General

Coomans, T., H. de Dijn, J. de Maeyer, R. Heynickx and B. Verschaffel (eds), Loci sacri. Understanding sacred places. (Kadoc Studies on Religion, Culture and Society, 8.) Pp. 283 incl. 69 ills. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2012. €39.50 (paper). 978 90 5867 842 3

Elliott, Dyan, The bride of Christ goes to hell. Metaphor and embodiment in the lives of pious women, 200–1500. (The Middle Ages.) Pp. ix+466. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. £39 ($59.95). 978 0 8122 4358 1

Johnson, Robert E., A global introduction to Baptist Churches. Pp. xxvi+444 incl. timeline and 21 ills. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. £60 (cloth), £19.99 (paper). 978 0 521 87781 7; 978 0 521 70170 9

King, Chris and Duncan Sayer (eds), The archaeology of post-medieval religion. (The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology Monograph, 6.) Pp. xvi+288 incl. 66 figs and 20 tables. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011. £30. 978 1 84383 693 3

Knauss, Stefanie and Davide Zordan, La promessa immaginata. Proposte per una teologia estetica fondamentale. (Scienze Religiose. New Ser., 27.) Pp. 400 incl. 14 figs. Bologna: EDB, 2011. €28 (paper). 978 88 10 41525 2

Langer, Ruth, Cursing the Christians? A history of the ‘Birkat Haminim’. Pp. v+389. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £45. 978 0 19 978317 5

Orme, Nicholas and Jon Cannon, Westbury-on-Trym. Monastery, minster and college. (Bristol Record Society, 62.) Pp. xii+276 incl. 14 figs+16 plates. Bristol: Bristol Record Society, 2010. £15 plus postage. 978 0 901538 31 4

Sell, Alan P. F., Christ and controversy. The person of Christ in nonconformist thought and ecclesial experience, 1600–2000. Pp. xii+217. Eugene, Or: Pickwick Publications, 2011. $25 (paper). 978 1 61097 669 5

Ancient world

Alba López, Almudena, Teología política y polémica antiarriana. Doctrinas cristianas y poder en el siglo IV. (Plentitudo Temporis, 12.) Pp. 435. Salamanca: Universidad Pontificia, 2009. €50 (paper). 978 84 7299 916 9

Blackwell, Ben C., Christosis. Pauline soteriology in light of deification in Irenaeus and Cyril of Alexandria. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. Ser 2, 314.) Pp. xvii+324 incl. 8 tables and 6 ills. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011. €79 (paper). 978 3 16 151672 6; 0340 9570

Clivaz, Claire, Andreas Dettwiler, Luc Devillers and Enrico Norelli (eds) (with Benjamin Bertho), Infancy Gospels. Stories and identities. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 281.) Pp. xxx+768. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011. €149. 978 3 16 150833 2; 0512 1604

Delage, Marie-José (ed.) (with Marc Heijmans) (texte critique Dom G. Morin), Vie de Césaire d'Arles. (Sources Chrétiennes, 536.) Pp. 567 incl. 2 maps. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2010. €38 (paper). 978 2 204 09407 8; 0750 1978

Dunsch, Boris and others (eds), Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum, 53–2010. Pp. 228+14 black-and-white and colour plates. Münster: Aschendorff, 2011. €73. 3 402 10703 7; 0075 2541

Dykes, Anthony, Reading sin in the world. The Hamartigenia of Prudentius and the vocation of the responsible reader. Pp. xx+273. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £65. 978 1 107 00453 5

Fédou, Michel and Luc Brésard (ed. and trans.) (text critique C. P. Hammond Bammel), Origène. Commentaire sur l’Épître aux Romains, II: Livres III–V; III: Livres VI–VIII. (Sources Chrétiennes, 539, 543.) Pp. 551, 615. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2010, 2011. €48, €52 (paper). 978 2 204 09417 7; 978 2 204 09657 7; 0750 1978

Fürst, Alfons, Origenes und sein Erbe in Orient und Okzident. (Adamantiana, 1.) Pp. 265. Munich: Aschendorff, 2011. €39. 978 3 402 13710 9

Heck, Eberhard and Antonie Wlosok (eds), Lactantius. Divinarum institutionum libri septem. Fasc. 4. Liber VII. Appendix. Indices. (Bibliotheca Teubneriania, BT 2009.) Pp. lxxxii–xcviii+641–850. Berlin–Boston: de Gruyter, 2011. €59.95 (paper). 978 3 11 022467 2; 1864 399X

Hecquet-Noti, Nicole (ed.), Avit de Vienne. Éloge consolatoire de la chasteté. (Sur la virginité). (Sources Chrétiennes, 524.) Pp. 254. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2011. €25 (paper). 978 2 204 09751 2; 0750 1978

Jenott, Lance, The Gospel of Judas. Coptic text, translation, and historical interpretation of the ‘Betrayer's Gospel’. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 64.) Pp. x+259, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011. €59 (paper). 978 3 16 150978 0; 1436 3003

Katos, Demetrios S., Palladius of Helenopolis. The Origenist advocate. (Oxford Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xvii+219. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £70. 978 0 19 969696 3

Lössl, Josef and John W. Watt (eds), Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in late antiquity. The Alexandrian commentary tradition between Rome and Baghdad. Pp. xv+343 incl. 2 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £70. 978 1 4094 1007 2

Martens, Peter W., Origen and Scripture. The contours of the exegetical life. (Oxford Early Christian Studies.) Pp. ix+280. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £65. 978 0 19 963955 7

Morlet, Sébastien (ed.), Le Traité de Porphyre contre les chrétiens. Un siècle de recherché, nouvelles questions. Actes du colloque international organisé les 8 et 9 septembre 2009 à l'Université de Paris IV–Sorbonne. (Collection des Études Augustiniennes. Antiquité, 190.) Pp. 472. Paris: Institut d’Études Augustiniennes, 2011. €42.65 (paper). 978 2 85121 245 0

Nardi, Carlo and Patrick Descourtieux (ed. and trans.) (texte grec O. Stählin and L. Früchtel (GCS 17²), Clément d'Alexandrie. Quel riche sera sauvé. (Sources Chrétiennes, 537.) Pp. 259. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2011. €22 (paper). 978 2 204 09530 3; 0750 1978

Öhler, Markus (ed.), Aposteldekret und antikes Vereinswesen. Gemeinschaft und ihre Ordnung. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 280.) Pp. viii+424. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011. €114. 978 3 16 150363 4; 0512 1604

Payton, James R., Jr, Irenaeus on the Christian faith. A condensation of ‘Against heresies’. Pp. xix+214. Cambridge: James Clarke, 2012. £19.50 (paper). 978 0 227 68018 6

Sabbah, Guy (intro.), Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle and Guy Sabbah (anno.), A.-J. Festugière, Bernard Grillet and Guy Sabbah (trans.) (texte grec J. Bidez and L. Parmentier), Évagre le scholastique. Histoire ecclésiastique. Livres I–III. (Sources Chrétiennes, 542.) Pp. 591 incl. 4 maps. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2011. €52 (paper). 978 2 204 09701 7; 0750 1978

Shaw, Brent D., Sacred violence. African Christians and sectarian hatred in the age of Augustine. Pp. xix+910 incl. 4 maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £100 (cloth), £40 (paper). 978 0 521 19605 5; 978 0 521 12725 7

Six-Means, Horace E., Augustine and Catholic Christianization. The Catholicization of Roman Africa, 391–408. (Pastristic Studies, 10.) Pp. viii+215. New York: Peter Lang, 2011. £45. 978 1 4331 0804 4; 1094 6217

Stewart-Sykes, Alistair (ed.), The Didascalia apostolorum. An English version with introduction and annotation. (Studia Traditionis Theologiae. Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology, 1.) Pp. xi+295. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009. €65 (paper). 978 2 503 52993 6

Tang, Li, East Syriac Christianity in Mongol-Yuan China. (Orientalia Biblica et Christiana, 18.) Pp. xvii+169 incl. 8 maps and 20 ills. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2011. €58. 978 3 447 06580 1; 0946 5065

Winling, Raymond (ed.) (texte grec W. Jaeger (GNO I, 1), Grégoire de Nysse. Contre Eunome I, 147–691. (Sources Chrétiennes, 524.) Pp. 400. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2010. €48 (paper). 978 2 204 09211 1; 0750 1978

Winn, Robert E., Eusebius of Emesa. Church and theology in the mid-fourth century. Pp. xiii+279. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2011. $69.95. 978 0 8132 1876 2

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

Abel, Stefan, Johannes Nider Die vierundzwanzig goldenen Harfen. Edition und Kommentar. (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation. Studies in the Late Middle Ages, Humanism and the Reformation, 60.) Pp. xiii+749 incl. 11 ills. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011. €119. 978 3 16 150610 9; 1865 2840

Aist, Rodney, The Christian topography of early Islamic Jerusalem. The evidence of Willibald of Eichstätt (700–787 CE). (Studia Traditionis Theologiae. Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology, 2.) Pp. xxiii+343 incl. 3 tables, 1 fig and 18 maps. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009. €65 (paper). 978 2 50353013 0

Anderson, Wendy Love, The discernment of spirits. Assessing visions and visionaries in the late Middle Ages. (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation, 63.) Pp. x+269. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011. €89. 978 3 16 151664 1; 1865 2840

Bonfil, Robert, Oded Irshai, Guy G. Stroumsa and Rina Talgam (eds), Jews in Byzantium. Dialectics of minority and majority cultures. (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, 14.) Pp. xvi+1,010 incl. 59 figs+39 colour plates. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2012. €239. 978 90 04 20355 6; 1570 078X

Borchardt, Karl, Anthony Luttrell and Ekhard Schöffler, Documents concerning Cyprus from the hospital's Rhodian archives, 1409–1459. (Texts and Studies in the History of Cyprus, 66.) Pp. xcii+531+17 plates. Nicosia: Cyprus Research Centre, 2011. €24. 978 9963 0 8124 0

Brown, Michelle P., The book and the transformation of Britain, c. 550–1050. A study in written and visual literacy and orality. (The Sanders Lectures in Bibliography, Cambridge University Library, 2009.) Pp. 184 incl. 12 colour and 75 black-and-white ills. London: The British Library, 2011. £45. 978 0 7123 5828 6

Cannon, Jon and Beth Williamson (eds), The medieval art, architecture and history of Bristol Cathedral. An enigma explored. (Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures.) Pp. xviii+350 incl. 120 ills+11 colour plates. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011. £55. 978 1 84383 680 3; 1757 2150

Capgrave, John (trans. Karen A. Winstead), The life of saint Katherine of Alexandria. (Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture.) Pp. vii+203. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. $25 (paper). 978 0 268 04426 8

Crook, John, English medieval shrines. (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture.) Pp. xxiv+342 incl. frontispiece, 4 figs and 53 plates. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011. £39.95. 978 1 84383 682 7

Dahan, Gilbert (ed.), Nicolas de Lyre, franciscain du XIVe siècle, exegete et théologien. (Collection des Études Augustiniennes. Moyen-Âge et Temps Modernes, 48.) Pp. 408 incl. 10 black-and-white and colour figs. Paris: Institut d’Études Augustiniennes, 2011. €36,97 (paper). 978 2 85121 249 8

Edgington, Susan B. and Carol Sweetenham (trans.), The Chanson d'Antioche. An old French account of the First Crusade. (Crusade Texts in Translation, 22.) Pp. ix+428. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £70. 978 0 7546 5489 6

Efthymiadis, Stephanos (ed.), The Ashgate research companion to Byzantine hagiography, I: Periods and places. (Ashgate Research Companion.) Pp. xxiv+440 incl. 4 maps. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £85. 978 0 7546 5033 1

Favier, Jean and Jean-Loup Lemaitre (eds) (with Nathalie Verpeaux), Les Obituaires de l'Abbaye Saint-Andoche d'Autun. (Recueil des Historiens de la France. Obituaires, Série IN-8°, 11.) Pp. viii+443 incl. 24 black-and-white and colour plates. Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 2011. 978 2 8775 4276 0

Flemmig, Stephan, Hagiographie und Kulturtransfer. Birgitta von Schweden und Hedwig von Polen. (Orbis mediaevalis Vorstellungswelten des Mittelalters, 14.) Pp. 444 incl. 1 black-and-white and 8 colour plates. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2011. €99.80. 978 3 05 005155 0

Freeburn, Ryan P., Hugh of Amiens and the twelfth-century Renaissance. (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West.) Pp. xiii+276. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £65. 978 1 4094 2734 6

Garipzanov, Ildar H. (ed.), Historical narratives and Christian identity on a European periphery. Early history writing in northern, east-central and eastern Europe (c.1070–1200). (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, 26.) Pp. xiii+294. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. €90. 978 2 503 53367 4

Hitzbleck, Kerstin, Exekutoren. Die ausserordentliche Kollatur von Benefizien im Pontifikat Johannes' XXII. (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation, 48.) Pp. xvii+657. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009. €114. 978 3 16 150158 6; 1865 2840

Jamroziak, Emilia, Survival and success on medieval borders. Cistercian houses in medieval Scotland and Pomerania from the twelfth to the late fourteenth century. (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, 24.) Pp. xvi+218 incl. 5 maps and 2 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. €75. 978 2 503 53307 0

Knibbs, Eric, Ansgar, Rimbert and the forged foundations of Hamburg-Bremen. (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West.) Pp. xi+258. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £65. 978 1 4094 2882 4

Larsen, Andrew E., The school of heretics. Academic condemnation at the University of Oxford, 1277–1409. (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 40.) Pp. xi+323 incl. 2 maps. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €121. 978 90 04 20661 8; 0926 6070

Levy, Ian Christopher, Gary Macy and Kristen van Ausdall (eds), A companion to the eucharist in the Middle Ages. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 26.) Pp. xvii+640 incl. 90 figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2012. €195. 978 90 04 20141 5; 1871 6377

Moore, Michael Edward, A sacred kingdom. Bishops and the rise of Frankish kingship, 300–850. (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law, 8.) Pp. xiii+434. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2011. $69.95. 978 0 8132 1877 9

Moreno-Riaño, Gerson and Cary J. Nederman (eds), A companion to Marsilius of Padua. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 31.) Pp. xi+353. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2012. €128. 978 90 04 18348 3; 1871 6377

Niskanen, Samu, The letter collections of Anselm of Canterbury. (Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia. Research on the Inheritance of Early and Medieval Christianity, 61.) Pp. 345 incl. 13 figs and 5 tables+11 plates. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. €90. 978 2 503 54075 7

Oosterwijk, Sophie and Stefanie Knöll (eds), Mixed metaphors. The Danse macabre in medieval and early modern Europe. Pp. xxiii + 449 incl. 116 ills+16 colour plates. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. £59.99. 978 1 44438 2900 7

Pennington, Kenneth and Melodie Harris Eichbauer (eds), Law as profession and practice in medieval Europe. Essays in honour of James A. Brundage. Pp. xiv+421 incl. frontispiece and 28 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £75. 978 1 4094 2574 8

Rowe, Nina, The Jew, the cathedral, and the medieval city. Synagoga and ecclesia in the thirteenth century. Pp. xvii+326 incl. 161 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £55. 978 0 521 19744 1

Ryan, Michael A., A kingdom of stargazers. Astrology and authority in the late medieval crown of Aragon. Pp. xv+214. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2011. $45. 978 0 8014 4984 0

Sarbak, Gábor and Lorenz Weinrich (eds), Sicardi Cremonensis episcopi Mitralis de officiis. (Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis, 228.) Pp. lxiv+852. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008. €395. 978 2 503 05281 6

Stanford, Charlotte A., Commemorating the dead in late medieval Strasbourg. The cathedral book of donors and its use (1320–1521). (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West.) Pp. xx+327 incl. 37 figs and 40 tables. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £70. 978 1 4094 0136 0

Stoyanov, Yuri, Defenders and enemies of the true cross. The Sasanian conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine ideology of anti-Persian warfare. (Philosophisch-Historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte, 819. Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik, 61.) Pp. 103. Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2011. €16.20(paper). 978 3 7001 6957 4

Taylor, Claire, Heresy, crusade and inquisition in medieval Quercy. (Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages, 2.) Pp. xvi+281 incl. 3 maps. York: York Medieval Press (with Boydell & Brewer), 2011. £50. 978 1 903153 38 3

Thomson, R. M., A descriptive catalogue of the medieval manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Western manuscripts. Pp. xxix+210+colour frontispiece and 105 colour and black-and-white plates. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer (for Corpus Christi College, Oxford), 2011. £95. 978 1 84384 284 2

Tracy, Larissa, Torture and brutality in medieval literature. Negotiations of national identity. Pp. x+326. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2012. £55. 978 1 84384 288 0

Völkl, Martin, Muslime Märtyrer Militia Christi. Identität, Feindbild und Fremderfahrung während der ersten Kreuzzüge. (Wege zur Geschichtswissenschaft.) Pp. 308. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2011. €39.90 (paper). 978 3 17 021893 2

Von Habsburg, Maximilian, Catholic and Protestant translations of the Imitatio Christi, 1425–1650. From late medieval classic to early modern bestseller. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. x+365. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £70. 978 0 7546 6765 0

Wallraff, Martin (ed.), Gelehrte zwischen Humanismus und Reformation. Kontexte der Universitätsgründung in Basel 1460. (Litterae et Theologia. Publikationen des Frey-Grynaeschen Instituts in Basel, 2.) Pp. xvi+112 incl. 6 black-and-white and colour plates. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011. €24.95 (paper). 978 3 11 026607 8; 1869 8131

Watanabe, Morimichi (ed. Gerald Christianson and Thomas M. Izbicki), Nicholas of Cusa. A companion to his life and his times. Pp. xliv+381 incl. 3 maps and 7 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £75. 978 1 4094 2039 2

Wetter, Evelin, Objekt, Überlieferung und Narrativ. Spätmittelalterliche Goldschmiedekunst im historischen Königreich Ungarn. (Studia Jagellonica Lipsiensia, 8.) Pp. 311 incl. 208 black-and-white and 20 colour plates. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke, 2011. €54. 978 3 7995 8408 1

Winterbottom, Michael and Michael Lapidge (ed. and trans.), The early Lives of St Dunstan. (Oxford Medieval Texts.) Pp. clxvii+210. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2012. £85. 978 0 19 960504 0

Zerner, Monique (ed.), Guillaume Monachi. Contre Henri schismatique et hérétique suivi de contre les hérétiques et schismatiques (anonyme). (Sources Chrétiennes, 541.) Pp. 349. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2011. €41 (paper). 978 2 204 09595 2; 0750 1978

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

Barry, Jonathan, Witchcraft and demonology in south-west England, 1640–1789. (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic.) Pp. x+373. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. £65. 978 0 230 29226 0

Boys, Jayne E. E., London's news press and the Thirty Years War. (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History.) Pp. x+337 incl. 4 figs and 6 plates. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011. £60. 978 1 84383 677 3

Bultmann, Christoph and Lutz Danneberg (eds), Hebraistik – Hermeneutik – Homiletik. Die Philologia sacra im frühneuzeitlichen Bibelstudium. (Historia Hermeneutica. Studia, 10.) Pp. viii+576. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011. €99,95. 978 3 11 025944 5

Caffiero, Marina (trans. Lydia G. Cochrane), Forced baptism. Histories of Jews, Christians and converts in papal Rome. Pp. x+318. Berkeley–Los Angeles–London: University of California Press, 2012(2011). £41.95. 978 0 520 25451 0

Caravale, Giorgio, Forbidden prayer. Church censorship and devotional literature in Renaissance Italy. (Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700.) (Trans. by Peter Dawson of L'orazione proibita. Censura ecclesiastica e letteratura devozionale nella prima età moderna, Firenze: Olschki, 2003.) Pp. xi+296. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £70. 978 1 4094 2988 3

Carley, James P. (ed. and trans.) (with Caroline Brett), John Leland. De uiris illustribus. On famous men. (Studies and Texts, 172. British Writers of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, 1.) Pp. clx+868+8 plates. Ontario: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies/Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2010. £120. 978 0 88844 1172 0; 978 1 85124 367 9

Cooper, Tim, John Owen, Richard Baxter and the formation of Nonconformity. Pp. xi+343. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £70. 978 0 7546 6361 4

Crowther, Kathleen M., Adam and Eve in the Protestant Reformation. Pp. xii+293 incl. 15 figs. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. £50. 978 0 521 19236 1

Curvelo, Alexandro and Madalena Simões (eds), Portugal und das Heilige Römische Reich (16.–18. Jahrhundert). Portugale e o Sacro Império (séculos XVI–XVIII). (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur der iberischen und ibero-amerikanischen Länder, 15.) Pp. 304 incl. 39 ills. Munich: Aschendorff, 2011. €39 (paper). 978 3 402 14901 0

Dingel, Irene and Armin Kohnle (eds), Philipp Melanchthon. Lehrer Deutschlands, Reformator Europas. (Leucorea-Studien zur Geschichte der Reformation und der Lutherischen Orthodoxie, 13.) Pp. 431 incl. 5 ills. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2011. €58. 978 3 374 02747 7

Dingel, Irene and Stefan Rhein (eds), Der späte Bugenhagen. (Schriften der Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt, 13.) Pp. 256 incl. 25 ills. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2011. €38. 978 3 374 02746 0

Evenden, Elizabeth and Thomas S. Freeman, Religion and the book in early modern England. The making of John Foxe's ‘Book of Martyrs’. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) Pp. xiv+387 incl. 14 ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £60. 978 0 521 83349 3

Fricke, Michael and Matthias Heesch (eds), Der Humanist als Reformator. Über Leben, Werk und Wirkung Philipp Melanchthons. Pp. 376 incl. 18 ills. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2011. €36 (paper). 978 3 374 02887 0

Gonchrenko, Simon Victor, Wounds that heal. The importance of church discipline within Balthasar Hubmaier's theology. Pp. xiii+150. Eugene, Or: Pickwick Publications, 2012. $19 (paper). 978 1 61097 604 6

Kostroun, Daniella, Feminism, absolutism, and Jansenism. Louis XIV and the Port-Royal nuns. Pp. xiii+273. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £55. 978 107 00045 2

Larson, James L., Reforming the north. The kingdoms and Churches of Scandinavia, 1520–1545. Pp. xv+534 incl. 4 maps. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. £68. 978 0 521 76514 5

Logan, George M. (ed.), A Cambridge companion to Thomas More. (Cambridge Companions to Religion.) Pp. xxv+304 incl. family tree. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £55 (cloth), £18.99 (paper). 978 0 521 88862 2; 978 0 521 71687 1

McCoog, Thomas M., The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1589–1597. Building the faith of Saint Peter upon the king of Spain's monarchy. (Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700.) Pp. xiv+467. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate/Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 2012. £75. 978 1 4094 3772 7; 978 88 7041 373 1

Mayes, Benjamin T. G., Counsel and conscience. Lutheran casuistry and moral reasoning after the Reformation. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 1.) Pp. 256. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011. €69.95. 978 3 525 55027 4

Meier, Johannes and Michael Müller (eds), Jesuiten aus Zentraleuropa in Portugiesisch- und Spanisch-Amerika. Ein bio-bibliographisches Handbuch mit einem Überblick über das außäische Wirken der Gesellschaft Jesu in der frühen Neuzeit, II: Chile (1618–1771). Pp. l+461 incl. 12 ills. Munich: Aschendorff, 2011. €69. 978 3 402 11789 7

Menk, Gerhard, Zwischen Kanzel und Katheder. Protestantische Pfarrer- und Professorenprofile zwischen dem 16. und 20. Jahrhundert. Ausgewählte Aufsätze. Pp. 980 incl. 46 ills. Marburg: Jonas Verlag, 2011. €30. 978 3 89445 449 4

Ninness, Richard J., Between opposition and collaboration. Nobles, bishops, and the German Reformations in the prince-bishopric of Bamberg, 1555–1619. (Studies in Central European Histories, 53.) Pp. xiii+224 incl. 1 map+colour map. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €99. 978 90 04 20154 5; 1547 1217

Shagan, Ethan H., The rule of moderation. Violence, religion and the politics of restraint in early modern England. Pp. xiii+381 incl. 9 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £60 (cloth), £19.99 (paper). 978 0 521 11972 6; 978 0 521 13556 6

Shalev, Zur, Sacred words and worlds. Geography, religion, and scholarship, 1550–1700. (History of Science and Medicine Library, 21. Scientific and Learned Cultures and their Institutions, 2.) Pp. xxi+319 incl. 57 figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2012. €99. 978 90 04 20935 0; 1872 0684

Somos, Mark, Secularisation and the Leiden circle. Pp. xiv+544 incl. 10 ills. Leiden–London: Brill, 2011. €149. 978 90 04 20955 8

Tarlow, Sarah, Ritual, belief and the dead in early modern Britain and Ireland. Pp. xii+226 incl 34 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £55. 978 0 521 76154 3

Trim, D. J. B. (ed.), The Huguenots. History and memory in transnational context. Essays in honour and memory of Walter C. Utt. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 156.) Pp. xxviii+313+frontispiece. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €99. 978 90 04 20775 2

Weeda, Robert, Itinéraires du Psautier Huguenot à la Renaissance. Pp. 252 incl. numerous ills. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009. €50 (paper). 978 2 503 53071 0

Modern Europe

Bentley, Michael, The life and thought of Herbert Butterfield. History, science and God. Pp. xv+381 incl. frontispiece and 7 ills. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £50. 978 1 107 00397 2

Boynton, Susan, Silent music. Medieval song and the construction of history in eighteenth-century Spain. (Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music.) Pp. xxv+208 incl. 29 ills+2 colour plates. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £27.50. 978 0 19 975459 5

Brewer, John D., Gareth I. Higgins and Francis Teeney, Religion, civil society, and peace in northern Ireland. Pp. xix+249 incl. 5 figs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £60. 978 0 19 969402 0

Chaillot, Christine, The Orthodox Church in eastern Europe in the twentieth century. Pp. xviii+464. Oxford–Bern: Peter Lang, 2011. £50 (paper). 978 34 0343 0709 3

Chapman, Alister, Godly ambition. John Stott and the Evangelical movement. Pp. xi+222. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £35. 978 0 19 977397 8

Coppa, Frank J., The policies and politics of pope Pius XII. Between diplomacy and morality. Pp. viii+205. New York–Bern: Peter Lang, 2011. £22 (paper). 978 1 4331 0521 0

Cox, Gordon, The musical Salvationist. The world of Richard Slater (1854–1939). Father of Salvation Army music. (Music in Britain, 1600–1900.) Pp. xii+225 incl. 5 music examples+9 plates. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011. £50. 978 1 84383 696 4

Crosbie, Barry, Irish imperial networks. Migration, social communication and exchange in nineteenth-century India. Pp. xiii+301. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. £60. 978 0 521 11937 5

Fitzpatrick, David, ‘Solitary and wild’. Frederick MacNeice and the salvation of Ireland. Pp. vii+427 incl. 12 ills+33 plates. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2012. €40. 978 1 84351 1946

Geiger, Rudolf, Daniel-Erasmus Khan and Markus Kotzur (eds), EUV/AEUV. Vertrag über die Europäische Union und Vertrag über die Arbeitsweise der Europäischen Union. Kommentar, V: Neubearbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. Pp. liii+1131. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2010. €94. 978 3 406 59701 5

Green, Bradley G. (foreword Lewis Ayres), Colin Gunton and the failure of Augustine. The theology of Colin Gunton in light of Augustine. Pp. xiii+226. Cambridge: James Clarke, 2012. £19.50 (paper). 978 0 227 68005 6

Hammond, Geordan and Peter S. Forsaith (eds) (foreword D. Bruce Hindmarsh), Religion, gender, and industry. Exploring Church and Methodism in a local setting. Pp. xix+238. Eugene, Or: Pickwick Publications, 2011. $28 (paper). 978 1 60899 642 1

Kay, William K. and Anne E. Dyer (eds), European Pentecostalism. (Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies.) Pp. x+416. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €128. 978 90 04 20730 1; 1876 2247

Kollar, Rene, A foreign and wicked institution? The campaign against convents in Victorian England. Pp. xiii+304. Cambridge: James Clarke, 2011. £22.50 (paper). 978 0 227 67992 0

McVay, Athanasius D. and Lubomyr Y. Luciuk (eds), The Holy See and the ‘Holodomor’. Documents from the Vatican secret archives on the great famine of 1932–1933 in Soviet Ukraine. Pp. xliii+99 incl. 12 black-and-white and colour plates. Toronto: The Kashtan Press/University of Toronto, Chair of Ukrainian Studies, 2011. 978 1 896354 37 8

Pocock, J. G. A., Barbarism and religion, V: Religion. The first triumph. Pp. xxi+419. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. £55. 978 0 521 76072 0

Rodogno, Davide, Against massacre. Humanitarian interventions in the Ottoman empire, 1815–1914. The emergence of a European concept and international practice. (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity.) Pp. xi+393. Princeton-Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012(2011). £27.95. 978 0 691 15133 5

Stuart, John, British missionaries and the end of empire. East, central, and southern Africa, 1939–64. (Studies in the History of Christian Missions.) Pp. xvi+237 incl. frontispiece. Grand Rapids, Mi.–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2011. £26.99 (paper). 978 0 8028 6633 2

Symondson, Anthony, Stephen Dykes Bower. Twentieth century architects. Pp. xviii+186 incl. numerous black-and-white and colour plates. London: RIBA Publishing, 2011. £20. 978 1 85946 398 7

Wheeler, Michael, St John and the Victorians. Pp. xvi+260 incl. 26 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. £55. 978 0 521 50972 5

Africa, Asia and Australasia

Davidson, Allan K. (ed.), A controversial churchman. Essays on George Selwyn, bishop of New Zealand and Lichfield, and Sarah Selwyn. Pp. 292 incl. colour frontispiece and 50 ills. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2011. $49.99 (paper). 978 1 877242 51 9

Ward, Kevin and Emma Wild-Wood (eds), The east African revival. History and legacies. Pp. xvi+235 incl. frontispiece and 4 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £50. 978 1 4094 2674 5

The Americas

De Carvalho Soares, Mawriza (trans. Jerry D. Metz), People of faith. Slavery and African Catholics in eighteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. (Latin America in Translation.) Pp. xiii+322 incl. 21 tables and 10 ills. Durham–London: Duke University Press, 2011. £66 (cloth), £16.99 (paper). 978 0 8223 5023 1; 978 0 8223 5040 8

Hyland, Sabine, Gods of the Andes. An early Jesuit account of Inca religion and Andean Christianity. Pp. xii+132 incl. 1 map and 2 ills. University Park, Pa: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. £24.95 (paper). 978 0 271 04880 2

Slagle, Amy, The eastern Church in the spiritual marketplace. American conversions to orthodox Christianity. Pp. vii+207. DeKalb, Il: Northern Illinois University Press, 2011. $25 (paper). 978 0 87580 670 9

Wuthnow, Robert, Red state religion. Faith and politics in America's heartland. Pp. xv+484 incl. 13 ills. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012(2011). £24.95 ($35). 978 0 691 15055 0

General : Modern world

Nicholls, Aidan, The Latin clerk. The life, work, and travels of Adrian Fortescue. Pp. 308 incl. frontispiece and 12 ills. Cambridge: The Lutterworth Press, 2011. £25 (paper). 978 0 7188 9274 6

Peterson, Erik (ed., trans. and intro. Michael J. Hollerich), Theological tractates. (Cultural Memory in the Present.) Pp. xxxii+262. Stanford, Ca: Stanford University Press, 2011. $75 (cloth), $24.95 (paper). 978 0 8047 6967 9; 978 0 8047 6968 6