General

Adams, Reginald H., The college graces of Oxford and Cambridge. Pp. xvi+88. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2013. £9.99 (paper). 978 1 85124 083 8

Rafferty, Oliver P. (ed.), Irish Catholic identities. Pp. xi+386. Manchester–New York: Manchester University Press, 2013. £65. 978 07190 8495 9

Ancient world

Allen, Pauline and Bronwen Neil (eds), Crisis management in late antiquity (410–590 CE). A survey of the evidence from episcopal letters. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 121.) Pp. xiii+284. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €109. 978 90 04 18577 7; 0920 623X

Allison, Dale C., Jr, A critical and exegetical commentary on the epistle of James. (The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments.) Pp. xlix+790. New York–London: Bloomsbury, 2013. £70 ($130). 978 0 567 07740 0

Batllo, Xavier, Ontologie scalaire et polémique trinitaire. Le subordinationisme d'Eunome et la distinction κτιστόν/ἄκτιστον dans le Contre Eunome i de Grégoire de Nysse. (Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum. Ergänzungsband. Kleine Reihe, 10.) Pp. 395. Münster: Aschendorff, 2013. €59. 978 3 402 10917 5

Bumazhnov, Dmitrij (ed.), Christliches Ågypten in der spätantiken Zeit. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 79.) Pp. xi+359 incl. 17 figs. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013. €79 (paper). 978 3 16 152777 7; 1436 3003

Burrus, Virginia, The life of Saint Helia. Critical edition, translation, introduction, and commentary. (Oxford Early Christian Texts.) Pp. xi+212. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £90. 978 0 19 967263 9

Cribiore, Raffaella, Libanius the Sophist. Rhetoric, reality, and religion in the fourth century. (Townsend Lectures/Cornell Studies in Classical Philology.) Pp. x+260 incl. frontispiece. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2013. $49.95. 978 0 8014 5207 9

Dignas, Beate, Robert Parker and Guy G. Stroumsa (eds), Priests and prophets among pagans, Jews and Christians. (Studies in the History and Anthropology of Religion, 5.) Pp. xi+248. Leuven–Paris-Walpole, Ma: Peeters, 2013. €47 (paper). 978 90 429 2974 6

Franchi, Roberta (ed.), Nonno di Panopoli. Parafrasi del Vangelo di San Giovanni. Canto Sesto. (Biblioteca Patristica.) Pp. 528. Bologna: Centro editorial dehoniano, 2013. €48 (paper). 978 88 10 42063 8

François, Wim and August den Hollander, ‘Wading lambs and swimming elephants’. The Bible for the laity and theologians in the late medieval and early modern era. (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 257.) Pp. xv+412 incl. 58 figs. Leuven–Paris–Walpole, Ma: Peeters, 2012. €84 (paper). 978 90 429 2755 1

Fürst, Alfons, Luise Ahmed, Christian Gers-Uphaus and Stefan Klug (eds), Monotheistische Denkfiguren in der Spätantike. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 81.) Pp. viii+296. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013. €74 (paper). 978 3 16 152385 4; 1436 3003

Goehring, James E., Politics, monasticism, and miracles in sixth century Upper Egypt. A critical edition and translation of the Coptic texts on Abraham of Farshut. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 69.) Pp. xiv+163 incl. 5 plates. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012. €49 (paper). 978 3 16 152214 7; 1436 3003

Gonzalez, Eliezer, The fate of the dead in early third-century North African Christianity. The passion of Perpetua and Felicitas and Tertullian. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 83.) Pp. xii+257. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014. €64 (paper). 978 3 16 152944 3; 1436 3003

Harrison, Carol, Caroline Humfress and Isabella Sandwell (eds), Being Christian in late antiquity. A Festschrift for Gillian Clark. Pp. xii+302 incl. 1 ill. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £65. 978 0 19 965603 5

Iricinschi, Eduard, Lance Jenott, Nicola Denzey Lewis and Philippa Townsend (eds), Beyond the Gnostic Gospels. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 82.) Pp. x+521. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013. €99 (paper). 978 3 16 152834 7; 1436 3003

Kirk, Colin, Death of Augustus. His conversion to Christ. Pp. 308 incl. 47 ills. Bloomington, In: Xlibris, 2013. £13.99 (paper). 978 1 4836 9333 0; 978 1 4836 9332 3

Koester, Nancy, Harriet Beecher Stowe. A spiritual life. (Library of Religious Biography.) Pp. xi+371 incl. 13 ills. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2014. £16.99 ($24) (paper). 978 0 8028 3304 4

Nesselrath, Theresa, Kaiser Julian und die Repaganisierung des Reiches. Konzept und Vorbilder. (Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum. Ergänzungsband Kleine Reihe, 9.) Pp. viii+220. Münster: Aschendorff, 2013. €34. 978 3 402 10916 8

Patterson, Paul A., Visions of Christ. The Anthropomorphite controversy of 399 CE. (Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity, 68.) (Rev. ante lxv. 154–4.) Pp. xi+183.Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012. €49 (paper). 978 3 16 152040 2; 1436 3003

Rhee, Helen, Loving the poor, saving the rich. Wealth, poverty, and early Christian formation. Pp. xx+279. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2012. $29.99 (paper). 978 0 8010 4824 1

Tzamalikos, P., An ancient commentary on the Book of Revelation. A critical edition of the ‘Scholia in Apocalypsin’. Pp. xix+464. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £120. 978 1 107 02694 0

Vinzent, Markus, Marcion and the dating of the Synoptic Gospels. (Studia Patristica Supplements, 2.) Pp. xi+353. Leuven–Paris–Walpole, Ma Peeters, 2014. €78 (paper). 978 90 429 3027 8

Wallace, Daniel B. (with Brittany C. Burnette and Terri Darby Moore (eds.), A reader's lexicon of the Apostolic Fathers. Pp. 250. Grand Rapids, Mi: Kregel, 2013. $34.99. 978 0 8254 3949 0

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

Andersen, Elizabeth, Henrike Lähnemann and Anne Simon (eds), A companion to mysticism and devotion in northern Germany in the late Middle Ages. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 44.) Pp. xxi+429 incl. 11 black-and-white and colour plates. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2014. £169. 978 90 04 25793 1; 1871 6377

Andrews, Frances (with Maria Agata Pincelli), Churchmen and urban government in late medieval Italy, c.1200–c.1450. Cases and contexts. Pp. xvi+411 incl. 9 figs and 2 maps. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £75. 978 1 107 04426 5

Blanchet, Marie-Hélène and Frédéric Gabriel (eds), Réduire le schisme? Ecclésiologies et politiques de l'Union entre Orient et Occident (XIIIe–XVIIIe siècle). (Monographies, 39.) Pp. vi+377. Paris: ACHCByz, 2013. €30 (paper). 978 2 916716 40 4; 0751 0594

Clarke, Peter D. and Patrick N. R. Zutshi (eds), Supplications from England and Wales in the registers of the apostolic penitentiary, 1410–1503, II: 1492–1503. (Canterbury and York Society, 104.) Pp. xvi+438. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Canterbury and York Society), 2014. £35. 978 0 907239 77 2

Cooper, Lisa H. and Andrea Denny-Brown (eds), The ‘Arma Christi’ in medieval and early modern material culture. With a critical edition of ‘O Vernicle’. Pp. xv+408 incl. 29 ills+29 colour plates. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2014. £85. 978 1 4094 5676 6

De Hemptinne, Thérèse, Veerle Fraeters and María Eugenia Góngora (eds), Speaking to the eye. Sight and insight through text and image (1150–1650). (Medieval Identities: Socio-Cultural Spaces, 2.) Pp. xx+313 incl. 8 colour plates and 36 figs. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €90. 978 2 503 53420 6

Diesenberger, Maximilian, Yitzhak Hen and Marianne Pollheimer (eds), Sermo doctorum. Compilers, preachers, and their audiences in the early medieval West. (Studies on Patristic, Medieval, and Reformation Sermons and Preaching, 9.) Pp. ix+454 incl. 2 figs and 5 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €110. 978 2 503 53515 9

Field, Sean L., Robert E. Lerner and Sylvain Piron (eds), Marguerite Porete et le ‘Miroir des simples âmes’. Perspectives historiques, philosophiques et littérairers. (Études de Philosophie Médiévale, 102.) Pp. 362. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2013. €34 (paper). 978 2 7116 2524 6; 0249 7921

Forbes, Helen Foxhall, Heaven and earth in Anglo-Saxon England. Theology and society in an age of faith. (Studies in Early Medieval Britain.) Pp. xvi+394 incl. 2 figs and 6 tables. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £85. 978 1 4094 2371 3

Gaposchkin, M. Cecilia and Sean L. Field (eds) (trans. Larry F. Field), The sanctity of Louis IX. Early Lives of Saint Louis by Geoffrey of Beaulieu and William of Chartres. Pp. xviii+197 incl. 3 maps and 5 figs. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2014. $69.96 (cloth), $18.95 (paper). 978 0 8014 5137 9; 978 0 8014 7818 5

Giraud, Cédric, Notre-Dame de Paris, 1163–2013. Actes du colloque scientifique tenu au Collège des Bernardins, à Paris, du 12 au 15 décembre 2012. Pp. 658 incl. 5 figs+48 colour plates. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €118.49. 978 2 503 54937 8

Harvey, Katherine, Episcopal appointments in England, c.1214–1344. From episcopal election to papal provision. (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West.) Pp. xviii+334 incl. 3 figs and 3 tables. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2014. £75. 978 1 4094 5615 5

Hawkes-Teeples, Steven, Bert Groen and Stefanos Alexopoulos (eds), Studies on the liturgies of the Christian east. Selected papers of the third international congress of the Society of Oriental Liturgy, Volos, May 26–30, 2010. (Eastern Christian Studies, 18.) Pp. x+305 incl. 3 ills. Leuven–Paris–Walpole, Ma: Peeters, 2013. €69 (paper). 978 90 429 2749 0

Jaser, Christian, Ecclesia maledicens. Rituelle und zeremonielle Exkommunikationsformen im Mittelalter. (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation, 75.) Pp. xiii+638 incl. 7 ills and 48 tables. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013. €119. 978 3 16 151927 7; 1865 2840

Jones, E. A. (ed.), ‘Speculum Inclusorum’. A mirror for recluses. A late-medieval guide for anchorites and its Middle English translation. (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies.) Pp. lxxix+157+2 colour and 2 black-and-white plates. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013. £75. 978 0 85989 885 0

Kienzel, Beverly Maine, Debra L. Stoudt and George Ferzoco (eds), A companion to Hildegard of Bingen. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 45.) Pp. xix+360 incl. 8 musical examples, 4 tables and 1 fig. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2014. €149. 978 90 04 26070 2; 1871 6377

McCarthy, T. J. H. (trans. and anno.), Chronicles of the Investiture Contest. Frutolf of Michelsberg and his continuators. (Manchester Medieval Sources.) Pp. xix+324 incl. 4 maps and genealogical table. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. £17.99 (paper). 978 0 7190 8469 0; 978 0 7190 8470 6

Marenbon, John, Abelard in four dimensions. A twelfth-century philosopher in his context and ours. (The Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies, 2009.) Pp. x+285. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. $34 (paper). 978 0 268 03530 3

Mayhew, Graham, The monks of Saint Pancras. Lewes priory, England's premier Cluniac monastery and its dependencies, 1076–1537. Pp. 484 incl. 30 figs. Lewes: Lewes History Press, 2014. £45. 978 0 9926984 0 9

Mertens, Volker, Hans-Jochen Schiewer, Regina D. Schiewer and Wolfram Schneider-Lastin (eds), Predigt im Kontext. Pp. xiii+572 incl. 23 black-and-white and 2 colour ills. Tübingen: Walter de Gruyter, 2013. €164.95. 978 3 484 64016 0

Mihoc, Justin A. and Leonard Aldea (eds), A celebration of living theology. A Festschrift in honour of Andrew Louth. Pp. xii+260. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. £70. 978 0 5671 4560 4

Morgan, Nigel J. (ed.), English monastic litanies of the saints after 1100, II: Pontefract – York. (Henry Bradshaw Society, 120.) Pp. x+219. London: The Boydell Press (for the Henry Bradshaw Society), 2013. £45. 978 1 90749 727 8; 0144 0241

Owen-Crocker, Gale R. and Brian W. Schneider (eds), Kingship, legislation and power in Anglo-Saxon England. (Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, 13.) Pp. xii+306 incl. 1 map, 10 figs and 3 tables. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2013. £60. 978 1 84383 877 7

Page, Sophie, Magic in the cloister. Pious motives, illicit interests and the occult approaches to the medieval universe. (Magic in History.) Pp. xi+232 incl. 6 ills. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. $79.95. 978 0 271 06033 0

Palliser, D. M., Medieval York, 600–1540. Pp. xxii+332 incl. 8 maps+18 plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £45. 978 0 19 925584 9

Paxton, Frederick S. (with Isabelle Cochelin), The death ritual at Cluny in the central Middle Ages. Le ritual de la mort à Cluny au moyen âge central. (Disciplina Monastica, 9.) Pp. 283 incl. 7 ills+17 colour plates. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €90 (paper). 978 2 503 55010 7

Ryan, James D. (ed.), The spiritual expansion of medieval Latin Christendom. The Asian missions. (The Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000–1500, 11.) Pp. xlv+367 incl. 7 ills. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate Variorum, 2013. £110. 978 0 7546 5957 0

Smoller, Laura Ackerman, The saint and the chopped-up baby. The cult of Vincent Ferrer in medieval and early modern Europe. Pp. xix+343 incl. 23 ills. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2014. $45. 978 0 8014 5217 8

Thornbury, Emily V., Becoming a poet in Anglo-Saxon England. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature.) Pp. xi+325 incl. 11 figs and 15 tables. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. £65. 978 1 107 05198 0

Toomey, James P., Robert N. Swanson and David Guyatt (eds), Noble household management and spiritual discipline in fifteenth-century Worcestershire. A household account of Edward, duke of York at Hanley castle, 1409–10. The visitation court book of Hartlebury, 1401–1598. (Worcestershire Historical Society. New Ser., 24.) Pp. 299 incl. 5 maps and ills. Worcester: The Worcestershire Historical Society, 2013. £28. 0141 4577

Tyler, Peter, Teresa of Avila. Doctor of the soul. Pp. v+223. London–New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. £18.99 (paper). 978 1 4411 8784 0

Wannenmacher, Julia Eva (ed.), Joachim of Fiore and the influence of inspiration. Essays in memory of Marjorie E. Reeves (1905–2003). (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West.) Pp. xxii+311 incl. frontispiece. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2014. £70. 978 0 7546 6706 3

Whalen, Brett Edward, The medieval papacy. (European History in Perspective.) Pp. xi+227 incl. 2 maps. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. £20.99 (paper). 978 0 230 27282 8; 978 0 230 27283 5

Wolfram, Gerda and Christian Troelsgård (eds), Tradition and innovation in late- and postbyzantine liturgical chant, II: Proceedings of the congress held at Hernen Castle, the Netherlands, 30 October–3 November 2008. (Eastern Christian Studies, 17.) Pp. xxiv+328 incl. 8 tables, 1 plate, 51 figs and 50 musical examples. Leuven–Paris–Walpole, Ma: Peeters, 2013. €60 (paper). 978 90 429 2748 3

Woodcock, Alex, Of sirens and centaurs. Medieval sculpture at Exeter Cathedral. Pp. xiv+146 incl. frontispiece and 77 figs. Exeter: Impress Books, 2013. £9.99 (paper). 978 1 907605 43 7

Zanke, Sebastian, Johannes XXII. Avignon und Europa. Das politische Papsttum im Spiegel der kurialen Register (1316–1334). (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 175.) Pp. xxiii+418 incl. 4 graphs and 3 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. 978 90 04 25898 3; 1543 4188

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

Ballor, Jordan J., David S. Sytsma and Jason Zuidema (eds), Church and school in early modern Protestantism. Studies in honor of Richard A. Muller on the maturation of a theological tradition. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 170.) Pp. xxx+800 incl. 4 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €189. 978 90 04 25828 0; 1573 5664

Betteridge, Thomas, Writing faith and telling tales. Literature, politics and religion in the work of Thomas More. (Reformations Medieval and Early Modern.) Pp. xi+257. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. $38 (paper). 978 0 268 02239 6

Céard, Jean and Franco Giacone (eds), Guy le Fèvre de la Boderie. Hymnes ecclesiastiques (1578). Édition critique. (Textes Littéraires Français.) Pp. 567. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014. 978 2 600 01701 5; 0257 4063

Colclough, David (ed.), The Oxford edition of the sermons of John Donne, III: Sermons preached at the court of Charles I. Pp. lv+521 incl. 8 plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £125. 978 0 19 956548 1

Cosby, Brian H., John Flavel. Puritan life and thought in Stuart England. Pp. x+161. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014. $49.95. 978 0 7391 7952 9

Couton, Marie, Isabelle Fernandes, Jérémie Vénaut and Monique Vénaut (ed. with intro. and notes), Francis Trigge. A godly and fruitful sermon preached at Grantham, Oxford, 1595. (CERHAC.) Pp. 162 incl. 4 ills. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2013. €13 (paper). 978 2 84516 599 1

Dils, Joan (ed.), Reading St Laurence churchwardens' accounts, 1498–1570, I: Introduction and accounts, 1498–1536; II: Accounts, 1536–1570 and inventories. (Berkshire Record Society, 19, 20.) Pp. lxx+201 incl. 4 frontispieces, vi+295. Reading: Berkshire Record Society, 2013. £25 each+post and packing, £45 pair+post and packing. 978 0 9573937 0 7; 978 0 9573937 1 4

Fehler, Timothy G., Greta Grace Kroeker, Charles H. Parker and Jonathan Ray (eds), Religious diaspora in early modern Europe. (Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World.) Pp. xv+247 incl. 8 figs. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2014(13). £60. 978 1 84893 445 0

Kaufmann, Matthias and Alexander Aichele (eds), A companion to Luis de Molina. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 50.) Pp. xxxviii+505. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2014. €185. 978 90 04 22823 8; 1871 6377

Keeble, N. H. and Nicholas McDowell (eds), The complete works of John Milton, VI: Vernacular regicide and republican writings. Pp. xx+811 incl. frontispiece and 11 figs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £125. 978 0 19 921805 9

Kirby, Torrance and P. G. Stanwood (eds), Paul's cross and the culture of persuasion in England, 1520–1640. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 171.) Pp. xix+499 incl. 28 ills+colour frontispiece. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2014. €154. 978 90 04 24227 2; 1573 5664

Lehner, Ulrich L., Monastic prisons and torture chambers. Crime and punishment in central European monasteries, 1600–1800. Pp. xi+105. Eugene, Or: Cascade Books, 2013. $15 (paper). 978 1 62564 040 6

Lochman, Daniel T. and Daniel J. Nodes (eds), John Colet on the ‘Ecclesiastical hierarchy’ of Dionysius. A new edition and translation with introduction and notes. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 171. Texts and Sources, 4.) Pp. xv+379 incl. frontispiece and 2 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €139. 978 90 04 25788 7; 1543 4188

Mandelbrote, Scott and Michael Ledger-Lomas (eds), Dissent and the Bible in Britain, c.1650–1950. Pp. xi+323. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £65. 978 0 19 960841 6

Matar, Nabil (ed.), Henry Stubbe and the beginnings of Islam. ‘The originall & progress of Mahometanism’. Pp. xiii+274. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. £34.50. 978 0 231 15664 6

Mattox, Mickey (trans. and intro.), Iohannes Oecolampadius. An exposition of Genesis. (Reformation Texts with Translation, 13.) Pp. 207. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2013. $22 (paper). 978 0 87462 713 8

Mears, Natalie, Alasdair Raffe, Stephen Taylor and Philip Williamson (eds) (with Lucy Bates), National prayers. Special worship since the Reformation, I: Special prayers, fasts and thanksgivings in the British Isles, 1533–1688. (Church of England Record Society, 20.) Pp. clxx+769 incl. 13 ills. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press (for the Church of England Record Society), 2013. £100. 978 1 84383 868 5; 1351 3087

O'Day, Rosemary, The debate on the English Reformation. 2nd edn. (Issues in History.) (First publ. Routledge, 1986: rev. ante xxxix. 636.) Pp. xv+348. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. £16.99 (paper). 978 0 7190 8661 8; 978 0 7190 8662 5

Rhodes, J. T. (ed.), Catalogue des livres provenant des religieuses Angloises de Cambray. Book list of the English Benedictine nuns of Cambrai, c. 1739. (Analecta Cartusiana, 119:42.) Pp. iv+240 incl. frontispiece. Salzburg: Universität Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2013. 978 3 902895-36:3

Seidel, Thomas A. and Christopher Spehr (eds), Das evangelische Pfarrhaus. Mythos und Wirklichkeit. Pp. 224 incl. 11 ills. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2013. €24 (paper). 978 3 374 03341 6

Thalmann, Dom S. (ed.), Bruno de Solis y Valenzuela (1616–1677). El Cisne de los desiertos. Poema Heroico. (Analecta Cartusiana, 294.) Pp. cxviii+376 incl. numerous black-and-white and colour plates. Salzburg: Universität Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2013. 978 3 902895 12 7

Toribio Pérez, Pablo (ed.), Isaac Newton. Historia ecclesiastica. (De origine schismatico ecclesiae papisticae bicornis). (Nueva Roma. Bibliotheca Graeca et Latina Aevi Posterioris, 38.) Pp. 631. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2013. €45. 978 84 00 09736 3

Tutino, Stefania, Shadows of doubt. Language and truth in post-Reformation Catholic culture. Pp. xiii+278. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £50. 978 0 19 932498 9

Wandel, Lee Palmer, A companion to the eucharist in the Reformation. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 46.) Pp. xx+518 incl. 66 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2014. €185. 978 90 04 20410 2; 1871 6377

Yarnell iii, Malcolm B., Royal priesthood in the English Reformation. (Oxford Theology & Religion Monographs.) Pp. xii+320+8 colour plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £70. 978 0 19 968625 4

Modern Europe

Bebbington, David and David Ceri Jones (eds), Evangelicalism and fundamentalism in the United Kingdom during the twentieth century. Pp. xiii+409. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £75. 978 0 19 966483 2

Corrin, Jay P., Catholic progressives in England after Vatican II. Pp. x+524. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. $49 (paper). 978 0 268 02310 2

Farooq, Jennifer, Preaching in eighteenth-century London. (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 30.) Pp. xi+348 incl. 1 map, 2 tables and 20 figs. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2013. £65. 978 1 84383 871 5

Fejérdy, András, La chiesa cattolica dell'Europa centro-orientale di fronte al comunismo. Atteggiamenti, strategie, tattiche. (Bibliotheca Academiae Hungariae – Roma. Studia, 2.) Pp. 218. Rome: Viella, 2013. €22 (paper). 978 88 6728 151 0

Finch, Greg (ed.), A pack of idle sparks. Letters from Hexham on the church, the people, corruption and scandal, 1699–1740. Pp. x+310 incl. 12 figs. Hexham: Hexham Local History Society, 2013. £27 (cloth), £18 (paper). 978 0 9565078 5 3; 978 0 9565078 4 6

Fogleman, Aaron Spencer, Two troubled souls. An eighteenth-century couple's spiritual journey in the Atlantic world. Pp. xiii+321 incl. 29 figs, 8 maps and 2 tables. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. $39.95. 978 1 4696 0879 2

Hamm, Berndt (foreword Timothy Wengert), The early Luther. Stages in a reformation reorientation. (Lutheran Quarterly Books.) (Trans. by Martin J. Lohrmann of Der frühe Luther. Etappen reformatorischer Neuorientierung, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010.) Pp. xix+286. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2014. £23.99 ($36) (paper). 978 0 8028 6924 1

Hammann, Konrad, Herman Gunkel. Eine Biographie. Pp. xii+439 incl. 40 figs. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014. €49. 978 3 16 150446 4

Hernán, Enrique García and M. Carmen Lario de Oñate (eds), La presencia irlandesa durante las Cortes de Cádiz en España y América, 1812. The Irish presence at the Cortes of Cadiz. (Colección Historia de España y su proyección internacional, 6.) Pp. 437 incl. 30 tables, 1 graph, 1 fig and 8 ills. Valencia: Albatros Ediciones, 2013. €28. 978 84 7274 310 6

Hurskainen, Heta, Ecumenical social ethics as the world changed. Socio-ethical discussion in the ecumenical dialogue between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, 1970–2008. (Schriften der Luther-Agricola-Gesellschaft, 67.) Pp. 531. Helsinki: Luther-Agricola-Society, 2013. €30 (paper). 978 951 9047 75 1; 1236 9675

McNutt, Jennifer Powell, Calvin meets Voltaire. The clergy of Geneva in the age of Enlightenment, 1685–1798. Pp. xv+358 incl. 5 ills and 5 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £70. 978 1 4094 2441 3

Park, Trevor, ‘Nolo episcopari’. A life of C. J. Vaughan, 1816–1897. Pp. 446 incl. frontispiece. Cumbria: St Bega Publications, 2013. £14 (paper). 978 0 9508325 4 8

Peart-Binns, John S., Herbert Hensley Henson. A biography. Pp. 211 incl. 3 ills. Cambridge: The Lutterworth Press, 2013. £25 (paper). 978 0 7188 9302 6

Pope, Robert (ed.), T&T Clark companion to Nonconformity. Pp. x+751. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. £100. 978 0 567 50526 2

Pritchard, John, Methodists and their missionary societies, 1900–1996. (Ashgate Methodist Studies.) Pp. xxxii+333 incl. 21 ills and 9 maps. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2014. £75. 978 1 4724 0914 0

Tennant, Bob, Corporate holiness. Pulpit preaching and the Church of England missionary societies, 1760–1870. Pp. xii+342 incl. 20 tables. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £65. 978 0 19 956785 0

Van Osselaer, Tine, The pious sex. Catholic constructions of masculinity and femininity in Belgium, c.1800–1940. Pp. 272 incl. 5 ills. Leuven: Leuven University Press/Presses Universitaires de Louvain/Universitaire Pers Leuven, 2013. €49.50 (paper). 978 90 5867 950 5

Vgenopoulos, Maximos (foreword His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew), Primacy of the Church from Vatican I to Vatican II. An Orthodox perspective. Pp. x+217. DeKalb, Il: Northern Illinois University Press, 2013. $35. 978 0 87580 473 6

Vickers, John A. (ed.), The letters of Dr. Thomas Coke. (Kingswood Books.) Pp. xx+787. Nashville, Tn: Abingdon Press, 2013. $89.99 (paper). 978 1 4267 5771 6

Welch, Edwin, Spiritual pilgrim. A reassessment of the life of the countess of Huntingdon. (First publ. 1995: rev. ante xlvii. 755.) Pp. xvi+233 incl. genealogical table+6 plates. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013. £19.99 (cloth). 978 1 7831 6002 0

Whan, Robert, The Presbyterians of Ulster, 1680–1730. (Irish Historical Monographs, 10.) Pp. xiv+252 incl. 2 maps, 4 tables and 10 figs. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2013. £65. 978 1 84383 872 2

Widmer, Kurt, Unter Zions Panier. Mormonism and its interaction with Germany and its people, 1840–1990. (Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv. Studien der Berliner Gesellschaft für Missionsgeschichte, 21.) Pp. ii+406. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2013. €64 (paper). 978 3 515 10419 7

Zachhuber, J., Theology as science in nineteenth-century Germany. From F. C. Baur to Ernst Troeltsch. (Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology.) Pp. xiii+318. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £75. 978 0 19 964191 8

Africa, Asia and Australasia

Mohr, Adam, Enchanted Calvinism. Labor migration, afflicting spirits, and Christian therapy in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora.) Pp. xiii+234 incl. 3 maps and 18 figs. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2013. £55. 978 1 58046 462 8

The Americas

Giussani, Luigi, American Protestant theology. A historical sketch. (Trans. by Damian Bacich of Hildephonsiana, Venegono Inferiore (Varese): La scuola cattolica, 1969.) Pp. xxxiv+238. Montreal & Kingston–London–Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. £67. 978 0 7735 4197 9

Gundlach, Bradley J., Process and providence. The evolution question at Princeton, 1845–1929. Pp. xiv+374+ 20 ills. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2013. £25.99 ($39) (paper). 978 0 8028 6898 5

Portier, William L., Divided friends. Portraits of the Roman Catholic modernist crisis in the United States. Pp. xxiii+405 incl. 4 ills. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2013. $39.95 (paper). 978 0 8132 2164 9

Turley, Steven E., Franciscan spirituality and mission in new Spain, 1524–1599. Conflict beneath the sycamore tree (Luke 19:1–10). (Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700.) Pp. xi+202. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2014. £70. 978 1 4094 5421 2

Vickers, Jason E. (ed.), The Cambridge companion to American Methodism. (Cambridge Companions to Religion.) Pp. xviii+392 incl. 15 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £55 (cloth), £18.99 (paper). 978 1 107 00834 2; 978 1 107 40105 1

General: Modern world

Clark, Emily and Mary Laven (eds), Women and religion in the Atlantic age, 1550–1900. Pp. ix+220. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £70. 978 0 4094 5274 4

D'Costa, Gavin and Emma Jane Harris (eds), The Second Vatican Council. Celebrating its achievements and the future. Pp. xi+178. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. £16.99 (paper). 978 0 567 24300 3; 978 0 567 17911 1