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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
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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 Order1
Hereford and Lincoln Cathedral Libraries during the High Middle Ages1
Between Jews and heretics. Refiguring Justin Martyr's Dialogue with Trypho. By Matthijs den Dulk. (Studies in the Early Christian World.) Pp. viii + 174 incl. 1 table. London–New York: Routledge, 20181
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 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
Ecclesiastical Discipline and the Crisis of the 1680s: Prosecuting Protestant Dissent in the English Church Courts1
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
Hobbes's Eschatology and Scriptural Interpretation in Leviathan1
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
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
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
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 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 + 250
European Approaches of the Bulgarian Church: the Case of the Lambeth Conference in London, 19300
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
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
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
Ancient Christian ecopoetics. Cosmologies, saints, things. By Virginia Burrus. (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion.) Pp.vii + 288 incl. 14 figs. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pe0
A Protestant lord in James VI's Scotland. George Keith, fifth Earl Marischal (1554–1623). By Miles Kerr-Peterson. (St Andrews Studies in Scottish History.) Pp. xvi + 238 incl. 4 figs, 3 maps and 2 tab0
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
A fiery gospel. The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the road to righteous war. By Richard M. Gamble. (Religion and American Public Life.) Pp. xii + 283 incl. 22 figs. London–Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univer0
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
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Die Evangelische Gemeinde Theresienstadt. Zum Umgang der evangelischen Kirche mit ihrer Geschichte. By Johannes Wallmann. Pp. 311. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2019. €35 (paper). 978 3 374 060
The second-century apologists. By Alvyn Pettersen. (Cascade Companions.) Pp. xx + 177. Eugene, Or: Cascade Books, 2020. $25. 978 1 7252 6535 60
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
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
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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
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
Catholic Clergy of Italian Nationality in the British Middle East, 1939–19440
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
The Testimony of the Spirit, the Decline of Calvinism, and the Origins of Restoration Rational Religion0
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
Love's betrayal. The decline of Catholicism and rise of new religions in Ireland. By Peter Mulholland. Pp. x + 362. Oxford–New York: Peter Lang, 2019. £60. 978 1 78707 127 80
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
The Curious Case of the Misplaced Eulogy: the Printing History of Matthew Parker's Sermon for Martin Bucer's Funeral0
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
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
James Moore Hickson's 1923 Western Australian Mission: Media Reception of a Globe-Trotting Anglican Healer0
Politics of polemics. Marcin Czechowic on the Jews. By Magdalena Luszczynska. Pp. x + 180. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2018. €68.95. 978 3 11 058378 60
Divine variations. How Christian thought became racial science. By Terence Keel. Pp. xii + 188 incl. 8 ills. Stanford, Ca: Stanford University Press, 2018. $25. 978 1 5036 1009 50
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
Shrine and Idol Destruction in Three Carolingian Hagiographic Texts0
Irish Anglicanism, 1969–2019. Essays to mark the 150th anniversary of the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland. Edited by Kenneth Milne and Paul Harron. Pp. 304 incl. 2 figs and 47 colour and bla0
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
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
Turning Judas into a Crusader: Local Reform and Crusade Propaganda in Thirteenth-Century Cambrai0
The Christian Moses. From Philo to the Qur'an. Edited by Philip Rousseau and Janet A. Timbie. (Studies in Early Christianity.) Pp. xvi + 317 incl. 11 ills and 9 tables. Washington, DC: Catholic Univer0
Compel people to come in. Violence and Catholic conversion in the non-European world. Edited by Vincenzo Lavenia, Stefania Pastore, Sabina Pavone and Chiara Petrolini. Pp. 211 incl. 8 colour figs. Rom0
A New Standard Reference Work on Bibles in China0
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
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
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
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
America's Teilhard. Christ and hope in the 1960s. By Susan Kassman Sack. Pp. xii + 324 incl. frontispiece. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2019. $34.95 (paper). 978 0 8132 3165 50
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 Eusebius Essay Prize The World Christianities Essay Prize0
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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
Illustrierter Atlas zur Geschichte des Christentums. By Tim Dowley. Pp. 176 incl. 18 colour ills and 62 colour maps. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 2019. €20. 978 3 7615 6630 50
Antonio degli Albizzi and Lutheran Propaganda in Early Seventeenth-Century Italy0
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
Between the swastika and the sickle. The life, disappearance, and execution of Ernst Lohmeyer. By James R. Edwards. Pp. xvi + 341 incl. 14 ills and 3 maps. Grand Rapids, Mi: William B. Eerd0
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 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
Letters of the Catholic poor. Poverty in independent Ireland, 1920–1940. By Lindsay Earner-Byrne. Pp. xii + 284 incl. 5 ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019 (first publ. 2017.) £0
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
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
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
One word of truth. The Cold War memoir of Michael Bourdeaux and Keston College. By Michael Bourdeaux. Pp. xvi + 311 incl. 45 colour ills. London: Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd, 2019. £19.99. 978 0 232 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
Lutherische Kirche im gesellschaftlichen Wandel des. 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Aus der Geschichte selbstständiger evangelisch-lutherischer Kirchen in Deutschland. By Volker Stolle. (Oberurseler Hafte 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
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
Protestant pluralism. The reception of the Toleration Act, 1689–1720. By Ralph Stevens. (Studies in Modern British Religious History.) Pp. xiv + 206. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2018. £650
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 acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (787). Translated and introduced by Richard Price. 2 vols. (Translated Texts for Historians, 68.) Pp. xiv + 377, viii + 378–738. Liverpool: Liverpool Universit0
God in the rainforest. A tale of martyrdom and redemption in Amazonian Ecuador. By Kathryn T. Long. Pp. xxii + 446 incl. 10 figs and 5 maps. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £22.99. 9780
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
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
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
Crusading Europe. Essays in honour of Christopher Tyerman. Edited by G. E. M. Lippiatt and Jessalynn L. Bird. (Outremer, 8.) Pp. xiv + 344 incl. 3 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. €79. 978 2 503 579960
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
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
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
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
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
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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 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
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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
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
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
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
Theological Counsel in the Early Quaker Movement0
Jacob Frank's Book of the words of the Lord. Mystical automythography, religious nihilism and the Messianic vision of freedom and a realization of myth and metaphor. By Rachel Elior. (Studies in Spiri0
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
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
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
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
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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
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 3 520
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
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
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
Religion and relationships in Ragged Schools. An intimate history of educating the poor, 1844–1870. By Laura M. Mair. (Studies in Evangelicalism.) Pp. xvi + 240 incl. 5 ills. London–New York: Routledg0
Franz Hildebrandt on the BBC: Wartime Broadcasting to Nazi Germany0
Religion Subdued: The Political Figure of Christ in the Work of Giovanni Battista Comazzi (1654–1711)0
‘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
Recovering the Augustinian Convent of San Salvatore in Venetian Candia0
The German awakening. Protestant renewal after the Enlightenment, 1815–1848. By Andrew Kloes. (Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. xvi + 328 incl. 8 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 0
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
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Receptions of Paul in early Christianity. The person of Paul and his writings through the eyes of his early interpreters. Edited by Jens Schröter, Simon Butticaz and Andreas Dettwiler. (Beihefte zur Z0
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
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
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
The Merits of ‘Moral Ecumenism’: Secularism, Suspicion and Jewish-Christian Relations in Twentieth-Century Britain0
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
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
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
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
The Tudor occupation of Boulogne. Conquest, colonization and imperial monarchy, 1544–1550. By Neil Murphy. Pp. xviii + 296 incl. 4 figs and 1 map. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.0
The image of God in the theology of Gregory of Nazianzus. By Gabrielle Thomas. Pp. xiv + 196. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £75. 978 1 108 48219 60
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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Richard Pace and the Psalms0
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
Jean Mabillon and the Debate on the Regular Origins of Secular Canonesses in Seventeenth-Century France0
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
The Wisconsin Oneidas and the Episcopal Church. A chain linking two traditions. Edited by L. Gordon McLester iii, Laurence M. Hauptman, Judy Cornelius-Hawk and Kenneth Hoyan House. Pp. xxvi0
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
Creating a Theology of Icons in Umayyad Palestine: John of Damascus’ ‘Three Treatises on the Divine Images’0
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
Nuns as ‘Sponsae Christi’: The Legal Status of the Medieval Oblates of Tor de’ Specchi0
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
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
Hensley Henson and the Appointment of Bishops: State, Church and Nation in England, 1917–1920 and Beyond0
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
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
Books, Scribes, and Cultures of Reading in the Shepherd of Hermas0
Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas. Edited by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Aleksander Maryks and R. P. Hsia. (Jesuit Studies, 14; Boston College International Symposia on0
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
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
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
Augustine's early thought on the redemptive function of divine judgement. By Bart van Egmond. (Early Christian Studies.) Pp. viii + 293. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £75. 978 0 19 80
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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
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
Deutschland und der Heilige Stuhl. Diplomatische Beziehungen, 1920–1945. By Stefan Samerski. Pp. 270 incl. 31 ills. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2019. €24.80. 978 3 402 13402 30
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
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
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
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
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
Testing ground for Jesuit accommodation in early modern India. Francisco Ros sj in Malabar (16th–17th centuries.) By Antony Mecherry sj. (Bibliotheca Instituti Historici Societat0
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 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
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
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
Jerusalem in the Alps. The Sacro Monte of Varallo and the sanctuaries of north-western Italy. By Geoffrey Symcox. (Cursor Mundi.) Pp. xii + 313 incl. 57 colour and black-and-white ills and 2 maps. Tur0
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Desegregating Dixie. The Catholic Church in the South and desegregation, 1945–1992. By Mark Newman. Pp. xviii + 455. Jackson, Mi: University Press of Mississippi, 2018. $30 (paper). 978 1 40
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
The dangerous God. Christianity and the Soviet experiment. Edited by Dominic Erdozain. Pp. xii + 277 incl. 4 ills. DeKalb, Il: Northern Illinois University Press, 2017. $39 (paper). 978 0 80
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
The fountain of public prosperity. Evangelical Christians in Australian history, 1740–1914. By Stuart Piggin and Robert D. Linder. Pp. xiv + 674 incl. 8 tables. Clayton: Monash University Publishing, 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
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
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
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
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
Ritual and art across the Danish Reformation. Changing interiors of village churches, 1450–1600. By Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen. (Ritus et artes, 6.) Pp. xl + 587 incl. 17 colour plates and 168 ills. 0
Epitaph for an era. Politics and rhetoric in the Carolingian world. By Mayke de Jong. Pp. xxii + 262 incl. 4 tables and 1 map. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £75. 978 1 107 01430
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
Naples, China and the Cosmos: The Theology of an Eighteenth-Century Chinese Priest0
Jersey, Guernsey and English Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction under Henry VII0
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
Permanent revolution. The Reformation and the illiberal roots of liberalism. By James Simpson. Pp. xviii + 444 incl. 1 table. Cambridge, Ma–London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University P0
Christlicher Widerstand!? Evangelische Kirche und Nationalsozialismus. Edited by Siegfried Hermle, Claudia Lepp and Harry Oelke. (Christentum und Zeitgeschichte, 4.) Pp. 280 incl. 61 ills. Leipzig: Ev0
Documenting – and Rethinking – Liturgy in Early Christianity0
‘A knot worth unloosing’. The interpretation of the new heavens and earth in seventeenth-century England. By John H. Duff. (Reformed Historical Theology, 53.) Pp. 245 incl. 1 table. Göttingen: Vandenh0
Travelling Festivals in Late Antiquity: How Christmas Came to the Greek East0
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Double crossed. The missionaries who spied for the United States during the Second World War. By Matthew Avery Sutton. Pp. x + 402 incl. 20 ills and 3 maps. New York: Basic Books, 2019. $30. 978 0 4650
Rwanda's Genocide and the Leadership Crisis in the Rwandan Anglican Church0
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
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 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
Catholics on the barricades. Poland, France, and ‘revolution’, 1891–1956. By Piotr H. Kosicki. (The Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes.) Pp. xxviii + 391 incl. 13 figs. New Haven–London: Yale0
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
Reason, religion and the Australian polity. A secular state? Edited by Stephen Chavura, John Gascoigne and Ian Tregenza. (Studies in Modern History.) Pp. xii + 296. Abingdon–New York: Routledge, 2019.0
The reception of Paul and early Christian initiation. History and hermeneutics. By Benjamin A. Edsall. Pp. xii + 331. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £75. 978 1 108 47131 20
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
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
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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
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
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
Dynastic politics and the British reformations, 1558–1630. By Michael Questier. Pp. xviii + 499. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £35. 978 0 19 882633 00
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
Patriot and priest. Jean-Baptiste Volfius and the Constitutional Church in the Côte-d'Or. By Annette Chapman-Adisho. (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, Series 2, 86.) Pp. xvi + 246 in0
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
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
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
The Microarchitectural Stage-Management of Baptism from Lateran IV to the Counter-Reformation0
The Eusebius Essay Prize The World Christianities Essay Prize0
Mysticism in early modern England. By Liam Peter Temple. (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 38.) Pp. x + 225 incl. 4 ills. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2019. £60. 978 1 78327 390
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
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
The Egerton Gospel (Egerton Papyrus 2 + Papyrus Köln VI 255). Introduction, critical edition, and commentary. By Lorne R. Zelyck. (Text and Editions for New Testament Study, 13.) Pp. xiv + 254 incl. 10
Le Dernier Théophile Raynaud (v. 1583–1663), histoire d'une obsolescence. By Jean-Pascal Gay. (Théologie Historique, 127.) Pp. 487 incl. 4 tables. Paris: Beauchesne, 2018. €41 (paper). 978 2 7010 22670
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Converting Britannia. Evangelicals and British public life, 1770–1840. By Gareth Atkins. (Studies in the Eighteenth Century.) Pp. xvi + 329 incl. 3 figs, 2 tables, 1 map and 6 plates. Woodbridge–Roche0
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