Journal of Ecclesiastical History

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Ecclesiastical 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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The Simony Crisis of the Eleventh Century and the ‘Letter of Guido’3
Conflicts and Continuity in the Eleventh-Century Religious Reform: The Traditions of San Miniato al Monte in Florence and the Origins of the Benedictine Vallombrosan Order3
Women and the Reformation in Tudor Ireland2
Hobbes's Eschatology and Scriptural Interpretation in Leviathan2
Constructions of Christian Identity in the Northern Periphery: the Sawley World Map in Twelfth-Century England1
Herbert Hensley Henson, J. N. Figgis and the Archbishops’ Committee on Church and State, 1913–1916: Two Competing Visions of the Church of England1
The theology of Heinrich Bullinger. By William Peter Stephens. Edited by Jim West and Joe Mock. (Reformed Historical Theology, 59.) Pp. 484. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019. €140. 978 3 521
Exploring the Rebirth of a Chronicle: Why Robert the Monk's Historia Iherosolimitana Gained New Life in the Fifteenth Century1
The African Methodist Episcopal Church. A history. By Dennis C. Dickerson. Pp. xii + 602 incl. 22 ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £89. 978 0 521 19152 41
Miscellaneous Mastery: Reading Clement of Alexandria1
A companion to twelfth-century schools. Edited by Cédric Giraud. (Companions to the Christian Tradition, 88.) Pp. x + 332 incl. 3 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €199. 978 90 04 32326 1; 1871 63771
The Last Embers of British Fundamentalism1
The archive of a Ugandan missionary. Writings by and about Revd Apolo Kivebulaya (1890s–1950s). Edited and translated by Emma Wild-Wood and George Mpanga. (Sources of African History, 20.) Pp. xl + 251
The passion of Anne Hutchinson. An extraordinary woman, the Puritan patriarchs, and the world they made and lost. By Marilyn J. Westerkamp. Pp. x + 312. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.0
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William of Alnwick. Questions on science and theology. Edited by Francesco Fiorentino (trans. John Scott). (Archa Verbi, 18.) Pp. viii + 784. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2020. €78. 978 3 02 10240 40
Age of the spirit. Charismatic renewal, the Anglo-world, and global Christianity, 1945–1980. By John Maiden. Pp. xviii + 261 incl. 15 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £83. 978 0 10
Faith in black power. Religion, race, and resistance in Cairo, Illinois. By Kerry Pimblott. Pp. x + 323 incl. 12 figs and 1 table. Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 2019. $30 (pa0
Natural light in medieval churches. By Valadimir Ivanovici and Alice Isabella Sullivan. (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450.) Pp. xiv + 365 incl. 108 colour and black-and-whi0
Herakles inside and outside the Church. From the first apologists to the end of the Quattrocento. Edited by Arlene Allan, Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides and Emma Stafford. (Metaforms, 18.) Pp. xx + 360 incl0
The revival of Evangelicalism. Mission and piety in the Victorian Church of Scotland. By Andrew Michael Jones. (Scottish Religious Cultures Historical Perspectives.) Pp. x + 226. Edinburgh: Edinburgh 0
The Mandaean book of John. Critical edition, translation, and commentary. Edited by Charles G. Häberl and James F. McGrath Pp. viii + 467. Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. €189.95. 978 3 11 048651 30
A companion to the early modern cardinal. Edited by Mary Hollingsworth, Miles Pattenden and Arnold Witte. (Companions to the Christian Tradition, 91.) Pp. xviii + 705 incl. 43 colour and black-and-whi0
The shape of Christian history. Continuity and diversity in the global Church. By Scott W. Sunquist. Pp. xiv + 178. Downers Grove, Il: InterVarsity Press, 2022. $22 (paper). 978 1 5140 02220
The rise of Christian theology and the end of ancient metaphysics. Patristic philosophy from the Cappadocian Fathers to John of Damascus. By Johannes Zachhuber. Pp. xii + 357. Oxford–New York: Oxford 0
Heilig-Land-Pilgerinnen des lateinischen Westens im 4. Jahrhundert. Eine prosopographische Studie zu ihren Biographien, Itinerarien und Motiven. By Eva-Maria Gärtner. (Jerusalemer Theologisches Forum,0
The Evangelical quadrilateral, I: Characterizing the British gospel movement; II: The denominational mosaic of the British gospel movement. By David W. Bebbington. Pp. x + 382; x + 358. 0
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Women intellectuals and leaders in the Middle Ages. Edited by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis and John Van Engen. Pp. xvi + 420 incl. 17 ills. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020. £60. 978 1 840
The memory of Ignatius of Antioch. By Frazer MacDiarmid. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe, 581.) Pp. xii + 271. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022. €94 (paper). 978 3 16 1614990
The Oxford handbook of Latin American Christianity. Edited by David Thomas Orique op, Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens and Virginia Garrard. Pp. xvi + 609 incl. 9 ills and 2 tables. Oxford–New Yor0
Baptists and the Holy Spirit. The contested history with holiness-pentecostal-charismatic movements. By C. Douglas Weaver. Pp. xvi + 573. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2019. £69.95. 970
Calvin and the early Reformation. Edited by Brian C. Brewer and David M. Whitford. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions.) Pp. xiv + 231. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €99. 978 90 04 35994 9; 0
The Christian invention of time. Temporality and the literature of late antiquity. By Simon Goldhill. (Greek Culture in the Roman World.) Pp. xvi + 500. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press,0
Scottish Presbyterian worship. Proposals for organic change, 1843 to the present day. By Bryan D. Spinks. Pp. xx + 299 incl. frontispiece and 21 ills. Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press, 2020. £25. 978 1 80
The wayfarer's end. Bonaventure and Aquinas on divine rewards in Scripture and sacred doctrine. By Shawn M. Colberg. Pp. xii + 313. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2020. $75. 9780
America's religious crossroads. Faith and community in the emerging Midwest. By Stephen T. Kissel. Pp. xviii + 243 incl. 12 ills and 2 maps. Chicago–Urbana, Il: University of Illinois Press0
James Moore Hickson's 1923 Western Australian Mission: Media Reception of a Globe-Trotting Anglican Healer0
The theology and ecclesiology of the Prayer Book crisis, 1906–1928. By Dan D. Cruickshank. (Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World.) Pp. x + 127. London–New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. €62.39.0
Neville Figgis, CR. His life, thought and significance. Edited by Paul Avis. (Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History, 7.) Pp. xviii + 260. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2022. €55 (paper). 978 90 04 50311 3; 0
Unorganized religion. Pentecostalism and secularization in Denmark, 1907–1924. By Nikolaj Christensen. (Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, 42.) Pp. xiv + 262 incl. 4 figs and 2 tables. Leiden0
A spirit of revitalization. Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya. By Kyama M. Mugambi. (Studies in World Christianity.) Pp. xviii + 330 incl. 2 ills and 2 maps. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 0
Songs of the Lisu hills. Practicing Christianity in southwest China. By Aminta Arrington (foreword Brian Stanley). (World Christianity.) Pp. xx + 232 incl. 11 figs, 4 maps and 2 tables. University Par0
Le Bienheureux Herluin. Fondateur et premier abbé du Bec. Vita Herluini de Gilbert Crespin. Traduction et études. Edited by Raphaël Flaujac, Jean-Hervé Foulon and Véronique Gazeau. Pp. 177 incl. 14 fi0
Calvin's ecclesiology. A study in the history of doctrine. By Tadataka Maruyama (foreword Richard A. Muller). Pp. xx + 473. Grand Rapids, Mi: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2022.0
Evesham Abbey and local society in the late Middle Ages. The abbot's household account, 1456–7 and the priors’ registers, 1520–40. Edited by David Cox. (Worcestershire Historical Society New Series, 30
Reformation, revolution, renovation. The roots and reception of the Rosicrucian call for general reform. By Lyke de Vries. (Universal Reform, 3.) Pp. xii + 432 incl. 13 colour and black-and-white figs0
Religion Subdued: The Political Figure of Christ in the Work of Giovanni Battista Comazzi (1654–1711)0
Tyconius’ book of rules. An ancient invitation to ecclesial hermeneutics. By Matthew R. Lynskey. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 167.) Pp. xviii + 456. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €138. 90
Christian Humanitarianism, Violence and the Debate over Empire0
Hans de Ries. A study in second generation Dutch Anabaptism. By Cornelius J. Dyck (intro. Mary S. Sprunger). (Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies, n.s. 2.) Pp. xxvi + 344 incl. 1 ill. Kitchener, On<0
World Christianity and indigenous experience. A global history, 1500–2000. By David Lindenfeld. Pp. x + 415 incl. 9 ills and 2 tables. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £29.99 (pap0
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European Approaches of the Bulgarian Church: the Case of the Lambeth Conference in London, 19300
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Henry VIII and Martin Luther. The second controversy, 1525–1527. Edited by Richard Rex. Pp. xvi + 306. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2021. £70. 978 1 78327 581 60
The Shepherd of Hermas and the Pauline legacy. By Jonathan E. Soyars. (Novum Testamentum, Supplements, 176.) Pp. xiv + 286. Leiden: Brill, 2019. €114. 978-90-04-40254-60
Turning Judas into a Crusader: Local Reform and Crusade Propaganda in Thirteenth-Century Cambrai0
ECH volume 74 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Northern European reformations. Transnational perspectives. Edited by James E. Kelly, Henning Laugerud and Salvador Ryan. Pp. xviii + 420 incl. 13 colour and black-and-white figs. Cham: Palgrave Macmi0
Marriage litigation in the Western Church, 1215–1517. By Wolfgang P. Müller. Pp. viii + 270 incl. 3 figs, 3 tables and 1 map. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £75. 978 1 108 845420
Heretical Orthodoxy. Lev Tolstoi and the Russian Orthodox Church. By Pål Kolstø. (Ideas in Context.) Pp. x + 306. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. £75. 978 1 009 26040 40
Christian, Jewish, and Muslim preaching in the Mediterranean and Europe. Identities and interfaith encounters. Edited by Linda G. Jones and Adrienne Dupont-Harny. (Sermo: Studies on Patristic, Medieva0
Convent autobiography. Early modern English nuns in exile. By Victoria Van Hyning. (A British Academy Monograph.) Pp. xxviii + 388 incl. 3 figs, 2 tables and 17 colour and black-and-white plates. Oxfo0
They knew they were pilgrims. Plymouth colony and the contest for American liberty. By John G. Turner. Pp. xii + 447 incl. 25 ills and 3 maps. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2020. £22.50. 970
Art and death in The Netherlands, 1400–1800. Edited by Bart Ramakers and Edward H. Wouk. (Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, 2022, 72.) Pp. 368 incl. 191 colour and black-and-white ills. 0
The Eusebius Essay Prize The World Christianities Essay Prize0
Archbishop William Sancroft. A cross-grained life. By John Tiller. Pp. vi + 154 incl. frontispiece and 20 colour plates. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2019. £19 (paper). 978 1 907730 77 10
A life of Alexander Campbell. By Douglas A. Foster. (Library of Religious Biography.) Pp. xviii + 349 incl. frontispiece, 59 ills and 3 maps. Grand Rapids, Mi: Wm B. Eerdmans, 2020. $29.99 0
The English Church in the thirteenth century. Collected papers of C. H. Lawrence. Edited by Caroline M. Barron and Claire Gobbi Daunton. Pp. viii + 332. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2020. £24 (paper). 978 10
Lucretia Mott speaks. The essential speeches and sermons. Edited by Christopher Densmore, Carol Faulkner, Nancy Hewitt and Beverly Wilson Palmer. (Women, Gender and Sexuality in American History.) Pp.0
Illness, pain, and health care in early Christianity. By Helen Rhee. Pp. xvi + 351. Grand Rapids, Mi: William B. Eerdmans, 2022. $49.99. 978 0 8028 7684 30
Catholic missionaries in early modern Asia. Patterns of localization. Edited by Nadine Amsler, Andreea Badea, Bernard Heyberger and Christina Windler. (Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World.) P0
Dress in Mediterranean antiquity. Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians. Edited by Alicia J. Batten and Kelly Olson. Pp. xxii + 401 incl. 83 colour and black-and-white ills. New York–London: T&T Clark,0
Hippolytus of Rome's commentary on Daniel. By T. C. Schmidt. (Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics, 79.) Pp. x + 207. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2022. $37. 978 1 4632 4436 1; 1935 68700
Martin Luther und die Wittenberger Konkordie (1536). By Henning Reinhardt. (Beiträge zur historischen Theologie, 201.) Pp. xiv + 553. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021. €120. 978 3 16 159226 30
Facing west. American Evangelicals in an age of world Christianity. By David R. Swartz. Pp. viii + 322 incl. frontispiece and 27 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £22.99. 978 0 19 0
Exploring the Rebirth of a Chronicle: Why Robert the Monk's Historia Iherosolimitana Gained New Life in the Fifteenth Century - ADDENDUM0
Subversive habits. Black Catholic nuns in the long African American freedom struggle. By Shannen Dee Williams. Pp. xxiv + 394 incl. 39 ills. Durham, NC–London: Duke University Press, 2022. £25.99 (pap0
ECH volume 72 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
ECH volume 72 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Why did Henry Dunster Reject Infant Baptism? Circumcision and the Covenant of Grace in the Seventeenth-Century Transatlantic Reformed Community0
Jerome's commentaries on the Pauline epistles and the architecture of exegetical authority. By Andrew Cain. (Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xii + 290 incl. 2 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University 0
The Huguenots in later Stuart Britain, III: The Huguenots and the defeat of Louis XIV's France. By Robin Gwynn. (The Huguenots in Later Stuart Britain.) Pp. xxvi + 449 incl. 9 figs and 1 map. L0
Russia's path toward enlightenment. Faith, politics, and reason, 1500–1801. By G. M. Hamburg. Pp. xi + 900. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2016. $125. 978 0 300 11313 60
How the secularization of religious houses transformed the libraries of Europe, 16th–19th centuries. Edited by Christina Dondi, Dorit Raines and Richard Sharpe. (Bibliologia, 63.) Pp. 719 incl. colour0
I vescovi della Dalmazia al Concilio di Hieria del 754. Appunti sulla geografia storica dell'Adriatico meridionale bizantino nell'VIII secolo. By Ivan Basić. (Consociatio Croatica studiorum Byzantinor0
Prognostication in the medieval world. A handbook. 2 vols. Edited by Matthias Heiduk, Klaus Herbers and Hans-Christian Lehner. Pp. xiv + 710, xii + 711–1027 incl. 57 colour and black-and-white ills. B0
The Conversos and Moriscos in late medieval Spain and beyond, IV: Resistance and reform. Edited by Kevin Ingram. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 225; Converso and Morisco Studi0
Messianic high Christology. New Testament variants of Second Temple Judaism. By Ruben A. Bühner, Pp. x + 234 incl. 2 tables. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2021. $49.99. 978 1 4813 15400
Shrine and Idol Destruction in Three Carolingian Hagiographic Texts0
Narratives and representations of suffering, failure, and martyrdom. Early modern Catholicism confronting the adversities of history. Edited by Leonardo Cohen. (Estudos de Historia Religiosa, 28.) Pp.0
Jersey, Guernsey and English Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction under Henry VII0
Reformation, resistance, and reason of state (1517–1625). By Sarah Mortimer. (History of Political Thought.) Pp. x + 301 incl. 4 maps. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £35. 978 0 19 9670
Liberale theologie heute; liberal theology today. Edited by Jörg Lauster, Ulrich Schmiedel and Peter Schüz (Dogmatik in der Moderne, 27.) Pp. viii + 403 incl. 11 ills. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. €10
Revisioning John Chrysostom. New approaches, new perspectives. Edited by Chris L. De Wet and Wendy Mayer. (Critical Approaches to Early Christianity, 1.) Pp. xxviii + 840 incl. 2 figs. Leiden–Boston: 0
The second-century apologists. By Alvyn Pettersen. (Cascade Companions.) Pp. xx + 177. Eugene, Or: Cascade Books, 2020. $25. 978 1 7252 6535 60
A New Standard Reference Work on Bibles in China0
Confessionalism and mobility in early modern Ireland. By Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin. Pp. xii + 373. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £90. 978 0 19 887091 30
Between secularization and reform. Religion in the Enlightenment. Edited by Anna Tomaszewska. (Studies in Intellectual History, 340.) Pp. x + 362. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2022. €115. 978 90 04 45871 0; 0
Italian reformation and religious dissent of the sixteenth century. A bibliography (1998–2020). By Marco Albertoni (intro. Vincenzo Lavenia). (Forme e percorsi della storia, 9.) Pp. 559. Alessandria: 0
Medieval writings on sex between men. Peter Damian's The book of Gomorrah and Alain de Lille's The plaint of nature. By David Rollo (intro. and trans.). (Explorations in Medieval Culture, 19.) Pp. x +0
Print culture and the crossroads. The book and Central Europe. Edited by Elizabeth Dillenburg, Howard Louthan and Drew B. Thomas. (Library of the Written Word, 94; The Handpress World, 75.) Pp. xiv + 0
The Eusebius Essay Prize The World Christianities Essay Prize0
Moral majorities across the Americas. Brazil, the United States, and the creation of the religious right. By Benjamin A. Cowan. Pp. x + 294 incl. 5 ills. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina 0
Mulatto – outlaw – pilgrim – priest. The legal case of José Soller, accused of impersonating a pastor and other crimes in seventeenth-century Spain. By John K. Moore Jr. (The Medieval and Early Modern0
Books, Scribes, and Cultures of Reading in the Shepherd of Hermas0
The Oxford handbook of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Edited by Michael Mawson and Philip G. Ziegler. Pp. xiv + 499. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £110. 978 0 19 875317 9 - The Oxford handbook0
Christianity and human rights reconsidered. Edited by Sarah Shortall and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins. (Human Rights in History.) Pp. xiv + 281 incl. 1 fig. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press,0
Die Kirchen der Union. Geschichte – Theologie – Perspektiven. Edited by Johannes Ehmann. Pp. 276 incl. 2 ills and 2 tables. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2019. €35 (paper). 978 3 374 06009 20
The National Covenant and the Solemn League and Covenant, 1660–1696. By James Walters. (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History.) Pp. viii + 213 incl. 2 ills. Woodbridge–Rochest0
Early Christians adapting to the Roman Empire. Mutual recognition. By Niko Huttunen. (Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 179.) Pp. x + 282. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €104. 978 90 04 42615 3; 00
Music and theology in the European Reformations. Edited by David J. Burn, Grantley McDonald, Joseph Verheyden and Peter De Mey. (Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance. Collection Épitome music0
Religion, colonization and decolonization in Congo, 1885–1960. Religion, colonisation et décolonisation au Congo, 1885–1960. Edited by Vincent Viaene, Bram Cleys and Jan de Maeyer. Pp. 355 incl. 21 il0
The restoration of the Church of England. Canterbury diocese and the archbishop's peculiars. Edited by Tom Reid. (Church of England Record Society, 27.) Pp. lxxiv + 186 incl. 4 figs. Woodbridge–Roches0
Scottish liturgical traditions and religious politics. From reformers to Jacobites, 1540–1764. Edited by Allan I. Macinnes, Patricia Barton and Kieran German. (Scottish Religious Cultures Historical P0
Into the dark night and back. The mystical writings of Jean-Joseph Surin. Edited by Moshe Sluhovsky (trans. Patricia M. Ranum). (Jesuit Studies, 19.) Pp. viii + 548. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €175. 0
Nicodemites. Faith and concealment between Italy and Tudor England. By M. Anne Overell. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xiv + 280. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €125. 978 90 04 33166 2;0
Constantino de la Fuente (San Clemente, 1502–Seville, 1560). From acclaimed cathedral preacher to condemned ‘Lutheran’ heretic. By Frances Luttikhuizen. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 88.) Pp. 292. Göttin0
The devotion and promotion of stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800–1950. Between saints and celebrities. By Tine Van Osselaer (in collaboration with Andrea Graus, Leonardo Rossi and Kristof Smeyers). 0
Theological Counsel in the Early Quaker Movement0
The Curious Case of the Misplaced Eulogy: the Printing History of Matthew Parker's Sermon for Martin Bucer's Funeral0
Religion and the American Revolution. An imperial history. By Katherine Carté. Pp. xxii + 394 incl. 20 ills. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press/Omohundro Institute of Early American H0
Basileia bei Origenes. Historisch-semantische Analysen im Matthäuskommentar. By Angelica Dinger. (Beiträge zur historischen Theologie, 194.) Pp. x + 339. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. €94. 978 3 16 150
Edwin Sandys and the reform of English religion. By Sarah L. Bastow. (Research in Early Modern History.) Pp. x + 214. London–New York: Routledge, 2020. £120. 978 0 367 35315 50
Ite missa est. Ritual interactions around mass in Chinese society (1583–1720). By Hongfan Yang. (Studies in the History of Christianity in East Asia, 7.) Pp. xii + 325 incl. 10 colour and black-and-wh0
ECH volume 74 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Manchester cathedral. A history of the collegiate church and cathedral, 1421 to the present. Edited by Jeremy Gregory. Pp. xxii + 472 incl. 101 colour and black-and-white ills. Manchester: Manchester 0
Moderate radical. Tobie Matthew and the English Reformation. By Rosamund Oates. Pp. xiv + 259 incl. 6 figs and 2 maps. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. £60. 978 0 19 880480 20
Deification through the cross. An eastern Christian theology of salvation. By Khaled Anatolios. Pp. xxii + 463. Grand Rapids, Mi: William B. Eerdmans, 2020. $50. 978 0 8028 7798 70
The Founder's Book. A medieval history of Tewkesbury Abbey. A facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Top. Glouc. d. 2. Edited by Julian Luxford with Adrian Ailes and Susan Powell. Pp. viii + 216 inc0
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Byzantium and Islam. Collected studies on Byzantine–Muslim encounters. By Daniel J. Sahas. Pp. xviii + 531. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2022. €149. 978 90 04 47044 60
Between scholarship and church politics. The lives of John Prideaux, 1578–1650. By John Maddicott. Pp. xxii + 430 incl. frontispiece and 7 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 0
Repräsentation und Reenactment. Spätmittelalterliche Frömmigkeit verstehen. By Volker Leppin. Pp. x + 272 incl. 24 ills. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021. €24 (paper). 978 3 16 160077 70
Franz Hildebrandt on the BBC: Wartime Broadcasting to Nazi Germany0
A holy baptism of fire and blood. The Bible and the American Civil War. By James P. Byrd. Pp. x + 376. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £26.99. 978 0 19 090279 70
Libri e biblioteche. Le letture dei frati mendicanti tra rinascimento ed età moderna. Atti del XLVI Convegno internazionale. Assisi, 18–20 ottobre 2018. (Società Internazionale di Studi Francescanti.)0
Eastern Christianity and late antique philosophy. Edited by Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides and Ken Parry. (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, 18.) Pp. xvi + 342 incl. 2 figs and 1 table. Leiden–Bost0
Die Leipziger Disputation von 1519. Ein theologisches Streitgespräch und seine Bedeutung für die Frühe Reformation. Edited by Markus Hein and Armin Kohnle. (Herbergen der Christenheit, 25.) Pp. 272 in0
Refusing to kiss the slipper. Opposition to Calvinism in the Francophone Reformation. By Michael W. Bruening. (Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. xvi + 361 incl. 2 figs and 2 maps. Oxford–New York: 0
Demons in late antiquity. Their perception and transformation in different literary genres. Edited by Eva Elm and Nicole Hartmann. (Transformationen der Antike, 54.) Pp. vi + 176 incl. 5 colour figs. 0
Jean Mabillon and the Debate on the Regular Origins of Secular Canonesses in Seventeenth-Century France0
Ecumenism and independency in World Christianity. Historical studies in honour of Brian Stanley. Edited by Alexander Chow and Emma Wild-Wood. (Theology and Mission in World Christianity, 15.) Pp. xvi 0
Nuns as ‘Sponsae Christi’: The Legal Status of the Medieval Oblates of Tor de’ Specchi0
Dr Williams's Trust and Library. A history. By Alan Argent. Pp. xx + 335 incl. frontispiece, 14 figs and 2 maps. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2022. £75. 978 1 78327 702 50
Beyond a Confessional Paradigm? Richard Simon and the Vernacular Bible0
Reformation reputations. The power of the individual in English Reformation history. Edited by David J. Crankshaw and George W. C. Gross. Pp. xxviii + 474 incl. 18 colour and black-and-white figs. Cha0
How to Finance a Counter-Reformation Saint: the Alms for the Canonisation of Isidore Agricola and Ferdinand III, 1592–16880
Origen. On first principles. A reader's edition. Translated by John Behr. (Based on the edition of ‘Origen: on first principles’ in the Oxford Early Christian Texts Series.) Pp. lxxxviii + 357. Oxford0
Catholic nuns and sisters in a secular age. Britain, 1945–90. By Carmen M. Mangion. (Gender in History.) Pp. xiv + 327 incl. 15 figs and 3 tables. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. £80. 90
Music-making in the Hertfordshire parish, 1760–1870. By Maggie Kilbey. Pp. xii + 292 incl. 37 figs and 9 tables. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2020. £16.99 (paper). 978 1 912260 26 30
The madman and the churchrobber. Law and conflict in early modern England. By Jason Peacey. Pp. xxii + 307 incl. 13 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. £40.90. 978 0 19 289713 80
The bishop's burden. Reforming the Catholic Church in early modern Italy. By Celeste McNamara. Pp. xviii + 297 incl. 1 map. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2020. £76.95. 978 0 810
Narsai. Rethinking his work and his world. Edited by Aaron M. Butts, Kristian S. Heal and Robert A. Kitchen. (Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity, 121.) Pp. xvi + 291. Tübingen: Mohr Siebe0
Privilege and prophecy. Social activism in the post-war Episcopal Church. By Robert Tobin. Pp. xiv + 372. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. £22.99. 978 0 19 090614 60
Franz Graf von Galen, 1879–1961. Ein »Miles Christianus« im Spannungsfeld zwischen Katholizismus, Adel und Nation. By Josephine Von Weyhe. Pp. x + 429 incl. 7 ills. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2020. 0
The Merits of ‘Moral Ecumenism’: Secularism, Suspicion and Jewish-Christian Relations in Twentieth-Century Britain0
ECH volume 73 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Religion and the post-revolutionary mind. Ideologues, Catholic traditionalists, and liberals in France. By Arthur McCalla. (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas, 88.) Pp. xii + 449. Montreal0
Sacred architecture and art of four Byzantine capitals. Constantinople, Thessaloniki, Mystras, Mount Athos. By Nicholas N. Patricios. Pp. xv + 409 incl. 476 colour and black-and-white ills. Columbia, 0
Mark Twain. Preacher, prophet, and social philosopher. By Gary Scott Smith. (Spiritual Lives.) Pp. xvi + 251. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £30. 978 0 19 289492 20
The shepherd of Hermas. A literary, historical, and theological handbook. By Jonathan Lookadoo. Pp. xii + 295 incl. 1 table. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2021. £85. 978 0 5676 9791 20
First Tonsures in England in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century0
The rise and fall of Christian Ireland. By Crawford Gribben. Pp. xxiv + 318 incl. 15 ills and 4 maps. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £25. 978 0 19 886818 70
The Lancashire and Cheshire Presbyterian Campaigns of 1646 and the Politics of Accommodation0
Healing and power in Ghana. Early indigenous expressions of Christianity. By Paul Glen Grant. (Studies in World Christianity.) Pp. xiv + 327 incl. 5 ills, 2 tables and 10 maps. Waco, Tx: Ba0
Season of conspiracy. Calvin, the French Reformed Churches, and Protestant plotting in the reign of Francis II (1559–60). By Philip Benedict. Pp. xii + 224 incl. 2 ills. Philadelphia: American Philoso0
Jacques Fournier and the Poverty Controversy: New Evidence from a Neglected Gospel Commentary0
The archangel Michael in Africa. History, cult and persona. Edited by Invild Sælid Gilhus, Alexandros Tsakos and Marta Camilla Wright. Pp. xvi + 246 incl. 26 ills and 5 maps. London–New York: Bloomsbu0
God in Gotham. The miracle of religion in modern Manhattan. By Jon Butler. Pp. x + 308 incl. 38 ills. Cambridge, Ma: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. £23.95. 978 0 674 04568 20
Magic in Malta. Sellem Din al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman inquisition, 1605. Edited by Alexander Mallett, Catherine Rider and Dionisius A. Agius. (Islamic History and Civilization, Studies and Texts, 0
Simul. Inquiries into Luther's experience of the Christian life. Edited by Robert Kolb, Torbjörn Johansson and Daniel Johansson. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 80.) Pp. 270 incl. 4 ills. Göttingen: Vanden0
The power of Scripture. Political biblicism in the early Stuart monarchy between representation and subversion. By Andreas Pečar (trans. Jozef van der Voort and Jennifer Walcoff Neuheiser). (Studies i0
Exploration, religion and empire in the sixteenth-century Ibero-Atlantic World. A new perspective on the history of modern science. By Mauricio Nieto Olarte. Trans. Jimmy Weiskopf. (Maritime Humanitie0
Reframing the Lives of Gelasius II, Calixtus II and Honorius II in the Context of the 1130 Schism0
Catholic social activism. Progressive movements in the United States. By Sharon Erickson Nepstad. Pp. xii + 207. New York: New York University Press, 2019. £24.99 (paper). 978 1 4798 7922 90
Pope Paul III and the cultural politics of reform, 1534–1549. By Bryan Cussen. (Renaissance History, Art and Culture.) Pp. 207. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. €89. 978 94 6372 252 0 - Be0
Manichaeism and early Christianity. Selected papers from the 2019 Pretoria congress and consultation. Edited by Johannes Van Oort. (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 99.) Pp. xii + 446. Boston–Leide0
The wandering holy man. The life of Barsauma, Christian asceticism, and religious conflict in late antique Palestine. Edited by Johannes Hahn and Volker Menze. (Transformation of the Classical Heritag0
Catholic Clergy of Italian Nationality in the British Middle East, 1939–19440
Father Luis Olivares. A biography. Faith, politics and the origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles. By Mario T. García, Pp. xi + 547 incl. frontispiece and 25 ills. Chapel Hill, NC: Universit0
The visitation of Hereford diocese in 1397. Edited by Ian Forrest and Christopher Whittick. Pp. xliv + 271. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press/Canterbury and York Society, 2021. £35. 978 0 9072390
Schriftauslegung und Bildgebrauch bei Isidor von Pelusium. By Stefan Berkmüller. (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 143.) Pp. x + 291. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2020. €99.95. 978 3 11 068593 0; 0
Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500–1620. By Christine Kooi. Pp. xiv + 220 incl. 12 ills and 4 maps. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. £29.99 (paper). 978 1 –9 07395 00
Play time. Gender, anti-semitism and temporality in medieval biblical drama. By Daisy Black. (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture.) Pp. xii + 234 incl. 5 figs. Manchester: Manchester University0
The Oxford handbook of Reformed theology. Edited by Michael Allen and Scott R. Swain. Pp. xii + 663 incl. 1 table. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £110. 978 0 19 872391 20
Chicago Católico. Making Catholic parishes Mexican. By Deborah E. Kanter. (Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest.) Pp. xiv + 218 incl. 20 figs and 2 tables. Urbana–Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 0
The Roman mass. From early Christian origins to Tridentine reform. By Uwe Michael Lang. Pp. xii + 445 incl. 12 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. £89.99. 978 1 108 83245 80
The fabric accounts of St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, 1292–1396. Edited by Tim Ayers (trans. Maureen Jurkowski). 2 vols. Pp. x + 999; ix + 1000–523 incl. 2 frontispieces, 7 figs, 15 tables and 4 pl0
Pastoral Rules: Pomerius, Gregory the Great and the Making of Patristic Tradition0
Hensley Henson and the Appointment of Bishops: State, Church and Nation in England, 1917–1920 and Beyond0
Religious conflict in Brazil. Protestants, Catholics, and the rise of religious pluralism in the early twentieth century. By Erika Helgen. Pp. x + 316. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2020. £0
A history of Christian conversion. By David W. Kling. Pp. xvi + 836 incl. 14 maps. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £97. 978 0 19 532092 30
Dionysius Bar Ṣalībī's Treatise against the Jews. Edited and translated with notes and commentary. Edited by Rifaat Y. Ebied, Malatius M. Malki and Lionel R Wickham. (Texts and Studies in Easte0
‘The letter killeth’. Redeeming time in Augustine's understanding of the authority of Scripture. By Lal Dingluaia. (Studia Traditionis Theologiae. Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology.) Pp. 2170
Enemies of the cross. Suffering, truth, and mysticism in the early Reformation. By Vincent Evener. Pp. xii + 420. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £64. 978 0 19 007318 30
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China and the true Jesus. Charisma and organization in a Chinese Christian Church. By Melisa Wei-Tsing Inouye. Pp. xx + 385 incl. 24 ills and 1 map. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £250
Public confessions. The religious conversions that changed American politics. By Rebecca L. Davis. Pp. viii + 248 incl. 11 ills. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. $30. 978 1 40
Hell in the Byzantine world. A history of art and religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean, I: Essays; II: A catalogue of the Cretan material. By Angeliki Lymberopoulou a0
A companion to medieval miracle collections. Edited by Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Jenni Kuuliala and Iona McCleery. (Reading Medieval Sources, 5.) Pp. x + 378. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €228. 978 90 040
Clerical Professionalisation and Catholic Enlightenment in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth0
The spiritual jurisdiction in Reformation Scotland. A legal history. By Thomas M. Green. Pp. x + 214. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021 (first publ. 2019). £19.99 (paper). 978 1 4744 8429 90
Children and family in late antique Egyptian monasticism. By Caroline T. Schroeder. Pp. xiv + 255 incl. 10 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £75. 978 1 107 15687 60
Reformation of the commonwealth. Thomas Becon and the politics of evangelical change in Tudor England. By Brian L. Hanson. (Reformed Historical Theology, 58.) Pp. 250 incl. 15 tables. Göttingen: Vande0
Catholic spectacle and Rome's Jews. Early modern conversion and resistance. By Emily Michelson. Pp. xvi + 333 incl. 11 ills. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022. £30. 978 0 691 21133 60
Piety and privilege. Catholic secondary schooling in Ireland and the theocratic state, 1922–1967. Edited by Tom O'Donaghue and Judith Harford. Pp. x + 233. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 200
The emergence of pastoral authority in the French Reformed Church (c.1555–c.1572). By Gianmarco Braghi. (Bologna Studies in Religious History, 1.) Pp. xii + 324. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 200
From Roman to early Christian Cyprus. Edited by Laura Nasrallah, Annemarie Luijendikjk and Charalombos Bakirtzis. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 437.) Pp. xii + 327 incl. 58 co0
Obispos (medievales) de Badajoz. By William S. Kurtz. (Colección Estudio, 57.) Pp. 245. Mérida: Editora Regional de Extremadura, 2019. €12 (paper). 978 84 9852 592 20
Global Protestant missions. Politics, reform, and communication, 1730s–1930s. Edited by Jenna M. Gibbs. (Studies in World Christianity and Interreligious Relations.) Pp. xii + 262 incl. 6 figs and 2 t0
ECH volume 74 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Antonio degli Albizzi and Lutheran Propaganda in Early Seventeenth-Century Italy0
History, Scripture and authority in the Carolingian empire. Frechulf of Lisieux. By Graeme Ward. Pp. xvi + 255. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press (for The British Academy), 2022. £70. 978 0 19 0
The Church of England and her Presbyterian Curates, 1662–16720
Queen, mother, and stateswoman. Mariana of Austria and the government of Spain. By Silvia Z. Mitchell. Pp. xvi + 293 incl. 10 ills and 1 chart. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State Unive0
Christianity in the twentieth century. A world history. By Brian Stanley. (History of Christianity.) Pp. xxii + 479 incl. 3 maps. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. £27. 978 0 691 1570
English convents in Catholic Europe, c.1600–1800. By James E. Kelly. Pp. viii + 225 incl. 1 map and 3 tables. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £75. 978 1 108 47996 70
Demonic possession and lived religion in later medieval Europe. By Sari Katajala-Peltomaa. (Studies in Medieval European History.) Pp. x + 211. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £60. 9780
Women, preachers, Methodists. Papers from two conferences held in 2019, the 350th anniversary of Susanna Wesley's birth. Edited by John Lenton, Clive Murray Norris and Linda A. Ryan. Pp. xviii + 390 i0
St Theodore the Studite's defence of the icons. Theology and philosophy in ninth-century Byzantium. By Torstein Theodor Tollefsen. (Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xiv + 193 incl. 2 tables. Oxford–New Y0
Franziskus von Assisi. Geschichte und Erinnerung. By André Vauchez. (First publ. as François d'Assise. Entre histoire et mémoire, Paris: Fayard, 2009.) Pp. 453 incl. 2 maps. Münster: Aschendorf0
The T&T Clark history of monasticism. The eastern tradition. By John Binns. Pp. xii + 253 incl. 19 figs and 2 maps. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2020. £85. 978 1 7883 1761 00
Heathen, religion and race in American history. By Kathryn Gin Lum. Pp. xii + 349 incl. 27 ills. London–Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 2022. £28.95. 978 0 674 97677 10
Gathering souls. Jesuit missions and missionaries in Oceania (1668–1945). By Alexandre Coello de la Rosa. (Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies.) Pp. vi + 115 incl. 15 colour and black-and-wh0
Naples, China and the Cosmos: The Theology of an Eighteenth-Century Chinese Priest0
Roger II of Sicily. Family, faith, and empire in the medieval Mediterranean world. By Dawn Marie Hayes. (Medieval Identities: Socio-cultural Spaces, 7.) Pp. 221 incl. 18 figs, 4 tables and 2 maps. Tur0
The rise of the early Christian intellectual. Edited by Lewis Ayres and H. Clifton Ward. (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte.) Pp. xiv + 272. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2020. £79. 978 3 11 06T0755 0
Christianity in the Propaganda of ZANU and ZAPU, 1965–19800
Educating the Catholic people. Religious orders and their schools in early modern Italy (1500–1800). By David Salomoni. (History of Early Modern Educational Thought, 3.) Pp. x + 220 incl. 7 maps. Leid0
Communicating religion and atheism in central and eastern Europe. Edited by Jenny Vorpahl and Dirk Schuster. (Religion and Its Others, 9.) Pp. vi + 312 incl. 3 colour ills and 3 tables. Berlin–Boston:0
A companion to Isidore of Seville. Edited by Andrew Fear and Jamie Wood. (Companions to the Christian Tradition, 87.) Pp. xii + 675 incl. 1 colour ill. and 6 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €299. 0
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Gregory of Nazianzus’ soteriological pneumatology. By Oliver B. Langworthy. (Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity, 117.) Pp. xiv + 189. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. €69 (paper). 978 3 16 10
The Jews and the Reformation. By Kenneth Austin. Pp. xxvi + 295 incl. 14 black-and-white plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2020. £30. 978 0 300 18629 10
Confession and Confessors in the Templars’ Testimonies, 1307–1311: Notes on the Brothers’ Defence Strategy0
A companion to the patriarchate of Constantinople. Edited by Christian Gastgeber, Ekaterini Mitsiou, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller and Vratislav Zervan. (Companions to the Byzantine World, 9.) Pp. xii + 30
Recovering the Augustinian Convent of San Salvatore in Venetian Candia0
Les Forces de la modération. Ligne politique ou accommodements raisonnés dans les crises politico-religieuses européennes (XVIe–XIXe siecle). Edited by Olivier Andurand and Albane Pialoux. (Pour une h0
Travelling Festivals in Late Antiquity: How Christmas Came to the Greek East0
The streets as a cloister. History of the Daughters of Charity. 17th and 18th centuries. By Matthieu Brejon de Lavergnée. Pp. 665 incl. 13 colour ills, 21 graphs and 14 maps. Hyde Park, NY: New City P0
Historians and the Church of England. Religion and historical scholarship, 1870–1920. By James Kirby. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) Pp. xi + 257. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £60.0
After Arminius. A historical introduction to Arminian theology. By Thomas H. McCall and Keith D. Stanglin. Pp. x + 281. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £22.99 (paper). 978 0 19 087420 0
Urban developments in late antique and medieval Rome. Revising the narrative of renewal. Edited by Gregor Kalas and Ann van Dijk. (Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.) Pp. 341 i0
Sign Theory: Some Scholastic Encounters with ‘The Fifteen Signs before the Day of Judgement’0
W. F. P. Burton (1886–1971). A Pentecostal pioneer's missional vision for Congo. By David Emmett. (Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, 39.) Pp. xxiv + 330 incl. 28 colour and black-and-white i0
Charlemagne and Rome. Alcuin and the epitaph of Pope Hadrian I. By Joanna Story. (Medieval History and Archaeology.) Pp. xxiv + 403 incl. frontispiece and 91 colour and black-and-white ills. Oxford–Ne0
Mapping medieval identities in Occitanian crusade song. By Rachel May Golden. Pp. xviii + 284 incl. 8 figs, 9 musical examples and 1 table. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £35. 978 0 10
Church in the wild. Evangelicals in Antebellum America. By Brett Malcolm Grainger. Pp. viii + 271 incl. 6 figs. Cambridge, Ma–London: Harvard University Press, 2019. £32.95. 978 0 674 919370
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