Bailey, Lisa Kaaren, The religious worlds of the laity in late antique Gaul. Pp. viii + 247. London–New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. £70. 978 1 47251 903 0

Brown, Peter, Treasure in heaven. The holy poor in early Christianity. Pp. xxvii + 163 incl. 1 map. Charlottesville–London: University of Virginia Press, 2016. £23.50. 978 0 8139 3828 8

Caillet, Jean-Pierre, Destephen, Sylvain, Dumézil, Bruno and Inglebert, Hervé (eds), Des Dieux civiques aux saints patrons (IVe–VIIe siècle). Pp. 384 incl. 11 figs and 2 maps. Paris: Picard, 2015. €36. 978 2 7084 1004 6

Caridi, Cathy, Making martyrs East and West. Canonization in the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches. Pp. ix + 200. DeKalb, Il: Northern Illinois University Press, 2016. $59. 978 0 87580 495 8

Downs, David J., Alms. Charity, reward and atonement in early Christianity. Pp. ix + 340 incl. 3 tables. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2016. $59.95. 978 1 60258 997 1

Jacobsen, Anders-Christian (ed.), Origeniana undecima. Origen and Origenism in the history of western thought. Papers of the 11th International Origen Congress, Aarhus University, 26–31 August 2013. (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, CCLXXIX.) Pp. xvi + 985 incl. 1 ill and 8 tables. Bristol, Ct–Leuven: Peeters, 2015. €125 (paper). 978 90 429 3307 1

Markschies, Christoph, Gottes Körper. Jüdische, christliche und pagane Gottesvorstellungen in der Antike. Pp. 900 incl. 11 ills. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2016. €48. 978 3 406 66866 1

Millar, Fergus, Empire, Church and society in the late Roman Near East. Greeks, Jews, Syrians and Saracens. (Collected Studies, 2004–14). (Late Antique History and Religion, 10.) Pp. xxxiii + 807 incl. 15 figs and 8 maps. Bristol, Ct–Leuven: Peeters, 2015. €105. 978 90 429 3291 3

Saxby, Alan (foreword James Crossley), James, brother of Jesus, and the Jerusalem Church. A radical exploration of Christian origins. Pp. xxiii + 318. Eugene, Or: Wipf and Stock, 2015. $30.40 (paper). 978 1 4982 0390 6

Shoemaker, Stephen J., Mary in early Christian faith and devotion. Pp. xi + 289. New Haven, Ct– London: Yale University Press, 2016. £25. 978 0 30 021721 6

Ciardi, Anna Minara, On the formation of cathedral chapters and cathedral culture. Lund, Denmark and Scandinavia, c. 1060–1225. (Bibliotheca Historico-Ecclesiastica Lundensis, 60.) Pp. 179. Lund: Media–Tryck, Lund University, 2016. 978 91 983171 1 4; 0346 5438

Clark, Mark J., The making of the Historia scholastic, 1150–1200. (Mediaeval Law and Theology 7, Studies and Texts 198.) Pp. xvi + 322. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2015. $95. 978 0 88844 198 0

Herrin, Judith and Nelson, Jinty (eds), Ravenna. Its role in earlier medieval change and exchange. Pp. xviii + 363 incl. 57 colour and black-and-white ills and 6 tables. London: University of London, Institute of Historical Research, 2016. £40. 978 1 909646 14 8

Martin, Jean-Marie, Chastang, Pierre, Cuozzo, Errico, Feller, Laurent, Orofino, Guilia, Thomas, Aurélie and Vilani, Matteo, Registrum Petri Diaconi (Montecassiono, Archivio dell'Abbazia, reg. 3), I: Inizio del Codice Privilegia Præcepta; II: Oblationes (1); III: Oblationes (2), Sacramenta; IV: Commento, appendici e indici (Sources et documents publiés par l’École française de Rome, 4). Pp. x + 2184. Rome: École française de Rome, 2015. €640. 978 88 98079 24 7; 1722 9405

Melville, Gert (trans. James D. Mixon; foreword Giles Constable), The world of medieval monasticism. Its history and forms of life. (Cistercian Studies Series, 263.) Pp. xvii + 444 incl. 22 ills. Collegeville, Mn: Cistercian Publications/Liturgical Press, 2016. $44.95 (paper). 978 0 8790 7263 6

Moran, Pádraic and Warntjes, Immo (eds), Early medieval Ireland and Europe. Chronology, contacts, scholarship. A Festschrift for Dáibhί Ó Cróinίn. (Studia Traditionis Theologiae. Explorations in Early Medieval Theology, 14.) Pp. xxix + 723 incl. 31 plates, 1 fig, 5 tables and 1 frontispiece. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. €150 (paper). 978 2 503 55313 9

Prudlo, Donald, Certain sainthood. Canonization and the origins of papal infallibility in the medieval Church. Pp. xii + 217. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2015. $49.95. 978 0 8014 5403 5

Roest, Bert and Uphoff, Johanneke, Religious orders and religious identity formation, ca. 1420–1620. Discourses and strategies of observance and pastoral engagement. (The Medieval Franciscans, 13.) Pp. xii + 260 incl. 13 colour and black-and-white figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2016. €110. 978 90 04 30994 4; 1572 6991

Shead, Norman F., Scottish Episcopal Acta, I: The twelfth century. Pp. lxxxv + 409. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press (for the Scottish History Society), 2015. £40. 978 0 906245 40 8

Stevenson, Janet H. (ed.), The register of Edward Story, bishop of Chichester, 1478–1503. Pp. lviii + 365 incl. frontispiece and 2 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press (for the Canterbury and York Society), 2016. £35. 978 0 907239 79 6

Connell, Philip, Secular chains. Poetry and the politics of religion from Milton to Pope. Pp. xvii + 304 incl. 8 ills. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £55. 978 0 19 926958 7

Dixon, C. Scott, The Church in the early modern age. (History of the Christian Church.) Pp. xviii + 251 incl. 2 maps. London–New York: I. B. Tauris, 2016. £29.50. 978 1 84511 439 8

Engammare, Max (trans. de Jonviller, Charles), Jean Calvin. Leçons. Ou Commentaires et expositions sur les revelations du Prophete Jeremie (1565), (I and II). Pp. xvi + 2066. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2016. €122.27. 978 2 600 04717 3

Engel, Franco and Martin, Josephus Ludovicus Martin, Iberia pontificia sive Repertorium privilegiorum et litterarum a romanis pontificibus ante annvm MCLXXXXVIII Hispaniae et Portugalliae ecclesiis monasteriis civitatibvs singulisqve personis concessorvm, IV: Dioeceses Abvlensis, Salmanticensis, Cavriensis, Civitatensis, Placentina. Pp. xxvi + 198. Göttigen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016. €70. 978 3 525 31032 8

Evenden, Elizabeth and Westbrook, Vivienne (eds), Catholic renewal and Protestant resistance in Marian England. Pp. xvii + 329 incl. 5 tables. Burlington, Vt–Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. £80. 978 0 7546 6162 7

Goldie, Mark, Roger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs. Pp. xxxvii + 424 incl. frontispiece, 11 maps, 8 tables and 3 ills. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2016 (first publ. 2007 as The entering book of Roger Morrice, I: Roger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs). £25 (paper). 978 1 78327 110 8

Gribben, Crawford, John Owen and English Puritanism. Experiences of defeat. (Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. xvi + 401. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £47.99. 978 0 19 979815 5

Gueunier, Nicole and Engammare, Max (eds), Ioannis Calvini Opera exegetica series II, VI: Praelectiones in Librum Prophetiarum Ieremiae, (I and II). Pp. xl + 1889. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2016. €236. 978 2 600 01798 5

Luebke, David M., Hometown religion. Regimes of coexistence in early modern Westphalia. (Studies in Early Modern German History.) Pp. xi + 313 incl. 7 figs and 2 tables. Charlottesville–London: University of Virginia Press, 2016. £45.50. 978 0 8139 3840 0

McCormack, Danielle, The Stuart restoration and the English in Ireland. (Irish Historical Monograph Series.) Pp. x + 197. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2016. £65. 978 1 78327 114 6

O'Connor, Thomas, Irish voices from the Spanish Inquisition. Migrants, converts and brokers in early modern Iberia. Pp. xv + 280 incl. 7 figs and 4 maps. Basingstoke–New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. $100. 978 1 137 46589 4

Scheck, Thomas P. (trans.) (foreword Richard L. DeMolen), Erasmus’s Life of Origen. A new annotated translation of the prefaces to Erasmus of Rotterdam's edition of Origen's writings (1536). Pp. xxxviii + 234 incl. 2 tables. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2016. $65. 978 0 8132 2801 3

Speelman, Herman A., Melanchthon and Calvin on confession and communion. Early modern Protestant penitential and eucharistic piety. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 14.) Pp. 362. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016. €100. 978 3 525 55041 0

Thomas, Denise (ed.), The autobiography and library of Thomas Hall B. D. (1610–1665). (Worcestershire Historical Society New Series, 26.) Pp. 368 incl. frontispiece and 30 ills. Bristol: 4word Limited (for The Worcestershire Historical Society). £28. 0141 4577

Wallraff, Martin, Menchi, Silvana Seidel and Von Greyerz, Kaspar, Basel 1516. Erasmus’ edition of the New Testament. (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation, 91.) Pp. xix + 321 incl. 51 figs. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016. €89. 978 3 16 154522 1

Wandel, Lee Palmer, Reading catechisms, teaching religion. (Studies in Intellectual History, 250. Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 11.) Pp. xxiv + 390 incl. 150 colour and black-and-white figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2016. €136. 978 90 04 30519 9; 0920 8607

Ahnert, Thomas, The moral culture of the Scottish Enlightenment, 1690–1805. (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth Century Culture and History.) Pp. viii + 216. New Haven, Ct–London: Yale University Press, 2014. £45. 978 0 300 15380 4

Akenson, Donald Harman, Discovering the end of time. Irish Evangelicals in the age of Daniel O'Connell. Pp. xiii + 538 incl. 17 ills and 5 maps. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016. £29.99. 978 0 7735 4679 0

Barr, Colin and Carey, Hilary M. (eds), Religion and greater Ireland. Christianity and Irish global networks, 1750–1950. (Studies in the History of Religion.) Pp. xiii + 456 incl. 1 fig. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016. £28.99 (paper). 978 0 7735 4569 4

Chandler, Andrew, George Bell, bishop of Chichester. Church, state and resistance in the age of dictatorship. Pp. xii + 212. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2016. $35 (paper). 978 0 8028 7227 2

Hurst, Mark, British human rights organizations and Soviet dissent, 1965–1985. Pp. viii + 249 incl. 6 ills. New York–London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. £64.99. 978 1 4725 2728 8

James, Serenhedd, George Errington and Roman Catholic identity in nineteenth-century England. (Theology and Religion Monographs.) Pp. xiii + 265. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £65. 978 0 19 876639 1

Kirby, James, Historians and the Church of England. Religion and historical scholarship, 1870–1920. (Historical Monographs.) Pp. xi + 257. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £60. 978 0 19 87615 9

Pettinaroli, Laura, La Politique russe du Saint-Siège (1905–1939). (Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, 367.) Pp. 938 incl. 4 black-and-white and colour ills, 7 figs and 18 tables. Rome: Écoles française de Rome, 2015. €50 (paper). 978 2 7283 1103 3

West, Gerald T. (intro. Dickson, Neil T. R.; ed. Grass, Tim), From friends to Brethren. The Howards of Tottenham – Quakers, Brethren, and Evangelicals. (Studies in Brethren History, Subsidia.) Pp. xiv + 272. Glasgow: Bell & Bain Limited (for Brethren Archivists and Historians Network), 2016. £20 (paper). 978 0 9570177 6 4

Farge SJ, William J. (foreword Doak, Kevin M.), A Christian Samurai. The trials of Baba Bunkō. Pp. xvii + 300 incl. frontispiece. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2016. £33.50 (paper). 978 0 813 22851 8

Choiński, Michał, The rhetoric of the revival. The language of the Great Awakening preachers. (New Directions in Jonathan Edwards Studies, 1.) Pp. 212 incl. 4 ills. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016. €80. 978 3 525 56023 5

Fea, John, The Bible cause. A history of the American Bible Society. Pp. ix + 356 incl. 24 figs. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £14.99. 978 0 19 025306 6

De Dreuzy, Agnes, The Holy See and the emergence of the modern Middle East. Benedict XV's diplomacy in greater Syria (1914–1922). Pp. xiii + 303 incl. frontispiece. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2016. £66.50. 978 0 8132 2849 5

Duty, Ronald W. and Failinger, Marie A. (eds), On secular governance. Lutheran perspectives on contemporary legal issues. Pp. xvi + 366. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2016. $45 (paper). 978 0 8028 7228 9