General

Avis, Paul, Reshaping ecumenical theology. The Church made whole? Pp. x+209. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2010. £19.99 (paper). 978 0 567 07044 9; 978 0 567 19443 5

Bogle, Joanna (ed.), English Catholic heroines. Pp. vii+318. Leominster: Gracewing, 2009. £9.99 (paper). 978 0 85244 185 5

Brackney, William H., Studying Christianity. The critical issues. (Studying World Religions.) Pp. xxvii+161. London–New York: Continuum, 2010. £45 (cloth), £14.99 (paper). 978 0 8264 9885 4; 978 0 8264 9886 1

Cameron, Euan, Enchanted Europe. Superstition, reason, and religion, 1250–1750. Pp. xii+473. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £35. 978 0 19 925782 9

Crisp, Oliver D., God incarnate. Explorations in Christology. Pp. viii+192. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2009. £65 (cloth), £19.99 (paper). 978 0 567 03347 5; 978 0 567 03348 2

Gritsch, Eric W., Toxic spirituality. Four enduring temptations of Christian faith. Pp. viii+199 incl. 9 ills. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009. $22 (paper). 978 0 8006 6441 1

Hill, Jonathan, Dictionary of theologians to 1308. Pp. 589. Cambridge: James Clarke, 2010. £60 (paper). 978 0 227 67970 8

Sax, William S., Johannes Quack and Jan Weinhold (eds), The problem of ritual efficacy. (Oxford Ritual Studies.) Pp. ix+193. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £19.99 (paper). 978 0 19 539440 5; 978 0 19

Swinburne, Richard, Is there a God? Revised edn. Pp. vii+129. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2010 (first publ. 1996). £7.99 (paper). 978 0 19 958043 9

Swinburne, Richard, Was Jesus God? Pp. v+177. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. £7.99 (paper). 978 0 19 920311 6; 978 0 19 958044 6

Ancient world

Alexopoulos, Stefanos, The presanctified liturgy in the Byzantine rite. A comparative analysis of its origins, evolution, and structural components. Pp. xvi+358. Leuven: Peeters, 2009. €55 (paper). 978 90 429 2109 2

Alpi, Frédéric, La Route royale. Sévère d'Antioche et les Églises d'Orient (512–518), I: Texte; II: Sources et documents. (Bibliothèque Archéologique et Historique, 188.) Pp. viii+369 incl. 16 plates and 10 figs; v+182 incl. frontispiece and 14 figs. Beyrouth: Institut Français du Proche-Orient, 2009. €75. 978 2 34159 154 3; 0768 2506

Ashwin-Siejkowski, Piotr, SCM Studyguide to early Christian doctrine and the creeds. Pp. xxix+248 incl. 13 ills. London: SCM Press, 2010. £18.99 (paper). 978 0 334 04200 6

Bell, Peter N. (trans. with intro and notes), Three political voices from the age of Justinian. Agapetus, Advice to the emperor. Dialogue on political science. Paul the Silentiary, Description of Hagia Sophia. (Translated Texts for Historians, 52.) Pp. x+249. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2009. £19.95 (paper). 978 1 84631 209 0

Benedict xvi (ed. Joseph T. Lienhard), The Fathers of the Church. From Clement of Rome to Augustine of Hippo. (A Giniger Book.) Pp. x+179. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2009. £10.99 ($15) (paper). 978 0 8028 6459 8

Böttrich, Christfried, Geschichte Melchisedeks. Weisheitliche, magische und legendarische Erzählungen. (Jüdische Schriften aus hellenistisch-römischer Zeit, 2. Neue Folge, 1.) Pp. viii+167 incl. 33 figs. Gütesloh: Gütesloher, 2010. €128 (paper). 978 3 579 05246 5

Cain, Andrew and Noel Lenski (eds), The power of religion in late antiquity. Selected papers from the seventh biennial shifting frontiers in late antiquity conference. Pp. xvii+464 incl. 15 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2009. £65. 978 0 7546 6725 4

Caner, Daniel F. (with Sebastian Brock, Richard M. Price and Kevin van Bladel), History and hagiography from the late antique Sinai. Including translations of Pseudo-Nilus' Narrations, Ammonius' Report on the slaughter of the monks of Sinai and Rhaithou, and Anastasius of Sinai's Tales of the Sinai Fathers. (Translated Texts for Historians, 53.) Pp. xii+346 incl. frontispiece and 5 maps and 3 plans. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010. £19.95 (paper). 978 1 84631 216 8

Cline, Eric H., Biblical archaeology. A very short introduction. Pp. xi+156 incl. 10 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. £7.99 (paper). 978 0 19 534263 5

Conti, Marco (ed., trans. and commentary), Priscillian of Avila. The complete works. (Oxford Early Christian Texts.) Pp. xii+344. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £90. 978 0 19 956737 9

Driver, Lisa D. Maugans, Christ at the center. The early Christian era. (The Westminster History of Christian Thought.) Pp. xvii+259. Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009. £19.99 (paper). 978 0 664 22897 2

Engberg-Pedersen, Troels, Cosmology and self in the Apostle Paul. The material spirit. Pp. xv+287. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £65. 978 0 19 955856 8

Giorda, Mariachiara, Monachesimo e istituzioni ecclesiastiche in Egitto. Alcuni casi di interazione e integrazione. (Scienze Religiose. New Ser., 22.) Pp. 179. Bologna: Edizioni Dehoniane Bologna, 2010. €12.60 (paper). 978 88 10 41516 0

Heidl, G. and R. Somos (with C. Németh), Origeniana Nona. Origen and the religious practice of his time. (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 228.) Pp. xiv+757. Leuven: Peeters, 2009. €95 (paper). 978 90 429 2234 1

Hilchenbach, Kai Peter, Das vierte Buch der Historien von Gregor von Tours. Edition mit sprachwissenschaftlich-textkritischem und historischem Kommentar. 2 vols. (Lateinische Sprache und Literatur des Mittelalters, 42.) Pp. x+203; x+205–633. Bern: Peter Lang, 2009. £73 (paper). 978 3 03910 869 5; 0170 9089

Hovhanessian, Vahan S. (ed.), The Old Testament as authoritative Scripture in the early Churches of the east. (Bible in the Christian Orthodox Tradition, 1.) Pp. ix+138. New York: Peter Lang, 2010. £37.10. 978 1 4331 0735 1; 1947 5977

Jansen, Till, Theodor von Mopsuestia. De incarnatione. Überlieferung und Christologie der griechischen und lateinischen Fragmente einschliesslich Textausgabe. (Patristische Texte und Studien, 65.) Pp. xii+311. Berlin–New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. €99.95. 978 3 11 021862 6; 0553 4003

Johnson, Luke Timothy, Among the Gentiles. Greco-Roman religion and Christianity. (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library.) Pp. xi+461. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2009. £25. 978 0 300 14208 2

Jones, Allen E., Social mobility in late antique Gaul. Strategies for the non-elite. Pp. xi+379 incl. map. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. $90. 978 0 521 76239 7

Lössl, Josef, The early Church. History and memory. Pp. viii+247. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2010. £65 (cloth), £19.99 (paper). 978 0 567 46464 4; 978 0 567 16561 9

McDonough, Sean M., Christ as creator. Origins of a New Testament doctrine. Pp. xi+294. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. £65. 978 0 19 957647 0

Minns, Denis, Irenaeus. An introduction. (First publ. 1994: rev. ante xlviii. 133.) Pp. xiv+177. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2010. £60 (cloth), £18.99 (paper). 978 0 567 03365 9; 978 0 567 03366 6

Muraoka, T., A Greek-English lexicon of the Septuagint. Pp. xl+757. Louvain–Paris–Walpole, Ma: Peeters, 2009. €95. 978 90 429 2248 8

Nasrallah, Laura Salah, Christian responses to Roman art and architecture. The second-century Church amid the spaces of empire. Pp. xvi+334 incl. 32 figs. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. $95. 978 0 521 76652 4

Neri, Marino, Ruricio di Limoges. Lettere. (Università di Pavia. Facolià di Lettere e Filosofia, 122.) Pp. 423. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2009. €25 (paper). 978 884672383 3

Origen (ed. C. P. Hammond Bammel, intro. Michel Fédou, trans. Luc Brésard), Commentaire sur l'Épitre aux Romains, I: Livres I-II. (Source Chrétiennes, 532.) Pp. 469. Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 2009. €39 (paper). 978 2 204 09164 0; 0750 1978

Somenzi, Chiara, Egesippo – Ambrogio. Formazione scolastica e Cristiana a Roma alla metà del IV secolo. (Studia Patristica Mediolanensia, 27.) Pp. xii+236. Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2009. €20 (paper). 978 88 343 1827 0

Still, Todd D. and David G. Horrell (eds), After the first urban Christians. The social-scientific study of Pauline Christianity twenty-five years later. Pp. xii+175 incl. 1 fig. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2009. £55 (cloth), £19.99 (paper). 978 0 567 42774 8; 978 0 567 21967 1

Veyne, Paul, When our world became Christian, 312–394. (Trans. by Janet Lloyd of Quand notre Monde est devenu chrétien, Paris: Albin Michel, 2007.) Pp. viii+248. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010. £55 (cloth), £17.99 (paper). 978 0 7456 4498 1; 978 0 7456 4499 8

Wallraff, Martin and Laura Mecella (eds), Die Kestoi des Julius Africanus und ihre Überlieferung. (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur. Archiv für die Ausgabe der Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte, 165.) Pp. vii+395 incl. 6 ills. Berlin–New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006. €99.95. 978 3 11 021958 6; 0082 3589

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

Astås, Reidar (ed.), Stjórn. Tekst etter håndskriftene. 2 vols. (Norrøne Tekster, 8.) Pp. cli+588; iv+589–1324. Oslo: Riksarkivet, 2009. Nkr.400. 978 82 548 0108 6

Baudisch, Susanne and Markus Cottin (eds), Urkunden der Markgrafen von Meissen und Landgrafen von Thüringen, 1196–1234. Register. Auf der Grundlage der Vorarbeiten von Elisabeth Boer (†). (Codex Diplomaticus Saxoniae, 3.) Pp. xii+252. Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2009. €55. 978 3 7752 1902 0

Baumann, Daniel, Stephen Langton. Erzbischof von Canterbury im England der Magna Carta (1207–1228). (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 144.) Pp. xiii+478. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2009. €129. 978 90 04 17680 5; 1573 4188

Bériou, Nicole and Jacques Chiffoleau (eds), Économie et religion. L'expérience des orders mendicants (XXIIIe-XVe siècle). (Collection d'Histoire et d'Archéologie Médiévales. 21.) Pp. 811. Lyon: Presses universitaires de Lyon, 2009. €35 (paper). 978 2 7297 0812 7; 1255 2380

Bertram, Jerome, Vita communis. The common life of the secular clergy. Pp. ix+316. Leominster: Gracewing, 2009. £15.99 (paper). 867 9 85244 201 2

Blythe, James M., The life and works of Tolomeo Fiadoni (Ptolomey of Lucca). (Disputatio, 16.) Pp. xvii+278 incl. frontispiece. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009. €60. 978 205 3 52923 3

Blythe, James M., The worldview and thought of Tolomeo Fiadoni (Ptolomey of Lucca). (Disputatio, 22.) Pp. xvii+278 incl. frontispiece. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009. €60. 978 205 3 52926 4

Cherry, John and Ann Payne (eds), Signs and symbols. (Harlaxton Medieval Studies, 18.) Pp. xvi+224+128 plates. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2009. £49.50. 978 1 900289 98 9

Cooper-Rompato, Christine F., The gift of tongues. Women's xenoglossia in the later Middle Ages. Pp. x+217. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. $75. 978 0 2712 03616 8

Cusato, Michael F. and G. Geltner (eds), Defenders and critics of Franciscan life. Essays in honor of John V. Fleming. (The Medieval Franciscans, 6.) Pp. xv+255 incl. 3 figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2009. €99. 978 90 04 17630 0; 1572 6991

Esch, Arnold, Wahre Geschichten aus dem Mittelalter. Kleine Schicksale selbst erzählt in Schreiben an den Papst. Pp. 223 incl. 25 ills. München: C.H. Beck, 2010. €22.95. 978 3 406 60133 0

Firey, Abigail, A contrite heart. Prosecution and redemption in the Carolingian empire. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 145.) Pp. xvii+294 incl. map and 4 figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2009. €99. 978 90 04 17815 1; 1573 4188

Frost, Christian, Time, space and order. The making of medieval Salisbury. Pp. xviii+279 incl. 92 figs. Oxford–Bern: Peter Lang, 2009. £37. 978 3 03911 943 1

Garnett, George, The Norman conquest. A very short introduction. Pp. xvii+150 incl. 18 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. £7.99 (paper). 978 0 19 280161 6

Graber, Tom (ed.), Die Papsturkunden des Hauptstaatsarchivs Dresden, I: Originale Überlieferung, i:1104–1303. (Codex Diplomaticus Saxoniae, 1.) Pp. lv+379. Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2009. €88. 978 3 7752 1903

Grossus, Geoffrey (trans., intro. and notes Ruth Harwood Cline), The Life of blessed Bernard of Tiron. Pp. xxxiv+179 incl. 2 maps. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2009. $24.95 (paper). 978 0 8132 1681 2

Hauser, Alan J. and Duane F. Watson (eds) (with Schuyler Kaufman), A history of biblical interpretation, II: The medieval through the Reformation periods. Pp. xi+570. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2009. £27.99 ($50). 978 0 8028 4274 9

Heidecker, Karl, The divorce of Lothar II. Christian marriage and political power in the Carolingian world. (Trans. by Tanis M. Guest of Kerk, buwelijk en politieke macht: de zaak Lotharius II (855–869), Amsterdam, 1997.) (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past.) Pp. xi+227 incl. 1 map and 6 genealogical tables. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2010. £27.95 ($45). 978 0 8014 3929 2

Herbers, Klaus and Jochen Johrendt (eds), Das Papsttum und das vielgestaltige Italien. Hundert Jahre Italia pontificia. (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Neue Folge, 5.) Pp. xvi+721. Berlin–New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. €149.95. 978 3 11 021467 3

Immerzeel, M., Identity puzzles. Medieval Christian art in Syria and Lebanon. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 184.) Pp. viii+332 incl. 19 figs and 128 colour plates. Leuven: Peeters/Departement Oosterse Studies, 2009. €80. 978 90 429 2149 8

Isaïa, Marie-Céline, Remi de Reims. Mémoire d'un saint, histoire d'une église. (Histoire Religieuse de la France, 35.) Pp. 925. Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 2009. €67 (paper). 978 2 204 08745 2; 1248 6396

Jenkins, David, Holy, holier, holiest. The sacred topography of the early medieval Irish Church. (Studia Traditionis Theologiae. Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology, 4.) Pp. xvi+213. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. €60 (paper). 978 2 503 53316 2

Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari, Gender, miracles, and daily life. The evidence of fourteenth-century canonization processes. (History of Daily Life, 1.) Pp. vii+312. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009. €70. 978 2 503 52958 5

Kerr, Fergus, Thomas Aquinas. A very short introduction. Pp. xiv+130 incl. 21 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. £7.99 (paper). 978 0 19 955664 9

Kroesen, Justin E. A., Staging the liturgy. The medieval altarpiece in the Iberian peninsula. (Liturgia Condenda.) Pp. xiv+467 incl. 3 maps+139 plates. Leuven: Peeters, 2009. €65 (paper). 978 90 429 2116 0

McAvoy, Liz Herbert, Anchoritic traditions of medieval Europe. Pp. xiii+241. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010. £50. 978 1 84383 520 2

Marín de san Martín, Luis, Los Agustinos. Orígenes y espiritualidad. (Studia Augustiniana Historica, 16.) Pp. 312. Rome: Institutum Historicum Augustinianum, 2009.

Maur, Raban and Claude de Turin (texte Latin G. Colvener and L. M. Douglas; intro., trans. and notes Pierre Monat), Deux Commentaires sur le Livre de Ruth. (Sources Chrétiennes, 533.) Pp. 198. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2009. €19 (paper). 978 2 204 09181 7; 0750 1978

Mayr-Harting, Henry, Religion and society in the medieval west, 600–1200. Selected papers. (Variorum Collected Studies, 942.) Pp. x+328 incl. 25 ills and 2 maps. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2010. £72.50. 978 0 7546 6898 5

Meier, Johannes (ed.), Klöster und Landschaft. Das kulturräumliche Erbe der Orden. (Schriftenreihe des Westfälischen Heimatbundes.) Pp. 144 incl. 74 ills. Münster: Aschendorff, 2010. €19,80. 978 3 402 12786 5

Millet, Hélène (ed.), Le Concile de Perpignan (15 novembre 1408–26 mars 1409). Actes du colloque international (Perpignan, 24–26 janvier 2008). (Études Roussillonnaises, 24.) Pp. 231. Canet: Éditions Trabucaire, 2009. €30 (paper). 978 2 84974 104 7; 0998 0091

Mossman, Stephen, Marquard von Lindau and the challenges of religious life in late medieval Germany. The passion, the eucharist, and the Virgin Mary. (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs.) Pp. viii+381. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £65. 978 0 19 957554 1

Page, Christopher, The Christian west and its singers. The first thousand years. Pp. xxiv+692 incl. 3 frontispieces and 96 plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2010. £30. 978 0 300 11257 3

Palmer, James T., Anglo-Saxons in a Frankish world, 690–900. (Studies in the Early Middle Ages, 19.) Pp. xii+326 incl. 2 maps. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009. €70. 978 2 503 51911 1

Petts, David, The early medieval Church in Wales. Pp. 224. Stroud: The History Press, 2009. £17.99 (paper). 978 0 7524 4102 3

Postles, David A., Missed opportunities? Religious houses and the laity in the English high Middle Ages. Pp. xxiv+292 incl. 1 fig. and 7 tables. Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2009. £16 (paper). 978 0 9823867 5 0

Reynolds, Roger E., Studies on medieval liturgical and legal manuscripts from Spain and southern Italy. (Variorum Collected Studies, 927.) Pp. xiv+314 incl. frontispiece and 8 ills. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2009. £75. 978 0 7546 5997 6

Riley-Smith, Jonathan, The First Crusade and the idea of crusading. With a new introduction. Pp. viii+227 incl. 4 maps. London–New York: Continuum, 2009 (first publ. 1986, 1993, 1995). £14.99 (paper). 978 0 8264 3924 6

Riley-Smith, Jonathan, Templars and Hospitallers as professed religious in the Holy Land. (The Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies 2008.) Pp. xi+132 incl. map. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010(9). $25 (paper). 978 0 268 04058 1

Schmidt-Czaia, Bettina and Ulrich S. Soénius (eds), Gedächtnisort. Das historische Archiv der Stadt Köln. Pp. 200. Cologne: Böhlau, 2010. €19.90. 978 3 412 20490 7

Siggins, Ian D. K., A harvest of medieval preaching. The sermon books of Johann Herolt, OP (Discipulus). Pp. vii+335. Bloomington, In: Xlibris, 2009. $29.99 (cloth), $19.99 (paper). 978 1 4415 8042 9; 978 1 4415 8041 2

Tatton-Brown, Tim and John Crook, Salisbury cathedral. The making of a medieval masterpiece. Pp. 128 incl. numerous black-and-white and colour plates. London: Scala, 2009. £16.95 (paper). 978 1 85759 550 5

Thibodeau, Timothy M. (trans.), The Rationale divinorum officiorum of William Durand of Mende. A new translation of the prologue and book one. (Records of Western Civilization.) Pp. xxvii+132. New York–Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2010 (first publ. 2007). £13 ($18.50) (paper). 978 0 231 14180 2; 978 0 231 14181 9

Travis, Peter W., Disseminal Chaucer. Rereading the nun's priest's tale. Pp. xi+444 incl. 6 figs. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. $40 (paper). 978 0 268 04235 6

Vakareliyska, Cynthia (ed.), The Curzon gospel, I: An annotated edition; II: A linguistic and textual introduction. Pp. xli+96 incl. 9 figs; xx+316 incl. 7 figs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. £290. 978 0 19 921677 2; 978 0 19 921678 9; 978 0 19 921679 6

Wright, Brian, Brigid. Goddess, druidess and saint. Pp. 256 incl. 65 ills. Stroud: The History Press, 2009. £18.99 (paper). 978 07524 4865 7

Zimmerling, Peter, Ein Leben für Kirche. Zinzendorf als Praktischer Theologe. Pp. 228. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2010. €15.90 (paper). 978 3 525 57009 8

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

Badir, Patricia, The Maudlin impression. English literary images of Mary Magdalene, 1550–1700. (ReFormations. Medieval and Early Modern.) Pp. xix+300 incl. 37 figs. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009. $38 (paper). 978 0 268 02215 0

Ball, Bryan W., The Seventh-Day Men. Sabbatarians and Sabbatarianism in England and Wales, 1600–2800. Pp. xxxix+429 incl. 4 figs and 7 maps. Cambridge: James Clarke, 2009 (first publ. 1994). £27.50 (paper). 978 0 227 17311 4

Barrow, Julia (ed.), Hereford, 1234–1275. (English Episcopal Acta, 35.) Pp. ci+237. Oxfrord: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2009. £50. 978 0 19 726453 9

Bernard, G. W., Anne Boleyn. Fatal attractions. Pp. x+237+16 plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2010. £20. 978 0 300 16245 5

Bruyneel, Sally, Margaret Fell and the end of time. The theology of the mother of Quakerism. Pp. xi+215. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2010. £26.99 ($39.95). 978 1 602t58 062 6

Corns, Thomas N., Ann, Hughes and David Loewenstein (eds), The complete works of Gerrard Winstanley. 2 vols. Pp. xiii+600; v+465. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. £180. 978 0 19 957606 7

Cornwall, Robert D. and William Gibson (eds), Religion, politics and dissent, 1660–1832. Essays in honour of James E. Bradley. Pp. xiii+254. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2010. £55. 978 0 7546 6384 3

Engammare, Max, On time, punctuality, and discipline in early modern Calvinism. (Trans. by Karin Maag of L'Ordre du temps. L'invention de la ponctualité au XVI e siècle, Geneva: Droz, 2004.) Pp. xiii+270 incl. 15 ills. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. $90. 978 0 521 76997 6

Fata, Márta and Anton Schindling (eds), Calvin und Reformiertentum in Ungarn und Siebenbürgen. Helvetisches Bekenntnis, Ethnie und Politik vom 16. Jahrhundert bis 1918. (Reformationsgeschichtliche Studien und Texte, 155.) Pp. xx+603 incl. 16 colour plates, 38 ills and 5 maps. Münster: Aschendorff, 2010. €58. 978 3 402 11580 0; 0171 3469

Fitch, Audrey-Beth (ed. Elizabeth Ewan), The search for salvation. Lay faith in Scotland, 1480–1560. Pp. xvii+206 incl. frontispiece+25 plates. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2009. £25. 978 1 906566 03 6

François, M. and A. A. den Hollander (eds). Infant milk or hardy nourishment? The Bible for lay people and theologians in the early modern period. (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 221.) Pp. xviii+492 incl. 91 ills. Leuven: Peeters, 2009. €80 (paper). 978 90 429 2144 3

Frymire, John M., The primacy of the postils. Catholics, Protestants, and the dissemination of ideas in early modern Germany. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 147.) Pp. xiii+647. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2010. €129. 978 90 04 18036 9; 1573 4188

García Hernán, Enrique (ed.), Monumenta Borgia, VII: (1550–1566). (Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu, 157.) Pp. 861 incl. frontispiece. Valencia–Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 2009. €35. 978 84 482 5185 7

Geffert, Bryn, Eastern Orthodox and Anglicans. Diplomacy, theology, and the politics of interwar ecumenism. Pp. ix+502+22 plates. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame, 2010. $60. 978 0 268 02975 3

Helm, Paul, Calvin at the centre. Pp. x+355. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £65. 978 0 19 953218 6

Hof, W. J. op't, A. A. den Hollander and F. W. Huisman (eds), De praktijk der godzaligheid. Studies over De practycke ofte oeffeninghe der godtzaligheydt (1620) van Lewis Bayly. Pp. 351 incl. frontispiece and 47 ills. Amstelveen: EON Pers, 2009. €35 (paper). 978 90 77246 33 7

Howard, Deborah and Laura Moretti, Sound and space in Renaissance Venice. Architecture, music, acoustics. Pp. xvi+368 incl. 75 black-and-white, 75 colour ills and numerous plans and graphs. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2009. £30. 978 0 300 14874 9

Johnson, Trevor, Magistrates, madonnas and miracles. The Counter Reformation in the upper Palatinate. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xv+362 incl. 1 map and 14 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2009. £65. 978 0 7546 6480 2

Jung, Martin H., Philipp Melanchthon und seine Zeikt. Pp. 168. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010. €14.40. 978 3 525 55006 9

Kasl, Ronda (ed.), Sacred Spain. Art and belief in the Spanish world. Pp. 357 incl. numerous black-and-white and colour plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2009. £45. 978 0 300 15471 9

Keul, István, Early modern religious communities in east-central Europe. Ethnic diversity, denominational plurality, and corporative politics in the principality of Transylvania (1526–1691). (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 143.) Pp. xvii+318 incl. 3 maps and 40 figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2009. €99. 978 9004 17652 2; 1573 4188

Kirby, Torrance, Emidio Campi and Frank A. James iii (eds), A companion to Peter Martyr Vermigli. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 16.) Pp. xviii+541 incl. frontispiece and 6 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2009. €163. 978 90 04 17554 9; 1871 6377

Knutsen, Gunnar W., Servants of Satan and masters of demons. The Spanish inquisition's trials for superstition, Valencia and Barcelona, 1478–1700. (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 17.) Pp. xvii+230 incl. 5 figs, 2 tables and 1 map. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009. €60. 978 2 503 52861 8

Maryks, Robert Aleksander, The Jesuit order as a synagogue of Jews. Jesuits of Jewish ancestry and purity-of-blood laws in the early society of Jesus. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 146.) Pp. xxxiii+282 incl. map and 17 figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2010. €99. 978 9004 17981 3; 1573 4188

Pak, G. Sujin, The Judaizing Calvin. Sixteenth-century debates over the messianic psalms. (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. xi+216. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £40. 978 0 19 537192 5

Rummel, Erika (ed. and trans.) (with Milton Kooistra), The correspondence of Wolfgang Capito, II: 1524–1531. Pp. xxix+537. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. £108 ($165). 978 0 8020 9955 6

Salemink, Theo (ed.), You will be called repairer of the breach. The diary of J.G.M. Willebrands, 1958–1961. (Instrumenta Theologica, 32.) Pp. vii+450. Leuven: Peeters, 2009. €44 (paper). 978 90 429 2257 0

Scheible, Heinz, Aufsätze zu Melanchthon. (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation, 49.) Pp. x+481. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. €99. 978 3 16 150234 7; 1865 2840

Schofield, John, Cromwell to Cromwell. Reformation to civil war. Pp. 288+31 ills. Stroud: The History Press, 2009. £20. 978 0 7524 5154 1

Sypher, Francis J., Jr. (ed. and trans.), Liber A. 1628–1700 of the collegiate churches of New York. (The Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America, 62.) Pp. lxvii+372 incl. 11 ills. Grand Rapids, Mi: Eerdmans, 2009. £32.99 ($49). 978 0 8028 6509 0

Totaro, Giunia, L'Autobiographie d'Athanasius Kircher. L'écriture d'un jésuite entre vérité et invention au seuil de l'œuvre. Introduction et traduction française et italienne. (Liminaires. Passages interculturels italo-ibériques, 14.) Pp. xiv+432. Bern: Peter Lang, 2009. £59.20 (paper). 978 3 03911 793 2; 1660 1505

Valente, Michael, Contro l'inquisizione. Il dibattito europeo secc. XVI–XVIII. (Collana della Società di Studi Valdesi, 29.) Pp. 232. Turin: Claudiana, 2009. €20 (paper). 978 88 7016 745 0

Whitford, David M., The curse of Ham in the early modern era. The Bible and the justifications for slavery. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xvii+226 incl. 11 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2009. £60. 978 0 7546 6625 7

Wright, William J., Martin Luther's understanding of God's two kingdoms. A response to the challenge of skepticism. (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought.) Pp. 208. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2010. $22.99 (paper). 978 0 8010 3884 6

Modern Europe

Altermatt, Urs, Konfession, Nation und Rom. Metamorphosen im schweizerischen und europäischen Katholizismus des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Pp. 447. Stuttgart–Vienna: Huber, 2009. €39,90. 978 3 7193 1457 6

Arnold, Claus and Giacomo Losito (eds), La Censure d'Alfred Loisy (1903). Les documents des Congrégations de l'Index et du Saint Office. (Fontes Archivi Sancti Officii Romani, 4.) Pp. 461. Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2009. €40 (paper). 978 88 209 8318 5

Beyer, Gerald J., Recovering solidarity. Lessons from Poland's unfinished revolution. (Catholic Social Tradition.) Pp. x+325. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. $40 (paper). 978 0 268 02216 7

Bonney, Richard (ed. and trans.), Confronting the Nazi war on Christianity. The Kulturkampf newsletters, 1936–1939. (Studies in the History of Religious and Political Pluralism, 4.) Pp. ix+580 incl. frontispiece and 4 ills. Oxford–Bern: Peter Lang, 2009. £50. 978 3 03911 904 2; 1661 1985

Büchele, Markus, Autorität und Ohnmacht. Der Nordirlandkonflikt und die katholische Kirche. (Historische Mitteilungen im Auftrage der Ranke-Gesellschaft, 77.) Pp. 511. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2009. €80 (paper). 978 3 515 09421 4

Butturini, Lucia (ed.), Nelle mani di Dio a servizio dell'uomo. I diari di don Roncalli, 1905–1925. (Edizione nazionale dei diari di Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli – Giovanni xxiii, 2.) Pp. xlvii+598. Bologna: Istituto per le scienze religiose, 2008. €50. 978 88 901107 5 7

De Vingt-Trois, Cardinal André, Vatican II. Une Boussole pour notre temps. Plus de quarante ans après, qu'est devenu le Concile? (Confèrences de Carême à Notre-Dame de Paris.) Pp. 160. Paris: Parole et Silence, 2010. €15 (paper). 978 2 84573 853 9

Dunstan, John, Sarah Biller of St Petersburg. A Sheffield teacher in 19th century Russia. Pp. x+150 incl. frontispiece, 18 ills and 1 genealogical table. York: William Sessions, 2009. £8.99 (paper)+£2.50 post and packing from Sessions of York, Huntington Road, York YO31 9HS. 978 1 85072 399 8

Elton, Benjamin J., Britain's chief rabbis and the religious character of Anglo-Jewry, 1880–1970. Pp. ix+290. Manchester–New York: Manchester University Press, 2009. £60. 978 0 7190 7965 8

Erdozain, Dominic, The problem of pleasure. Sport, recreation and the crisis of Victorian religion. (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 22.) Pp. x+303+8 ills. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010. £60. 978 1 84383 528 8

Faggioli, Massimo (ed.), Tener da conto. Agendine di Bulgaria, 1925–1934. (Edizione nazionale dei diari di Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli – Giovanni xxiii, 3.) Pp. l+285. Bologna: Istituto per le scienze religiose, 2008. €50. 978 88 901107 5 7

Fouilloux, Étienne (ed.), Anni di Francia, I: Agende del nunzio, 1945–1948. (Edizione nazionale dei diari di Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli – Giovanni xxiii, 5.1.) Pp. xxviii+595. Bologna: Istituto per le scienze religiose, 2004. €50. 88 901107 1 6

Fouilloux, Étienne (ed.), Anni di Francia, II: Agende del nunzio, 1949–1953. (Edizione nazionale dei diari di Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli – Giovanni xxiii, 5.2.) Pp. xxii+725. Bologna: Istituto per le scienze religiose, 2006. €50. 88 901107 9 1

Galavotti, Enrico (ed.), Pace e Vangelo. Agende del patriarca, I: 1953–1955. (Edizione nazionale dei diari di Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli – Giovanni xxiii, 6.1.) Pp. xxxiii+697. Bologna: Istituto per le scienze religiose, 2008. €50. 978 88 901107 4 0

Galavotti, Enrico (ed.), Pace e Vangelo. Agende del patriarca, II: 1956–1958. (Edizione nazionale dei diari di Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli – Giovanni xxiii, 6.2.) Pp. xxxvi+811. Bologna: Istituto per le scienze religiose, 2008. €50. 978 88 901107 6 4

Greene, Robert H., Bodies like bright stars. Saints and relics in Orthodox Russia. Pp. xii+299 incl. frontispiece and 16 figs. DeKalb, Il: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010. $42. 978 0 87580 409 5

Kenis, Leo, Jaak, Billiet and Patrick Pasture (eds), The transformation of the Christian Churches in western Europe, 1945–2000. La transformation des églises chrétiennes en Europe occidentale. (KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society, 6.) Pp. 352. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2010. €36 (paper). 978 90 5867 665 8

Kowalsky, Sharon A., Deviant women. Female crime and criminology in revolutionary Russia, 1880–1930. Pp. xii+314 incl. 11 tables. DeKalb, Il: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009. $42. 978 0 87580 406 4

Kozelsky, Mara, Christianizing Crimea. Shaping sacred space in the Russian empire and beyond. Pp. xiii+270 incl. frontispiece, 17 ills and 4 tables. DeKalb, Il: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010. $42. 978 0 87580 412 5

Lewis, Donald M., The origins of Christian Zionism. Lord Shaftesbury and Evangelical support for a Jewish homeland. Pp. xiii+365 incl. 25 ills. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. $90. 978 0 521 51518 4

Martano, Valeria (ed.), La mia vita in oriente. Agende del delegato apostolico, I: 1935–1939. (Edizione nazionale dei diari di Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli – Giovanni xxiii, 4.1.) Pp. xxxiii+823. Bologna: Istituto per le scienze religiose, 2006. €50. 88 901107 7 5

Martano, Valeria (ed.), La mia vita in oriente. Agende del delegato apostolico, II: 1940–1944. (Edizione nazionale dei diari di Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli – Giovanni xxiii, 4.2.) Pp. xxi+865. Bologna: Istituto per le scienze religiose, 2008. €50. 978 88 96118 01 6

Melloni, Alberto (ed.), Il giornale del'anima. Soliloqui, note e diari spirituali. (Edizione nazionale dei diari di Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli – Giovanni xxiii, 1.) Pp. xlviii+546. Bologna: Istituto per le scienze religiose, 1987. €50. 88 901107 0 8

Melloni, Alberto and Giuseppe Ruggieri (eds), Chi ha paura del Vaticano II? Pp. 151. Rome: Carocci, 2009. £16.50 (paper). 978 88 430 4811 3

Schlingensiepen, Ferdinand, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906–1945. Martyr, thinker, man of resistance. (Trans. by Isabel Best of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906–1945. Eine Biographie, München: C.H. Beck, 2006.) Pp. xxix+439 incl 45 ills. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2010. £19.99. 978 0 567 03400 7

Scholes, Andrew, The Church of Ireland and the third Home Rule Bill. (New Directions in Irish History.) Pp. vi+183. Dublin–Portland, Or: Irish Academic Press, 2010. €39.95 (£45). 978 0 7165 3052 7

Skinner, Barbara, The western front of the eastern Church. Uniate and orthodox conflict in 18th-century Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. Pp. xvi+295 incl. 4 maps. DeKalb, Il: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009. $42. 978 0 87580 407 1

Talar, C. J. T. (ed.), Modernists and mystics. Pp. xiii+153. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009. £37.50 ($44.95). 978 0 8132 1709 3

Theobald, Christoph, Le Reception du concile Vatican II, I: Accéder à la source. (Unam Sanctam. New Ser., 1.) Pp. 937. Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 2009. €48 (paper). 978 2 204 08988 3

Velati, Mauro (ed.), Pater amabilis. Agende del pontefice, 1958–1963. (Edizione nazionale dei diari di Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli – Giovanni xxiii, 7.) Pp. xxxvii+569. Bologna: Istituto per le scienze religiose, 2007. €50. 978 88 901107 2 6

Africa, Asia and Australasia

Drønen, Tomas Sundnes, Communication and conversion in northern Cameroon. The Dii people and Norwegian missionaries, 1934–1960. (Studies in Christian Mission, 37.) Pp. xvi+236 incl. 2 maps+20 plates. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2009. €99. 978 90 04 17754 3; 0924 9389

Hsia, Florence C., Sojourners in a strange land. Jesuits and their scientific missions in late imperial China. Pp. xv+273. Chicago–London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. £31 ($45). 978 0 226 35559 7

Sidenvall, Erik, The making of manhood among Swedish missionaries in China and Mongolia, c. 1890–c. 1914. (Studies in Christian Mission, 36.) Pp. xv+189 incl. 3 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2009. €89. 978 90 04 17408 5; 0924 9389

Wamagatta, Evanson N., The Presbyterian Church of east Africa. An account of its gospel missionary society origins, 1895–1946. (American University Studies. Ser.7. Theology and Religion, 290.) Pp. xx+251 incl. map and 11 figs. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. £49.50. 978 1 4331 0596 8; 0740 0446

The Americas

Balmer, Randall, The making of Evangelicalism. From revivalism to politics and beyond. Pp. vii+89. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2010. £16.99 ($24.95). 978 1 60258 243 9

Givens, Terryl L., The book of Mormon. A very short introduction. Pp. xi+140 incl. 9 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. £7.99 (paper). 978 0 19 536931 1

Gutierrez, Cathy, Plato's ghost. Spiritualism in the American renaissance. Pp. ix+218 incl. 22 figs. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. £37.50. 978 0 19 538835 0

Owens, Sarah E. (ed. and trans.), Journey of five Capuchin nuns. (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Toronto Ser., 1.) Pp. vii+212 incl. 2 maps. Toronto: Iter/Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2009. $17 (paper). 978 0 7727 2050 4

General: Modern world

Alberigo, Giuseppe, Transizione epocale. Studi sul Concilio Vaticano II. (Istituto per le scienze religiose – Bologna. Testi e ricerche di scienze religiose. New Ser., 42.) Pp. 899. Bologna: il Mulino, 2009. €55 (paper). 978 88 15 12769 3

Dobszay, László (ed. and foreword Laurence Paul Hemming), The restoration and organic development of the Roman rite. (Studies in Fundamental Liturgy.) Pp. xxiii+277. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2010. £70 (cloth), £24.99 (paper). 978 0 567 03385 7; 978 0 567 03386 4

Join-Lambert, Arnaud, La Liturgie des Heures par tous les baptisés. L'expérience quotidienne du mystère Pascal. (Liturgia Condenda, 23.) Pp. xv+356. Leuven: Peeters, 2009. €55 (paper). 978 90 429 2121 4

Lyden, John (ed.), The Routledge companion to religion and film. Pp. xiv+507 incl. 8 ills. London–New York: Routledge, 2009. £125. 978 0 415 44853 6

VanDrunen, David, Natural law and the two kingdoms. A study in the development of reformed social thought. (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion.) Pp. x+466. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2010. £23.99 ($35) (paper). 978 0 8028 6443 7