Church History

Papers
(The TQCC of Church History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Writing the Jews out of History: Pseudo-Hegesippus, Classical Historiography, and the Codification of Christian Anti-Judaism in Late Antiquity3
The First Catholic Diocese in Asia and the Spread of Catholicism: Juan de Albuquerque, Bishop of Goa, 1538–15533
Reformed Monasticism and the Narrative of Cistercian Beginnings1
A Tale of Two Missions: Illinois Choices and Conversions at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century1
A Malawi Church History 1860–2020. By Kenneth R. Ross and Klaus Fieldler. Mzuzu: Mzuni Press, 2020. 493 pp. $68.95 paper.1
Hearing Faith: Music as Theology in the Spanish Empire. By Andrew A. Cashner. Studies in Reformation Studies 1. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xvi + 244 pp. $128.00 cloth; $128.00 e-book.1
Upper West Side Catholics: Liberal Catholicism in a Conservative Archdiocese. By Thomas J. Shelley. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. x + 150 pp. $29.95 hardcover.1
Medieval Saints and Their Miraculous Songs: Ritual Singing, Funerary Piety, and the Construction of Female Sanctity in Thirteenth-Century Liège1
Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon. By William L. Davis. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. viii + 250 pp. $90.00 hardcover; $29.95 pape1
Anger, Prayer, and the Transformation of Desire: Augustine's Catechumenate as an Emotion-Shaping Institution1
A “Syncretism of Piety”: Imagining Global Protestantism in Early Eighteenth-Century Boston, Tranquebar, and Halle1
Old Canaan in a New World: Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel. By Elizabeth Fenton. New York: New York University Press, 2020. 272 pp. $35.00 hardcover.1
The Slow Fall of Babel: Languages and Identities in Late Antique Christianity. By Yuliya Minets. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xvi + 418 pp. $120.00 cloth; $36.99 paper.0
The Culture of Dissent in Restoration England: “The Wonders of the Lord.” By George Southcombe. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2019. xii + 197 pp. $90.00 cloth.0
Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America. By Carl R. Weinberg. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 356 pp. $26.95 paper.0
Poetry, Bible and Theology from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Edited by Michele Cutino. Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies 86. Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2020. xii + 568 pp. $149.99 hardcove0
Religion in the Public Square: Sheen, King, Falwell. By James M. Patterson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 236 pp. $49.95 cloth.0
Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe By Caroline Walker Bynum. New York: Zone Books, 2020. 344 pp. $32.95 hardcover.0
Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond: Redefining the Universe through Natural Philosophy, Religious Reformations, and Sea Voyaging. By Lindsay J. Starkey. Environmental Humanities in P0
Muslim-Christian Relations in Damascus amid the 1860 Riot. By Rana Abu-Mounes. Leiden: Brill, 2022. xii + 256 pp., incl. 5 color and black-and-white figures. $125.00 hardcover.0
Transatlantic Religion: Europe, America, and the Making of Modern Christianity. Edited by Annette G. Aubert and Zachary Purvis. Brill's Series in Church History and Religious Culture. Boston: Brill, 20
The King's Converts: Jewish Conversion in Medieval London. By Lauren Fogle. Lanham, Md.: Lexington, 2019. xvi + 233 pp. $95.00 hardcover.0
The Theology and Ecclesiology of the Prayer Book Crisis, 1906–1928. By Dan D. Cruickshank. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. viii + 127 pp. $74.99 hardcover.0
Copts in Modernity: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium of Coptic Studies, Melbourne, 13–16 July 2018. Edited by Lisa Agaiby, Mark N. Swanson, and Nelly van Doorn-Harder. Texts a0
Dissent After Disruption: Church and State in Scotland, 1843–63, By Ryan Mallon. Scottish Religious Cultures. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2021. ix + 306 pp. £85 (paperback, 2023, £24.99).0
Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy. By James Morton. Oxford Studies in Byzantium. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. pp. I–XXIV + 312.0
Abraham Lincoln and the Bible: A Complete Compendium. By Gordon Leidner. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2023. 245 pp. $27.95 paper.0
Monks and the Hierarchical Church in Egypt and the Levant during Late Antiquity. By Ewa Wipszycka, with a chapter on Persian Christians in Late Antiquity by Adam Izdebski. Translated by Damian Jasińsk0
Lutheran Theology and the Shaping of Society: The Danish Monarchy as Example. Edited by Bo Kristian Holm and Nina J. Koefoed. Refor500 Academic Studies 33. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018.0
The Garb of Being: Embodiment and the Pursuit of Holiness in Late Ancient Christianity. Edited by Georgia Frank, Susan R. Holman, and Andrew S. Jacobs. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. xi + 30
Beyond the Wall: Franciscan Friary in Early Modern Olomouc. By Martin Elbel. Translated from the Czech by Eva Černínová with revisions by Eli Woock. Rome: Viella, 2019. 188 pp. 35 fig. $49.00 hardcove0
“Written for Our Discipline and Use”: The Construction of Christian and Jewish Identities in Late Ancient Bible Interpretation. Edited by Agnethe Siquans. Studien zur antiken Schriftauslegung / Studie0
Early Thirteenth-Century English Franciscan Thought. Edited by Lydia Schumacher. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021 [Veröffentlichungen des Grabmann-Institutes zur Erforschung der Mittelalterlichen Theologie un0
The Good Shepherd: Image, Meaning, and Power. By Jennifer Awes Freeman. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2021. xvii + 187 pp. $44.99 hardcover.0
From High Priest to Patriarch: History and Authority in the Ecclesiastical History of Bar ‘Ebroyo. By Marianna Mazzola. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalum 688, Subsidia 141. Leuven: Pee0
Singer of the Word of God: Ephrem the Syrian and his Significance in Late Antiquity. By Sebastian P. Brock. Sebastianyotho 1. Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias, 2020. x + 380 pp. $179.00 cloth.0
The Life and Theology of Alexander Knox: Anglicanism in the Age of Enlightenment and Romanticism. By David McCready. Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History 6. Leiden: Brill, 2020. vi + 324 pp. $69.000
After the Revival: Pentecostals and the Making of a Canadian Church. By Michael Wilkinson and Linda M. Ambrose. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. x + 248 pp. Can$120.00 cloth; Can$37.950
Christian Persecution in Antiquity. By Wolfram Kinzig. Translated by Markus Bockmuehl. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2021. viii + 173 pp. $34.99 hardcover.0
The Cambridge Companion to American Protestantism. Edited by Jason E. Vickers and Jennifer Woodruff Tait. Cambridge; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xii + 523 pp. $39.99 paper.0
Julian and Christianity: Revisiting the Constantinian Revolution. By David Neal Greenwood. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2021. xii + 177 pp. $55.00 cloth.0
Gustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination. By Sarah G. Schaefer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 376 pp. $125.00 hardcover.0
Against the Hounds of Hell: A Life of Howard Thurman. By Peter Eisenstadt. University of Virginia Press, 2021. xv + 544 pp. $34.95 cloth; $34.95 e-book.0
The Symbolism of Marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages: Images, Impact, Cognition. Edited by Line Cecilie Engh. Knowledge Communities. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. 30
Hearing the Scriptures: Liturgical Exegesis of the Old Testament in Byzantine Orthodox Hymnography. By Eugen J. Pentiuc. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xx + 450 pp. $37.99 paperback.0
American Catholicism Transformed: From the Cold War Through the Council. By Joseph P. Chinnici. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xvi + 461 pp. $45.00 hardcover.0
Protestant Liberty: Religion and the Making of Canadian Liberalism, 1828–1878. By James M. Forbes. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion 94. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 20220
Richard Hooker: The Architecture of Participation. By Paul Anthony Dominiak. T. and T. Clark Studies in English Theology. London: T. and T. Clark, 2020. viii + 226 pp. $103.50 cloth; $82.80 e-book.0
Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy: The Civil Wars of John R. Kelso. By Christopher Grasso. Oxford University Press, 2021. viii+ 529 pp. Hardcover $34.95.0
Origen's Philosophy of Freedom in Early Modern Times: Debates about Free Will and Apokatastasis in 17th-Century England and Europe. Edited by Alfons Fürst. Adamantiana 13. Münster: Aschendorff, 2019. 0
The Identities of Catherine de’ Medic. By Susan Broomhall. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 228. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2021. xiv + 394 pp. €157.00/$189.00 hardback.0
Figures of Presence and Absence: An Introduction to the French Dispute about Sacred Images and the Role of Art in the Life of the Church in the Early Modern Period. By Piotr Krasny. Translated by Joan0
Village Infernos and Witches’ Advocates: Witch-Hunting in Navarre, 1608–1614. By Lu Ann Homza. Iberian Encounter and Exchange 475–1755 5. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 20220
Religious Horror and Holy War in Viking Age Francia. By Matthew Bryan Gillis. Renovatio – Studies in the Carolingian World, 1. Budapest: Trivent, 2021. 158 pp. €79.00 hardcover; €37.00 paperbac0
Piers Plowman: The A Version. Translated by Michael Calabrese. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2020. xlvii + 160 pp. $34.95 paperback.0
City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism. By Abram C. Van Engen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. ix + 379 pp. $30.00 hardcover.0
Schützende Heilige des lateinischen Westens (370–600 n. Chr.). By Jan Seehusen. Beiträge zur Hagiographie 24. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. 351 pp. 62.00 € paper.0
To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations. By Lauren Frances Turek. The United States in the World. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press0
Female Monasticism in Revolutionary Times: The Nizhnii Novgorod Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross, 1917–19350
Mother of Modern Evangelicalism: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Mears. By Arlin C. Migliazzo. Library of Religious Biography. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2020. xviii + 338 pp. $29.95 paper0
Defining Christ: The Church of the East and Nascent Islam. By Marijke Metselaar. Late Antique History and Religion 19. Leuven: Peeters, 2019. xii + 464 pp. $132.00 hardcover.0
Jesus Among the Gods: Early Christology in the Greco-Roman World. By Michael F. Bird. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2022. xi + 480 pp. $59.99 cloth.0
American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War. By D. G. Hart. Religion and American Public Life. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020. ix + 261 pp. $29.95 hardcover.0
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Herbert Grundmann (1902–1970): Essays on Heresy, Inquisition, and Literacy. Translated by Steven Rowan. Edited by Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane. Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages 9. Suffolk: York M0
Women of Faith and Religious Identity in Fin-de-Siècle France. By Emily Machen. Religion and Politics Series. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2019. xi + 224 pp. $55.00 cloth; $24.95 paper.0
Fulfilling Prophecies on China's Ethnic Frontiers in Southeast Asia: Peripheral Peoples’ Encounter with Christianity in the Twentieth Century0
Colonizing Russia's Promised Land: Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe. By Aileen Friesen. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. xiii + 224 pp. $65.00 cloth.0
A Rebel Saint: Baptist Wriothesley Noel, 1798–1873. By Philip D. Hill. Cambridge, UK: James Clarke & Co., 2022. 252 pp. $38.00 paperback.0
Unexplained Revolutions: The Origins and Ends of Latin American Catholic Upheaval0
Jews and Syriac Christians: Intersections across the First Millennium. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, vol. 180. Edited by Aaron Michael Butts and Simcha Gross. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. xii0
Privilege and Prophecy: Social Activism in the Post-War Episcopal Church. By Robert Tobin. London: Oxford University Press, 2022. xiv + 372 pp. $35.00 cloth.0
An Early Christian Reaction to Islam: Isu'yahb III and the Muslim Arabs. By Iskandar Beheiry. Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 57. Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias, 2019. xiii + 191 pp. $80.67 cloth.0
Augustine's Political Thought. Edited by Richard Dougherty. Rochester Studies in Medieval Political Thought. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2019. vi + 281 pp. $125.00 hardcover.0
Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe. By Per Pippin Aspass and László Kontler. Jesuit Studies 27. Leiden: Brill, 2020. x + 477 pp. $186.00 hardcover; open a0
“The Lord does not wish the death of a sinner”: Investigating Selected Ordinary Glosses to Pope Gregory IX's Decretales (1234) on Heretics0
Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850–1914. By Nathan G. Alexander. New York: New York University Press, 2019. ix + 290 pp. $39.00.0
Das theologische Profil des Julian von Toledo: Das Leben und Wirken eines westgotischen Bischofs des siebten Jahrhunderts. By Stefan Pabst. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 165. Leiden-Boston: Bril0
When the Canaanite Conquest Met the Enlightenment: How Christian Apologists of the English Enlightenment Harmonized the Biblical Canaanite Conquest with the Moral Values of the Eighteenth Century0
The Thirty Pieces of Silver: Coin Relics in Medieval and Modern Europe. By Lucia Travaini. Religion and Money in the Middle Ages. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2022. xxi + 286 pp, 76 b/w ills. $170.00 clot0
Defending and Defining the Faith: An Introduction to Early Christian Apologetic Literature. By D. H. Williams. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xvii + 465 pp. $74.00 hardcover.0
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Saving the Nation: Chinese Protestant Elites and the Quest to Build a New China, 1922–1952. By Thomas H. Reilly. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xvi + 242 pp. $99 cloth.0
Heathen: Religion and Race in American History. By Kathryn Gin Lum. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 368 pp. $35.00 hardcover.0
Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier. By Benjamin E. Park. New York: Liveright, 2020. 324 pp. $28.95 cloth.0
Angels and Anchoritic Culture in Late Medieval England. By Joshua S. Easterling. Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021. xiii + 228 pp. $84.00 har0
Northern European Reformations: Transnational Perspectives. Edited by James E. Kelly, Henning Laugerud, and Salvador Ryan. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020. xvii + 420 pp. £99.99 hardcover; £94.99 e-boo0
Religion and Memory: The Importance of Monuments in Preserving Historical Identity. By Jutta Kirsch. Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv 32. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. 272 pp. $69.00 paper.0
The Song of Songs: A Biography. By Ilana Pardes. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019. 296 pp. $24.95 hardcover.0
Embodying the Soul: Medicine and Religion in Carolingian Europe. By Meg Leja. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. viii + 378 pp. $89.95 cloth.0
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New York City and the Production of Sacred Space0
Christian Monastic Life in Early Islam. By Bradly Bowman. Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. pp. 248, ill B/N. $105.00 hardcover.0
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet. By Lyndal Roper. New York: Random, 2018. xxiii + 592 pp. $20.00 paper.0
The World of the Crusades: An Illustrated History. By Christopher Tyerman. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019. 520 pp. $35.00 hardcover.0
Puritans Behaving Badly: Gender, Punishment, and Religion in Early America. By Monica D. Fitzgerald. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiv + 177 pp. $49.99 cloth.0
Damnation and Salvation in Old Norse Literature. By Haki Antonsson. Studies in Old Norse Literature 3. Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2018. xiv + 259 pp. $99.00 hardcover.0
The Uncomfortable Pew: Christianity and the New Left in Toronto. By Bruce Douville. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. 300 pp. Can$37.95 paper.0
Good for the Souls: A History of Confession in the Russian Empire. By Nadieszda Kizenko. Oxford Studies in Modern European History. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021. xiv + 327 pp. $100 cloth.0
First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Edited by Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven . Baptists in Early North America 7, ed. William H. Brackney. Macon, GA: Mercer University Pres0
Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle. By Shannen Dee Williams. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2022. xxiii + 394 pp. $114.95 cloth; $30.95 pap0
Revisioning John Chrysostom: New Approaches, New Perspectives. Edited by Chris L. De Wet and Wendy Mayer. Critical Approaches to Early Christianity 1. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xxviii + 840 pp. $299.00 e-b0
Writing History in the Community of St Cuthbert, c. 700–1130: From Bede to Symeon of Durham. By Charles C. Rozier. Writing History in the Middle Ages 7. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer for the York Med0
Preaching the Gospel to the Hellenes: The Life and Works of Gregory the Wonderworker. By Francesco Celia. Late Antique History and Religion 20. Leuven: Peeters, 2019. ix + 378 pp. $132.00 hardcover.0
The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism. Edited by Bernice M. Kaczynski and Thomas Sullivan OSB. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xix + 722 pp. $125 cloth.0
Church and People in Interregnum Britain. Edited by Fiona McCall. RHS New Historical Perspectives. London: University of London Press, 2021. xvi + 290 pp. $55.00 cloth, $35.00 paper.0
The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas. By Jennifer Scheper Hughes. New York: New York University Press, 2021. xviii + 245 pp. $35.00 cloth.0
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Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America. By Darren Dochuk. New York: Basic Books, 2019. 688 pp. $35.00 hardcover.0
Formations of Belief: Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular. Edited by Philip Nord, Katja Guenther, and Max Weiss. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2019. vii + 328 pp. $45.00 c0
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. By Eugene McCarraher. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. xii + 819 pp. $39.95 cloth.0
When Bishops Meet: An Essay Comparing Trent, Vatican I, and Vatican II. By John W. O'Malley. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. 223 pp. $24.95 hardcover.0
Found Christianities: Rethinking the World of the Second Century CE. By M. David Litwa. London: T&T Clark, 2022. xvi + 319 pp. $31.45 paper; $90.00 hardback.0
Christians, the State, and War: An Ancient Tradition for the Modern World. By Gordon L. Heath. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2022. x + 261 pp. $110 cloth; $35 eBook.0
What Makes a Church Sacred? Legal and Ritual Perspectives from Late Antiquity. By Mary K. Farag. Transformation of the Classical Heritage 63. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. xv + 323 pp0
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The Course of God's Providence: Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America. By Philippa Koch. North American Religions. New York: New York University Press, 2021. xiv + 265 pp. $39.00 hardcover.0
Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire. By Jeremy Best. German and European Studies 38. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. xiv + 322 pp. $CDN 750
The Church of England and the Coronation Rite, 1761–18380
Defending the Faith: Global Histories of Apologetics and Politics in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Todd Weir and Hugh McLeod. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 336 pp. $110.00 hardcover.0
Dennis L. Durst, The Perils of Human Exceptionalism: Elements of a Nineteenth-Century Theological Anthropology (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022). 253pp. $105.0
A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood: The Bible and the American Civil War. By James P. Byrd. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. ix + 392 pp. $34.95 cloth.0
Inquisition, Conversion, and Foreigners in Baroque Rome. By Irene Fosi. Translated by Giuseppe Bruno-Chomin. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020. vi + 260 pp. €125.00/$151.00 hardcover.0
Mormon Studies: A Critical History. By Ronald Helfrich Jr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022. x + 229 pp. $39.95 paper.0
The Power of Religious Societies in Shaping Early Modern Society and Identities. By Rose-Marie Peake. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 245 pp. €99.00 cloth.0
December 2022 Books Received0
The Evangelical Quadrilateral. By David Bebbington. 2 volumes. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2021. x + 382 pp.; x + 358 pp. $54.99 hardcover, $44.99 paperback.0
Clement of Alexandria and the Shaping of Christian Literary Practice: Miscellany and the Transformation of Greco-Roman Writing. By J. M. F. Heath. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. viii + 40
A Dangerous Parting: The Beheading of John the Baptist in Early Christian Memory. By Nathan L. Shedd. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2021. x + 218 pp. $49.99 cloth.0
Hard-Fighting Soldiers: A History of African American Churches of Christ. By Edward J. Robinson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2019. xxvii + 224 pp. $54.00 cloth.0
The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome. By Nicola Denzey Lewis. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xvii + 426 pp. $44.99 hardcover.0
The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left: Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond. By L. Benjamin Rolsky. Columbia Series on Religion and Politics. New York: Columbia Universi0
The Economic Reform of Female Monasticism in the Papal States of Clement VIII: Ideas, Actions, and Impacts0
The Christian Moses: Vision, Authority, and the Limits of Humanity in the New Testament and Early Christianity. By Jared C. Calaway. Studies in Christianity and Judaism 2. Montreal: McGill-Queen's Uni0
The Bible in the Early Church. By Justo L. González. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2022. x + 194 pp. $19.99 paper.0
Charles Hodge: American Reformed Orthodox Theologian. Ed. Ryan M. McGraw. Reformed Historical Theology. Ed. Herman J. Selderhuis. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2023. Hardcover. 339 pp. $161.00
Liturgical Poetry in Christian Nubia: The Evidence of Wall Inscriptions in the Lower Church at Banganarti. By Agata Deptuła. Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplements 38. Leuven: Peeters, 2020. xii +0
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe. By Judith Herrin. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. xxxvii + 537 pp. $29.95 hardcover.0
Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers. By Charles McCrary. New Studies in Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 296 pp. $95.00 cloth; $30.00 paper.0
Lichfield and the Lands of St Chad: Creating Community in Early Medieval Mercia. By Andrew Sargent. Studies in Regional and Local History 19. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire, 2020. xii + 290 pp.0
Planting the Cross: Catholic Reform and Renewal in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France. By Barbara B. Diefendorf. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. x + 215 pp. $74.00 cloth.0
A Multitude of All Peoples: Engaging Ancient Christianity's Global Identity. By Vince F. Bantu. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2020. 256 pp. $35.00 paper.0
Religious Connectivity in Urban Communities (1400–1550): Reading, Worshipping, and Connecting through the Continuum of Sacred and Secular. Edited by Suzan Folkerts. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2021. 20
The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past. By Paul J. Gutacker. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. x + 247 pp. $29.95 paper.0
The Miraculous and the Writing of Crusade Narrative. By Beth C. Spacey. Crusading in Context. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2020. xvi + 198 pp. $99.00 cloth.0
Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200–1700. Edited by Peter Biller and L. J. Sackville. Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages 10. York, UK: York Medieval Press, 2022. xi + 346 pp. $105.00 cloth.0
The Grace of the Italian Renaissance. By Ita Mac Carthy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. xvi + 272 pp. $35.00 cloth.0
Reformation of the Senses: The Paradox of Religious Belief and Practice in Germany. By Jacob M. Baum. Studies in Sensory History 9. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019. xii + 296 pp. $110.00 cl0
Good Government and Church Order: Essays on the Role of Secular Authority in the German Reformation. By James M. Estes. Essays and Studies 53. Toronto: CRRS Publications, 2022. 326 pp. $49.95 CAD pape0
Fifteenth-Century Lives: Writing Sainthood in England. By Karen A. Winstead. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. x + 197 pp. $100.00 cloth; $45.00 paper; $35.99 e-book.0
Roots of Reform: Contextual Interpretation of Church Fittings in Norfolk during the English Reformation. By Jason Robert Ladick. Oxford, UK: Archaeopress Publishing, 2021. iv + 173 pp. £35.00 paper; £0
Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State. By Anna Grzymała-Busse. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. xxi + 235 pp. $29.95 paperback.0
Oliver Hart & the Rise of Baptist America. By Eric C. Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xi + 337 pp. $99.00 cloth.0
A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy: The Life of Clare of Rimini. Edited by Jacques Dalarun, Sean L. Field, and Valerio Cappozzo. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 192 pp. $99.95 ha0
Fictions of Certitude: Science, Faith, and the Search for Meaning, 1840–1920. By John S. Haller Jr. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2020. 320 pp. $54.95 cloth.0
Lost in Translation? Constructing Ancient Roman Martyrs in Baroque Bavaria0
Mass Exodus: Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain and America since Vatican II. By Stephen Bullivant. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xiii + 309 pp. $32.95 cloth.0
History and Spiritual Formation: Baron Friedrich von Hügel's Spiritual Nurture0
Catholicism Decentralized: Local Religion in the Early Modern Periphery0
Nicolaus Mameranus: Poetry and Politics at the Court of Mary Tudor. By Matthew Tibble. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 220. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2000. Xii + 389pp. €157 cloth.0
St. Stephen's College, Westminster: A Royal Chapel and English Kingship, 1348–1548. By Elizabeth Biggs. Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 50. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2020. xi + 248 pp0
God and Progress: Religion & History in British Intellectual Culture, 1845-1914. By Joshua Bennett. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xii + 311 pp. $100 hardcover.0
Crime and Forgiveness: Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe. By Adriano Prosperi. Translated by Jeremy Carden. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. xvi + 621 pp. $0
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Reforms of Christian Life in Sixteenth-Century Italy. By Querciolo Mazzonis. Translated by Laurence Steinman. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. viii + 272 pp. $44.95 paper; $160 hardback; $44.95 e0
Storied Places: Pilgrim Shrines, Nature, and History in Early Modern France. By Virginia Reinburg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xiii + 459 pp. $99.99 hardcover.0
The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy. By J. Russell Hawkins. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 222 pp. $29.95 hardback.0
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