General

Bremer, Thomas, Cross and Kremlin. A brief history of the Orthodox Church in Russia. (Trans. by Eric W. Gritsch of Kreuz und Kreml. Kleine Geschichte der orthodoxen Kirche in Russland, Freiburg-im-Breisgau: Herder, 2007.) Pp. xii+178. Grand Rapids, Mi: Eerdmans, 2013. £17.99 ($26) (paper). 978 0 8028 6962 3

Fea, John, Why study history? Reflecting on the importance of the past. Pp. ix+182. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2013. $19.99 (paper). 978 0 8010 3965 2

Jacobs, Alan, The Book of Common Prayer. A biography. (Lives of Great Religious Books.) Pp. xv+236 incl. 5 figs. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. £16.95. 978 0 691 15481 7

Levack, Brian P., The devil within. Possession and exorcism in the Christian West. Pp. xii+346+16 ills. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2013. £25. 978 0 300 11472 0

Ramelli, Ilaria L. E., The Christian doctrine of apokatastasis. A critical assessment from the New Testament to Eriugena. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 120.) Pp. xx+890. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €249. 978 90 04 24509 9; 0920 623X

Spencer, Stephen, SCM study guide to church history. Pp. x+214. London: SCM Press, 2013. £19.99 (paper). 978 0 334 04645 5

Ancient world

Abecina, Alexander L., Time and sacramentality in Gregory of Nyssa's ‘Contra Eunomium’. (Early Christian Studies, 16.) Pp. viii+132. Strathfield, NSW: St Pauls Publications, 2013. 978 0 9806 428 0 3

Arnold, John Charles, The footprints of Michael the archangel. The formation and diffusion of a saintly cult, c. 300–c. 800. (The New Middle Ages.) Pp. xviii+274. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. £60. 978 1 137 34681 0

Bruns, Christoph, Trinität und Kosmos. Zur Gotteslehre des Origenes. (Adamantiana. Texte and Studies on Origen and His Legacy, 3.) Pp. 357. Munich: Aschendorff, 2013. €48. 978 3 402 13713 0

Dohrmann, Natalie B. and Annette Yoshiko Reed (eds), Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire. The poetics of power in late antiquity. (Jewish Culture and Contexts.) Pp. x+389 incl. 12 figs and 2 tables. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. £45 ($69.95). 978 0 8122 4533 2

Galvão-Sobrinho, Carlos R., Doctrine and power. Theological controversy and Christian leadership in the later Roman Empire. (Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 52.) Pp. x+310. Berkeley–Los Angeles–London: University of California Press, 2013. £52. 978 0 520 25739 9

Hofer, Andrew, Christ in the life and teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus. (Oxford Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xi+270. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £60. 978 0 19 968194 5

Humphries, Thomas L., Jr, Ascetic pneumatology from John Cassian to Gregory the Great. (Oxford Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xviii+237. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £65. 978 0 19 968503 5

Law, Timothy Michael, When God spoke Greek. The Septuagint and the making of the Christian Bible. Pp. xi+216. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £15.99 (paper). 978 0 19 978172 0

Nicklas, Tobias, Andreas Merkt and Joseph Verheyden (eds), Ancient perspectives on Paul. (Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus. Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments, 102.) Pp. 444. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013. €99. 978 3 525 59359 2

Peleanu, Adina (ed.), Jean Chrysostome. Homélies sur l'impuissance du diable. (Sources Chrétiennes, 560.) Pp. 236. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2013. €22 (paper). 978 2 204 10169 1; 0750 1978

Rüpke, Jörg and Greg Woolf (eds), Religious dimensions of the self in the second century CE. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 76.) Pp. xi+303. Tübigen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013. €84 (paper). 978 3 16 152243 7; 1436 3003

Urbano, Arthur P., The philosophical life. Biography and the crafting of intellectual identity in late antiquity. (North American Patristics Society. Patristic Monograph Series, 21.) Pp. xx+355 incl. 14 figs. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2013. $49.95. 978 0 8132 2162 5

Winkelmann, F. (texte critique), Luce Pietri (intro. and notes) and Marie-Joseph Rondeau (trans.), Eusèbe de Césarée. Vie de Constantin. (Sources Chrétiennes, 559.) Pp. 579. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2012. €53 (paper). 978 2 204 10134 9; 0750 1978

Young, Frances, God's presence. A contemporary recapitulation of early Christianity. Pp. xiv+474 incl. frontispiece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £55 (cloth), £19.99 (paper). 978 1 107 03837 0; 978 1 107 64278 2

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

Bartlett, Robert, Why can the dead do such great things? Saints and worshippers from the martyrs to the Reformation. Pp. xviii+787 incl. 27 figs, 3 maps and 10 tables+10 colour plates. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. £27.95. 978 0 691 15913 3

Bauerschmidt, Frederick Christian, Thomas Aquinas. Faith, reason, and following Christ. (Christian Theology in Context.) Pp. xii+342. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £60. 978 0 19 921314 6

Bepler, Jochen and Christian Heitzmann (eds), Der Albani-Psalter. Stand und Perspektiven der Forschung. The St Albans psalter. Current research and perspectives. (Hildesheimer Forschungen, 4.) Pp. 230 incl. 109 black-and-white and colour plates. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2013. €39.80. 978 3 487 14835 9

Boureau, Alain, Satan the heretic. The birth of demonology in the medieval West. (Trans. by Teresa Lavender Fagan of Satan hérétique. Naissance de la démonologie dans l'occident médiéval (1280–1330), Éditions Odile Jacob, 2004.) Pp. xiii+255. Chicago–London: University of Chicago Press, 2014(13) (first publ. 2006). £14 ($20) (paper). 978 0 226 06748 3; 978 0 226 10026 5

Brooks, N. P. and S. E. Kelly (eds), Charters of Christ Church Canterbury. 2 parts. (Anglo-Saxon Charters, 17, 18.) Pp. lii+662 incl. 9 maps; lii+663–1300. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2013. $50 each. 978 0 19 726535 2; 978 0 19 726536 9

Cartwright, Jane, Mary Magdalene and her sister Martha. An edition and translation of the medieval Welsh Lives. Pp. xi+147 incl. 1 table and 1 plate. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2013. $75. 978 0 8132 2188 5

Chappell, Julie A., Perilous passages. The book of Margery Kempe, 1534–1934. (The New Middle Ages.) Pp. xlv+173. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. £55. 978 1 137 27767 1

Dubreucq, Odile (ed.), Jonas d'Orléans. Instruction des laics, II: (Livres II, 17–III). (Sources Chrétiennes, 550.) Pp. 433. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2013. €44 (paper). 978 2 204 10163 9; 0750 1978

Duggan, Lawrence G., Armsbearing and the clergy in the history of canon law of western Christianity. Pp. xiv+264. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2013. £60. 978 1 84383 865 4

Hayden, J. Michael, Crutched friars and croisiers. The canons regular of the Order of the Holy Cross in England and France. Pp. 326 incl. 22 ills. Rome: Crosier Generalate, 2013. £10.23 (paper). 978 1 304 53618 1

Higham, Nicholas J. and Martin J. Ryan, The Anglo-Saxon world. Pp. xvi+477 incl. 292 ills. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2013. £30. 978 0 300 12534 4

Hoffmann, Lars M. and Wolfram Brandes, Eine unbekannte Konzilssynopse aus dem Ende des 9. Jahrhunderts. Ediert, übersetzt und kommentiert. (Forschungen zur Byzantinischen Rechtsgeschichte, 30.) Pp. 359. Frankfurt-am-Main: Löwenklau-Gesellschaft, 2013. 978 3 923615 28 5

Jansen, Katherine L., G. Geltner and Anne E. Lester (eds), Center and periphery. Studies on power in the medieval world in honour of William Chester Jordan. (Later Medieval Europe, 11.) Pp. xxvi+304 incl. frontispiece and 9 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €112 ($156). 978 90 04 24359 0; 1872 7875

Lewis, C. S. (ed. Walter Hooper), Studies in medieval and Renaissance literature. Pp. xi+196. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013 (first publ. 1966). £12.99 (paper). 978 1 107 65892 9

Li, Feng, Early China. A social and cultural history. (New Approaches to Asian History, 12.) Pp. xxii+346 incl. frontispiece, 16 maps and 80 figs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £55 (cloth), £18.99 (paper). 978 0 521 89552 1; 978 0 71981 0

Morenzoni, Franco (ed.), Preaching and political society. From late antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. Depuis l'antiquité tardive jusqu’à la fin du moyen âge. (Studies on Patristic, Medieval, and Reformation Sermons and Preaching, 10.) Pp. vi+342. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €80. 978 2 503 54423 6

Mullins, Juliet, Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh and Richard Hawtree (eds), Envisioning Christ on the Cross. Ireland and the early medieval West. Pp. xiv+370 incl. 69 ills+31 colour plates. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013. £50. 978 1 84682 387 9

Orme, Nicholas, The Church in Devon, 400–1560. Pp. ix+241 incl. 42 ills and maps. Exeter: Impress Books, 2013. £14.99 (paper). 978 1 9076054 1 3

Poleg, Eyal, Approaching the Bible in medieval England. (Manchester Medieval Studies.) Pp. xxi+263 incl. 9 figs, 2 music examples and 2 tables+7 colour plates. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. £65. 978 0 7190 8954 1

Slavin, Philip, Bread and ale for the brethren. The provisioning of Norwich cathedral priory, 1260–1536. (Studies in Regional and Local History, 11.) Pp. xvii+220 incl. 18 figs and 45 tables. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2012. £35 (cloth), £18.99 (paper). 978 1 907396 62 5; 978 1 907396 63 2

Sullivan, Karen, The inner lives of medieval inquisitors. Pp. xi+296. Chicago–London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. £21 ($30) (paper). 978 0 226 78167 9; 978 0 226 10432 4

Treadgold, Warren, The middle Byzantine historians. Pp. xvii+546 incl. 2 maps. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. £80. 978 1 137 28085 5

Turner, Denys, Thomas Aquinas. A portrait. Pp. xi+300. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2013. $18.99. 978 0 300 18855 4

Van Dussen, Michael and Pavel Soukup (eds), Religious controversy in Europe, 1378–1536. Textual transmission and networks of readership. (Medieval Church Studies, 27.) Pp. viii+352 incl. 6 figs and 8 maps. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €90. 978 2 503 54428 1

Wood, Philip, The ‘Chronicle of Seert’. Christian historical imagination in late antique Iraq. (Oxford Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xiv+305 incl. map. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £65. 978 0 19 967067 3

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

Black, Robert, Machiavelli. Pp. xxviii+376. London–New York: Routledge, 2013. £24.99 (paper). 978 0 415 73637 4; 978 0 582 78406 2

Bowden, Caroline and James E. Kelly (eds), The English convents in exile, 1600–1800. Communities, culture and identity. (Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700.) Pp. xvi+282 incl. 7 tables+28 colour plates. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £65. 978 1 4094 5073 3

Cox, Virginia, Lyric poetry by women of the Italian Renaissance. Pp. xvi+455. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. £15.50 (paper). 978 1 4214 0887 3; 978 1 4214 0888 0

Fürst, Alfons and Christian Hengstermann (eds), Die Cambridge Origenists. George Rust's ‘Letter of resolution concerning Origen and the chief of his opinions’. (Adamantiana. Texte and Studies on Origen and His Legacy, 4.) Pp. 384. Munich: Aschendorff, 2013. €52. 978 3 402 134714 7

Hamlin, Hannibal, The Bible in Shakespeare. Pp. xvii+378 incl. 14 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £55. 978 0 19 967761 0

Herzig, Tamar, Christ transformed into a virgin woman. Lucia Brocadelli, Heinrich Institoris, and the defense of the faith. With the text of ‘Stigmifere virginis Lucie de Narnia aliarumque spiritualium personarum feminei sexus facta admiracione digna’. (Temi e Testi, 114.) Pp. xix+332. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2013. €48 (paper). 978 88 6372 526 1

Kaufman, Peter Iver, Religion around Shakespeare. (Religion Around, 1.) Pp. vi+256. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. $34.95. 978 0 271 06181 8

Loades, David, Thomas Cromwell. Servant to Henry VIII. Pp. 336+27 black-and-white and colour plates. Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2013. £20. 978 1 4456 1538 7

Loewenstein, David, Treacherous faith. The specter of heresy in early modern English literature and culture. Pp. xiii+497 incl. 17 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £65. 978 0 19 920339 0

McGrade, Arthur Stephen (ed.), Richard Hooker. ‘Of the laws of ecclesiastical polity’. A critical edition with modern spelling, I: Preface, books I to IV; II: Book V; III: Books VI–VIII. Pp. cxiv+242; viii+334; viii+418. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £225. 978 0 19 960491 3; 978 0 19 960492 0; 978 0 19 960493 7; 978 0 19 960495 1 (Set)

Marotti, Arthur F. and Chanita Goodblatt (eds), Religious diversity and early modern English texts. Catholic, Judaic, feminist, and secular dimensions. Pp. vi+367 incl. 15 ills. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2013. $54.95. 978 0 8143 3955 8

Merritt, J. F., Westminster, 1640–60. A royal city in a time of revolution. (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain.) Pp. xii+276 incl. 4 ills. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. £75. 978 0 7190 9040 0

Midelfort, H. C. Erik, Witchcraft, madness, society, and religion in early modern Germany. A ship of fools. (Variorum Collected Studies, 1029.) Pp. xiv+348. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £90. 978 1 4094 5733 6

O'Malley, John W., Saints or devils incarnate? Studies in Jesuit history. (Jesuit Studies. Modernity through the Prism of Jesuit History, 1.) Pp. xiii+312 incl. 24 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €131 ($182). 978 90 04 25534 0; 2214 3289

Peacey, Jason, Print and public politics in the English revolution. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History.) Pp. xxi+448. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £70. 978 1 107 04442 5

Percy, Eustace, John Knox. Pp. 343 incl. 4 ills. Cambridge: Lutterworth, 2013 (first publ. 1937, 1964). £19 (paper). 978 0 7188 9313 2

Schilling, Heinz, Martin Luther. Rebell in einer Zeit des Umbruchs. Pp. 719 incl. 51 ills and 4 maps. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2013. €29.95. 978 3 406 63741 4

Shapiro, Barbara J., Political communication and political culture in England, 1558–1688. Pp. xi+403. Stanford, Ca: Stanford University Press, 2012. $65. 978 0 8047 8362 0

Sharpe, Kevin, Rebranding rule. The Restoration and Revolution monarchy, 1660–1714. Pp. xxi+849 incl. 85 ills. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2013. £45. 978 0 300 16201 1

Treasure, Geoffrey, The Huguenots. Pp. xiv+468+45 ills. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2013. £25. 978 0 300 19388 6

Walls, Kathryn, God's only daughter. Spenser's Una as the invisible Church. (The Manchester Spenser.) Pp. xiii+238 incl. 8 ills. Manchester–New York: Manchester University Press, 2013. £70. 978 07190 9037 0

Modern Europe

Arjakovsky, Antoine (trans. Jerry Ryan, ed. John A. Jillions and Michael Plekon) (foreword Rowan Williams), The way. Religious thinkers of the Russian emigration in Paris and their journal, 1925–1940. Pp. xiv+767+9 plates. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. $65 (paper). 978 0 268 02040 8

Demacopoulos, George and Aristotle Papanikolaou (eds), Orthodox constructions of the West. (Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought.) Pp. xi+367. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. $125 (cloth), $35 (paper). 978 0 8232 5192 6; 978 0 8232 5193 3

Edwards, Ben, With God on our side. British Christian responses to the Spanish civil war. Pp. vii+321. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2013. £49.99. 978 1 4438 4807 7

Galavotti, Enrico, Il professorino. Giuseppe Dossetti tra crisi del fascismo e costruzione della democrazia, 1940–1948. (Fondazione per le scienze religiose Giovanni, 23.Testi e ricerche di scienze religiose. New Ser., 48.) Pp. 890. Bologna: il Mulino, 2013. €60 (paper). 978 88 15 24452 9

Gange, David and Michael Ledger-Lomas (eds), Cities of God. The Bible and archaeology in nineteenth-century Britain. Pp. xii+363 incl. 42 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £65 ($99). 978 1 107 00424 5

Harris, Alana, Faith in the family. A lived religious history of English Catholicism, 1945–82. Pp. x+310 incl. 7 ills. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. £65. 978 0 7190 8574 1

Monod, Paul Kléber, Solomon's secret arts. The occult in the age of Enlightenment. Pp. x+430+18 ills. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2013. £27.50. 978 0 300 12358 6

Nation, Mark Thiessen, Anthony G. Siegrist and Daniel P. Umbel, Bonhoeffer the assassin? Challenging the myth, recovering his call to peacemaking. Pp. xv+250. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2013. $29.99 (paper). 978 0 8010 3961 4

Nevin, Thomas R., The last years of Saint Thérèse. Doubt and darkness, 1895–1897. Pp. xxi+289 incl. 24 figs. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £22.50. 978 0 19 998766 5

Schatz, Klaus, Geschichte der deutschen Jesuiten, I: 1814–1872; II: 1872–1917; III: 1917–1945; IV: 1945–1983; V: Quellen, Glossar, Biogramme, Gesamtregister. Pp. xxx+274 incl. 2 maps and 4 ills; vi+321 incl. 12 maps and 33 ills; viii+451 incl. 1 map and 9 ills; x+534 incl. 1 map and 2 ills; v+490 incl. 3 graphs. Münster: Aschendorff, 2013. €48, €52, €72, €85, €78. 978 3 402 12964 7; 978 3 402 12965 4; 978 3 402 12966 1; 978 3 402 12967 8; 978 3 402 12968 5

Stroud, Dean G. (ed.), Preaching in Hitler's shadow. Sermons of resistance in the Third Reich. Pp. xii+203. Grand Rapids, Mi: Eerdmans, 2013. £14.99 ($20) (paper). 978 0 8028 6902 9

Africa, Asia and Australasia

Carney, J. J., Rwanda before the genocide. Catholic politics and ethnic discourse in the late colonial era. Pp. xiv+343 incl. frontispiece and 11 figs. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014(3). £47.99. 978 0 19 998227 1

Hiroshi, Shibuya and Chiba Shim (eds), Living for Jesus and Japan. The social and theological thought of Uchimura Kanzō. Pp. xiv+223. Grand Rapids, Mi: Eerdmans, 2013. £16.99 ($25) (paper). 978 0 8028 6957 9

Lineham, Peter, Destiny. The life and times of a self-made apostle. Pp. 304+8 colour plates. Auckland–London: Penguin, 2013. $38 (paper). 978 0 143 56891 9

The Americas

Bell, James B., Empire, religion and revolution in early Virginia, 1607–1786. (Studies in Modern History.) Pp. xv+268 incl. 15 tables. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. £55. 978 0 333 80346 2

Cohen, Charles L. and Ronald L. Numbers (eds), Gods in America. Religious pluralism in the United States. Pp. xviii+386 incl. 9 ills. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £22.99 (paper). 978 0 19 993190 3

Flatt, Kevin, After Evangelicalism. The sixties and the United Church of Canada. (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, Ser. 2, 64.) Pp. xii+349. Montreal–London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. £69. 978 0 7735 4123 8; 978 0 7735 4124 5

Kester, Matthew, Remembering Iosepa. History, place, and religion in the American West. Pp. xi+203+24 figs. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £32.50. 978 0 19 984491 3

Little, Thomas J., The origins of southern Evangelicalism. Religious revivalism in the south Carolina low country, 1670–1760. Pp. xv+280. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2013. $49.95. 978 1 61117 274 4

General: Modern world

Anderson, Allan Heaton, An introduction to Pentecostalism. Global charismatic Christianity. 2nd edn. (First publ. 2004: rev. ante lvii. 193–4.) Pp. xii+331. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014(13). £55 (cloth), £19.99 (paper). 978 1 107 03399 3; 978 1 107 66094 6

Angell, Stephen W. and Pink Dandelion (eds), The Oxford handbook of Quaker studies. Pp. xix+644. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £95. 978 0 19 960967 6

Jensz, Felicity and Hanna Acke (eds), Missions and media. The politics of missionary periodicals in the long nineteenth century. (Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv. Studien der Berliner Gesellschaft für Missionsgeschichte, 20.) Pp. 26. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2013. €46 (paper). 978 3 515 10304 6

Mires, Charlene, Capital of the world. The race to host the United Nations. Pp. viii+319 incl. numerous ills. New York–London: New York University Press, 2013. £20.99. 978 0 8147 0794 4

Sharkey, Heather J. (ed.), Cultural conversions. Unexpected consequences of Christian missionary encounters in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. (Religion and Politics.) Pp. xv+328. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2013. $39.95. 978 0 8156 3315 0