General

Helm, Paul, Eternal God. A study of God without time. 2nd edn. Pp. xvi+302. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010 (first publ. 1988). £19.99 (paper). 978 0 19 959039 1; 978 0 19 959038 4

Hunt, Stephen, Christianity. (The Library of Essays on Sexuality and Religion.) Pp. xxvii+508. Farham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2010. £130. 978 0 7546 2920 7

Kennedy, Philip, Christianity. An introduction. (I. B. Tauris Introductions to Religion.) Pp. xlvii+312 incl. 30 figs. London–New York: I. B. Tauris, 2011. £14.99 (paper). 978 1 84885 382 9; 978 1 84885 383 6

Kessler, Edward, An introduction to Jewish-Christian relations. Pp. xix+243 incl. 6 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. £55 (cloth), £17.99 (paper). 978 0 521 87976 7; 978 0 521 70562 2

Lieb, Michael, Emma Mason and Jonathan Roberts (eds) (with Christopher Rowland), The Oxford handbook of the reception history of the Bible. Pp. xv+725 incl. 17 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. £85. 978 0 19 920454 0

Meadows, Peter (ed.), Ely. Bishops and diocese, 1109–2009. Pp. xix+354+16 black-and-white and 16 colour plates. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010. £29.95. 978 1 84383 540 0

Mews, Constant J. and Claire Renkin (eds), Interpreting Francis and Clare of Assisi. From the Middle Ages to the present. Pp. xvi+416 incl. 39 colour plates. Mulgrave, Vic: Broughton Publishing, 2010. A$89.95 (paper). 978 0 9806634 6 4

Moreira, Isabel and Margaret Toscano (eds), Hell and its afterlife. Historical and contemporary perspectives. Pp. xvi+266 incl. 9 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2010. £55. 978 0 7546 6729 2

Paert, Irina, Spiritual elders. Charisma and tradition in Russian orthodoxy. Pp. xiii+286 incl. frontispiece and 10 figs. DeKalb, Il: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010. $43. 978 0 87580 429 3

Patte, Daniel (ed.), The Cambridge dictionary of Christianity. Pp. lxvii+1343. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. $150 (cloth), $39.99 (paper). 978 0 521 82096 7; 978 0 521 52785 9

Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel, The sign of the cross. From Golgotha to genocide. Pp. viii+233. New Brunswick–London: Transaction Publishers, 2010. $39.95 (paper). 978 1 4128 1133 0

Ancient world

Amitay, Ory, From Alexander to Jesus. (Hellenistic Culture and Society, 52.) Pp. xii+247. Berkeley–Los Angeles–London: University of California Press, 2010. £34.95. 978 0 520 26636 0

Bailey, Lisa Kaaren, Christianity's quiet success. The Eusebius Gallicanus sermon collection and the power of the Church in late antique Gaul. Pp. x+278. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame, 2010. $34 (paper). 978 0 268 02224 2

Baker-Brian, Nicholas J., Manichaeism. An ancient faith rediscovered. Pp. x+157 incl. map. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2011. £24.99 (paper). 978 0 567 03166 2; 978 0 567 03167 9

Bakker, Henk, Paul van Geest and Hans van Loon (eds), Cyprian of Carthage. Studies in his life, language, and thought. (Late Antique History and Religion, 3.) Pp. xx+307. Leuven: Peeters, 2010. €65. 978 90 429 2397 3

Brakke, David, The Gnostics. Myth, ritual, and diversity in early Christianity. Pp. xv+164. Cambridge, Ma–London: Harvard University Press, 2010. £22.95. 978 0 674 04684 9

Bremmer, Jan N. (ed.), The pseudo-Clementines. (Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha, 10.) Pp. xv+342. Leuven: Peeters, 2010. €48 (paper). 978 90 429 2269 3

Broadhead, Edwin K., Jewish ways of following Jesus. Redrawing the religious map of antiquity. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 266.) Pp. xix+451 incl. 37 figs. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. €129. 978 3 16 150304 7; 0512 1604

Brock-Schmezer, Catherine, Les Figures féminines du Nouveau Testament dans l'oeuvre de Jean Chrysostome. Exégèse et pastorale. (Collection des Études Augustiniennes. Série Antiquité, 185.) Pp. 592. Paris: Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, 2010. €42 (paper). 978 2 85121 230 6; 1158 7032

Castelli, Emanuele, Un falso letterario sotto il nome di Flavio Giuseppe. Ricerche sulla tradizione del ΠEPI TOY ΠANTOΣ e sulla produzione letteraria cristiana a Roma nei primi decenni del III secolo. (Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum. Ergänzungsbände, Kleine Reihe, 7.) Pp. viii+118. Münster: Aschendorff, 2011. €32. 978 3 402 10914 4

Colpe, Carsten, Einleitung in die Schriften aus Nag Hammadi. (Jerusalemer Theologisches Forum, 16.) Pp. 36. Münster: Aschendorff, 2011. €49 (paper). 978 3 402 11021 8; 1439 4634

Evers, Alexander, Church, cities, and people. A study of the plebs in the Church and cities of Roman Africa in late antiquity. (Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion, 11.) Pp. xiv+367. Leuven–Walpole, Ma: Peeters, 2010. €58 (paper). 978 90 429 2206 8

Fatti, Federico, Giuliano a Cesarea. La politica ecclesiastica del principe Apostata. (Studi e Testi TardoAntichi, 10.) Pp. 291. Rome: Herder, 2009. €45 (paper). 978 88 89670 52 1; 1973 9982

Frede, Michael (ed. A. A. Long, foreword David Sedley), A free will. Origins of the notion in ancient thought. (Sather Classical Lectures, 68.) Pp. xiv+206. Berkeley–Los Angeles–London: University of California Press, 2011. £34.95. 978 0 520 26848 7

Giannoulis, Markos, Die Moiren. Tradition und Wandel des Motivs der Schicksalsgöttinnen in der antiken und byzantinischen Kunst. (Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum. Ergänzungsband. Kleine Reihe, 6.) Pp. vii+201+110 black-and-white and colour plates. Münster: Aschendorff, 2010. €39. 978 3 402 10913 7

Goodman, Martin and Philip Alexander (eds), Rabbinic texts and the history of late-Roman Palestine. (Proceedings of the British Academy, 165.) Pp. xv+419. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2010. £70. 978 0 19 726474 4p; 0068 1202

Greatrex, Geoffrey (ed.) (trans. Robert R. Phenix and Cornelia B. Horn with Sebastian P. Brock and Witold Witakowski), The chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor. Church and war in late antiquity. (Translated Texts for Historians, 55.) Pp. xiv+562. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011. £75 (cloth), £19.99 (paper). 978 1 84631 493 3; 978 1 84631 494 0

Heine, Ronald E., Origen. Scholarship in the service of the Church. (Christian Theology in Context.) Pp. xii+275. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £16.99 (paper). 978 0 19 920907 1; 978 0 19 920908 8

Holmén, Tom and Stanley E. Porter (eds), Handbook for the study of the historical Jesus, I: How to study the historical Jesus; II: The study of Jesus; III: The historical Jesus; IV: Individual studies. Pp. xxi+851; xxi+853–1817 incl. 4 figs; xxi+1819–2090; xxi+3652 incl. 18 figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €899. 978 90 04 17091 9; 978 90 04 17092 6; 978 90 04 17093 3; 978 90 04 17094 0; 978 90 04 16372 0

Laurence, Patrick, Le Monachisme feminin antique. Idéal hiéronymien et réalité historique. (Spicilegium Sacrum Lovaniense. Études et Documents, 52.) Pp. viii+362. Leuven: Peeters, 2010. €70 (paper). 978 90 429 2297 6

Lipsett, B. Diane, Desiring conversion. Hermas, Thecla, Aseneth. Pp. x+190. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £45. 978 0 19 975451 9

Luckensmeyer, David and Pauline Allen (eds), Studies of religion and politics in the early Christian centuries. (Early Christian Studies, 13.) Pp. vii+322. Strathfield, NSW: St Pauls Publications, 2010. 978 0 9806 428 0 3

Mitchell, Margaret M., Paul, the Corinthians and the birth of Christian hermeneutics. Pp. xiv+178. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. £50. 978 0 521 19795 3

Mitchell, Stephen and Peter Van Nuffelen (eds), Monotheism between pagans and Christians in late antiquity. (Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion, 12.) Pp. vi+226. Leuven–Walpole, Ma: Peeters, 2010. €48 (paper). 978 90 429 2242 6

Pratscher, Wilhelm, The apostolic Fathers. An introduction. (First publ. as Die Apostolischen Väter. Eine Einleitung, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009.) Pp. xi+275. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2010. $39.95 (paper). 978 160 2583 08 5

Ruth, Lester, Carrie Steenwyk and John D. Witvliet, Walking where Jesus walked. Worship in fourth-century Jerusalem. (The Church at Worship. Case Studies from Christian History.) Pp. xi+160 incl. 17 ills. Grand Rapids, Mi: Eerdmans, 2010. £16.99 ($23) (paper). 978 0 8028 6476 5

Schäfer, Peter, Geschichte der Juden in der Antike. Die Juden Palästinas von Alexander dem Grossen bis zur arabischen Eroberung, II: Durchgesehene Auflage. Pp. xxiii+320 incl. 16 plates. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck/UTB, 2010. €17.90 (paper). 978 3 16 150218 7; 978 3 8252 3366 2

Siemens, James, The Christology of Theodore of Tarsus. The Laterculus Malalianus and the person and work of Christ. (Studia Traditionis Theologiae. Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology, 6.) Pp. xvii+211. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. €60 (paper). 978 2 503 53385 8

Sotinel, Claire, Church and society in late antique Italy and beyond. (Collected Studies, 948.) Pp. xiv+324. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate/Variorum, 2010. £85. 978 1 4094 0022 6

Vessey, Mark, Sharon V. Betcher, Robert A. Daum and Harry O. Maier (eds), The calling of the nations. Exegesis, ethnography, and empire in a biblical-historic present. (Green College Thematic Lecture Series.) Pp. xiv+371 incl. 8 ills. Toronto–Buffalo–London: University of Toronto Press, 2011. $75. 978 0 8020 9241 0

Wood, Philip, We have no king but Christ. Christian political thought in greater Syria on the eve of the Arab conquest (c. 400–585). (Oxford Studies in Byzantium.) Pp. xii+295 incl. frontispiece and 6 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £60. 978 0 19 958849 7

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

Abulafia, Anna Sapir, Christian-Jewish relations, 1000–1300. Jews in the service of medieval Christendom. (The Medieval World.) Pp. xxiv+262 incl. 5 maps. Harlow: Pearson, 2011. £19.99 (paper). 978 0 582 82296 2

Alban, Kevin J., The teaching and impact of the Doctrinale of Thomas Netter of Walden (c. 1374–1430). (Medieval Church Studies, 7.) Pp. xv+298. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. €70. 978 2 503 53179 3

Antonsson, Haki and Ildar H. Garipzanov (eds), Saints and their lives on the periphery. Veneration of saints in Scandinavia and eastern Europe (c. 1000–1200). (Cursor Mundi, 9.) Pp. viii+319. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. €60. 978 2 503 53033 8

Bailey, Richard N. (with C. Roger Bristow, Derek Craig, Ken Jukes, David N. Parsons and Ross Trench-Jellicoe), Cheshire and Lancashire. (Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, 9.) Pp. ix+522 incl. frontispiece, 4 tables and 20 figs. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2010. £70. 978 0 19 726462 1

Biller, Peter, Caterina Bruschi and Shelagh Sneddon (eds), Inquisitors and heretics in thirteenth-century Languedoc. Edition and translation of Toulouse inquisition depositions, 1273–1282. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 147.) Pp. xv+1088. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €149. 978 90 04 18810 5; 1573 5664

Brown, George Hardin and Linda Ehrsam Voigts (eds), The study of medieval manuscripts of England. Festschrift in honor of Richard W. Pfaff. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 384. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 35.) Pp. ix+438 incl. 23 figs. Tempe, Az: ACMRS/Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. $70. 978 0 86698 432 4

Brubaker, Leslie and John Haldon, Byzantium in the Iconoclast era, c. 680–850. A history. Pp. xxiv+918 incl. 70 ills, 69 figs and 7 maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £100. 978 0 521 43093 7

Connor, Meriel (ed. and trans.), John Stone's chronicle. Christ church priory, Canterbury, 1417–1472. (Documents of Practice.) Pp. viii+168 incl. 6 tables. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2010. $13 (paper). 978 1 58044 107 0

Coureas, Nicholas, The Latin Church in Cyprus, 1313–1378. (Texts and Studies in the History of Cyprus, 65.) Pp. 557. Nicosia: Cyprus Research Centre, 2010. €30. 978 9963 0 8119 6

Cristellon, Cecilia, La carità e l'eros. Il matrimonio, la Chiesa, i suoi giudici nella Venezia del Rinascimento (1420–1545). (Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento. Monografie, 58.) Pp. 318. Bologna: il Mulino, 2010. €24 (paper). 978 88 15 13997 9

Freeman, Charles, Holy bones, holy dust. How relics shaped the history of medieval Europe. Pp. xvii+306 incl. 2 maps+32 plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2011. £25. 978 0 300 12571 9

Fudge, Thomas A., Jan Hus. Religious reform and social revolution in Bohemia. (International Library of Historical Studies, 73.) Pp. xx+367 incl. 3 maps and 8 ills. London–New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010. £54.50. 978 1 84885 142 9; 978 1 84885 222 8

Gabriele, Matthew, An empire of memory. The legend of Charlemagne, the Franks, and Jerusalem before the First Crusade. Pp. xii+202 incl. 8 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £55. 978 0 19 959144 2

Hanna, Ralph and Thorlac Turville-Petre (eds), The Wollaton medieval manuscripts. Texts, owners and readers. Pp. xi+148 incl. 1 map and 2 genealogical tables+16 black-and-white and 28 colour plates. York: York Medieval Press/Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2010. £50. 978 1 903153 34 5

Hill, Carole, Women and religion in late medieval Norwich. (Studies in History. New Ser.) Pp. xiv+204 incl. frontispiece+20 colour plates. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Royal Historical Society), 2010. £50. 978 0 86193 304 4; 0269 2244

Jones, David, Friars’ tales. Thirteenth-century exempla from the British Isles. (Manchester Medieval Sources.) Pp. xv+201. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. £17.99 (paper). 978 0 7190 8424 9; 978 0 7190 8425 6

Karahan, Anne, Byzantine holy images. Transcendence and immanence. The theological background of the iconography and aesthetics of the Chora church. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 176.) Pp. x+363 incl. 12 figs and 52 colour plates. Leuven: Peeters, 2010. €75. 978 90 429 2080 4

Kemp. B. R. (ed.), Salisbury, 1229–1262. (English Episcopal Acta, 36.) Pp. cxxxvi+261+8 plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2010. £50. 978 0 19 726463 8

Kemp, B. R. (ed.), Salisbury, 1263–1297. (English Episcopal Acta, 37.) Pp. xxxiii+23–643+8 plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2010. £50. 978 0 19 726464 5

Kershaw, Paul J. E., Peaceful kings. Peace, power, and the early medieval political imagination. Pp. xviii+313. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £65. 978 0 19 820870 9

King, Edmund, King Stephen. (Yale English Monarchs.) Pp. xvii+382 incl. geneaological table and 2 maps+24 plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2010. £25. 978 0 300 11223 8

Kirkman, Andrew, The cultural life of the early polyphonic mass. Medieval context to modern revival. Pp. xiv+383 incl. 10 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. £55. 978 0 521 11412 7

Kudrycz, Walter, The historical present. Medievalism and modernity. Pp. viii+248. London–New York: Continuum, 2011. £65. 978 1441 11057 2

Larin, Vassa, The Byzantine hierarchal divine liturgy in Arsenij Suxanov's Proskinitarij. Text, translation, and analysis of the entrance rites. (Orientalia Christiana Analecta, 286.) Pp. 283. Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 2010. €25 (paper). 978 88 7210 370 8; 1590 7449

Licence, Tom, Hermits and recluses in English society, 950–1200. Pp. xi+240. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £55. 978 0 19 959236 4

Lionarons, Joyce Tally, The homiletic writings of Archbishop Wulfstan. (Anglo-Saxon Studies.) Pp. viii+196. Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010. £60. 978 1 84384 256 9

McDonough, C. (ed.), Alexander Neckham. Sacerdos ad altare. (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, 227.) Pp. lxx+296. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. €185. 978 2 503 53349 0

Maguire, Henry and Robert S. Nelson (eds), San Marco, Byzantium, and the myths of Venice. (Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia.) Pp. viii+295 incl. 128 ills+2 black-and-white and 10 colour plates. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2010. £44.95 ($60). 978 0 88402 360 9

Miller, David B., Saint Sergius of Radonezh, his Trinity monastery, and the formation of the Russian identity. Pp. x+348 incl. 13 figs, 2 maps, 2 tables and 1 genealogical chart. DeKalb, Il: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010. $45. 978 0 87580 432 3

Millet, Hélène, Le Concile de Pise. Qui travaillait à l'union de l'Église d'occident en 1409? (Ecclesia Militans. Histoire des hommes et des institutions de l'Église au Moyen Âge.) Pp. 443. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. €60 (paper). 978 2 503 53198 4

Morrison, Elizabeth and Anne D. Hedeman (with others), Imagining the past in France. History in manuscript painting, 1250–1500. Pp. xvii+366 incl. 1 map and 194 colour plates. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010. £55 ($80) (cloth), £35 ($49.95) (paper). 978 1 60606 02w8 5; 978 1 60606 029 2

Morujão, Maria do Rosário (ed.), Testamenti Ecclesiae Portugaliae (1071–1325). (História Religiosa. Fontes e Subsídios, 6.) Pp. 767 incl. 37 ills and 2 graphs. Lisbon: Universidade Católica Portuguesa/Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, 2010. €25 (paper). 978 972 8361 31 0

Nielsen, Lauge O. and Cecilia Trifogli (eds) (trans. Gail Trimble), Thomas Wylton and the intellectual soul. (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, 19.) Pp. lxiii+140. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2010. £40. 978 0 19 726461 4

O'Hear, Natasha F. H., Contrasting images of the Book of Revelation in late medieval and early modern art. A case study in visual exegesis. (Oxford Theological Monographs.) Pp. xvii+287+43 black-and-white and colour plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £75. 978 0 19 959010 0

Poirel, Dominique (ed.), L'École de Saint-Victor de Paris. Influence et rayonnement du moyen âge à l'epoque modern. Actes du colloque international du C.N.R.S. pour le neuvième centenaire de la foundation (1108–2008). (Bibliotheca Victorina, 22.) Pp. 719+32 black-and-white and colour plates. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. €115. 978 2 503 53562 3

Rollason, David, Conrad Leyser and Hannah Williams (eds), England and the continent in the tenth century. Studies in honour of Wilhelm Levison (1876–1947). (Studies in the Early Middle Ages, 37.) Pp. xxvi+576 incl. 49 figs, 15 maps and 7 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. €115. 978 2 503 53208 0

Rosenthal, Joel T., Margaret Paston's piety. (The New Middle Ages.) Pp. xxi+217 incl. 2 maps, 9 tables and 10 figs. Basingstoke–New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. £52.50. 978 0 230 62207 4

Rousseau, Marie-Hélène, Saving the souls of medieval London. Perpetual chantries at St Paul's Cathedral, c. 1200–1548. (Church, Faith, and Culture in the Medieval West.) Pp. xiv+242 incl. 3 figs and 7 tables. Farnhan–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £65. 978 1 4094

Ryder, Judith R., The career and writings of Demetrius Kydones. A study of fourteenth-century Byzantine politics, religion and society. (The Medieval Mediterranean. Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400–1500, 85.) Pp. xv+296. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2010. €108. 978 90 04 18565 4; 0928 5520

Schabel, Christopher (ed.) (intro. Jean Richard), Bullarium Cyprium, I: Papal letters concerning Cyprus, 1196–1261; II: Papal letters concerning Cyprus, 1261–1314. (Texts and Studies in the History of Cyprus, 64.) Pp. xv+516; v+528. Nicosia: Ministry of Education and Culture. Cyprus Research Centre, 2010. €42. 978 9963 0 8116 5; 978 9963 0 8117 2

Silanos, Pietro (preface Agostino Paravicini Bagliani), Gerardo Bianchi da Parma ( 1302). La biografia di un cardinal-legato duecentesco. (Italia Sacra. Studi e Documenti di Storia Ecclesiastica, 84.) Pp. xxxvi+522. Rome: Herder, 2010. 978 88 89670 51 4

Smith, Katherine Allen, War and the making of medieval monastic culture. (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, 37.) Pp. ix+239. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2011. £50. 978 1 84383 616 2; 0955 2480

Snelders, Bas, Identity and Christian-Muslim interaction. Medieval art of the Syrian orthodox from the Mosul area. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 198.) Pp. xi+591 incl. 13 figs and 67 colour plates. Leuven: Peeters, 2010. €85. 978 90 429 2386 7

Thibodeaux, Jennifer D. (ed.), Negotiating clerical identities. Priests, monks and masculinity in the Middle Ages. (Genders and Sexualities in History.) Pp. xiii+269. Basingstoke–New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. £55. 978 0 230 22220 5

Throop, Susanna A., Crusading as an act of vengeance, 1095–1216. Pp. ix+232. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £65. 978 0 7546 6582 3

Vikan, Gary, Early Byzantine pilgrimage art. Revised edn. (Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Collection Publications, 5.) Pp. vi+108 incl. 59 black-and-white and colour figs. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2010 (first publ. 1982). £22.95 (paper). 978 0 88402 358 6

Wolf, Kenneth Baxter (ed.), The life and afterlife of St Elizabeth of Hungary. Testimony from her canonization hearings. Pp. xviii+230. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £45. 978 0 19 973258 6

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

Apetrei, Sarah, Women, feminism and religion in early enlightenment England. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) Pp. x+325 incl. 5 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. £55. 978 0 521 51396 8

Bergjan, Silke-Petra and Karla Pollmann (eds), Patristic tradition and intellectual paradigms in the 17th century. (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation, 52.) Pp. xii+211 incl. 6 ills. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. €79. 978 3 16 150581 2; 1865 2840

Bourdin, Bernard, The theological-political origins of the modern state. The controversy between James I of England and Cardinal Bellarmine. (Trans. by Susan Pickford of La Genèse théologico-politique de l'état modern, Paris: Les Presses Universitaires de France, 2004.) Pp. ix+283. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2010. $59.95. 978 0 8132 1791 8

Bradstock, Andrew, Radical religion in Cromwell's England. A concise history from the English civil war to the end of the commonwealth. (International Library of Historical Studies, 58.) Pp. xxvi+189+12 plates. London–New York: I.B. Tauris, 2011. £15.99 (paper). 978 1 84511 764 1; 978 1 84511 764 1

Cambers, Andrew, Godly reading. Print, manuscript and Puritanism in England, 1580–1720. (Cambridge Studies in Early British History.) Pp. xiii+304 incl. 14 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £60. 978 0 521 76489 6

Cambers, Andrew (ed.), The life of John Rastrick, 1650–1727. (Camden Fifth Ser., 36.) Pp. xi+216 incl. 2 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (for the Royal Historical Society), 2010. £45. 978 1 107 00770 3

Carter, Karen E., Creating Catholics. Catechism and primary education in early modern France. Pp. xiii+314 incl. 12 tables. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. $40 (paper). 978 0 268 02304 1

Clarke, Elizabeth, Politics, religion and the Song of Songs in seventeenth-century England. Pp. viii+265. Basingstoke–New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. £50. 978 0 333 71411 9

Den Boer, William, God's twofold love. The theology of Jacob Arminius (1559–1609). (Reformed Historical Theology, 14.) Pp. 344. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010. €86.95. 978 3 525 56908 5

Feigenbaum, Gail and Sybille Ebert-Schifferer (eds), Sacred possessions. Collecting Italian religious art, 1500–1900. (Issues and Debates.) Pp. viii+248 incl. 86 ills. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2011. £20 ($30) (paper). 978 1 60606 042 1

Grafton, Anthony and Joanna Weinberg (with Alastair Hamilton), I have always loved the holy tongue. Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a forgotten chapter in Renaissance scholarship. Pp. xi+380 incl. 42 ills. Cambridge, Ma–London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. £25.95. 978 0 674 04840 9

Ha, Polly, English Presbyterianism, 1590–1640. Pp. xv+301 incl. 9 tables and 5 figs. Stanford, Ca: Stanford University Press, 2011. $65. 978 o0 8047 5987 8

Ha, Polly and Patrick Collinson (eds), The reception of continental reformation in Britain. (Proceedings of the British Academy, 164.) Pp. xxxvii+250. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2010. £50. 978 0 190 726468 3

Hamm, Berndt, Der frühe Luther. Etappen reformatorischer Neuorientierung. Pp. ix+318 incl. 3 ills. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. €29 (paper). 9783 16 150604 8

Henriksen, Erin, Milton and the Reformation aesthetics of the passion. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 145.) Pp. vii+216. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2010. €99. 978 90 04 18032 1; 1573 5664

Holder, R. Ward (ed.), The Westminster handbook to theologies of the Reformation. (The Westminster Handbooks to Christian Theology.) Pp. xxi+218. Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010. £19.99 (paper). 978 0 664 22398 4

Hornbeck ii, J. Patrick, What is a Lollard? Dissent and belief in late medieval England. (Oxford Theological Monographs.) Pp. xxv+241. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £65. 978 0 19 958904 3

Hughes, Andrew (with Matthew Cheung Salisbury and Heather Robbins), Cataloguing discrepancies. The printed York breviary of 1493. Pp. xxii+192 incl. 26 ills. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. £55. 978 1 4426 4197 6

Janz, Denis R., The Westminster handbook to Martin Luther. (The Westminster Handbooks to Christian Theology.) Pp. xvii+147. Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010. £19.99 (paper). 978 0 664 22470 7

Kallendorf, Hilaire, A new companion to Hispanic mysticism. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 19.) Pp. xxii+518 incl. 6 figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2010. €162. 978 90 04 18350 6; 1871 6377

Léchot, Pierre-Olivier, Un Christianisme sans partialité. Irénisme et methode chez John Dury (v.1600–1680). (Vie des Huguenots, 60.) Pp. 595. Paris: Éditions Champion, 2011. €115. 978 2 7453 2152 7p; 1286 9538

Lenain, Philippe, Histoire littéraire des bénédictins de Saint-Maur, III: (1683–1723) (Bibliothèque de la Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique, 93.) Pp. 717. Louvain-la-Neuve: Collège Érasme/Leuven: Universiteitsbibliotheek, 2010. €80 (paper).

Martin, Catherine Gimelli, Milton among the Puritans. The case for historical revisionism. Pp. xvii+360 incl. frontispiece and 3 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2010. £60. 978 1 4094 0856 7

Nicholls, Mark and Penry Williams, Sir Walter Raleigh. In life and legend. Pp. xviii+378 incl. 5 maps+18 plates. London–New York: Continuum, 2011. £25. 978 1441 11209 5

Pitassi, Maria-Cristina and Daniela Solfaroli Camillocci (eds), Les Modes de la conversion confessionnelle á l'époque moderne. Autobiographie, altérité et construction des identités religieuses. (Biblioteca della Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa. Studi, 23.) Pp. xxviii+270 incl. 2 figs+1 pull-out plate. Firenze: Olschki, 2010. €29 (paper). 978 88 222 5967 7

Price, David H., Johannes Reuchlin and the campaign to destroy Jewish books. Pp. xi+355 incl. 7 figs. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £40. 978 0 19 539421 4

Pulci, Antonia (ed. Elissa B. Weaver, trans. James Wyatt Cook), Saints' Lives and bible stories for the stage. (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. The Toronto Series, 7.) Pp. x+500+12 plates. Toronto: ITER/Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2010. $37 (paper). 978 0 7727 2073 3

Reid, Steven J., Humanism and Calvinism. Andrew Melville and the universities of Scotland, 1560–1625. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xiv+336 incl. 5 tables and 5 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £65. 978 1 4094 0005 9

Roobol, Marianne, Disputation by decree. The public disputations between Reformed ministers and Dirck Volkertszoon Coornhert as instruments of religious policy during the Dutch revolt (1577–1583). (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 152.) Pp. xiv+310. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2010. €99. 978 90 04 18661 3; 1573 4188

Schreiner, Susan E., Are you alone wise? The search for certainty in the early modern era. (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. xvii+480. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £45. 978 0 19 531342 0

Shuger, Debora Kuller, The Renaissance Bible. Scholarship, sacrifice, and subjectivity. Pp. xv+298 incl. 5 figs. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2010. $39.95 (paper). 978 1 60258 309 2

Slenczka, Björn, Das Wormser Schisma der Augsburger Konfessionsverwandten von 1557. Protestantische Konfessionspolitik und Theologie im Zusammenhang des zweiten Wormser Religionsgesprächs. (Beiträge zur historischen Theologie, 155.) Pp. xviii+450. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. €109. 978 3 16 150100 5; 0340 6741

Spohnholz, Jesse, The tactics of toleration. A refugee community in the age of religious wars. Pp. 334. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2011. $80. 978 1 61149 034 3

Vincent, Catherine and Jacques Pycke (eds), Cathédral at pèlerinage aux époques medieval et moderne. (Bibliothèque de la Review d'histoire ecclésiastique, 92.) Pp. 330 incl. 39 figs and 8 colour plates. Louvain-la-Neuve: Université catholique de Louvain, 2010. €45 (paper).

Walker, Peter, James II and the three questions. Religious toleration and the landed classes, 1687–1688. (Studies in the History of Religious and Political Pluralism, 5.) Pp. xxx+310. Oxford–Bern: Peter Lang, 2010. £42 (paper). 978 3 03911 927 1; 1661 1985

Walsham, Alexandra, The Reformation of the landscape. Religion, identity, and memory in early modern Britain and Ireland. Pp. xvi+637 incl. 52 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £35. 978 0 19 924355 6

Wendebourg, Dorothea (ed.), Sister reformations. The Reformation in England and Germany. Symposium on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the Elizabethan settlement, September 23rd–26th, 2009. Pp. xiii+355. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. €94. 9783 16 150496 6

Wolfson, Adam, Persecution or toleration. An explication of the Locke–Proast quarrel, 1689–1704. Pp. xvii+113 incl. frontispiece. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2010. £34.95. 978 0 7391 4722 1

Woshinsky, Barbara R., Imagining women's conventual spaces in France, 1600–1800. The cloister disclosed. (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World.) Pp. xvii+344 incl. 4 frontispieces and 22 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2010. £65. 978 0 7546 6754 4

Wusten, Dick, Clément Marot and religion. A reassessment in the light of his psalm paraphrases. (Brill's Studies in Church History, 44.) Pp. xiii+439. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2010. €129. 978 90 04 18456 5; 1572 4107

Zuidema, Jason and Theodore van Raalte, Early French reform. The theology and spirituality of Guillame Farel. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. viii+253. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £65. 978 1 4094 1884 9

Modern Europe

Almedia, João Miguel (ed.), Da monarquia à república: cartas portuguesas de Romolo Murri. (História Religiosa. Fontes e Subsídios, 7.) Pp. 192 incl. 5 ills. Lisbon: Universidade Católica Portuguesa/Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, 2010. €14 (paper). 978 972 8361 33 4

Batty, Margaret, Scotland's Methodists, 1750–2000. Pp. xiv+277+4 plates. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2010. £30. 978 1 906566 26 5

Bennett, Nicholas, Wonderful to behold. A centenary history of the Lincoln Record Society, 1910–2010. (The Publications of the Lincoln Record Society, founded in the year 1910, 100.) Pp. ix+255+16 plates. The Boydell Press (for the Lincoln Record Society), 2010. £30. 978 0 901503 88 6; 0267 2534

Brandmüller, Walter, L'olocausto nella Slovacchia e la Chiesa Cattolica. Pp. 195 incl. 17 9ills+8 plates. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2004. €14 (paper). 88 209 7594 7

Bultmann, Christoph and Friedrich Vollhardt (eds), Gotthold Ephraim Lessings. Religionsphilosophie im Kontext. Hamburger Fragmente und Wolfenbütteler Axiomata. (Frühe Neuzeit, 159.) Pp. vi+354. Berlin–New York: de Gruyter, 2011. €99,95. 978 3 11 025387 0; 0934 5531

Busch, Eberhard (foreword Daniel Migliore, trans. and anno. Darrell Guder and Judith Guder), The Barmen theses then and now. The 2004 Warfield lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary. Pp. xii+101. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2010. £10.99 ($16) (paper). 978 0 8028 6617 2

Cantor, Geoffrey, Religion and the Great Exhibition of 1851. Pp. xi+226 incl. 35 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £70. 978 0 19 959667 6

Ceci, Lucia (preface Angelo Del Boca), Il papa non deve parlare. Chiesa, fascismo e guerra d'Etiopia. (Quadrante Laterza, 156.) Pp. ix+273+15 figs. Rome: Editori Laterza, 2010. €16 (paper). 978 88 420 9271 1

Collinson, Patrick, The history of a history man or, the twentieth century viewed from a safe distance. The memoirs of Patrick Collinson. (Church of England Record Society.) Pp. ix+217 incl. 38 ills+28 colour plates. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press (for the Church of England Record Society), 2011. £45. 978 1 84383 627 8; 1351 3087

Crowcroft, Robert, S. J. D. Green and Richard Whiting (eds), The philosophy, politics and religion of British democracy. Maurice Cowling and conservatism. (International Library of Political Studies, 32.) Pp. viii+327. London–New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 2010. £54.50. 978 1 84511 976 8

Fitschen, Klaus, Siegfried Hermle, Katharina Kunter, Claudia Lepp and Antje Roggenkamp-Kaufmann (eds), Die Politisierung des Protestantismus. Entwicklungen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland während der 1960er und 70er Jahre. (Arbeiten zur Kirchlichen Zeitgeschichte. Ser.B. Darstellungen, 52.) Pp. 343. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011. €69,95. 978 3 525 57451 5

Ford, Margaret, An Evangelical family revealed. The Bickersteth and Monier-Williams letters and diaries, 1880–1918. Pp. xvii+203 incl. 12 ills+ loose-leaf genealogical table. Hassocks: Ford Publishing, 2010. £20. 978 0 9567218 0 8

Friedman, Terry, The eighteenth-century Church in Britain. Pp. xvi+790 incl. 739 black-and-white and colour plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2011. £60. 978 0 300 15908 0

Gilheany, John M., Familiar strangers. The Church and the vegetarian movement in Britain (1809–2009). Pp. xiii+274 incl. 48 ills. Cardiff: Ascendant Press, 2010. £12 (paper). 978 0 9552945 1 8

Green, S. J. D., The passing of Protestant England. Secularisation and social change, c. 1920–1960. Pp. viii+333. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £60. 978 0 521 83977 8

Greenall, R. L. (ed.), The autobiography of the Rev. John Jenkinson. Baptist minister of Kettering and Oakham. (Victor Hatley Memorial Ser., 3.) Pp. vi+169 incl. frontispiece and 5 figs. Northampton: Northampton Record Society, 2010. £8 (paper). 978 0 901275 68 4

Hayes, Peter and John K. Roth (eds), The Oxford handbook of holocaust studies. Pp. xiii+776 incl. 8 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £85. 978 0 19 921186 9

Joassart, Bernard, Aspects de l'érudition hagiographique aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. (École Pratique de Hautes Études. Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, 5. Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes, 99.) Pp. ix+181 incl. 2 figs. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2011. €45.54 (paper). 978 2 600 01360 4; 0073 0955

Jones, Andrew, Victorian north Devon. A social history. Pp. vii+529 incl. 3 maps. South Moulton: Andrew Jones, 2010.

Kaiser, Thomas E. and Dale K. van Kley (eds), From deficit to deluge. The origins of the French Revolution. Pp. xi+345. Stanford, Ca: Stanford University Press, 2011. $65 (cloth), $25.95 (paper). 978 0 8047 7280 8; 978 0 8047 7281 5

Lange, Dietz, Nathan Söderblom und seine Zeit. Pp. 480. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011. €49.95. 978 3 525 57012 5

Laplanche, F. (ed.), Alfred Loisy. La crise de la foi dans le temps present. (Essais d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses). (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études. Sciences Religieuses, 144.) Pp. 732. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. €85 (paper). 978 2 503 53182 3

Larsen, Timothy, A people of one book. The Bible and the Victorians. Pp. v+326. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £30. 978 0 19 957009 6

McGrath, Francis (ed.), The letters and diaries of John Henry Newman, XXXXII: Supplement. Pp. xvi+732. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. £120. 978 0 19 953270 4

Madigan, Edward, Faith under fire. Anglican army chaplains and the Great War. Pp. xi+296 incl. 4 ills, 3 tables and 3 charts. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. £55. 978 0 230 23745 2

Marchetto, Agostino (trans. Kenneth D. Whitehead), The second Vatican ecumenical council. A counterpoint for the history of the council. Pp. xxiv+723. Chicago, Il: University of Scranton Press, 2010. £27.50 ($40) (paper). 978 1 58966 196 7

Meyer, Helmut and Bernhard Schneider, Mission und Diakonie. Die Geschichte der Evangelischen Gesellschaft des Kantons Zürich. (Mitteilungen der Antiquarischen Gesellschaft in Zürich, 78.) Pp. 226 incl. 45 ills. Zürich: Chronos, 2011. €43 (paper). 978 3 0340 1060 3

Moura, Maria Lúcia de Brito, A guerra religiosa na I República. 2nd revised edn. (Estudos de História Religiosa, 8.) Pp. 637 incl. 11 ills. Lisbon: Universidade Católica Portuguesa/Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, 2010. €30 (paper). 978 972 8361 32 7

Paoli, Ugo, I processi informativi per la nomina dei vescovi di Trento nell'Archivio Segreto Vaticano (secoli XVII–XVIII). (Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico. Fonti, 10.) Pp. 772. Bologna: il Mulino, 2010. €48 (paper). 978 88 15 13998 6

Perna, Valerio, Relazioni tra Santa Sede e repubbliche baltiche (1918–1940). Monsignor Zecchini diplomatico. Pp. 238+8 plates. Udine: Forum, 2010. €14.50 (paper). 978 88 8420 620 6

Pinto, Sérgio Ribeiro, Separação religiosa como modernidade. Decreto-lei de 20 de Abril de 1911 e modelos alternatives. (Estudos de História Religiosa, 9.) Pp. 255 incl. 6 ills. Lisbon: Universidade Católica Portuguesa/Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, 2011. 978 972 8361 35 8

Puzynin, Andrey P., The tradition of the gospel Christians. A study of their identity and theology during the Russian, soviet, and post-soviet periods. Pp. xl+313. Eugene, Or: Pickwick Publications, 2010. $39 (paper). 978 1 60608 999 6

Raber, Mary and Peter F. Penner (eds), History and mission in Europe. Continuing the conversation. Pp. 420. Schwarzenfeld: Neufeld/Elkhart, In: Institute of Mennonite Studies, 2011. €19,90 (paper). 978 3 937896 98 4

Rivers, Isabel and David L. Wykes (eds), Dissenting praise. Religious dissent and the hymn in England and Wales. Pp. xiii+299 incl. 8 musical examples. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £65. 978 0 19 954524 7

Robbins, Keith (ed.), Political and legal perspectives. (KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society. The Dynamics of Religious Reform in Northern Europe 1780–1920, 1.) Pp. 248 incl. 33 ills. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2010. €69.50. 978 90 5867 825 6

Rowland, Christopher, Blake and the Bible. Pp. xx+289 incl. 27 ills+25 colour plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2010. £30. 978 0 300 11260 3

Sadler, Gregory B. (ed. and trans.), Reason fulfilled by revelation. The 1930s Christian philosophy debates in France. Pp. ix+317. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2011. $64.95. 978 0 8132 1721 5

Vadan, Mariuca, La relazioni diplomatiche tra la Santa Sede e la Romania (1920–1948). Pp. 310 incl. 6 ills. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2001. €18 (paper). 88 209 7216 6

Vandermeersch, Bernard, Comme il importe au bien de l'église et de l'état. L'opposition de l'épiscopat belgique aux réformes ecclésiastiques de Joseph II (1780–1790). (Bibliothèque de la Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique, 94.) Pp. 498. Louvain-la-Neuve: Université catholique de Louvain, 2010. €55 (paper).

Van Eijnatten, Joris and Paula Yates (eds), The Churches. (KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society. The Dynamics of Religious Reform in Northern Europe 1780–1920, 2.) Pp. 288 incl. 52 ills. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2010. €69.50 978 90 5867 826 3

Weinhardt, Joachim (ed.), Albrecht Ritschls Briefwechsel mit Adolf Harnack, 1875–1889. Pp. xi+502. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. €99. 978 3 16 150132 6

Wheeler-Barclay, Marjorie, The science of religion in Britain, 1860–1915. (Victorian Literature and Culture.) Pp. xi+314. Charlottesville–London: University of Virginia Press, 2010. $45. 978 0 8139 3010 7

Wolfe, Judith and Brendan N. Wolfe (eds), C. S. Lewis and the Church. Essays in honour of Walter Hooper. Pp. xi+193. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2011. £60. 978 0 467 04736 6

Africa, Asia and Australasia

Cao, Nanlai, Constructing China's Jerusalem. Christians, power, and place in contemporary Wenzhou. (Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific.) Pp. xii+218 incl. 3 maps, 15 figs and 1 table. Stanford, Ca: Stanford University Press, 2011. $55 (cloth), $21.95 (paper). 978 0 8047 7080 4; 978 0 8047 7360 7

Chatterjee, Nandini, The making of Indian secularism. Empire, law and Christianity, 1830–1960. (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies.) Pp. xiv+337 incl. 12 ills and 2 tables. Basingstoke–New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. £65. 978 0 230 22005 8

Küster, Volker, A Protestant theology of passion. Korean Minjung theology revisited. (Studies in Systematic Theology, 4.) Pp. xx+209 incl. 51 black-and-white and colour plates. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2010. €99. 978 90 04 18661 3; 1573 4188

Marshall, Ruth, Political spiritualities. The Pentecostal revolution in Nigeria. Pp. x+349. Chicago–London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. $24 (paper). 978 0 226 50712 5; 978 0 226 50713 2

Martin, Phyllis M., Catholic women of Congo-Brazzaville. Mothers and sisters in troubled times. Pp. xvi+263 incl. 13 ills and 3 maps. Bloomington, In: Indiana University Press, 2009. $24.95 (paper). 978 0 253 35281 1; 978 0 253 22055 4

The Americas

Beneke, Chris and Christopher S. Grenda (eds), The first prejudice. Religious tolerance and intolerance in early America. (Early American Studies.) Pp. vi+401. Philadelphia–Oxford: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. £29.50 ($45). 978 0 8122 4270 6

Holland, David F., Sacred borders. Continuing revelation and canonical restraint in early America. Pp. ix+286. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £40. 978 0 19 975361 1

Howard, Thomas Albert, God and the Atlantic. America, Europe, and the religious divide. Pp. xiii+256. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £25. 978 0 19 956551 1

Mason, Patrick Q., The Mormon menace. Violence and anti-Mormonism in the postbellum south. Pp. xi+252 incl. 1 table and 16 figs. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £18.99. 978 0 19 974002 4

Sehat, David, The myth of American religious freedom. Pp. ix+356. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £18.99. 978 0 19 538876 3

Tucker, Cynthia Grant, No silent witness. The Eliot parsonage women and their Unitarian world. Pp. ix+344 incl. 6 tables and 52 ills. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £22.50. 978 0 19 539020 9

General : Modern world

Bruce, Steve, Secularization. In defence of an unfashionable theory. Pp. ix+243.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £25. 978 0 19 958440 6

Carey, Hilary M., God's empire. Religion and colonialism in the British world, c. 1801–1908. Pp. xxiii+421 incl. 1 fig, 6 maps and 26 tables. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £60. 978 0 521 19410 5

Cohen, David J. and Michael Parsons (eds), Beyond 400. Exploring Baptist futures. Pp. xvi+269. Eugene, Or: Pickwick Publications, 2011. $31 (paper). 978 1 60899 337 6

Gribben, Crawford, Evangelical millennialism in the trans-Atlantic world, 1500–2000. Pp. xv+202. Basingstoke–New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. £50. 978 0 230 00825 0

Kay, William K., Pentecostalism. A very short introduction. Pp. xiv+146 incl. 19 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £7.99 (paper). 978 0 19 957515 2

Lints, Richard, Progressive and conservative religious ideologies. The tumultuous decade of the 1960s. Pp. viii+244. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2010. £50. 978 1 4094 0643 3

Lux-Sterritt, Laurence and Carmen M. Mangion (eds), Gender, Catholicism and spirituality. Women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe, 1200–1900. (Gender and History.) Pp. xvi+204. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. £19.99 (paper). 978 0 230 57760 2; 978 0 230 57761 9

Marín de San Martín, Luis, Le soppressioni del secolo XIX e l'Ordine Agostiniano. Congresso dell'Istituto Storico Agostiniano. Roma 19–23 ottobre 2009. (Studia Augustiniana Historica, 17.) Pp. 792. Rome: Institutum Historicum Augustinianum, 2010.

Paulson, Steve, Atoms and Eden. Conversations on religion and science. Pp. vii+312. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £10.99 (paper). 978 0 19 974316 2

Reddie, Anthony G. (ed.), Black theology, slavery and contemporary Christianity. Pp. xii+229. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2010. £50. 978 0 7546 6727 8

Schelkens, Karim, Catholic theology of revelation on the eve of Vatican II. A redaction history of the schema De fontibus revelationis (1960–1962). (Brill's Series in Church History, 41.) Pp. x+299. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2010. €99. 978 9004 18105 2; 1572 4107

Tanner, Norman, The Church in council. Conciliar movements, religious practice and the papacy from Nicaea to Vatican II. (International Library of Historical Studies, 72.) Pp. xi+249 incl. 2 maps. London–New York: I.B. Tauris, 2011. £56. 978 1 84885 513 7