Journal of Ecclesiastical History

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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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 i3
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. £2
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-whi2
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 21
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 21
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 1614991
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 11
Antonio degli Albizzi and Lutheran Propaganda in Early Seventeenth-Century Italy1
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 1
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, 31
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Benedict XV. A pope in the world of the ‘useless slaughter’ (1914–1918). Edited by Giovanni Cavognini and Giulia Grossi and directed by Alberto Melloni. 2 vols. Pp. 852 + 853–1707. Turnhout: Brepols, 0
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One nation under Graham. Apocalyptic rhetoric and American exceptionalism. By Jonathan D. Redding. Pp. x + 182 incl. 2 figs. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2021. $34.99. 978 1 4813 15190
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
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
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
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
L'Occident au regret de Jérusalem (1187–fin du XIVe siècle). By Matthieu Rajohnson. (Histoire Culturelle sous la direction de Martin Aurell, 15.) Pp. 968 incl. 7 ills. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021.0
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
Religion, art and money. Episcopalians and American culture from the Civil War to the Great Depression. By Peter W. Williams. Pp. xvi + 277 incl. 22 ills. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina0
The limits of a Catholic spirit. John Wesley, Methodism, and Catholicism. By Kelly Diehl Yates (foreword Howard A. Snyder). Pp. xiv + 249. Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2023. £22.50 (paper). 978 0 7180
Le Bolle di Celestino V. Edited by Ugo Paoli and Paola Poli. (Corpus Coelestinianum, 2.) Pp. xii + 444 incl. 8 colour ills. Florence: Sismel, 2023. €85. 97888 9290 232 90
Turning Judas into a Crusader: Local Reform and Crusade Propaganda in Thirteenth-Century Cambrai0
John Locke's Christianity. By Diego Lucci. Pp. viii + 244. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £75. 978 1 108 83691 30
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
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
Exploring the Rebirth of a Chronicle: Why Robert the Monk's Historia Iherosolimitana Gained New Life in the Fifteenth Century - ADDENDUM0
Patriarchy and ‘Useful Women’ in Wesleyan Methodism, 1810–18510
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
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
Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine of Hippo and the Filioque. By Chungman Lee. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 169.) Pp. xiv + 366. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €127. 978 90 04 46515 2; 0920 623X0
Manuals for penitents in medieval England. From Ancrene Wisse to the Parson's Tale. By Krista A. Murchison. Pp. xiv + 175. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2021. £60. 978 1 84384 608 60
Preaching Predestination and Pastoral Ministry in the Caroline Parish0
The Oxford handbook of Russian religious thought. Edited by Caryl Emerson, George Pattison and Randall A. Poole. Pp. xxviii + 712 incl. 4 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £110. 970
Freedom of speech, 1500–1850. Edited by Robert G. Ingram, Jason Peacey and Alex W. Barber. (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain.) Pp. xii + 263. Manchester: Manchester University Pre0
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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
Survival and resistance in Evangelical America. Christian reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest. By Crawford Gribben. Pp. xiv + 210 incl. 1 map. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £19.90
Biographies of a reformation. Religious change and confessional coexistence in Upper Lusatia, 1520–1635. By Martin Christ. (Studies in German History.) Pp. xiv + 261 incl. 14 ills and 2 maps. Oxford–N0
Rhetoric and Scripture in Augustine's homiletic strategy. Tracing the narrative of Christian maturation. By Michael Glowasky. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 166.) Pp. viii + 195. Leiden–0
The Oxford history of British and Irish Catholicism, I: Endings and new beginnings, 1530–1640. Edited by James E. Kelly and John McCafferty. (History of British and Irish Catholicism.) Pp. xxvi0
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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
How the English Reformation was named. The politics of history, c. 1400–1700. By Benjamin M. Guyer. Pp. xiv + 220 incl. 1 fig and 1 table. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 978 0 0
Magic, science, and religion in early modern Europe. By Mark A. Waddell. (New Approaches in the History of Science and Medicine.) Pp. x + 220 incl. 36 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Pr0
Transatlantic religion. Europe, America and the making of modern Christianity. Edited by Annette G. Aubert and Zachary Purvis. (Church History and Religious Culture, 82.) Pp. xii + 259. Leiden–Boston:0
The inner life of Catholic reform. From the Council of Trent to the Enlightenment. By Ulrich L. Lehner. Pp. xii + 294. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. £22.99. 978 0 19 762060 10
Strange brethren. Refugees, religious bonds, and reformation in Frankfurt, 1554–1608. By Maximilian Miguel Scholz. (Studies in Early Modern German History.) Pp. xvi + 246 incl. 8 ills and 1 map. Charl0
Reading Martin Luther from Legend to Life0
Political thought in the French wars of religion. By Sophie Nicholls. (Ideas in Context.) Pp. xiv + 269. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £75. 978 1 108 84078 10
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
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The Bible told them so. How Southern Evangelicals fought to preserve white supremacy. By J. Russell Hawkins. Pp. xii + 210. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £19.99. 978 0 19 757106 40
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
Grace and freedom. William Perkins and the early modern Reformed understanding of free choice and divine grace. By Richard A. Muller. Pp. xii + 232. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £470
Atheists and atheism before the Enlightenment. The English and Scottish experience. By Michael Hunter. Pp. viii + 223. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. £30. 978 1 00 926877 60
The Lost Breviarium Compertorum and Henry VIII's First Act for the Dissolution of the Monasteries, 15360
Benjamin Franklin. Cultural Protestant. By D. G. Hart. (Spiritual Lives.) Pp. viii + 261 incl. 2 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £30. 978 0 19 878899 70
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
Missionaries in the golden age of Hollywood. Race, gender, and spirituality on the big screen. By Douglas Carl Abrams. (Studies in the History of the Media.) Pp. 246. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. £0
British Protestant missions and the conversion of Europe, 1600–1900. Edited by Simone Maghenzani and Stefano Villani. (Studies in Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism.) Pp. xii + 289 incl. 10
From Nairobi to the world. David B. Barrett and the re-imagining of World Christianity. By Gina A. Zurlo. (Theology and Mission in World Christianity, 26.) Pp. xii + 155 incl. 20 colour and black-and-0
The medieval Luther. Edited by Christine Helmer. (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation, 117.) Pp. xii + 303. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. €99. 978 3 16 158980 5; 1865 28400
Constantinople. Ritual, violence and memory in the making of a Christian imperial capital. By Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos. (Christianity in Late Antiquity, 9. The Official Book Series of the North Am0
Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676) on God, freedom, and contingency. An early modern Reformed voice. By Andreas J. Beck. (Church History and Religious Culture, 84.) Pp. xvi + 616. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020
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
Pietismus Handbuch. Edited by Wolfgang Breul with Thomas Hahn-Bruckart. Pp. xii + 797. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021. €59 (paper). 978 3 16 153952 70
The dissolution of the monasteries. A new history. By James G. Clark. Pp. x + 689 incl. 33 colour plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2021. £25. 978 0 300 11572 70
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
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The trial of Cardinal József Mindszenty from the perspective of seventy years. The fate of church leaders in Central and Eastern Europe. Edited by András Fejérdy and Bernadett Wirthné Diera. (Pontific0
The Fight for Eternity in Paul Tillich's First World War Sermons0
God's Marshall Plan. American Protestants and the struggle for the soul of Europe. By James D. Strasburg. Pp. x + 313 incl. 18 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £64. 978 0 19 751640
On the Vulgate of Thomas Bilney0
Ethnicity and inclusion. Religion, race, and whiteness in constructions of Jewish and Christian identities. By David G. Horrell (foreword Judith Lieu). Pp. xxiv + 424. Grand Rapids, Mi: Wil0
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
Britain and the German Churches, 1945–1950. The role of the Religious Affairs Branch in the British zone. By Peter Howson. (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 43.) Pp. xx + 285 incl. 1 map, 0
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
The AntiChrist. A new biography. By Philip C. Almond. Pp. xvi + 323 incl. 30 colour plates. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £29.99. 978 1 108 47965 30
Les Mobilités monastiques en Orient et en Occident de l'antiquité tardive au moyen âge. (IVe –XVe siècle.) Edited by Olivier Delouis, Maria Mossakowskia-Gaubert and Annick Peters-Custot. (Collection d0
Education, Confessional Conflict, and the Catholic Mission in Scotland, c. 1660–17070
The intellectual world of late antique Christianity. Reshaping classical traditions. Edited by Lewis Ayres, Michael W. Champion and Matthew R. Crawford. Pp. xxii + 912 incl. 8 colour plates. Cambridge0
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
A constitutional culture. New England and the struggle against arbitrary rule in the Restoration empire. By Adrian Chastain Weimer. (Early American Studies.) Pp. xiv + 365 incl. 4 figs. Philadelphia, 0
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
The Cambridge companion to the Council of Nicaea. By Richard Young Kim. Pp. xx + 424 incl. 7 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £28.99 (paper). 978 1 108 44811 60
Byzantium to China. Religion, history and culture on the Silk Roads. Studies in honour of Samuel N. C. Lieu. Edited by Gunner B. Mikkelsen and Ken Parry. (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, 250
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
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
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
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
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
Ceremonies of the Sarum missal. A careful conjecture. By R. J. Urquhart. Pp. xxvi + 302 incl. 8 figs. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2021. £100. 978 0 5676 9426 30
Religious enlightenment in the eighteenth-century Nordic countries. Reasons and orthodoxy. Edited by Johannes Ljungberg and Erik Sidenvall. Pp. xviii + 430 incl. 17 ills and 1 map. Lund: Lund Universi0
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
Gregory of Nyssa as biographer. By Allison L. Gray. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 123.) Pp. xiv + 290. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021. €84 (paper). 978 3 16 157558 70
Augustus Hopkins Strong and the struggle to reconcile Christian theology with modern thought. By John Aloisi. (Sustainable History Monograph Pilot.) Pp. x + 170. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester0
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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
Childhood, youth and religious minorities in early modern Europe. Edited by Tali Berner and Lucy Underwood. (Studies in the History of Childhood.) Pp. xiv + 362 incl. 11 figs and 2 tables. Cham: Palgr0
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
Contesting Catholics. Benedicto Kiwanuka and the birth of postcolonial Uganda. By Jonathan L. Earle and J. J. Carney. (Religion in Transforming Africa.) Pp. xx + 243 incl. 18 ills and 2 maps. Woodbrid0
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
The Anglican eucharist in Australia. The history, theology, and liturgy of the eucharist in the Anglican Church of Australia. By Brian Douglas. (Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History, 8.) Pp. x + 340
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
Evangelicals and the end of Christendom. Religion, Australia, and the crises of the 1960s. By Hugh Chilton. (Studies in Evangelicalism.) Pp. x + 256 incl. 9 ills. London–New York: Routledge, 2020. £360
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
Ethnicity in the ancient world – did it matter? By Erich S. Gruen Pp. xii + 265. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2020. €64.95. 978 3 11 068478 00
Religion Subdued: The Political Figure of Christ in the Work of Giovanni Battista Comazzi (1654–1711)0
The Lateran Church in Rome and the Ark of the Covenant. Housing the holy relics of Jerusalem. With an edition and translation of the Descriptio Lateranensis Ecclesiae (Bav Reg. Lat. 712). By Eivor And0
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
Finding the Female Voice in Anselm's Orationes sive Meditationes: New Manuscript Evidence0
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
Between Compliance and Resistance: Lutherans and the Dutch Reformed Church at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652–18200
Modern and ancient literary criticism of the Gospels. Edited by Robert Matthew Calhoun, David P. Moessner and Tobias Nicklas. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 451.) Pp. xvi + 6190
Dangerous memory in Nagasaki. Prayers, protests and Catholic survivor narratives. By Gwyn McClelland. (Asia's Transformations, 55.) Pp. xxx + 216 incl. 31 figs and 2 maps. London–New York: Routledge, 0
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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
Hong Kong's last English bishop. The life and times of John Gilbert Hindley Baker. By Philip L. Wickeri. Pp. xvi + 196 incl. frontispiece and 30 ills. HK$480. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 200
Ravenna. Capital of empire, crucible of Europe. By Judith Herrin. Pp. xxxviii + 537 incl. 62 colour ills, 1 table and 3 maps. London: Allen Lane, 2020. £30. 978 1 846 14466 00
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The Virgin Mary in Byzantium, c. 400–1000. Hymns, homilies and hagiography. By Mary B. Cunningham. Pp. xii + 275. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. £19.99 (paper). 978 1 009 32725 0
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Between orders and heresy. Rethinking medieval religious movements. Edited by Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane and Anne E. Lester. Pp. xx + 409 incl. 7 ills. Toronto–London: University of Toronto Press, 2022.0
A New Standard Reference Work on Bibles in China0
Friendship as ecclesial binding. A reading of St Augustine's theology of friendship from his In Iohannis Evangelium Tractatus. By Phillip J. Brown. (Studia Traditionis Theologiae; Explorations in Earl0
Costly communion. Ecumenical initiative and sacramental strife in the Anglican communion. Edited by Mark D. Chapman and Jeremy Bonner. (Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History, 4.) Pp. x + 323. Leiden0
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Slavery and sacred texts. The Bible, the constitution, and historical consciousness in antebellum America. By Jordan T. Watkins. (Historical Studies in American Law and Society.) Pp. xxii + 376. Cambr0
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Irenaeus, the Scriptures, and the apostolic writings. Reevaluating the status of the New Testament writings at the end of the second century. By Kenneth Laing. (Library of New Testament Studies, 659.)0
The cross, the Gospels, and the work of art in the Carolingian age. By Beatrice E. Kitzinger. Pp. xx + 304 incl. 149 colour ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. £57.99. 978 1 100
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
The martyrdom of the Franciscans. Islam, the papacy, and an order in conflict. By Christopher MacEvitt. Pp. x + 289. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. £54. 978 08 120
Reading and shaping medieval cartularies. Multi-scribe manuscripts and their patterns of growth. A study of the earliest cartularies of Glasgow Cathedral and Lindores Abbey. By Joanna Tucker. (Studies0
Bishops, Canon Law and Governance in Tenth-Century England: the Constitutiones of Oda of Canterbury0
Two Jubilees of Warsaw Lutherans, 1881 and 19310
Romantic prayer. Reinventing the poetics of devotion, 1773–1832. By Christopher Stokes. Pp. x + 245. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £75. 978 0 19 885780 80
Popular memory and gender in medieval England. Men, women, and testimony in the Church courts, c.1200–1500. By Bronach C. Kane. (Gender in the Middle Ages.) Pp. viii + 304. Woodbridge–Rochester0
De Hemptinne, the Benedictines and Catholic Assimilation on the Congolese Copperbelt, 1911–19600
Miaphysites in Iraq during the Last Great War of Antiquity (c. 604–28) and its Aftermath0
National, local, family. History from Somerset's bishops' registers, 1264–1559. Somerset Record Society: extra series 2. Edited by Robert Dunning. (Somerset Record Society.) Pp. ix + 153. Bristol: 4wo0
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
The emperor and the elephant. Christians and Muslims in the age of Charlemagne. By Sam Ottewill-Soulsby. Pp. xx + 364 incl. 4 ills and 5 maps. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2023. £35. 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
A saint of our own. How the quest for a holy hero helped Catholics become American. By Kathleen Sprows Cummings. Pp. xii + 320 incl. 10 figs. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.0
Childbirth and Emerging Missionary Information Networks in Britain and the South Pacific0
Prefaces to canon law books in Latin Christianity. Selected translations, 500–1317. Second edition. Edited by Robert Somerville and Bruce C. Brasington. (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law0
Politics, religion and ideas in seventeenth and eighteenth century Britain. Essays in honour of Mark Goldie. Edited by Justin Champion, John Coffey, Tim Harris and John Marshall. (Studies in Early Mod0
Empire and emancipation. Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic fringe, 1780–1850. By Karly S. Kehoe. (Studies in Atlantic Canada History.) Pp. xiv + 289 incl. 16 figs. Toronto–London: Universit0
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
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
The anaphoral tradition in the ‘Barcelona Papyrus’. By Nathan P. Chase. (Studia Traditionis Theologiae.) Pp. 384 incl. 6 colour and black-and-white figs and 86 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. £90. 970
Bavinck. A critical biography. By James Eglinton. Pp. xxiv + 450 incl. 39 plates and 1 map. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2020. $44.99. 978 1 5409 6135 80
The mission of Apolo Kivebulaya. Religious encounter and social change in the Great Lakes, c.1865–1935. By Emma Wild-Wood. (Eastern Africa Series.) Pp. xviii + 318 incl. 5 ills and 2 maps. Wood0
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Consecrated Things and Places: Visitation and Sacralisation in the Jacobean Church0
Experiencing God in late medieval and early modern England. By David J. Davis. Pp. xiv + 223 incl. 18 figs. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. £75. 978 0 19 883413 70
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
Transforming Church Strategies in a Changing Social Landscape: Sunday School Statistics from a Swedish Diocese, 1920–19900
The European encounter with Hinduism in India. By Jan Peter Schouten (trans. Henry Jansen). (Currents of Encounter, 62.) Pp. xii + 209 incl. 17 colour ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €49 (paper). 970
The labors of a godly and learned divine, William Perkins. Including previously unpublished sermons. By Matthew N. Payne and Stephen J. Yuille. Pp. 512. Grand Rapids, Mi: Reformation Herita0
Der Jansenismus im deutschsprachigen Raum, 1670-–1789. Bücher, Bilder, Bibliotheken. Edited by Christoph Schmitt-Maaß. (Frühe Neuzeit, 250.) Pp. viii + 233 incl. 10 colour ills. Berlin-Boston: De Gruy0
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
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 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
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The Byzantine platonists, 284–1453. Edited by Frederick Lauritzen and Sarah Klitenic Wear. (Theandrites.) Pp. xviii + 322. Steubenville, Oh: Franciscan University Press, 2021. $65. 978 1 730
Counting religion in Britain, 1970–2020. Secularization in statistical context. By Clive D. Field. Pp. xxiv + 464 incl. 2 figs and 180 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. £110. 9780
Abbatial authority and the writing of history in the Middle Ages, By Benjamin Pohl. Pp. xv + 416 incl. 32 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £120. 978 0 19 879537 70
Catholic Clergy of Italian Nationality in the British Middle East, 1939–19440
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
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
Christian Platonism. A history. Edited by Alexander J. B. Hampton and John Peter Kenney. Pp. xvi + 497 incl. 7 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £99.99. 978 1 108 49198 30
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
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
A history of women in Christianity to 1600. By Hannah Matis. Pp. viii + 255 incl. 69 ills. Chichester–Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2023. £27.99 (paper). 978 1 119 75661 30
Pastorale Strategien zwischen Konfessionalisierung und Aufklärung. Katholische Predigten und ihre implizite Hōrer-/Leserschaft (circa 1670 bis 1800). By Florian Bock. Pp. 411 incl. 15 ills. Münster: A0
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
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
The Church of the East in central Asia and China. Edited by Samuel N. C. Lieu and Glen L. Thompson. (International Union of Academies. China and the Mediterranean World Project, 67.) Pp. xiii + 245 in0
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
Reliquary tabernacles in fourteenth-century Italy. Image, relic and material culture. By Beth Williamson. (Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture.) Pp. xvi + 240 incl. 61 ills and 12 colour plates. 0
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
The aesthetics of melancholia. Medical and spiritual diseases in medieval Iberia. By Luis F. López González. (Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture.) Pp. xii + 259 incl. 20 ills. Oxford–New York:0
Franz Hildebrandt on the BBC: Wartime Broadcasting to Nazi Germany0
The Sunday School movement in Britain, 1900–1939. By Caitriona McCartney. (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 46.) Pp. xvi + 210 incl. 10 graphs and 3 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boyde0
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
A companion to the Book of Common Prayer. By Gerald Bray. Pp. xiv + 505. Cambridge: James Clarke and Co., 2023. £30. 978 0 227 17930 70
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
Journeys through the Russian Empire. The photographic legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. By William Craft Brumfield. Pp. xii + 518 incl. 411 colour ills and 8 maps. Durham, NC–London: Duke University P0
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
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
Oriental Scholarship and Episcopal Polity: The Reception of John Selden's Arabic-Latin Edition of Eutychius0
Religion and governance in England's emerging colonial empire, 1601–1698. By Haig Z. Smith. (New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800.) Pp. xii + 292. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. £44. 978 3 030 70130 70
Community and Conflict in the Chronicle of Bury St Edmunds0
Searching for compromise? Interreligious dialogue, agreements, and toleration in 16th–18th century eastern Europe. Edited by Maciej Ptaszyński and Kazimierz Bem. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation T0
The Eusebius Essay Prize The World Christianities Essay Prize0
Reformed government. Puritanism, historical contingency, and ecclesiastical politics in late Elizabethan England. Edited by Polly Ha with Jonathan D. Moore and Edda Frankot. Pp. lxxii + 191. Oxford–Ne0
American Quaker resistance to war, 1917–1973. Law, politics and conscience. By Isaac Barnes May. (Quaker Studies.) Pp. vi + 98. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2022. €170. 978 90 04 52250 3; 2542 49710
A companion to Byzantine iconoclasm. By Mike Humphreys. (Companions to the Christian Tradition, 99.) Pp. xviii + 630 incl. 73 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €249. 978 90 0
Constructions of Christian Identity in the Northern Periphery: the Sawley World Map in Twelfth-Century England0
Migrational religion. Context and creativity in the Latinx diaspora. By João B. Chaves. Pp. xviii + 195 incl. 1 table. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2021. £42.95. 978 1 4813 1594 40
Common man, society and religion in the 16th century/Gemeiner Mann, Gesellschaft und Religion im 16. Jahrhundert. Piety, morality and discipline in the Carpathian basin/Frömmigkeit, Moral und Sozialdi0
Moi, Louis Gaufridy, ayant soufflé plus de mille femmes. Une confession de sorcier au XVIIe siècle. By Thibaut Maus de Rolley. Pp. 380. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2023. €23.90 (paper). 978 2 251 454540
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
Donor portraits in Byzantine art. The vicissitudes of contact between human and divine. By Rico Franses. Pp. xiv + 247 incl. 64 ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023 (first publ. 0
Representations of angelic beings in early Jewish and in Christian traditions. Edited by Amsalu Tefera and Loren T. Stuckenbruck. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe, 544.) 0
Ringen um den einen Gott. Eine politische Geschichte des Antitrinitarismus in Siebenbürgen im 16. Jahrhundert. By Edit Szegedi. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 95.) Pp. 276 incl. 10 colour ills and 5 table0
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Beyond indigenization. Christianity and Chinese history in a global context. By Feiya Tao (trans. Max L. Bohnenkamp). (East and West, 15.) Pp. xii + 507 incl. 3 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2022. €180
Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China from the seventeenth century to the present. Edited by Ji Li. (Studies in the History of Christianity in East Asia, 6.) Pp. xii + 280 incl. 10 colour and b0
Nicolaus Mameranus. Poetry and politics at the court of Mary Tudor. By Matthew Tibble. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 220.) Pp. xii + 389. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €157. 978 90 040
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 crisis of Calvinism in revolutionary England, 1640–1660. Arminian theologies of predestination and grace. By Andrew Ollerton. (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 47.) Pp. x + 266 incl. 20
Friends, neighbours, sinners. Religious difference and English society, 1689–1750. By Carys Brown. (Studies in Modern British History). Pp. x + 284 incl. 10 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge Univers0
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España Pontificia. Papal letters to Spain, 1198–1303. By Peter Linehan. (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law, 19.) Pp. xviii + 681. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2020
Herbert Hensley Henson, J. N. Figgis and the Archbishops’ Committee on Church and State, 1913–1916: Two Competing Visions of the Church of England0
The Samurai and the cross. The Jesuit enterprise in early modern Japan. By M. Antoni J. Ucerler sj. Pp. xviii + 445 incl. 70 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. £25.99. 970
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
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
Foundation documents from St Mary's Abbey, York, 1085–1137. Edited by Richard Sharpe (with Janet Burton, Michael Gullick and Nicholas Karn). (Surtees Society, CCXXVII.) Pp. xiv + 473 incl. fron0
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Reformation and the practice of toleration. Dutch religious history in the early modern era. By Benjamin J. Kaplan. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xii + 371 incl. 26 ills, 1 map and 0
Intra-Christian Violence and the Problematisation of the World Christian Paradigm0
In the shadow of Leviathan. John Locke and the politics of conscience. By Jeffrey R. Collins. (Ideas in Context.) Pp. xiv + 444. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £90. 978 1 108 470
The Hibernensis, I: Book 1, A study and edition; II: Book 2, Translation, commentary, and indexes. Edited by Roy Flechner. (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law, 17.) Pp. 475, 0
Irish women and the creation of modern Catholicism, 1850–1950. By Cara Delay. Pp. x + 253. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. £80. 978 1 5261 3639 80
Confession and Confessors in the Templars’ Testimonies, 1307–1311: Notes on the Brothers’ Defence Strategy0
Private associations and Jewish communities in the Hellenistic and Roman cities. Edited by Benedikt Eckhardt. (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 191). Pp. vi + 227. Leiden–Bo0
Theology, history, and the modern German university. Edited by Kevin M. Schel and Michael P. DeJonge. (Christentum in der modernen Welt, 1.) Pp. vi + 359. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021. €74. 978 3 16 10
Reformation auf der Kanzel. Luther als Reiseprediger. By Roland M. Lehmann. (Beiträge zur historischen Theologie, 199.) Pp. xvi + 617 incl. 1 table. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021. €125. 978 3 16 1596900
Spiritual direction as a medical art in early Christian monasticism. By Jonathan L. Zecher. (Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xxii + 371 incl. 16 figs and 5 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Pre0
England's second Reformation. The battle for the Church of England, 1625–1662. By Anthony Milton. (Studies in Early Modern British History.) Pp. xiv + 528. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Pre0
Rwanda's Genocide and the Leadership Crisis in the Rwandan Anglican Church0
Die Dynamik der Liturgie im Spiegel ihrer Bücher. La Dynamique de la liturgie au miroir de ses livres. Festschrift für Martin Klöckener. Mélanges offerts à Martin Klöckener. Edited by Hélène Bricout, 0
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
The Virgin Mary's book at the Annunciation. Reading, interpretation, and devotion in medieval England. By Laura Saetveit Miles. Pp. xii + 301 incl. 17 colour figs. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020. £60. 0
Naples, China and the Cosmos: The Theology of an Eighteenth-Century Chinese Priest0
Pascal. Reasoning and belief. By Michael Moriarty. Pp. xii + 413. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £65. 978 0 19 884911 70
The gospel of J. Edgar Hoover. How the FBI aided and abetted the rise of White Christian nationalism. By Lerone A. Martin. Pp. xii + 340 incl. frontispiece and 15 figs. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton Uni0
Sixteenth-century mission. Explorations in Protestant and Roman Catholic theology and practice. Edited by Robert L. Gallagher and Edward L. Smither (foreword Dana L. Robert). (Studies in Historical an0
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
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
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
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