General

Boeckl, Christine M., Images of leprosy. Disease, religion, and politics in European art. (Early Modern Studies, 7.) Pp. xiii+234 incl. 51 ills. Kirksville, Mi: Truman State University Press, 2011. £24.99 (paper). 978 1 935503 14 9

Budde, Michael L. and Karen Scott (eds), Witness of the body. The past, present, and future of Christian martyrdom. (The Eerdmans Ekklesia Series.) Pp. x+228. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2011. £14.99 ($22) (paper). 978 0 8028 6258 7

Davies, Owen, Grimoires. A history of magic books. Pp. xii+368 incl. 27 ills and 17 plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010 (first publ. 2009). £9.99 (paper). 978 0 19 920451 9; 978 0 19 959004 9

De Hamel, Christopher, Bibles. An illustrated history from papyrus to print. Pp. vi+192 incl. 60 colour plates. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2011. £10.99 (paper). 978 185124 298 6

Farmer, David, The Oxford dictionary of saints. 5th revised edn. Pp. xxiii+504 incl. 5 maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011 (first publ. 1978). £11.99 (paper). 978 0 19 959660 7

McGuckin, John Anthony (ed.), The encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, I: A–M: II: N–Z. Pp. xxviii+408 incl. 4 maps and plates 1–43; 409–833 incl. plates 44–79. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. £235. 978 1 4051 8539 4

Puig I Tàrrech, Armand, Bíblia i mística. (Scripta Biblica, 11.) Pp. 242. Tarragona: Associació Bíblica de Catalunya. Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 2011. 978 84 9883 366 9

Rapley, Elizabeth, The Lord as their portion. The story of the religious orders and how they shaped our world. Pp. xii+337. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2011. £16.99 ($24) (paper). 978 0 8028 6588 5

Tanner, Norman, New short history of the Catholic Church. Pp. xv+260 incl. map. London–New York: Burns & Oates, 2011. £16.99. 978 0 8601 2455 9

Ancient world

Aasgaard, Reidar, The childhood of Jesus. Decoding the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas. Pp. xii+285. Cambridge: James Clarke, 2010 (first publ. Eugene, Or: Cascade Books, 2009). £18 (paper). 978 0 227 17356 5

Ashwin-Siejkowski, Piotr, Clement of Alexandria on trial. The evidence of heresy from Photius' Bibliotheca. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae. Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language, 101.) Pp. xvii+185. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2010. €93. 978 90 04 176 270; 0920 623x

Behr, John (ed. and trans.), The case against Diodore and Theodore. Texts and their contexts. (Oxford Early Christian Texts.) Pp. xix+526 incl. 5 tables. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £140. 978 0 19 956987 8

Engberg, Jakob, Uffe Holmsgaard Eriksen and Anders Klostergaard Petersen (eds), Contextualising early Christian martyrdom. (Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity, 8.) Pp. 276. Frankfurt-am-Main: Peter Lang, 2011. £44.40. 978 3 631 59513 8; 1862 197X

Hawkes-Teeples, Steven (ed. and trans.), St Symeon of Thessalonika. The liturgical commentaries. (Studies and Texts, 168.) Pp. viii+301. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2011. $90. 978 0 88844 168 3

Heimgartner, Martin (ed.), Timotheos I., Ostsyrischer Patriarch. Disputation mit dem Kalifen Al-Mahdi. 2 vols. (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 631, 632. Scriptores Syri, 244, 245.) Pp. xx+165; lxvi+123. Leuven: Peeters, 2011. €70 (paper); €65 (paper). 978 90 429 2336 2; 978 90 429 2337 9

Henderson, Timothy P., The Gospel of Peter and early Christian apologetics. Rewriting the story of Jesus' death, burial and resurrection. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2, 301.) Pp. x+270. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011. €64 (cloth). 978 3 16 150709 0; 0340 9570

Jacob, Christoph, Das geistige Theater. Ästhetik und Moral bei Johannes Chrysostomus. Pp. 263. Munich: Aschendorff, 2010. €32. 978 3 402 12857 2

Jones, Simon, The world of the early Church. Pp. 192 incl. numerous colour plates. Oxford: Lion Hudson, 2011. £20. 978 0 7459 5500 1

Kisić, Rade, Patria caelestis. Die eschatologische Dimension der Theologie Gregors des Grossen. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 61.) Pp. xiv+297. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011. €74 (cloth). 978 3 16 150600 0; 1436 3003

Leemans, Johan, Brian J. Matz and Johan Verstraeten (eds), Reading patristic texts on social ethics. Issues and challenges for twenty-first-century Christian social thought. (CUA Studies in Early Christianity.) Pp. xviii+272. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2011. $34.95. 978 0 8132 1859 5

Mimouni, Simon Claude, Les Traditions anciennes sur la dormition et l'assomption de Marie. Études littéraires, historiques et doctrinales. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae. Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language, 104.) Pp. xxxix+384. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €140. 978 90 04 18746 7; 0920 623x

Schöllgen, Georg and others (eds), Ernst Dassman. Ausgewählte kleine Schriften zur Patrologie, Kirchengeschichte und christlichen Archäologie. (Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum, 37–2011.) Pp. 608+20 black-and-white and colour plates. Münster: Aschendorff, 2011. €79. 978 3 402 10805 5

Thiselton, Anthony C., 1 & 2 Thessalonians through the centuries. (Blackwell Bible Commentaries.) Pp. xvi+317. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. £70. 978 1 4051 9682 6

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

Brown, Andrew, Civic ceremony and religion in medieval Bruges c. 1300–1520. Pp. xiv+368 incl. 2 maps and 10 figs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £55. 978 0 521 76445 2

Cassady, Richard F. (foreword John Julius Norwich), The emperor and the saint. Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, Francis of Assisi, and journeys to medieval places. Pp. xvii+454 incl. frontispiece and 59 ills. DeKalb, Il: Northern Illinois University Press, 2011. $35. 978 0 87580 439 2

Cassidy-Welch, Megan, Imprisonment in the medieval religious imagination, c. 1150–1400. Pp. xi+192 incl. 6 ills. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. £50. 978 0 230 24248 7

Chave-Mahr, Florence, L'Exorcisme des possédés dans l’église d'occident (Xe-XIVe siècle). (Bibliothèque d'histoire culturelle du Moyen Áge, 10.) Pp. 446+ colour plates. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. €85 (paper). 978 2 503 53355 1

Costambeys, Marios, Matthew Innes and Simon MacLean, The Carolingian world. (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks.) Pp. xxii+505 incl. 19 maps and 17 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £60 (cloth), £21.99 (paper). 978 0 521 56366 6; 978 0 521 56494 6

Crick, Julia and Elisabeth van Houts (eds), A social history of England, 900–1200. Pp. xv+454 incl. frontispiece, 2 maps, 2 tables and 18 figs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £60 (cloth), £22.99 (paper). 978 0 521 88561 4; 978 0 521 71323 8

Davey, Francis (ed. and trans.), The itineraries of William Wey. Pp. 253 incl. frontispiece and map. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2010. £27.99. 978 1 85124 304 4

Dyson, Tony, Mark Samuel, Alison Steele and Susan M. Wright, The Cluniac priory and abbey of St Saviour Bermondsey, Surrey. Excavations, 1984–95. (MOLA Monograph, 50.) Pp. xviii+297 incl. 189 figs and 25 tables. London: Museum of London Archaeology, 2011. £27. 978 1 901992 96 0

Favier, Jean and Nicole Lemaitre (eds), L'Obituaire de l'Hôpital des Quinze-Vingts de Paris. (Recueil des Historiens de la France. Obituaires, Série IN-8°, 10.) Pp. xii+163+15 colour plates. Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 2011. 978 287754 2623

Feiss, Hugh (ed.), On love. A selection of works of Hugh, Adam, Achard, Richard, and Godfrey of St Victor. (Victorine Texts in Translation. Exegesis, Theology and Spirituality from the Abbey of St Victor, 2.) Pp. 391+ colour frontispiece. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. €60. 978 2 503 53459 6

Greatrex, Joan, The English Benedictine cathedral priories. Rule and practice, c. 1270–c. 1420. Pp. xxi+416 incl. frontispiece and 6 plans. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £80. 978 0 19 925073 8

Hardwick, Paul, English medieval misericords. The margins of meaning. (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture.) Pp. viii+189 incl. 32 figs. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2011. £45. 978 1 84383 659 9; 2045 4902

Harris, Max, Sacred folly. A new history of the feast of fools. Pp. xiii+322 incl. map. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2011. £32.95 ($49.95). 978 0 8014 4956 7

Hayward, Paul Anthony (ed. and trans.), The Winchcombe and Coventry chronicles. Hitherto unnoticed witnesses to the work of John of Worcester, I: Introduction and commentary; II: Texts and translations. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 373.) Pp. xxxiii+353 incl. 1 table, 2 figs and 6 colour plates; 354–750. Tempe, Az: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010. £106 ($140). 978 0 86698 421 8

Levy, Ian Christopher (trans. and ed.), The Bible in medieval tradition. The letter to the Galatians. Pp. xii+277. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2011. £22.99 ($34) (paper). 978 0 8028 2223 9

Morenzoni, Franco (ed.), Guillelmus Alvernus. Opera homiletica, II: Sermones de tempore, CXXXVI-CCCXXIV. (Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis, 230A.) Pp. 698. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. €340. 978 2 503 53390 2

Prudlo, Donald S. (ed.), The origin, development, and refinement of medieval religious mendicancies. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 24.) Pp. xviii+382. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €139. 978 90 04 18180 9; 1871 6377

Schmies, Bernd (ed.), Klara von Assisi. Zwischen Bettelarmut und Beziehungsreichtum. Beiträge zur neueren deutschsprachigen Klara-Forschung. (Franziskanische Forschungen, 51.) Pp. x+588 incl. 10 ills. Munich: Aschendorff, 2011. €67. 978 3 402 18687 9

Shoemaker, Karl, Sanctuary and crime in the Middle Ages, 400–1500. (Just Ideas. Transformative Ideals of Justice in Ethical and Political Thought.) Pp. xiv+ 269. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. $65. 978 0 8232 3268 0

Suitner, Franco, I pioeti del medio evo. Italia ed Europa (secoli XII–XIV). (Frecce, 96.) Pp. 351. Rome: Carocci editore, 2010. 978 88 430 5404 6

Turner, Denys, Julian of Norwich, theologian. Pp. xxvi+262. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2011. £28. 978 0 300 16391 9

Tyerman, Christopher, The debate on the crusades. (Issues in Historiography.) Pp. xii+260. Manchester–New York: Manchester University Press, 2011. £15.99 (paper). 978 0 7190 7320 5; 978 0 7190 7321 2

Williams, Hywel, Emperor of the west. Charlemagne and the Carolingian empire. Pp. xx+460 incl. 3 maps+8 colour plates. London: Quercus, 2010. £25. 978 1 84916 190 9

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

Abé, Takao, The Jesuit mission to new France. A new interpretation in the light of the earlier Jesuit experience in Japan. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 151.) Pp. vii+238 incl. 10 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €99. 978 90 04 19285 0; 1573 5664

Chung-Kim, Esther, Inventing authority. The use of the church Fathers in Reformation debates over the eucharist. Pp. x+197. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2011. $49.95. 978 1 60258 213 2

Evans, R. J. W., Michael Schaich and Peter H. Wilson (eds), The Holy Roman Empire, 1495–1806. (Studies of the German Historical Institute London.) Pp. xi+397. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £75. 978 0 19 960297 1

Freeman, Curtis W. (ed.), A company of women preachers. Baptist prophetesses in seventeenth-century England. A reader. Pp. xv+824. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2011. $69.95. 978 1 60258 318 4

Goudriaan, Aza and Fred van Lieburg (eds), Revisiting the synod of Dordt (1618–1619). (Brill's Series in Church History, 49.) Pp. xiv+442 incl. 13 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €99. 978 90 04 18863 1; 1572 4107

Harris, Johanna and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, The intellectual culture of Puritan women, 1558–1680. (Early Modern Literature in History.) Pp. xx+250 incl. 3 ills. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. £50. 978 0 230 22864 1

Moore, Helen and Julian Reid (eds), Manifold greatness. The making of the King James Bible. Pp. 208 incl. 73 colour plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press (with Folger Shakespeare Library), 2011. £19.99 (cloth). 978 185124 349 5

Roldán-Figueroa, Rady, The ascetic spirituality of Juan de Ávila (1499–1569). (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 150.) Pp. xvi+268. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2010. €99. 978 90 04 19204 1; 1573 5664

Stewart, Kenneth J., Ten myths about Calvinism. Recovering the breadth of the reformed tradition. Pp. 301 incl. 10 ills. Downers Grove, Il: IVP Academic/Nottingham: Apollos, 2011. $24 (paper). 978 0 8308 3898 1; 978 1 84474 513 5

Stolarski, Piotr, Friars on the frontier. Catholic renewal and the Dominican order in southeastern Poland, 1594–1648. (Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700.) Pp. xvi+265. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2010. £65. 978 1 4094 0595 5

Strom, Jonathan (ed.), Pietism and community in Europe and North America, 1650–1850. (Brill's Series in Church History, 45. Religious History and Culture Series, 4.) Pp. xii+368. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2010. €119. 978 90 04 18636 1; 1572 4107

Tribble, Evelyn B. and Nicholas Keene, Cognitive ecologies and the history of remembering. Religion, education and memory in early modern England. (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies.) Pp. x+183 incl. 4 ills. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. £50. 978 0 230 27688 8

Wengert, Timothy J., Philip Melanchthon. Speaker of the Reformation. Wittenberg's other reformer. (Collected Studies, 963.) Pp. xvi+304 + frontispiece. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2010. £72.50. 978 1 4094 0662 4

Modern Europe

Alvarez, David, The pope's soldiers. A military history of the modern Vatican. (Modern War Studies.) Pp. xiv+429 incl. 24 ills. Lawrence, Ka: University Press of Kansas, 2011. $34.95. 978 0 7006 1770 8

Barnett, Christopher B., Kierkegaard, Pietism and holiness. (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies.) Pp. xii+230. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £50. 978 1 4094 1156 7

Bell, Peter (comp.), A directory of the clergy of the Church of England in 1864. DVD. Pp. >900 incl. 31 plates. Edinburgh: Portsburgh Press, 2010. £25

Cheatle, Andrew J., W. E. Sangster. Herald of holiness. Sanctification and perfection in the thought of W. E. Sangster. (Studies in Evangelical History and Thought.) Pp. xv+256. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2011. £19.99 (paper). 978 1 84227 216 9

Crummey, Robert O., Old believers in a changing world. Pp. xiii+267. DeKalb, Il: Northern Illinois University Press, 2011. $45. 978 0 87580 650 1

González Gullón, José Luis, El clero en la Segunda República. Madrid, 1931–1936. Pp. 483. Burgos: Monte Carmelo, 2011. €20 (paper). 978 84 8353 356 7

Greschat, Martin, Der Protestantismus in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (1945–2005). Pp. 348. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2011. €28 (paper). 978 3 374 02828 3

Gunnoe, Charles D., Jr, Thomas Erastus and the Palatinate. A Renaissance physician in the second reformation. (Brill's Series in Church History, 48.) Pp. xvi+525. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2010. €119. 978 90 04 18792 4; 1572 4107

Heinz, Daniel (ed.), Freikirchen und Juden im Dritten Reich. Instrumentalisierte Heilsgeschichte, antisemitische Vorurteile und verdrängte Schuld. (Kirche – Konfession – Religion, 54.) Pp. 344. Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2011. €49.90. 978 3 89971 690 0

Knights, Mark, The devil in disguise. Deception, delusion, and fanatacism in the early English enlightenment. Pp. xxi+279 incl. 2 frontispieces and 38 figs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £30. 978 0 19 957795 8

Lehner, Ulrich L., Enlightened monks. The German Benedictines, 1740–1803. Pp. viii+266 incl. map. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £55. 978 0 19 959512 9

McEwan, David B., Wesley as a pastoral theologian. Theological methodology in John Wesley's doctrine of Christian perfection. (Studies in Evangelical History and Thought.) Pp. xviii+266. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2011. £22.99 (paper). 978 1 84227 621 1

McGrath, Francis J. (ed.), John Henry Newman Sermons, 1824–1843, IV: The Church and miscellaneous sermons at St Mary's and Littlemore. Pp. xliv+392 incl. frontispiece. Oxford: Clarendon, 2011. £110. 978 0 19 920091 7

Marty, Martin E., Dietrich Bonhoeffer's letters and papers from prison. A biography. (Lives of Great Religious Books.) Pp. xii+275+8 ills. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011. $24.95. 978 0 691 13921 0

Prévotat, Jacques (ed.), Pie XI et la France. L'apport des archives du pontificat de Pie XI à la connaissance des rapports entre le Saint-Siège et la France. (Bibliothèque de l’École française de Rome.) Pp. iv+533. Rome: École française de Rome, 2010. €63 (paper). 978 2 7283 0902 3; 0223 5099

Rico Arrastia, María Iranzu, La Diócesis de Pamplona en 1734, a través de la visita ad limina del obispo Melchor Ángel Gutiérrez Vallejo. (Colección Aspectos Jurídicos, 20.) Pp. 489. Pamplona: Universidad Pública de Navarra, 2010. €30 (paper). 978 84 9769 267 0

Sardella, Louis-Pierre, Demain, une revue catholique d'avant-garde, 1905–1907. (Pages d'Histoire.) Pp. 393. Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 2011. €32 (paper). 978 2 220 06288 4

Schnurr, Jan Carsten, Weltreiche und Wahrheitszeugen. Geschichtsbilder der protestantischen Erweckungsbewegung in Deutschland, 1815–1848. (Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Pietismus. Im Auftrag der Historischen Kommission zur Erforschung des Pietismus, 57.) Pp. 464. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011. €76.95. 978 3 525 55014 4

Tennant, Bob, Conscience, consciousness and ethics in Joseph Butler's philosophy and ministry. (Studies in Modern British History, 26.) Pp. x+249. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011. £60. 978 1 84383 612 4; 1464 6625

Tyndale, Wendy R., Protestants in communist east Germany. In the storm of the world. Pp. xxvii+189. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2010. £40. 978 1 4094 0610 5

Africa, Asia and Australasia

Kemm, William, John Thomas. Missionary to south India. (Tercentenary Publication.) Pp. viii+300 incl. map. Delhi: ISPCK, 2010. £9 (paper). 978 81 8465 092 1

Suny, Ronald Grigor, Fatma Müge Göçek and Norman M. Naimark (eds), A question of genocide. Armenians and Turks at the end of the Ottoman empire. Pp. xxii+434 incl. map +16 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £22.50. 978 0 19 539374 3

Werbner, Richard, Holy hustlers, schism, and prophecy. Apostolic reformation in Botswana. (The Anthropology of Christianity, 11.) Pp. xiii+268 incl. 2 maps and 13 figs + DVD. Berkeley–Los Angeles–London: University of California Press, 2011. £16.95 (paper). 978 0 520 26853 1

The Americas

Bailey, Richard A., Race and redemption in Puritan New England. (Religion in America.) Pp. xiii+209. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £35. 978 0 19 536659 4

Schultz, Kevin M., Tri-faith America. How Catholics and Jews held postwar America to its Protestant promise. Pp. viii+256 incl. 9 ills. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £22.50 978 0 19 533176 9

General: Modern world

Clapp, Elizabeth J. and Julie Roy Jeffrey (eds), Women, dissent, and anti-slavery in Britain and America, 1790–1865. Pp. x+214. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £60. 978 0 19 958548 9

O'Collins, Gerald, Rethinking fundamental theology. Toward a new fundamental theology. Pp. xiv+365. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. £35. 978 0 19 960556 9