigate how ideas...

Origeniana Sexta: Origene et la Bible/Origin and the Bible, Actes du Colloquium Origenianum sextum, Chantilly, 30 aout-3 septembre 1993.
October 1, 1997... This volume contains sixty of the papers given at the 1993 Colloquium Origenianum, an international meeting of Origen scholars that has been held every four years since 1973. Scholars from twenty different countries attended the 1993...

A History of Medieval Political Thought: 300-1450.
October 1, 1997... This is a book in which a task that might well seem impossible has been triumphantly performed. In no more than 187 pages of text, the reader is given an account which is at once comprehensive, lucid and stimulating, of all the daunting...

Sermons.
October 1, 1997... The sermons of Pope Leo I, the architect of Chalcedon and the earliest bishop of Rome to be styled 'the Great', are fittingly voluminous and eloquent. We have here ninety-six addresses, translated from the Corpus Christianorum Latinorum, and...

The Christian Communities of Palestine from Byzantine to Islamic Rule: A Historical and Archaeological Study.
October 1, 1997... The Christian Church in Palestine was at its strongest during the Byzantine period, and went into dramatic decline with the fall of Jerusalem to the Arabs in 638. This volume examines the next and much less well-understood stage in the history...

Cultural Interplay in the Eight Century: The 'Trier Gospels' and the Making of a Scriptorium at Echternach.
October 1, 1997... Prospective readers and purchasers of Dr Netzer's book should not pay too much attention to its main title: true, it can claim justification from the conjunction in a well-defined group of eighth-century manuscripts of 'Insular', 'Merovingian'...

Marriage, Family, and Law in Medieval Europe: Collected Studies.
October 1, 1997... This collection of papers by the late Michael M. Sheehan brings together thirty years of work by a scholar who was known and respected internationally for his thorough, accurate and insightful contributions to the history of medieval society...

La Vita di San Leone Luca di Corleone: Introduzione, testo latino, traduzione, commentario e indici.
October 1, 1997... The Latin Life of the ninth-century Greek saint, St Leo-Luke, edited here with a facing translation in Italian, once more raises questions about how to gauge the influence of the Greek monks and hermits of southern Italy on western monasticism...

Eriugena: Grundzuge seines Denkens.
October 1, 1997... John Scottus Eriugena is a figure who attracts interest from many different types of specialist. No one with an interest in ninth-century cultural, intellectual, ecclesiastical or even political history can ignore a thinker who played an...

English Episcopal Acta, XI: Exeter 1046-1184: Exeter 1186-1257.
October 1, 1997... These volumes contain some 360 acta of the bishops of Exeter from Leofric to Richard Blund (1046-1257), i.e. up to the first surviving register, that of Walter Bronescombe which begins in 1258. They fill a large gap by collecting so many...

The Joy of Learning and the Love of God: Studies in Honor of Jean Leclercq.
October 1, 1997... Varietas is as much a part of Jean Leclercq's formidable accomplishment as scholarly rigour (this volume includes a full bibliography of Leclercq's works); the personal recollections and tributes with which most of the contributors to this...

Die Abtei Venosa und das Monchtum im normannisch-staufischen Suditalien.
October 1, 1997... The abbey church of SS Trinity Venosa stands today as a metaphor for the incompleteness of the Norman project in southern Italy. Begun by Drogo of Hauteville in 1040 and established as the family's sepulchral church by Robert Guiscard, the...

Studien zur literarischen Wirksamkeit des Petrus Damiani: Anhang, Johannes von Lodi.
October 1, 1997... This unpretentious and in places technical monograph deserves to be of great interest to cultural historians, because it is a model of how to trace an author's influence on his own and later generations. As a pupil of Kurt Reindel, editor of...

Historical and Religious Writers of the Latin West: 5, Peter Abelard: 6, Honorius Augustodunensis of Regensburg.
October 1, 1997... The strangely anonymous title of this volume (to say nothing of its extraordinary presentation, which includes the general editor's name, but not those of the authors or their subjects, on the cover and title page) effectively hides the fact...

Church and Society in the Medieval North of England.
October 1, 1997... This very welcome volume brings together thirteen of Professor Dobson's papers. In chronological terms they range from the aftermath of the Conquest, with the foundation of Selby Abbey, to the late fifteenth century, with the emphasis on the...

La religion civique a l'epoque medievale et moderne: Chretiente et Islam, Actes du colloque organise par le Centre de recherche 'Histoire sociale et culturelle de l'Occident XIIe-XVIIIe siecle' de l'Universite du Paris X - Nanterre et l'Institut universitaire de France, Nanterre, 21-33 juin 1993.
October 1, 1997... With a brief introduction by Vauchez and concluding remarks by Henri Bresc, this volume comprises thirty-five contributions. There is only one paper in English (on a Venetian topic), eight are in Italian, the rest in French. Five use pictorial...

Peter des Roches: An Alien in English Politics, 1205-1238.
October 1, 1997... Peter des Roches was consecrated bishop of Winchester in 1205 and died in 1238. During most of that long pontificate he was one of the most important political figures in England. Even more remarkably, he was widely known and respected on the...

Reading the Book of History: Intellectual Contexts and Educational Functions of Franciscan Historiography, 1226-ca. 1350.
October 1, 1997... This is an ambitious attempt, within the frame of a thesis, to compass the whole of Franciscan historical writing in its first century and more, and to set it in its intellectual background and to study its didactic aims. Much the best part...

Acta Pataviensia Austriaca: Vatikanische Akten zur Geschichte des Bistums Passau und der Herzoge von Osterreich, 1342-1878, III: Urban V, 1362-1370.
October 1, 1997... The first two volumes of Acta Pataviensia Austriaca, a series which is publishing papal acta concerning the diocese of Passau and the dukes of Austria, were reviewed in this JOURNAL xlv (1994), 728-9. In the introduction to the present volume,...

Kingsford's Stonor Letters and Papers: 1290-1483.
October 1, 1997... This volume reproduces Kingsford's edition of the Stonor letters, originally published in two Camden Society volumes of 1919, adding the supplementary material that Kingsford contributed to a Camden Miscellany of 1924. The three original...

The Evangelical Rhetoric of Ramon Lull: Lay Learning and Piety in the Christian West Around 1300.
October 1, 1997... Johnston conscientiously and intelligently analyses whatever he can classify as rhetorical doctrine in Llull's writings. One might argue whether this was the best way to delimit the book's field, for some of the findings seem a lot less...

The Mystical Tradition and the Carthusians: Internationaler Kongress vom 20. bis zum 23. September 1995 anlasslich der Emeritierung des Herausgebers der Analecta Cartusiana, 8 vols.
October 1, 1997... The eight volumes that comprise Analecta Cartusiana cxxx represent the proceedings of the conference held in 1995 at the Cistercian abbey of Lilienfeld in Austria to mark the retirement of the editor and founder of the Analecta, Dr James Hogg....

The Domestic Accounts of Merton College Oxford: 1 August 1482 - 1 August 1494.
October 1, 1997... This work is the most recent in a series of publications for the Oxford Historical Society which illuminate the internal history of Merton College, a college which besides the wealth of medieval account rolls in its original treasury building...

King Death: The Black Death and Its Aftermath in Late-Medieval England.
October 1, 1997... In his preface to this high-spirited survey of an immense and mournful subject, the author maintains that his own research interest 'has always been in socially inspired change in the arts'. Colin Platt is of course too modest; for he can now...

Editing Texts from the Age of Erasmus: Papers Given at the Thirtieth Annual Conference on Editorial Problems, University of Toronto, 4-5 November 1994.
October 1, 1997... The mere list of contributors to this volume is a pledge of excellence. Editor Erika Rummel is rightly considered today's top Erasmus specialist in the English language, with a pluri-lingual equipment still uncommon in North American...

Patronage and Recruitment in the Tudor and Early Stuart Church.
October 1, 1997... This useful little collection of essays, fruit of the second seminar in memory of the Borthwick Institute's first director, Canon J. S. Purvis, is unusually coherent and has much to offer. Claire Cross herself provides a welcome overview of...

Piety and the People: Religious Printing in French, 1511-1551.
October 1, 1997... This book is essentially a list of some 1,300 editions of religious works in French printed between 1511 and 1551. The terminal date has been chosen by the author because that is when the Edict of Chateaubriant consolidated all existing...

Martin Luther: Sein Leben und Denken.
October 1, 1997... The old austerity slogan, ' Is your journey really necessary?' should apply equally to Luther biographies, particularly as Brecht's definitive trilogy is not yet ten years old. Genthe's contribution to the 1996 Lutherjahr, endorsed by the...

Conflicting Visions of Reform: German Lay Propaganda Pamphlets, 1519-30.
October 1, 1997... Reformation Flugschriften have experienced mixed fortunes in recent years. H.-J. Kohler's ten-year project to publish in microform all pamphlets from the period 1501-30 currently in the libraries of the former West Germany was completed in...

The Anabaptists.
October 1, 1997... The present work is an effective English translation of the author's Die Taufer, Geschichte und Deutung, which, when it appeared in 1980, was the scholarly summation of the revision of Anabaptist studies that had been going on throughout the...

Luthers Theologie in ihrer historischen Entwicklung und in ihrem systematischen Zusammenhang.
October 1, 1997... If Gerhard Ebeling's introduction to Luther's thought (Tubingen 1964) endures as arguably the finest essay expounding the Wittenberg professor's unique theology of tension, Lutherforschung can only rejoice at the publication of Bernhard Lohse's...

Gesetz und Heil: Eine Untersuchung zur Vorgeschichte und zum Verlauf des sogennanten Zweiten Antinomistischen Streits.
October 1, 1997... This book deserves a welcome irrespective of its contents. It began as a dissertation presented at the University of Leipzig, where in the worst years of the DDR respectable theology was never quite displaced by junk; here the academic history...

Johannes Cochlaeus: Philippicae I-VII.
October 1, 1997... This edition brings to our attention an important part of Cochlaeus' polemical writings, which has been almost totally neglected by scholars, even by recent publications of note such as Remigius Baumer's article on Cochlaeus in vol. viii of the...

Calvin in Context.
October 1, 1997... Steinmetz offers his book, Calvin in context, as a general introduction to Calvin's views as gleaned not only from the Institutes but also from his biblical commentaries. The context Steinmetz establishes is not that of the sixteenth century,...

Seminary or University? The Genevan Academy and Reformed Higher Education, 1560-1620.
October 1, 1997... Steinmetz offers his book, Calvin in context, as a general introduction to Calvin's views as gleaned not only from the Institutes but also from his biblical commentaries. The context Steinmetz establishes is not that of the sixteenth century,...

Thomas Cranmer: A Life.
October 1, 1997... Diarmaid MacCulloch's new account of the archbishop who guided England through the earlier stages of its religious reformation in the sixteenth century is the first major biography for over thirty years and is likely to be the definitive one...

The Library of Thomas Cranmer.
October 1, 1997... David Selwyn's The library of Thomas Cranmer is one of the most important books to be published in the field of English Reformation studies in recent years. Research for the book was begun in the 1960s and the whole work is infused with...

Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology.
October 1, 1997... This readable and scholarly study of Clavius (1538-1612), the great Jesuit mathematician, astronomer and educator, reflects the rapid expansion of a new area of historical scholarship in astronomy. There is a growing awareness that the...

The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England: 1541-1588. 'Our Way of Proceeding?'
October 1, 1997... 'Catholic' history of the English Reformation has always suffered from endless entanglement in the web of its own rhetoric. As Thomas McCoog points out, contemporary martyrologies have had a disproportionate effect on the way the history of...

Antwerp in the Age of Reformation: Underground Protestantism in a Commercial Metropolis, 1550-1577.
October 1, 1997... The relation between centres of trade, especially large cities, and centres of heresy has long been an object of interest to historians, and the case of Antwerp is well-known in this respect. As Lodovico Guicciardini commented in the sixteenth...

Conversion, Politics and Religion in England: 1580-1625.
October 1, 1997... The recent historiography of the later English Reformation has been dominated by a preoccupation with determining the pace of religious change and the popularity of Protestant practices and beliefs. Michael Questier's Conversion, politics and...

Teresa of Avila and the Politics of Sanctity.
October 1, 1997... This book is a distinguished addition to the batch of Teresian scholarship which has recently emerged from the United States. It is no exaggeration to say that the work of Alison Weber, Jodi Bilinkoff and Caroline Slade has contributed more to...

The Making of the French Episcopate: 1589-1661.
October 1, 1997... Joseph Bergin's earlier study of Cardinal de la Rochefoucauld and his two books on Cardinal Richelieu all grew out of a larger interest in the French Church in the first half of the seventeenth century. Here at last is the larger study these...

Protestants, Property, Puritans: Godly People Revisited, a Festschrift in Honour of Patrick Collinson on the Occasion of His Retirement.
October 1, 1997... Patrick Collinson is acquiring a set of Festschriften worthy of his kaleidoscopic career. These essays come with an affectionate memoir of his time in Australia (complete with portrait of the dedicatee in a shirt undoubtedly made from medieval...

Good News from France: French Anti-League Propaganda in Late Elizabethan England.
October 1, 1997... This book seeks to describe the transmission of absolutist and proto-absolutist ideas from France into late Elizabethan England, sowing seeds which later germinated in debates about royal power during the first half of the seventeenth century....

A Freeborn People: Politics and the Nation in Seventeenth-Century England.
October 1, 1997... This book is a revised version of the author's 1992 Ford Lectures, and its six chapters retain something of the format and flavour of the original lectures. Underdown's central theme is the intersection and interaction of elite and popular...

English Catholic Books: 1641-1700, a Bibliography.
October 1, 1997... As a religious minority, English Catholics have been well served by bibliographers. Early attempts by John Kirk and Joseph Gillow to compile comprehensive bibliographies have been superseded in the past decade by three linked bibliographies...

Anti-Semitic Stereotypes: A Paradigm of Otherness in English Popular Culture, 1660-1830.
October 1, 1997... This is a book that covers familiar ground but uses a new method. The book examines 'pamphlets, books, prints, folklore and proverbial expressions' from the Restoration period (including material from the late Renaissance) until the Romantic...

Catholicism in Britain and France Since 1789.
October 1, 1997... Catholicism in Britain and France is an interesting and useful collection of conference papers, which 'focuses on selected and cognate aspects of Catholicism' in two countries with admittedly very different religious histories. However, as...

Two Cardinals: John Henry Newman, Desire Joseph Mercier.
October 1, 1997... Catholicism in Britain and France is an interesting and useful collection of conference papers, which 'focuses on selected and cognate aspects of Catholicism' in two countries with admittedly very different religious histories. However, as...

A Speaking Life: John Keble and the Anglican Tradition of Ministry and Art.
October 1, 1997... This volume consists of a series of lectures given at Nashotah House, Wisconsin, in 1992 when the seminary was celebrating the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its founding, which coincided with the two hundredth anniversary of the birth...

The Church in Africa: 1450-1950.
October 1, 1997... The Church in Africa complements Adrian Hastings's earlier History of African Christianity 1950-1975, and is a comprehensive and illuminating account of the complex and dynamic history of the Church in Africa, taking seriously the African...

Bemba-Speaking Women of Zambia in a Century of Religious Change: 1892-1992.
October 1, 1997... The Church in Africa complements Adrian Hastings's earlier History of African Christianity 1950-1975, and is a comprehensive and illuminating account of the complex and dynamic history of the Church in Africa, taking seriously the African...

We Felt Like Grasshoppers: The Story of Africa Inland Mission.
October 1, 1997... The Church in Africa complements Adrian Hastings's earlier History of African Christianity 1950-1975, and is a comprehensive and illuminating account of the complex and dynamic history of the Church in Africa, taking seriously the African...

The Oblate Assault on Canada's Northwest.
October 1, 1997... These three books, a monograph, a collection and an edited journal, indicate the state of religious history in Canada and suggest future directions for research. In The Oblate assault on Canada's northwest, Robert Choquette surveys the efforts...

The Diary of James Horne Morrison: 1894-1895, a Scots Missionary in Canada.
October 1, 1997... These three books, a monograph, a collection and an edited journal, indicate the state of religious history in Canada and suggest future directions for research. In The Oblate assault on Canada's northwest, Robert Choquette surveys the efforts...

Changing Roles of Women Within the Christian Church in Canada.
October 1, 1997... These three books, a monograph, a collection and an edited journal, indicate the state of religious history in Canada and suggest future directions for research. In The Oblate assault on Canada's northwest, Robert Choquette surveys the efforts...

Piety and Poverty: Working-Class Religion in Berlin, London and New York, 1870-1914.
October 1, 1997... Hugh McLeod's comparative approach to the study of the history of working-class attitudes to religion in three western capitals at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century is both new and fruitful: he is able to...

Protestant Nonconformists and the West Midlands of England: Papers Presented at the First Conference of the Association of Denominational Historical Societies and Cognate Libraries.
October 1, 1997... Despite its promise, this volume, like the title of the society whose proceedings it reports does not have a clear focus. It claims to represent the breadth of Protestant Nonconformity in the West Midlands but fails adequately to locate the...