General

Gordon, Bruce, The Bible. A global history. Pp. x + 515 incl. 36 colour and black-and-white ills. London: Basic Books, 2024. £30. 978 1 529 38344 7

Ancient world

Fernández, Samuel (ed.), Fontes Nicaenae Synodi. The contemporary sources for the study of the Council of Nicaea (304 – 337). (Contexts of Ancient and Medieval Anthropology, 10.) Pp. xxxvi + 302. Leiden–Boston: Brill Schöningh, 2024. €83.18. 978 3 506 79640 0; 2698 3079

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

Baker, Travis R. (ed.), Christian culture and society in later Catholic England. Studies in memory of F. Donald Logan. (Later Medieval Europe, 24.) Pp. xxiv + 651 incl. 10 colour ills and 8 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €178. 978 90 04 69304 3; 1872 7875

Barnaby, James, Religious conflict at Canterbury Cathedral in the late twelfth century. The dispute between the monks and the archbishops, 1184 – 1200. (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, 56.) Pp. xii + 399 incl. 6 maps. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2024. £110. 978 1 78327 766 7

Becker, Julia, Isabel Kimpel, Jonas Narchi and Bernd Schneidmüller (eds), (Er-) Leben von Spiritualität. Die fünf Sinne in religiösen Gemeinschaften des Millelalters. (Klöster als Innovationslabore, 14.) Pp. 406 incl. 34 colour and black-and-white ills and 11 tables. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2024. €59. 978 3 7954 3889 0

Combalbert, Grégory and Chantal Senséby (eds), Écrire à l’ombre des cathedrals. Espace anglo-normand et France de l’Ouest, XI – XIII siècle. (Histoire.) Pp. 413 incl. 29 ills, 16 tables and 16 colour plates. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2024. €28 (paper). 978 2 7535 9435 7; 1255 2364

Jones, Claire Taylor, Fixing the liturgy. Friars, sisters, and the Dominican rite, 1256 – 1516. (The Middle Ages Series.) Pp. xii + 443 incl. 9 ills and 10 tables. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024. £67. 978 1 5128 2568 8

Kangas, Sini, War and violence in the western sources for the First Crusade. (History of Warfare, 143.) Pp. xii + 424 incl. 20 colour figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €145. 978 90 04 69033 22; 1385 7827

Kotecki, Radoslaw, Jacek Maciejewski and Gregory Leighton (eds), Religious rites of war beyond the medieval west, II: Central and Eastern Europe. (Explorations in Medieval Culture, 24/2.) Pp. xviii + 382 incl. 25 colour and black-and-white ills and 1 map. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €103. 978 90 04 68341 9; 2352 0299

Mews, Constant J. and Antti Ijäs (eds and trans.), Salome and the kin of Jesus. The treatises of Maurice of Kirkham and Herbert of Bosham. (British Writers of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period 8; Studies and Texts 237.) Pp. cxxx + 226 incl. 2 figs. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2024. $125. 978 0 88844 237 6

Pjecha, Martin, Theo-politics of the Hussite movement. From reform to revolution. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 246.) Pp. viii + 284. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €112. 978 90 04 70053 6; 1573 4188

Spies, Nancy, The mitre. Its origins and early development. (Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 21.) Pp. xxiv + 357 incl. 294 colour and black-and -white ills and 1 table. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €150. 978 90 04 69104 9; 2212 1187

Strange, William, Notley Abbey. From its foundation by a Norman earl to its dissolution by a Tudor King. A Buckinghamshire house of Augustinian canons. Pp. xii + 308 incl. 57 colour and black-and-white ills. Aylesbury: Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society, 2024. £18 (paper). 978 1 7397037 0 7

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

Azad Haykin, Michael A. G. (ed. and intro.), A ‘phoenix of women’. Puritan spirituality in the letters of Brilliana Harley. (Heritage Classics.) Pp. xvi + 153 incl. frontispiece and 27 ills. Cambridge, On: Heritage Seminary Press, 2024. $19.99 (paper). 978 1 77484 152 5

Barber, Alex W. and Katherine A. East (eds), Radical ideas and the crisis of Christianity in England, 1640 – 1740. The politics of religion. (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History, 51.) Pp. xiv + 291 incl. frontispiece, 1 fig and 2 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2024. £95. 978 1 83765 182 5

Boersma, Karla and Herman J. Selderhuis (eds), Wellbeing in early modern Christianity. Perspectives and practices for a happy life. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 102.) Pp. 286 incl. 14 ills. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024. €140. 978 3 525 50085 9

Brito, Maria Madalena, The slave is a human person. Fernão Pérez’s ‘De restitutione’ and the debate on slavery in early modern Portugal. (Law and Religion in the Early Modern Period, 6.) Pp. xxii + 367. Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2024. €130. 978 3 506 79486 4; 2629 6926

Burton, Simon J. G., Ramism and the reformation of method. The Franciscan legacy in early modernity. (Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. xx + 420 incl. 9 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. £78. 978 0 19 751635 5

Cooper, Trevor, The post-Reformation communion furnishings at St Mary’s, Deerhurst and their context. Deerhurst Lecture 2015. Pp. 72 incl. 39 colour and black-and-white ills. Kings Stanley: Friends of Deerhurst Church, 2024. £10 (paper). 978 0 9942721 5 8

Dirmeier, Ursala, Mary Ward: Schriften und Worte. Gesamtausgabe in deutscher Sprache. (Corpus Catholicorum, 50.) Pp. 420. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2024. €73. 978 3 402 10529 0

Funke, Nikolas M., Faith in war. Religion and the military in Germany, 1500 – 1650. (Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association, 31.) Pp. viii + 238. New York–Oxford: Berghahn, 2024. £99. 978 1 80539 617 8

Gillespie, Raymond, Reforming Galway. Civic society, religious change and St Nicholas’s collegiate church, 1550 – 1750. (Maynooth Historical Studies.) Pp. 221 incl. 10 ills. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2024. £45. 978 1 80151 128 5

Graves, Daniel F. and Scott N. Kindred-Barnes (eds), Richard Hooker and the Christian virtues. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 210.) Pp. xiv + 363. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €115. 978 90 04 44666 3; 1573 5664

Huijgen, Arnold and Karin Maag (eds), Calvin, exile, and religious refugees. Papers of the thirteenth international congress on Calvin research. (Reformed Historical Theology, 78.) Pp. 258. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024. €130. 978 3 525 50081 1

Jordan, Peter N., Naturalism in the Christian imagination. Providence and causality in early modern England. Pp. x + 218. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. £75. 978 1 009 21198 7

Jürgens, Henning P. and Ulrich A. Wien (eds), Rezeption und Memoria der Reformation im östlichen Europa. (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, 142.) Pp. 229 incl. 28 colour and black-and-white ills and 1 table. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024. €70. 978 3 525 57147 7; 0170 365X

Kloes, Andrew and Laura M. Mair (eds), Social Christianity in Scotland and beyond, 1800 – 2000. Essays in honour of Stewart J. Brown. (Scottish Religious Cultures Historical Perspectives.) Pp. xvi + 275 incl. 1 ill. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. £95. 978 1 3995 1589 4

Léonard, Julien and Isabelle Moreau (eds), Enfant, enfance et scandale à l’époque modern. Des guerres de religion à la revocation de l’édit de Nantes. (Histoire et civilisations.) Pp. 324. Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2024. €24 (paper). 978 2 7574 4188 6

Ribhegge, Wilhelm, Das Leben des Erasmus im Spiegel seiner Briefe. (Katholisches Leben und Kirchenreform im Zietalter der Glaubensspaltung, 82.) Pp. 266. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2024. €39 (paper). 978 3 402 11105 5

Slavinski, Sergiej S., Francis Cheynell. Polemic and piety in the divine trinunity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit (1650). (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 209.) Pp. viii + 311. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €104. 978 90 04 68800 1; 1573 5664

Suire, Éric, Catholiques, protestants, minorités religieuses en Europe (1500 – 1700). (Parcours Universitaires, Histoire.) Pp. 294. Bordeaux: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2024. €25 (paper). 979 10 300 1050 3

Svensson, Manfred, The Aristotelian tradition in early modern Protestantism. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century commentaries on the Ethics and the Politics. (Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. xiv + 212. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. £59. 978 0 19 775296 8

Tierno, Alanna Ropchock, The polyphonic mass in early Lutheran central Europe. Pp. xvi + 196 incl. 29 ills and 43 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2024. £80. 978 1 78327 792 6

Tudoire, Ionuţ-Alexandru and Edaniel Benga (eds), The manifold faces of the east. Western images of the post-Byzantine Christian world in the age of Reformation. (Eastern Church Identities, 18.) Pp. xvi + 271 incl. 2 ills. Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2024. €110. 978 3 506 79471 0; 2628 9741

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry, Women and the Reformations. A global history. Pp. xviii + 341 incl. 7 ills, 6 maps and 17 colour plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2024. £25. 978 0 300 26823 2

Modern Europe

Bennett, J. C., A history of pew renting in the Church of England. Pp. xvi + 237 incl. 4 tables. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. £119.99. 978 3 031 54426 2

Bulaitis, John, The tithe war in England and Wales, 1881 – 1936. A curious rural revolt. (Studies in Rural History.) Pp. xx + 333 incl. frontispiece, 11 figs and 1 table. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2024. £75. 978 1 83765 187 0

Díaz-Dorronsoro, José María, The second Vatican Council and the media. The Holy See and the challenge of information management during the last ecumenical council. (Studies on the History of Councils, 2.) Pp. 489. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2024. €69. 978 3 402 25674 9; 2939 9815

Harrison, Peter, Some new world. Myths of supernatural belief in a secular age. Pp. xiv + 467. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £35. 978 1 009 47722 2

Houlihan, Patrick J., Religious humanitarianism during the world wars, 1914 – 1945. (Cambridge Elements – Elements in Modern War.) Pp. iv + 80. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £17 (paper). 978 1 009 47226 5

Nilsson, Mikael, Christianity in Hitler’s ideology. The role of Jesus in National Socialism. Pp. x + 279. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £25.99 (paper). 978 1 009 31497 8

Ploscariu, Iemima, Alternative evangelicals. Challenging nationalism in interwar Romania’s multi-ethnic borderlands. (Central and Eastern Europe, 14.) Pp. xxx + 191 incl. 10 ills, 3 tables and 1 map. Paderborn: Brill-Schöningh, 2024. €114. 978 3 506 79668 4

Smeyers, Kristof, Supernatural bodies. Stigmata in modern Britain and Ireland. Pp. x + 248 incl. 4 ills. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. £85. 978 1 5261 7723 0

Africa, Asia and Australasia

Allender, Tim, Empire religiosity. Convent habits in colonial and postcolonial India. (Studies in Imperialism.) Pp. xvi + 281 incl. 17 ills and 2 maps. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. £85. 978 1 5261 5910 6

McKee, Gary, The politics of reformation. Benjamin Bailey and the CMS in the ecclesiastical development of Travancore. (Studies in Christian Mission, 60.) Pp. xiv + 189. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €95. 978 90 04 69408 8; 0924 9389

Wai, Hung Tak, Redefining heresy and tolerance. Governance of Muslims and Christians in the Qing Empire before 1864. Pp. xx + 259 incl. 3 ills and 6 tables. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2024. HK$480. 978 988 8842 83 4

The Americas

Kagan, Richard L., The inquisition’s inquisitor. Henry Charles Lea of Philadelphia. Pp. viii + 364 incl. 16 ills. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. £58, 978 1 5128 2598 5

General : Modern world

Emich, Birgit, Daniel Sidler, Samuel Weber and Christian Windler (eds), Making saints in a ‘global’ religion. Practices of holiness in early modern Catholicism. (Cultures of Christianity – New Approaches to Early Modern History, 3.) Pp. 514 incl. 46 colour and black and white ills. Leiden: Böhlau, 2024. €95. 978 3 412 52979 6