Emerson, Caryl, Pattison, George and Poole, Randall A. (eds), The Oxford handbook of Russian religious thought. Pp. xxviii + 712 incl. 4 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £110. 978 0 19 879644 2

Ingram, Robert G., Peacey, Jason and Barber, Alex W. (eds), Freedom of speech, 1500–1850. (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain.) Pp. xii + 263. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. £85. 978 1 5261 4710 3

Johannsen, Dirk, Kirsch, Anja and Kreinath, Jens (eds), Narrative cultures and the aesthetics of religion. (Supplements to Method and Theory in the Study of Religion.) Pp. xvi + 375 incl. 12 colour ills and 1 table. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €160. 978 90 04 421660 0; 2214 3270

Kling, David W., A history of Christian conversion. Pp. xvi + 836 incl. 14 maps. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £97. 978 0 19 532092 3

Ryrie, Alec (ed.), Christianity. A historical atlas. Pp. 224 incl. 10 colour and black–and–white ills and 132 colour maps. Cambridge, Ma–London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. £28.95. 978 0 674 24235 7

Belser, Julia Watts, Rabbinic tales of destruction. Gender, sex and disability in the ruins of Jerusalem. Pp. xxxiv + 245. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £19.99. 978 0 19 753641 4

Berkmüller, Stefan, Schriftauslegung und Bildgebrauch bei Isidor von Pelusium. (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 143.) Pp. x + 291. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2020. €99.95. 978 3 11 068593 0; 1861 5996

Bremmer, Jan N., Andew Doole, J., Karmann, Thomas R., Nicklas, Tobias and Repschinski, Boris (eds), The protevangelium of James. (Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha, 16.) Pp. xiv + 336 incl. 1 colour ills. Leuven–Boston, Ct: Peeters, 2020. £65 (paper). 978 90 429 3998 1

Brouwer, René and Vimercati, Emmanuele (eds), Fate, providence and free will. Philosophy and religion in dialogue in the early imperial age. (Ancient Philosophy and Religion, 4.) Pp. viii + 335. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €134. 978 90 04 43566 7; 2542 3576

De Wet, Chris L. and Mayer, Wendy (eds), Revisioning John Chrysostom. New approaches, new perspectives. (Critical Approaches to Early Christianity, 1.) Pp. xxviii + 840 incl. 2 figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €249. 978 90 04 39003 4; 2589 9805

Ebied, Rifaat Y., Malki, Malatius M. and Wickham, Lionel R (eds), Dionysius Bar Ṣalībī's Treatise against the Jews. Edited and translated with notes and commentary. (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, 15.) Pp. xviii + 169 incl. frontispiece and 8 colour and black–and–white figs. €124. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. 978 90 04 39146 8; 2213 0039

Edelmann-Singer, Babett, Nicklas, Tobias, Spittler, Janet E. and Walt, Luigi (eds), Sceptic and believer in ancient Mediterranean religions. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 443.) Pp. xiv + 336 incl. 5 ills. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. €134. 978 3 16 156305 8

Elm, Eva and Hartmann, Nicole (eds), Demons in late antiquity. Their perception and transformation in different literary genres. (Transformationen der Antike, 54.) Pp. vi + 176 incl. 5 colour figs. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2019. €79.95. 978 3 11 06272 8; 1864 5208

Gray, Christa and Corke-Webster, James (eds), The hagiographical experiment. Developing discourses of sainthood. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 158.) Pp. viii + 346. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €127. 978 90 04 42132 5; 0920 623X

Gruen, Erich S., Ethnicity in the ancient world – did it matter? Pp. xii + 265. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2020. €64.95. 978 3 11 068478 0

Kraemer, Ross Shepard, The Mediterranean diaspora in late antiquity. What Christianity cost the Jews. Pp. xxiv + 486 incl. 1 map. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £64. 978 0 19 022227 7

Novenson, Matthew V. (ed.), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman antiquity. (Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 180.) Pp. xiv + 359. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €124. 978 90 04 43797 5

Pilhofer, Philipp (ed.), Das Martyrium des Konon von Bidana in Isaurien. Einleitung, Text und Übersetzung. (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 188.) Pp. xx + 195 incl. 16 colour and black-and-white ills and 1 table. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2020. €99.95. 978 3 11 064105 9; 0082 3589

Robinson, Dana, Food, virtue, and the shaping of early Christianity. Pp. xii + 252 incl. 2 ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £75. 978 1 108 47947 9

Spence, Michael, The late medieval Cistercian monastery of Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire. Monastic administration, economy, and archival memory. (Medieval Monastic Studies, 5.) Pp. 209 incl. 17 figs and 18 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. €70. 978 2 503 567771 6

Stroumsa, Sarah and Stroumsa, Guy G. (trans. Müller, Michaela), Eine dreifältige Schnur. Über Judentum, Christentum und Islam in Geschichte und Wissenschaft. (Lucas-Preis, 2018.) Pp. 244. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. €39. 978 3 16 159469 4

Toca, Madalina and Batovici, Dan, Caught in translation. Studies on versions of late antique Christian literature. (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, 17.) Pp. viii + 330 incl. 7 colour ills and 5 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €169. 978 90 04 41706 9; 2213 0039

Williams, D. H., Defending and defining the faith. An introduction to early Christian apologetic literature. Pp. xviii + 465. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £47.99. 978 0 19 062050 9

Bugyis, Katie Anne-Marie, The care of nuns. The ministries of Benedictine women in England during the central Middle Ages. Pp. xxii + 366 incl. 18 figs, 10 tables and 2 maps. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £64. 978 0 19 085128 6

Cassidy-Welch, Megan, War and memory at the time of the Fifth Crusade. Pp. xi + 202 incl. 4 figs and 3 maps. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. £67.95. 978 0 271 08352 0

Cutino, Michele (ed.), Poetry, Bible and theology from late antiquity to the Middle Ages. (Millennium Studies, 86.) Pp. xii + 568 incl. 3 colour ills and 10 tables. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2020. €129.95. 978 3 11 068719 4; 1862 1139

Davies, Rachel, Bonaventure, the body, and the aesthetics of salvation. Pp. xii + 187. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £75. 978 1 108 48537 1

DeGregorio, Scott and Kershaw, Paul, Cities, saints, and communities in early medieval Europe. Essays in honour of Alan Thacker. (Studies in the Early Middle Ages, 46.) Pp. 411 incl. frontispiece, 8 figs, 12 tables and 1 maps. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. €100. 978 2 503 56504 0

Heil, Uta (ed.), Das Christentum im frühen Europa. Diskurse  – Tendenzen – Entscheidungen. (Millennium–Studien, 75.) Pp. x + 508 incl. 2 colour ills and 2 tables. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2019. €119.95. 978 3 11 064272 8

Herrin, Judith, Ravenna. Capital of empire, crucible of Europe. Pp. xxxviii + 537 incl. 62 colour ills, 1 table and 3 maps. London: Allen Lane, 2020. £30. 978 1 846 14466 0

Jordan, William Chester, Servant of the crown and steward of the Church. The career of Philippe of Cahors. (Medieval Academy Books, 117.) Pp. xii + 109. Toronto–London: University of Toronto Press (for the Medieval Academy of America), 2020. $24.95 (paper). 978 1 4875 2461 6

Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari, Demonic possession and lived religion in later medieval Europe. (Studies in Medieval European History.) Pp. x + 211. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £60. 978 0 19 885046 5

Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, Ann-Marie Bugyis, Katie and Van Engen, John (eds), Women intellectuals and leaders in the Middle Ages. Pp. xvi + 420 incl. 17 ills. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020. £60. 978 1 84384 555 3

Kitzinger, Beatrice E., The cross, the Gospels, and the work of art in the Carolingian age. Pp. xx + 304 incl. 149 colour ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. £57.99. 978 1 108 42881 1

Kraebel, Andrew, Biblical commentary and translation in later medieval England. Experiments in interpretation. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature.) Pp. xiv + 309 incl. 17 ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £75. 978 1 108 48664 4

Libri e biblioteche. Le letture dei frati mendicanti tra rinascimento ed età moderna. Atti del XLVI convegno internazionale. Assisi, 18–20 ottobre 2018. (Società Internazionale di Studi Francescanti.) Pp. x + 444 incl. 11 figs. Spoleto: Centro Intaliano di Studi Sull'Alto Medioevo, 2019. €50 (paper). 978 88 6809 266 5

Lymberopoulou, Angeliki and Duits, Rembrandt, Hell in the Byzantine world. A history of art and religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean, I: Essays; II: A catalogue of the Cretan material. Pp. xxx + 411, xxiv + 412–919 incl. 260 figs and 7 maps. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £200. 978 1 108 47415 3; 978 1 108 47416 0

Muessig, Carolyn, The stigmata in medieval and early modern Europe. Pp. xvi + 290 incl. 27 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £75. 978 0 19 879564 3

Op de Coul, Michiel and an Veen, Mirjam (trans.), Sebastian Castellio. Annotationes in Pauli epistulam ad Romanos ex cap. IX. (Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 164.) Pp. xxxvi + 67. Genève: Librairie Droz, 2020. £30. 978 2 600 06008 0; 1422 5581

Poleg, Eyal, A material history of the Bible. England, 1200–1553. (A British Academy Monograph.) Pp. xxxiv + 227 incl. 44 colour and black–and–white ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press (for The British Academy), 2020. £67. 978 0 19 726671 7

Riyeff, Jacob and Riyeff, Mamie (intro and commentary), (trans. Riyeff, Jacob), O shining light. Old English meditations for advent and Christmastide. Pp. xxiv + 114. Leominster: Gracewing, 2020. £9.99 (paper). 978 085244 948 6

Anstruther, Godfrey (ed. Skinner, Gerard, foreword Champ, Judith), Philip Howard. Cardinal protector of England. Pp. xiv + 306 incl. frontispiece and 4 ills. Leominster: Gracewing, 2020. £20 (paper). 978 085244 953 0

Barnwell, P. S. and Cooper, Trevor (eds), Places of worship in Britain and Ireland, 1550–1689. (Rewley House Studies in the Historic Environment, 10.) Pp. vi + 234 incl. 66 colour and black-and-white ills. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2019. £45. 978 1 907730 80 1

Cussen, Bryan, Pope Paul III and the cultural politics of reform, 1534–1549. (Renaissance History, Art and Culture.) Pp. 207. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. €89. 978 94 6372 252 0

Dauverd, Céline, Church and state in Spanish Italy. Rituals and legitimacy in the kingdom of Naples. Pp. x + 300 incl. 9 ills and 1 table. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £75. 978 1 108 48985 0

Diefendorf, Barbara B., Planting the cross. Catholic reform and renewal in sixteenth and seventeenth-century France. Pp. xii + 215 incl. 5 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £47.99. 978 0 19 088702 5

Kelly, James E., Laugerud, Henning and Ryan, Salvador (eds), Northern European Reformations. Transnational perspectives. Pp. xviii + 420 incl. 13 colour and black-and-white figs. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. €113.49. 978 3 030 54457 7

Lewis, Nicola Denzey, The early modern invention of late antique Rome. Pp. xviii + 426 incl. 15 ills and 2 maps. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £34.99. 978 1 108 47189 3

Marcus, Hannah, Forbidden knowledge. Medicine, science and censorship in early modern Italy. Pp. xii + 356 incl. 36 ills. Chicago–London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $45. 978 0 226 73658 7

Moore, John K. Jr, Mulatto – outlaw – pilgrim – priest: The legal case of José Soller, accused of impersonating a pastor and other crimes in seventeenth-century Spain. (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 75.) Pp. xx + 360 incl. 48 colour and black-and-white figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €127. 978 90 04 41777 9; 1569 1934

Moriarty, Michael, Pascal. Reasoning and belief. Pp. xii + 413. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £65. 978 0 19 884911 7

Muller, Richard A., Grace and freedom. William Perkins and the early modern reformed understanding of free choice and divine grace. Pp. xii + 232. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £47.99. 978 0 19 751746 8

Tiller, John, Archbishop William Sancroft. A cross-grained life. Pp. vi + 154 incl. frontispiece and 20 colour plates. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2019. £19 (paper). 978 1 907730 77 1

Walker, Greg. John Heywood. Comedy and survival in Tudor England. Pp. xvi + 477. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £65. 978 0 19 885151 6

Willmott, Hugh, The dissolution of the monasteries in England and Wales. (Studies in the Archaeology of Medieval Europe.) Pp. xiv + 205 incl. 98 figs and 3 tables. Sheffield–Bristol: Equinox Publishing, 2020. £85. 978 1 78179 954 3

Bailey, Heather L., The public image of Eastern Orthodoxy. France and Russia, 1848–1870. (NIU Series in Orthodox Christian Studies.) Pp. xiv + 294. Ithaca, NY–London: Cornell University Press, 2020. £45. 978 1 5017 4951 3

Delany, Sheila, For and against the Bible. A translation of Sylvain Maréchal's Pour et contre la Bible ( 1801). (Studies in Critical Research on Religion, 11.) Pp. vi + 200. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €149. 978 90 04 43432 5; 1877–2129

Eglinton, James, Bavinck. A critical biography. Pp. xxiv + 450 incl. 39 plates and 1 map. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2020. $44.99. 978 1 5409 6135 8

Kilby, Maggie, Music-making in the Hertfordshire parish, 1760–1870. Pp. xii + 292 incl. 37 figs and 9 table. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2020. £16.99 (paper). 978 1 912260 26 3

O'Leary, Patricia, The gentleman saint. A pilgrimage to Oxford, Dublin and Rome in the footprints of Saint John Henry Newman. Pp. xii + 157. Leominster: Gracewing, 2020. £12.99 (paper). 978 085244 760 4

Stanwood, Owen, The global refuge. Huguenots in an age of empire. Pp. xvi + 295 incl. 7 ills and 4 maps. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £22.99. 978 0 19 026474 1

Suenens, Kristien, Humble women, powerful nuns. A female struggle for autonomy in a men's Church. Pp. 381 incl. 46 ills and 8 tables. Leuven; Leuven University Press, 2020. €55 (paper). 978 94 6270 227 1

Bowens, Lisa M. (foreword Powery, Emerson B.), African American readings of Paul. Reception, resistance and transformation. Pp. xx + 335. Grand Rapids, Mi: William B. Eerdmans, 2020. $40. 978 0 8028 7676 8

Bruno-Jofré, Rosa, The Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions. From ultramontane origins to a new cosmology. Pp. ix + 373 incl. 43 ills. Toronto–London: University of Toronto Press, 2020. $77. 978 1 4875 0564 6

Butler, Jon, God in Gotham. The miracle of religion in modern Manhattan. Pp. x + 308 incl. 38 ills. Cambridge, Ma: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. £23.95. 978 0 674 04568 2

Densmore, Christopher, Faulkner, Carol, Hewitt, Nancy and Palmer, Beverly Wilson, Lucretia Mott speaks. The essential speeches and sermons. (Women, Gender and Sexuality in American History.) Pp. xxxii + 229 incl. frontispiece and 6 ills. £22.99 (paper). Urbana–Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2020. 978 0 252 0 8555 0

Fitzgerald, Monica D., Puritans behaving badly. Gender, punishment, and religion in early America. Pp. xiv + 177 incl. 7 ills, 6 tables and 1 map. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £39.99. 978 1 108 47878 6

Foster, Douglas A., A life of Alexander Campbell. (Library of Religious Biography.) Pp. xviii + 349 incl. frontispiece, 59 ills and 3 maps. Grand Rapids, Mi: Wm B. Eerdmans, 2020. $29.99 (paper). 978 0 8028 7633 1

Grigor, Iain Fraser (ed.), The Free Church in the Andes. Scottish missionaries in the mountains of 20th century Peru. Pp. 335 incl. frontispiece incl. 4 ills and 1 map. Iain Fraser Grigor, 2020. £12.99. 978 1 5272 6768 8

Helgen, Erika, Religious conflict in Brazil. Protestants, Catholics, and the rise of religious pluralism in the early twentieth century. Pp. x + 316. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2020. £50. 978 0 300 24335 2

Orique, David Thomas, Fitzpatrick-Behrens, Susan and Garrard, Virginia (eds), The Oxford handbook of Latin American Christianity. Pp. xvi + 609 incl. 9 ills and 2 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £110. 978 0 19 986035 7

Curti, Elena, Fifty Catholic churches to see before you die. Pp. xxiv + 280 incl. 176 colour ills. Leominster: Gracewing, 2020. £14.99 (paper). 978 085244 962 2

Daniel, Curt, The history and theology of Calvinism. Pp. 906. Darlington: EP Books, 2019. £35. 98 1 78397 282 1

Jenkins, Philip, Fertility and faith. The demographic revolution and the transformation of world religions. Pp. viii + 262. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2020. $29.95. 978 1 4813 1131 1

Mangion, Carmen M., Catholic nuns and sisters in a secular age. Britain, 1945–90. (Gender in History.) Pp. xiv + 327 incl. 15 figs and 3 tables. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. £80. 978 1 5261 4046 3

Rublack, Ulinka (ed.), Protestant empires. Globalizing the Reformations. Pp. xii + 362 incl. 22 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £75. 978 1 108 84161 0

Swartz, David R., Facing west. American evangelicals in an age of world Christianity. Pp. viii + 322 incl. frontispiece and 27 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £22.99. 978 0 19 025080 5