General

Daughrity, Dyron B., Church history. Five approaches to a global discipline. Pp. xiv+289. New York: Peter Lang, 2012. £24 (paper). 978 1 4331 1695 7

Greenman, Jeffrey P. and Timothy Larsen (eds), The Decalogue through the centuries. From the Hebrew Scriptures to Benedict XVI. Pp. xix+239. Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2012. 978 0 664 23490 4

Gregory, Jeremy and Hugh McLeod (eds), International religious networks. (Studies in Church History. Subsidia, 14.) Pp. xxi+292. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Ecclesiastical History Society), 2012. £40. 978 0 95468 100 5

Hollywood, Amy and Patricia Z. Beckman (eds), The Cambridge companion to Christian mysticism. (Cambridge Companions to Religion.) Pp. xii+390 incl. 5 figs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. £65 (cloth), £19.99 (paper). 978 0 521 86365 0; 978 0 521 68227 5

Irvin, Dale T. and Scott W. Sunquist, History of the world Christian movement, II: Modern Christianity from 1454 to 1800. Pp. xv+503. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2012. $40 (paper). 978 1 57075 989 5

Levillain, Philippe (ed.), Rome . L'unique objet de mon ressentiment. Regards critiques sur la papauté. (Collection de l'École française de Rome , 453.) Pp. iv+396+3 figs, 1 colour and 24 black-and-white plates. Rome: École française de Rome, 2011. €45 (paper). 978 2 7283 0917 7

Mercier, Alain, La Deuxième Fille de Cluny. Grandeurs et misères de Saint-Martin-des-Champs. Pp. 576 incl. numerous colour plates. Paris: Glénat/le cnam, 2012. 978 2 3554 5008 2

Mitchell, Jolyon, Martyrdom. A very short introduction. Pp. xiv+146 incl. 21 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £7.99 (paper). 978 0 19 958523 6

Pitt, David, Stefanos Alexopoulos and Christian McConnell (eds), A living tradition. On the intersection of liturgical history and pastoral practice. Essays in honour of Maxwell E. Johnson. Pp. xiii+272. Collegeville, Mn: Liturgical Press, 2012. $29.95 (paper). 978 0 8146 6243 4

Sheldrake, Philip, Spirituality. A very short introduction. Pp. xvii+134 incl. 3 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £7.99 (paper). 978 0 19 958875 6

Webster, John C. B., Historiography of Christianity in India. Pp. x+273. New Delhi–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £25. 978 0 19 808920 9

Wilken, Robert Louis, The first thousand years. A global history of Christianity. Pp. x+388 incl. 6 maps+16 colour plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2012. £25. 978 0 300 11884 1

Ancient world

Amphiloque d'Iconium (intro., trans., notes and index Michel Bonnet with Sever J. Voicu), Homélies, I: Homélies 1–5. (Sources Chrétiennes, 552.) Pp. 384. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2012. €38 (paper). 978 2 204 09979 0; 0750 1978

Amphiloque d'Iconium (intro., trans., notes and index Michel Bonnet with Sever J. Voicu), Homélies, II: Homélies 6–10. Fragments divers. Épître synodale. Lettre à Séleucos. (Sources Chrétiennes, 553.) Pp. 399. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2012. €40 (paper). 978 2 204 09980 6; 0750 1978

Bammel, C. P. Hammond (text critique), Michel Fédou (intro.), Luc Brésard and Michel Fédou (trans. and notes), Luc Brésard (index), Origène. Commentaire sur l'Épître aux Romains, IV: Livres IX–X. (Sources Chrétiennes, 555.) Pp. 512. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2012. €51 (paper). 978 2 204 09956 1; 0750 1978

Edwards, Mark, Christians, Gnostics and philosophers in late antiquity. (Collected Studies, 1014.) Pp. xiv+314. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £80. 978 1 4094 4822 8

Edwards, Mark, Image, word and God in the early Christian centuries. (Ashgate Studies in Philosophy and Theology in Late Antiquity.) Pp. vii+220. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £55. 978 1 4094 0645 7; 978 1 4094 0671 6

Fedalto, Giorgio, Da Pasqua il tempo nuovo. Questioni di cronologia ebraico-cristiana. (Percorsi, 8.) Pp. 128. Verona: Mazziana, 2012. €14 (paper). 978 88 97243 09 0

Goehring, James E., Politics, monasticism, and miracles in sixth century Upper Egypt. (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

Harrill, J. Albert, Paul the Apostle. His life and legacy in their Roman context. Pp. xv+207 incl. frontispiece. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. £50 (cloth), £16.99 (paper). 978 0 521 76764 4; 978 0 521 75780 5

Hombert, Pierre-Marie, Sancti Aurelii Augustini contra Arrianos opera. (Corpus Christianorum. Ser. Latina 87A. Scripta Arriana Latina, II.) Pp. 800. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009. €445. 978 2 503 00873 8

Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald (ed.), The Oxford handbook of late antiquity. Pp. xlv+1,247 incl. frontispiece, 35 figs and 4 maps+12 colour plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £95. 978 0 19 533693 1

Landesmann, Peter, Anti-Judaism on the way from Judaism to Christianity. (Wiener Vorlesungen: Forschungen, 5.) Pp. vii+124 incl. 7 figs. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012. £21.70 (paper). 978 3 631 62132 5

Lo Cicero, Carla, Rufinus Aquileiensis. Homiliarum Basilii Magni interpretatio latina. (Corpus Christianorum. Ser. Latina, 20A.) Pp. lxxiii+210. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008. €155. 978 2 503 00203 3

Meyer, Sofia, Der heilige Vinzenz von Zaragoza. Studien zur Präsenz eines Märtyrers zwischen Spätantike und Hochmittelalter. (Beiträge zur Hagiographie, 10.) Pp. 384. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2012. €64 (paper). 978 3 515 09068 1

Meyers, Carol, Rediscovering Eve. Ancient Israelite women in context. Pp. xv+295. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £15.99 (paper). 978 0 19 973455 9

Mimouni, Simon Claude, Early Judaeo-Christianity. Historical essays. (Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion, 13.) Pp. xiv+461. Leuven–Walpole, Ma: Peeters, 2012. €75 (paper). 978 90 429 2482 6

Nisula, Timo, Augustine and the functions of concupiscence. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 116.) Pp. xiv+419. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2012. €158. 978 90 04 23168 9; 0920 623X

Taylor, Joan E., The Essenes, the scrolls, and the Dead Sea. Pp. xix+418 incl. 2 maps+53 plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £30. 978 0 19 955448 5

Torrance, Alexis, Repentance in late antiquity. Eastern asceticism and the framing of the Christian life, c. 400–650 CE. (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs.) Pp. x+244. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £55. 978 90 19966536 5

Verkraken, P.-P.(†), L. De Coninck, B. Coppieters ‘T Wallant and R. Demeulenaere (eds) (with F. Dolbeau), Sancti Aurelii Augustini Sermones in Matthaeum I id est sermones LI-LXX secundum ordinem vulgatum insertis etiam novem sermonibus post Maurinos repertis. (Corpus Christianorum. Ser. Latina XLI Aa. Aurelii Augustini Opera, XI, 2.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2008. €285. 978 2 503 00413 6

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

Antonopoulou, Theodora, Leonis VI sapientis imperatoris Byzantini. Homiliae. (Corpus Christianorum. Ser. Graeca, 63.) Pp. ccxxx+691. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008. €400. 978 2 503 40631 2

Arnold, Ellen F., Negotiating the landscape. Environment and monastic identity in the medieval Ardennes. (The Middle Ages.) Pp. ix+301 incl. 2 maps. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. £42.50 ($65). 978 0 8122 4463 2

Bellitto, Christopher M. and David Zachariah Flanagin (eds), Reassessing reform. A historical investigation into church renewal. Pp. xiii+290. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2012. $29.95. 978 0 8132 1999 8

Bouchard, Constance Brittain (ed.), Three cartularies from thirteenth-century Auxerre. (Medieval Academy Books, 113.) Pp. ix+259 incl. 1 map. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (for the Medieval Academy of America), 2012. $90. 978 1 4426 4528 8

Brown, Jennifer N. and Donna Alfano Bussell (eds), Barking Abbey and medieval literary culture. Authorship and authority in a female community. Pp. xii+337. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer (for York Medieval Press), 2012. £60. 978 1 903153 43 7

Brown, Virginia† (ed. Roger E. Reynolds), Beneventan discoveries. Collected manuscript catalogues, 1978–2008. (Monumenta Liturgica Beneventana, 6. Studies and Texts, 179.) Pp. xxiii+427. Ontario: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012. $90. 978 0 88844 179 9

Bruun, Mette Birkedal (ed.), The Cambridge guide to the Cistercian order. Pp. xviii+321 incl. frontispiece, 1 map and 15 figs. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £55 ($18.99) (paper). 978 1 107 00131 2; 978 0 521 17184 7

Burger, Michael, Bishops, clerks, and diocesan governance in thirteenth-century England. Reward and punishment. Pp. xvii+313. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. $99. 978 1 107 02214 0

Callus, D. A. and R. W. Hunt (eds) (new intro. and trans. Michael W. Dunne), John Blund. Treatise on the soul. 2nd edn. (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, 2.) Pp. xlix+258. Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2013(12). £60. 978 0 19 726514 7

Charles-Edwards, T. M., Wales and the Britons, 350–1064. (The History of Wales.) Pp. xx+795 incl. frontispiece, 6 boxes, 21 figs, 7 ills, 28 maps and 17 tables. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £95. 978 0 19 821731 2

Courtenay, William J. and Eric D. Goddard (eds), Rotuli parisienses. Supplications to the pope from the University of Paris, III: 1378–1394. 2 parts. (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 44.) Pp. xiv+501; v+505–1152. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €249. 978 90 04 23378 2; 0926 6070

Dales, Douglas, Alcuin. His life and legacy. Pp. 223 incl. 12 ills. Cambridge: James Clarke, 2012. £20 (paper). 978 0 227 17346 6

De Nie, Giselle, Poetics of wonder. Testimonies of the new Christian miracles in the late antique Latin world. (Studies in the Early Middle Ages, 31.) Pp. xi+530 incl. 8 ills. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. €130. 978 2 503 53148 9

Doumanis, Nicholas, Before the nation. Muslim-Christian coexistence and its destruction in late Ottoman Anatolia. Pp. xvii+226. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013(2). £35. 978 0 19 954704 3

Gaposchkin, M. Cecilia (trans. with Phyllis B. Katz), Blessed Louis. The most glorious of kings. Texts relating to the cult of Saint Louis of France. (Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture.) Pp. xi+307. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. $39 (paper). 978 0 268 02984 5

Gecser, Ottó, The feast and the pulpit. Preachers, sermons and the cult of St Elizabeth of Hungary, 1235–ca.1500. (Collana della Società internazionale di studi francescani, 15.) Pp. xv+ 466. Spoleto: Fondazione Centro Italiano di Studi sull'alto Medioevo, 2012. . €58 (paper). 978 88 7988 589 8

Grier, James (ed.), Opera liturgica et poetica. Musica cum textibus. (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, 245, 245A. Ademarus Cabannensis. Opera Omnia Part II, 1 and 2.) Pp. cxxxvii+703; 471. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. €310, €255. 978 2 503 54398 7; 978 2 503 54090 0

Groen, Bert, Steven Hawkes-Teeplesn and Stefanos Alexopoulos (eds), Inquiries into eastern Christian worship. Selected papers of the second international congress of the Society of Oriental Liturgy, Rome, 17–21 September 2008. (Eastern Christian Studies, 12.) Pp. xii+510 incl. 20 figs and 6 tables+DVD. Leuven: Peeters, 2012. €58 (paper). 978 90 429 2492 5

Harris, Jonathan, Catherine Holmes and Eugenia Russell (eds), Byzantines, Latins, and Turks in the eastern Mediterranean world after 1150. (Oxford Studies in Byzantium.) Pp. xiii+378 incl. 1 map+8 colour plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £80. 978 0 19 964188 8

Johnson, Timothy J. (ed.), Franciscans and preaching. Every miracle from the beginning of the world came about through words. (The Medieval Franciscans, 7.) Pp. xv+525 incl. 17 colour plates. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2012. €188. 978 90 04 23129 0; 1572 6991

Keefe, Susan (ed.), A catalogue of works pertaining to the explanation of the creed in Carolingian manuscripts. (Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia. Research on the Inheritance of Early and Medieval Christianity, 63.) Pp. 402. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. €110. 978 2 503 54407 6

Keefe, Susan (ed.), Explanationes fidei aevi Carolini. (Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis, 254. Symbola.) Pp. xlvii+263. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. €145. 978 2 503 54406 9

Kelly, S. E. (ed.), Charters of Glastonbury Abbey. (Anglo-Saxon Charters, 15.) Pp. xxxiv+624. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2012. £110. 978 0 19 726507 9

Knibbs, Eric and E. Ann Matter (eds), De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi. Quaestiones de Sancta Trinitate. (Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis, 249. Alcuinus.) Pp. lxxvi+183. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. €175. 978 2 503 54209 6

Lahey, Stephen E. (ed. and trans.), Wyclif. Trialogus. Pp. viii+363. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £60. 978 0 521 86924 9

Linde, Cornelia, How to correct the Sacra Scriptura? Textual criticism of the Bible between the twelfth and fifteenth century. (Medium Ævum Monographs, 29.) Pp. xii+309. Oxford: The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, 2012. £30 ($45). 978 0 907570 22 6

McGrady, Deborah and Jennifer Bain (eds), A companion to Guillaume de Machaut. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 33.) Pp. xx+414 incl. 18 figs, 3 tables and 35 musical examples. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2012. €159. 978 9004 22581 7; 1871 6377

MacQuarrie, Alan (ed.) (with Rachel Butter), Legends of Scottish saints. Readings, hymns and prayers for the commemorations of Scottish saints in the Aberdeen Breviary. Pp. lviii+461 incl. frontispiece. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012. £50. 978 1 84682 332 9

Makowski, Elizabeth, English nuns and the law in the Middle Ages. Cloistered nuns and their lawyers, 1293–1540. (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, 39.) Pp. xvi+201. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2012. £60. 978 1 84383 786 2; 0955 2480

Milliman, Paul, ‘The slippery memory of men’. The place of Pomerania in the medieval kingdom of Poland. (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450, 21.) Pp. xv+319 incl. 3 maps. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €123. 978 90 04 18274 5; 1872 8103

Monferrer-Sala, Juan Petro, Herman Teule and Sofía Torallas Tovar (eds), Eastern Christians and their written heritage. Manuscripts, scribes and context. (Eastern Christian Studies, 14.) Pp. x+282 incl. 10 figs and 16 plates. Leuven: Peeters, 2012. €52 (paper). 978 90 429 2517 5

Morrisson, Cécile (ed.), Trade and markets in Byzantium. (Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia.) Pp. ix+459 incl. numerous black-and-white and colour ills. Harvard: Harvard University Press/Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2012. £62.95. 978 0 88402 377 7

Plested, Marcus, Orthodox readings of Aquinas. (Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology.) Pp. xi+276. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £55. 978 0 19 965065 1

Ranft, Patricia, The theology of Peter Damian. ‘Let your life always serve as a witness’. Pp. xii+259. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2012. $64.95. 978 0 8132 1997 4

Schmugge, Ludwig, Marriage on trial. Late medieval German couples at the papal court. (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law, 10.) (Trans. by Atria A. Larsen of Ehen vor Gericht. Paare der Renaissance vor dem Papst, Berlin: Berlin University Press, 2008. Rev. ante lx. 815.) Pp. xxii+389 incl. frontispiece, 5 tables, 15 graphs and 17 ills. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2012. $69.95. 978 0 8132 2017 8

Simon, Anne, The cult of Saint Katherine of Alexandria in late-medieval Nuremberg. Saint and the city. Pp. xiii+321 incl. 13 plates. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £70. 978 1 4094 2071 2

Swift, Daniel, Shakespeare's common prayers. The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan age. Pp. ix+289 incl. frontispiece and 2 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013(12). £18.99. 978 0 19 983856 1

Teske, Roland J., Essays on the philosophy of Henry of Ghent. (Marquette Studies in Philosophy, 76.) Pp. 275. Milwaukee, Wn: Marquette University Press, 2012. $29 (paper). 978 0 87462 813 5

Teske, Roland J. (trans. and anno.), Henry of Ghent's ‘Summa of ordinary questions’. Articles thirty-one and thirty-two on God's eternity and the divine attributes in general. (Mediaeval Philosophical Texts in Translation, 49.) Pp. 144. Milwaukee, Wn: Marquette University Press, 2012. $17 (paper). 978 0 87462 257 7

Van Dixhoorn, Chad (ed.) (with David F. Wright), The minutes and papers of the Westminster Assembly, 1643–1652, I: Introduction; II: Minutes, sessions 45–119, 155–198 (1643–1644), III: Minutes, sessions 199–603 (1644–1646); IV: Minutes, sessions 604–1163 (1646–1652); V: Assembly papers, supplementary material, and indexes. Pp. xxxviii+279 incl. 7 ills; 687; 791; 897; 472. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £600. 978 0 19 920683 4

Vauchez, André, Expériences religieuses et chemis de perfection dans l'occident medieval. Pp. 510 incl. 23 colour and 5 black-and-white figs, 2 maps and 3 tables. Paris: de Boccard, 2012. €60 (paper). 978 2 87754 279 1

Vauchez, André, Francis of Assisi. The life and afterlife of a medieval saint. (Trans. by Michael F. Cusato of François d'Assise: entre histoire et mémoire, Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2009.) Pp. xv+398. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2012. £22.50. 978 0 300 17894 4

Winterbottom, Michael and Rodney M. Thomson (eds) (with Sigbjørn Sønnesyn), Willelmi Meldunensis monachi. Liber super explanationem Lamentationum Ieremiae Prophetae. (Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis, 224.) Pp. li+390+2 plates. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. €240. 978 2 503 54087 0

Woodman, D. A. (ed.), Charters of northern houses. (Anglo-Saxon Charters, 16.) Pp. xli+397 incl. 3 maps+2 plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2012. £90. 978 0 19 726529 1

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

Billings, J. Todd and I. John Hesselink (eds), Calvin's theology and its reception. Disputes, developments, and new possibilities. Pp. xvi+250. Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2012. $30 (paper). 978 0 664 23423 2

Birnstein, Uwe, Toleranz und Scheiterhaufen. Das Leben des Michael Servet. Pp. 100 incl. 7 ills. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013. €9,99 (paper). 978 3 525 56012 9

Bremer, Francis J., Building a new Jerusalem. John Davenport, a Puritan in three worlds. Pp. xi+424 incl. frontispiece. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2012. £30. 978 0 300 17913 2

Brewer, Brian C., A pledge of love. The Anabaptist sacramental theology of Balthasar Hubmaier. (Studies in Christian History and Thought.) Pp. xv+300 incl. frontispiece. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2012. 978 1 84227 729 4

Collinson, Patrick, Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan anti-Puritanism. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) Pp. xvii+232. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £45. 978 1 107 02334 5

De Boer, Erik, The Genevan school of the prophets. The congregations of the Company of Pastors and their influence in 16th century Europe. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 512.) Pp. 332. Geneva: Droz, 2012. 978 2 600 01611 7; 0082 6081

DeSilva, Jennifer Mara (ed.), Episcopal reform and politics in early modern Europe. (Early Modern Studies, 10.) Pp. xiv+226 incl. 9 figs. Kirksville, Mo: Truman State University Press, 2012. £37.50. 978 1 61248 072 5

Durot, Éric, François de Lorraine, duc de Guise entre dieu et le roi. (Bibliothèque d'Histoire de la Renaissance, 1.) Pp. 886 incl. 3 genealogical tables and 4 ills. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2012. €49 (paper). 978 2 8124 0610 2

Elmer, Peter, The miraculous conformist. Valentine Greatrakes, the body politic, and the politics of healing in restoration Britain. Pp. xiii+279 incl. frontispiece and 8 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £65. 978 0 19 966396 5

Ferlan, Claudio, Dentro e fuori le aule. La Compagnia di Gesù a Gorizia e nell'Austria interna (secoli XVI–XVII). (Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento. Monografie, 61.) Pp. 380. Bologna: il Mulino, 2012. €29 (paper). 978 88 15 24190 0

Holmes, Peter (ed.), Caroline casuistry. The cases of conscience of Fr Thomas Southwell SJ. (Catholic Record Society, Records Ser., 84.) Pp. l+308 incl. frontispiece. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Catholic Record Society), 2012. £45. 978 0 902832 27 5

Kapic, Kelly M. and Mark Jones (eds), The Ashgate research companion to John Owen's theology. Pp. xviii+334. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £85. 978 1 4094 3488 7

Kewes, Paulina, Ian W. Archer and Felicity Heal (eds), The Oxford handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles. Pp. xxxvii+772 incl. 22 ills and 6 tables. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £95. 978 0 19 956575 7

McGrath, Alister E., Luther's theology of the cross. Martin Luther's theological breakthrough. 2nd edn. (First publ. 1988: rev. ante xxxix. 433.) Pp. xi+252. Chichester: Wiley–Blackwell, 2011. £70. 978 0 470 65530 6

Massarella, Derek (ed.) and J. F. Moran (trans.), Japanese travellers in sixteenth-century Europe. A dialogue concerning the mission of the Japanese ambassadors to the Roman curia (1590). (The Hakluyt Society. Ser. 3, 25.) Pp. xxii+481 incl. frontispiece, 3 maps and 13 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £65. 978 1 908145 03 1; 0072 9396

Miladinov, Marina and Luka Ilić (eds), Matija Vlačić Ilirik (III). Proceedings of the third international conference on Matthias Flacius Illyricus, Labin, Croatia, 2010. Pp. 424 incl. 1 ill. Labin: Grad Labin, 2012. HRK 100,00 (paper). 978 953 99454 7 1

Pardue, Brad C., Printing, power, and piety. Appeals to the public during the early years of the English Reformation. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 162.) Pp. ix+237. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2012. €105. 978 90 04 23205 1; 1573 4188

Sowerby, Scott, Making toleration. The repealers and the Glorious Revolution. (Harvard Historical Studies, 181.) Pp. ix+406. Cambridge, Ma–London: Harvard University Press, 2013. £30 ($49.94). 978 0 674 07309 8

Stanglin, Keith D. and Thomas H. McCall, Jacob Arminius. Theologian of grace. Pp. xv+240. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £17.99 (paper). 978 0 19 975566 0; 978 0 19 975567 7

Modern Europe

Aitken, Ros, The prime minister's son. Stephen Gladstone, rector of Hawarden. Pp. xxi+286 incl. 23 figs. Chester: University of Chester Press, 2012. £14.99 (paper). 978 1 908258 01 4

Altermatt, Urs, Das historische Dilemma der CVP. Zwischen katholischem milieu und bürgerlicher Mittepartei. Pp. 263. Baden: hier+jetzt, 2012. €39. 978 3 03919 864 1

Broad, John (ed.), Bishop Wake's summary of visitation returns from the diocese of Lincoln, 1706–1715, I: Lincolnshire; II: Outside Lincolnshire. (Records of Social and Economic History. New Ser., 49, 50.) Pp. xlii+471; viii+473–1075. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2012. £95 each. 978 0 19 726518 5; 978 0 19 726519 2

Ditchfield, G. M. (ed.), The letters of Theophilus Lindsey (1723–1808), I: 1789–1808. (Church of England Record Society, 19.) Pp. lxxvii+943. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Church of England Record Society, 19.) £100. 978 1 84383 742 8; 1351 3087

Illanes, José Luis and Alfredo Méndiz (eds), Conversaciones con Mons. Escrivá de Balaguer. (Obras Completas de San Josemaría, Ser. 1. Obras publicadas, 3.) Pp. xxvi+575+12 colour plates. Madrid: Ediciones Rialp, 2012. €36. 978 84 321 4203 1

Jones, Ian, The local church and generational change in Birmingham, 1945–2000. (Royal Historical Society Studies in History. New Ser.) Pp. x+225 incl. map, 3 figs and 4 tables. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Royal Historical Society), 2012. £50. 978 0 86193 317 4; 0269 2244

Jones, Timothy Willem, Sexual politics in the Church of England, 1857–1957. Pp. xi+218. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £55. 978 0 19 965510 6

Kadane, Matthew, The watchful clothier. The life of an eighteenth-century Protestant capitalist. (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History.) Pp. ix+302 incl. 19 ills. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2013. £35. 978 0 300 16961 4

Law, David R., Kierkegaard's kenotic Christology. Pp. xi+315. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £65. 978 0 19 969863 9

Lennon, Colm (ed.), Confraternities and sodalities in Ireland. Charity, devotion and sociability. Pp. 216+8 ills. Blackrock: The Columba Press, 2012. £12.40 (€14.99) (paper). 978 1 85607 792 7

Lockley, Philip, Visionary religion and radicalism in early industrial England. From Southcott to Socialism. (Oxford Theological Monographs.) Pp. xxi+284 incl. 4 figs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £65. 978 0 19 966387 3

Oakes, Kenneth, Karl Barth on theology and philosophy. Pp. xi+288. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £65. 978 0 19 966116 9

Overbeck, Franz-Josef (and others), Das kirchliche Arbeitsrecht vor neuen Herausforderungen. (Essener Gespräche zum Thema Staat und Kirche, 46.) Pp. x+222. Munich: Aschendorff, 2012. €34.80 (paper). 978 3 402 10564 1; 0720 891X

Parker, Stephen G. and Tom Lawson (eds), God and war. The Church of England and armed conflict in the twentieth century. Pp. ix+239. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £55. 978 0 7546 6692 9

Pattison, George, Kierkegaard and the quest for unambiguous life. Between romanticism and modernism. Selected essays. Pp. xii+251. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £60. 978 0 19 969867 7

Recker, Klemens-August, Unter Preußenadler und Hakenkreuz. Katholisches milieu zwischen Selbstbehauptung und Auflösung. Ein Beispiel aus Westfalen. Nordwalde, 1850–1950. Pp. 472 incl. 53 figs. Munich: Aschendorff, 2013. €34. 978 3 402 13015 5

Ventresca, Robert A., Soldier of Christ. The life of Pope Pius XII. Pp. vii+405+14 black- and-white plates. Cambridge, Ma–London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013. £25. 978 0 674 04961 1

Waddington, Barbara (ed.), The diary and letters of Edward Irving. Pp. xiii+450 incl. 8 ills. Eugene, Or: Pickwick Publications, 2012. £30 (paper). 978 1 62032 270 3

Whyte, Iain, ‘Send back the money!’ The Free Church of Scotland and American slavery. Pp. 175 incl. frontispiece and 10 ills. Cambridge: James Clarke, 2012. £19.50 (paper). 978 0 227 17389 3

Africa, Asia and Australasia

Vernal, Fiona, The Farmerfield mission. A Christian community in South Africa, 1838–2008. Pp. xx+358 incl. 3 maps+19 figs. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. £45. 978 0 19 984340 4

Yelle, Robert A., The language of disenchantment. Protestant literalism and colonial discourse in British India. (American Academy of Religion.) Pp. xxii+298. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013(2). £22.50 (paper). 978 0 19 992499 8

The Americas

Brekus, Catherine A., Sarah Osborn's world. The rise of Evangelical Christianity in early America. (New Directions in Narrative History.) Pp. xv+432 incl. frontispiece and 23 ills. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2013(2). £25. 978 0 300 18290 3

LeBlanc, Jean, Dictionnaire biographique des évêques catholiques du Canada. Les diocèses catholiques canadiens des Églises latine et orientales et leurs évêques. Repères chronologiques et biographiques, 1658–2012. 2nd edn. (Instruments de Recherche. Gratianus.) Pp. xxi+1298. Montreal: Wilson & Lafleur Ltée, 2012. 978 2 89689 006 4

New, David S., Christian fundamentalism in America. A cultural history. Pp. v+259. Jefferson, NC–London: McFarland, 2012. £29.95 (paper). 978 0 7864 7058 7

Richey, Russell E., Kenneth E. Rowe and Jean Miller Schmidt, American Methodism. A compact history. Pp. ix+276. Nashville, Tn: Abingdon Press, 2012. $29.99 (paper). 978 1 4267 4227 9

General: Modern world

Brown, Callum G., Religion and the demographic revolution. Women and secularization in Canada, Ireland, UK and USA since the 1960s. (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 29.) Pp. xiv+305 incl. 27 figs and 28 tables. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2012. £55. 978 1 84383 792 3; 1464 6625

Doyle, Dennis M., Timothy J. Furry and Pascal D. Bazzell (eds), Ecclesiology and exclusion. Boundaries of being and belonging in postmodern times. Pp. ix+334. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2012. $38 (paper). 978 1 57075 982 6

Klassen, Pamela E., Spirits of Protestantism. Medicine, healing, and liberal Christianity. (The Anthropology of Christianity, 13.) Pp. xxix+316 incl. 15 ills. Berkeley–Los Angeles–London: University of California Press, 2011. £19.95 (paper). 978 0 520 24428 3; 978 0 520 27099 2

Parker, Kenneth L. and Erick H. Moser (eds), The rise of historical consciousness among the Christian Churches. (Studies in Religion and the Social Order.) Pp. xi+228. Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 2013. $19.95 (paper). 978 0 7618 5919 2

Peiponen, Matti, Ecumenical action in world politics. The creation of the commission of the Churches on international affairs (CCIA), 1945–1949. (Schriften der Luther-Agricola-Gesellschaft, 66.) Pp. 434. Helsinki: Luther-Agricola-Society, 2012. 978 951 9047 74 4; 1236 9675

Robinson, Elaine A., Race and theology. (Horizons in Theology.) Pp. v+104. Nashville, Tn: Abingdon Press, 2012. $10.99 (paper). 978 1 687 49425 5

Ruozzi, Federico, Il concilio in diretta. Il Vaticano II e la televisione tra informazione e partecipazione. (Istituto per le scienze religiose – Bologna. Testi e ricerche di scienze religiose. New Ser., 46.) Pp. 569 incl.84. figs. Bologna: il Mulino, 2012. €40 (paper). 978 88 15 23968 0

Stephenson, Christopher A., Types of Pentecostal theology. Method, system, spirit. (American Academy of Religion.) Pp. x+221. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013(2). £45. 978 0 19 991679 5

Strong, Rowan and Carol Engelhardt Herringer (eds), Edward Bouverie Pusey and the Oxford Movement. (Anthem Nineteenth-Century.) Pp. x+164. London–New York–Delhi: Anthem Press, 2012. £60 ($99). 978 0 85728 565 2