General

Carleton Paget, James and Joachim Schaper (eds), The new Cambridge history of the Bible. From the beginnings to 600. Pp. xxvii + 979 incl. 9 figs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £125 ($190). 978 0 521 85938 7

Clarke, Peter D. and Charlotte Methuen (eds), The Church on its past. Papers read at the 2011 summer meeting and the 2012 winter meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society. (Studies in Church History, 49.) Pp. xxvi + 512. Woodbridge: Boydell (for the Ecclesiastical History Society), 2013. £45. 978 0 95468 101 2; 0424 2084

Dell, Katharine J. and Paul M. Joyce (eds), Biblical interpretation and method. Essays in honour of John Barton. Pp. xxiii + 355 incl. 10 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £65. 978 0 19 964553 4

Puig i Tàrrech, Armand, L'Esperit Sant en la bíblia. (Scripta Biblica, 13.) Pp. 433. Tarragona: Associació Bíblica de Catalunya. Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 2013. 978 84 9883 605 9

Wolffe, John (ed.), Protestant-Catholic conflict from the Reformation to the 21st century. The dynamics of religious difference. Pp. ix + 285. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. £60. 978 1 137 28972 8

Ancient world

Barnes, Timothy D. and George Bevan (intro. and comm.), The funerary speech for John Chrysostom. (Translated Texts for Historians, 60.) Pp. xiii + 193. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013. £65 (cloth), £16·99 (paper). 978 1 84631 887 0; 978 1 84631 888 7

Beatrice, Pier Franco (trans. Adam Kamesar), The transmission of sin. Augustine and the pre-Augustinian sources. (Religions in Translation.) Pp. xii + 200. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £45. 978 0 19 975141 9

Behr, John, Irenaeus of Lyons. Identifying Christianity. (Christian Theology in Context.) Pp. xii + 236. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £60. 978 0 19 921462 4

Brock, Sebastian and Brian Fitzgerald (trans., intro. and notes), Two early lives of Severos, patriarch of Antioch. (Translated Texts for Historians, 59.) Pp. xi + 175 incl. two maps. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013. £60 (cloth), £16·99 (paper). 978 1 84631 882 5; 978 1 84631 883 2

Cain, Andrew, Jerome and the monastic clergy. A commentary on letter 52 to Nepotian, with an introduction, text, and translation. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 119.) Pp. xiii + 326. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €140. 978 90 04 23706 3; 0920 623X

Cain, Andrew (ed. and trans.), Jerome's epitaph on Paula. A commentary on the Epitaphium Sanctae Paulae. (Oxford Early Christian Texts.) Pp. xxx + 569 incl. 2 frontispieces. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £140. 978 0 19 967260 8

Demacopoulos, George E., The invention of Peter. Apostolic discourse and papal authority in late antiquity. (Divinations. Rereading Late Ancient Religion.) Pp. v + 262. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. £45.50. 978 0 8122 4517 2

Drake, Susanna, Slandering the Jew. Sexuality and difference in early Christian texts. (Divinations. Rereading Late Ancient Religion.) Pp. vii + 176. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. £36 ($55). 978 0 8122 4520 2

English, Adam C., The saint who would be Santa Claus. The true life and trials of Nicholas of Myra. Pp. xii + 230 incl. 11 figs. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2012. $20.99. 978 1 60258 634 5

Flower, Richard, Emperors and bishops in late Roman invective. Pp. xvi + 294. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £60. 978 1 107 03172 2

Hainthaler, Theresia and others (trans. Marianne Ehrhardt) (in continuation of the work of Alois Grillmeier), Christ in Christian tradition, II/3: The churches of Jerusalem and Antioch from 451 to 600. Pp. xxv + 670. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £180. 978 0 19 921288 0

Harrison, Carol, The art of listening in the early Church. Pp. x + 302. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £65. 978 0 19 964143 7

Heslop, T. A., Elizabeth Mellings and Margit Thøfner, Art, faith and place in East Anglia. From prehistory to the present. Pp. xvi + 352 incl. 109 figs + 17 colour plates. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2012. £45. 978 1 84383 744 2

Kelly, Christopher (ed.), Theodosius II. Rethinking the Roman Empire in late antiquity. (Cambridge Classical Studies.) Pp. xv + 324 incl. 1 map. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £65. 978 1 107 03858 5

Meconi, David Vincent, The one Christ. St Augustine's theology of deification. Pp. xxi + 281. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2013. $64.95. 978 0 8132 2127 4

Pietzner, Katrin, Bildung, Elite und Konkurrenz. Heiden und christen vor der Zeit Constantins. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 77.) Pp. ix + 482. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013. €89 (paper). 978 3 16 149624 0; 1436 3003

Rebillard, Éric, Transformations of religious practices in late antiquity. (Variorum Collected Studies, 1028.) Pp. xii + 346. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £90. 978 1 4094 5158 7

Wortley, John (ed. and trans.), The anonymous sayings of the desert Fathers. A select edition and complete English translation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £90. 978 0 521 50988 6

Zelyck, Lorne R., John among the other gospels. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2nd Ser., 347.) Pp. xvii + 276. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013. €69 (paper). 978 3 16 152243 7; 0340 9570

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

Angenendt, Arnold, Offertorium. Das mittelalterliche Meßopfer. (Liturgiewissenschaftliche Quellen und Forschungen, 101.) Pp. xv + 562. Münster: Aschendorff, 2013. €74 (paper). 978 3 402 11264 9; 0076 0048

Ayers, Tim, The medieval stained glass of Merton College, Oxford. 2 parts. (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, Great Britain.) Pp. cliv + 254–566 incl. 25 black-and-white plates + 32 colour plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £165. 978 0 19 726544 4

Bailey, Michael D., Fearful spirits, reasoned follies. The boundaries of superstition in late medieval Europe. Pp. xv + 295. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2013. $55. 978 0 8014 5144 7

Beard, Felicity (ed.), The Knights Hospitallers in medieval Hampshire. A calendar of the Godsfield and Baddesley cartulary. (Hampshire Record Series, 19.) Pp. xxix + 112 incl. frontispiece, 2 maps and 3 ills. Winchester: Hampshire County Council, 2012. £15 + £2·50 post + packing. 978 1 85975 858 8; 0267 9930

Blacker, Jean, Glyn S. Burgess and Amy V. Ogden (trans. intro. and notes), Wace. The hagiographical works. The ‘Conception Nostre Dame’ and the Lives of St Margaret and St Nicholas. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 169. Texts and Sources, 3.) Pp. v + 400. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €131 ($182). 978 90 04 24705 5; 1573 4188

Buffon, Giuseppe, Storia dell'ordine francescano. Problemi e prospettive di metodo. (Temi e Testi, 120.) Pp. xxii + 470. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2013. €69 (paper). 978 8 6372 506 3

Burton, Janet and Lynda Lockyer (ed. and trans.), ‘Historia Selebiensis Monasterii’. The history of the monastery of Selby. (Oxford Medieval Texts.) Pp. xcvi + 178. Oxford: Clarendon, 2013. £85. 978 0 19 967595 1

Cullum, P. H. and Katherine J. Lewis (eds), Religious men and masculine identity in the Middle Ages. (Gender in the Middle Ages, 9.) Pp. x + 214. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2013. £60. 978 1 84383 863 0

Dalarun, Jacques (ed.), Vie et miracles de Bérard évêque des Marses (1080–1130). (Subsidia Hagiographica, 93.) Pp. ix + 260. Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 2013. €65 (paper). 978 2 87365 028 5; 0777 8112

Engelmann, Till, Annahme Christi und Gottesschau. Die Theologie Babais des Großen. (Göttinger Orientforschungen 1. Syriaca, 42.) Pp. ix + 237. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013. €58 (paper). 978 3 447 06833 8; 0340 6326

Fudge, Thomas A., The memory and motivation of Jan Hus, medieval priest and martyr. (Europa Sacra, 11.) Pp. xiii + 293. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €80. 978 2 503 54442 7

Fudge, Thomas A., The trial of Jan Hus. Medieval heresy and criminal procedure. Pp. xxv + 392 incl. 6 figs/maps. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £45. 978 0 19 998808 2

Grocock, Christopher and I. N. Wood (ed. and trans.), Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow. Bede's ‘Homily’ i. 13 on Benedict Biscop, Bede's ‘History of the abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow’, The anonymous ‘Life of Celfrith’, Bede's ‘Letter to Ecgbert, bishop of York’. (Oxford Medieval Texts.) Pp. cxx + 214 incl. frontispiece. Oxford: Clarendon, 2013. £95. 978 0 19 820761 0

Higham, N. J. (ed.), Wilfrid. Abbot, bishop, saint. Papers from the 1300th anniversary conferences. Pp. xxvi + 390 incl. 5 musical examples, 3 tables and 11 figs + 15 plates. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2013. £19·95 (paper). 978 1 907730 29 0; 978 1 907730 27 6

Jensen, Kurt Villads, Kirsi Salonen and Helle Vogt (eds), Cultural encounters during the crusades. Pp. 329 incl. 25 colour ills. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2013. £29·90. 978 87 7674 659 9

Kaldellis, Anthony, Ethnography after antiquity. Foreign lands and peoples in Byzantine literature. (Empire and After.) Pp. x + 277. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. £49 ($75). 978 0 8122 4531 8

Karn, Nicholas (ed.), Ely, 1198–1256. (English Episcopal Acta, 42.) Pp. cxiv + 329 + 4 plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2013. £90. 978 0 19 726550 5

Lake, Justin, Richer of Saint-Rémi. The methods and mentality of a tenth-century historian. Pp. xiii + 322. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2013. $69.96. 978 0 8132 2125 0

Leonardi, Claudius and Antonius Placanica (eds), Gesta sanctæ ac universalis octavæ synodi quæ Constantinopoli congregata est Anastasio bibliothecario interprete. (Edizione Nazionale dei Testi Mediolatini d'Italia, 27. Ser. i, 16.) Pp. xcv + 562. Firenze: SISMEL/Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2012. €115. 978 88 8450 446 3

Linde, Cornelia, Nicolai Maniacoria. Suffraganeus bibliothece. (Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis, 262.) Pp. lxxxvii + 213. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €165. 978 2 503 5483 8

Little, Katherine C., Transforming work. Early modern pastoral and late medieval poetry. (Reformations. Medieval and Early Modern.) Pp. ix + 257. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. $38 (paper). 978 0 268 03397 3

Loewen, Peter V., Music in early Franciscan thought. (The Medieval Franciscans, 9.) Pp. xiii + 262. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €131. 978 90 04 24817 5; 1572 6991

Luscombe, David (ed.) (trans. Betty Radice), The letter collection of Peter Abelard and Heloise. (Oxford Medieval Texts.) Pp. cxxxvi + 654 incl. frontispiece and 2 maps. Oxford: Clarendon, 2013. £165. 978 0 19 822248 4

Maddern, Christine, Raising the dead. Early medieval name stones in Northumbria. (Studies in the Early Middle Ages, 38.) Pp. xviii + 305 incl. 18 figs, 18 black-and-white and 6 colour plates. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €90. 978 2 503 53218 9

Monagle, Clare, Orthodoxy and controversy in twelfth-century religious discourse. Peter Lombard's ‘Sentences’ and the development of theology. (Europa Sacra, 3.) Pp. xix + 193. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €70. 978 2 503 52795 6

Neil, Bronwen and Lynda Garland (eds), Questions of gender in Byzantine society. Pp. xiii + 218 incl. 3 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £65. 978 1 4094 4779 5

Newman, Barbara, Medieval crossover. Reading the secular against the sacred. (The Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies, 2011.) Pp. xvi + 400 incl. 12 ills. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. $42 (paper). 978 0 268 03611 9

Ochs, Christoph, Matthaeus Adversus Christianos. The use of the Gospel of Matthew in Jewish polemics against the divinity of Jesus. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe, 350.) Pp. xvii + 423. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013. €94 (paper). 978 3 16 152615 2; 0340 9570

Orme, Nicholas, The minor clergy of Exeter Cathedral biographies. 1250–1548. (Devon and Cornwall Record Society. New Ser., 54.) Pp. x + 337. Exeter: Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 2013. £20 (paper). 978 0 901853 54 7

Penman, Michael (ed.), Monuments and monumentality across medieval and early modern Europe. Proceedings of the 2011 Stirling conference. Pp. xxii + 298 + 3 maps and 131 black-and-white and colour plates. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2013. £35. 978 1 907730 28 3

Poleg, Eyal and Laura Light (eds), Form and function in the late medieval Bible. (Library of the Written Word, 27. The Manuscript World, 4.) Pp. xix + 412 incl. 43 ills + 10 colour plates. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €119. 978 90 04 24888 5; 1874 4834

Rice, Nicole R. (ed.), Middle English religious writing in practice. Texts, readers, and transformations. (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 21.) Pp. ix + 280 incl. 2 figs. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €75. 978 2 503 54102 0

Roach, Andrew P. and James R. Simpson (eds), Heresy and the making of European culture. Medieval and modern perspectives. Pp. xix + 484. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £80. 978 1 4724 1181 5

Rogers, Eugene, Aquinas and the supreme court. Race, gender, and the failure of natural law in Thomas's biblical commentaries. (Challenges in Contemporary Theology.) Pp. xix + 316 incl. frontispiece. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. £65. 978 1 118 39116 7

Rouse, Richard H. and Mary A. Rouse (foreword Robert Somerville), Bound fast with letters. Medieval writers, readers, and texts. Pp. xvi + 571 incl. 81 figs. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. $89 (paper). 978 0 268 04033 8

Sonne de Torrens, Harriet M. and Miguel A. Torrens (eds), The visual culture of baptism in the Middle Ages. Essays on medieval fonts, settings and beliefs. Pp. xvii + 232 incl. 86 ills. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £55. 978 1 4094 5675 9

Starkey, Kathryn, A courtier's mirror. Cultivating elite identity in Thomasin von Zerclaere's ‘Welscher Gast’. Pp. xv + 456 incl. 77 colour plates. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. $55 (paper). 978 0 268 04144 1

Thibodeau, Timothy M. (intro. trans. and notes), William Durand. Rationale IV. On the mass and each action pertaining to it. (Corpus Christianorum in Translation, 14.) Pp. 525. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €70 (paper). 978 2 503 54879 1

Toch, Michael, Die Juden im mittelalterlichen Reich. (Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte, 44.) Pp. x + 208. Munich: Oldenbourg, 2013. €19·80 (paper). 978 3 486 71908 6

Winterbottom, Michael (intro., trans. and notes), William of Malmesbury on Lamentations. (Corpus Christianorum in Translation, 13.) Pp. 410. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €60 (paper). 978 2 503 54849 4

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

Chatfield, Graeme R. (foreword Diarmaid MacCulloch), Balthasar Hubmaier and the clarity of Scripture. A critical Reformation issue. Pp. xii + 410. Eugene, Or: Pickwick, 2013. $46 (paper). 978 1 61097 325 0

Da Silva, Hugo Ribeiro, O clero catedralíco português e os equilíbrios sociais do poder, 1564–1670. (Estudos de História Religiosa, 13.) Pp. 291. Lisbon: Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, 2013. €16·40 (paper). 978 972 8361 49 5

Dimmock, Matthew, Mythologies of the prophet Muhammad in early modern English culture. Pp. xvi + 291 incl. 25 ills. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £60. 978 1 107 03291 0

Dingel, Irene, Robert Kolb, Nicole Kuropka and Timothy J. Wengert, Philip Melanchthon. Theologian in classroom, confession and controversy. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 7.) Pp. 288. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012. €89·99. 978 3 525 55047 2

Dunthorne, Hugh, Britain and the Dutch revolt, 1560–1700. Pp. xxv + 264 incl. 17 ills, 2 maps and 7 tables. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £60 ($99). 978 0 521 843747 7

Erler, Mary C., Reading and writing during the Dissolution. Monks, friars, and nuns, 1530–1558. Pp. xi + 203 incl. frontispiece. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £55 ($90). 978 1 107 03979 7

Ferguson, Gary and Mary B. McKinley (eds), A companion to Marguerite de Navarre. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 42.) Pp. ix + 405. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €157. 978 90 04 22189 5; 1871 6377

Garnett, Jane and Gervase Rosser, Spectacular miracles. Transforming images in Italy from the Renaissance to the present. Pp. 311 incl. 150 black-and-white and colour plates. London: Reaktion Books, 2013. £35. 978 1 78023 105 1

Gehring, David Scott, Anglo-German relations and the Protestant cause. (Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World, 10.) Pp. xv + 243 incl. frontispiece and 14 figs. London–Brookfield, Vt: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. £60 ($99). 978 1 84893 369

Harris, Tim and Stephen Taylor (eds), The final crisis of the Stuart monarchy. The revolutions of 1688–92 in their British, Atlantic and European contexts. (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History.) Pp. ix + 318. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2013. £65. 978 1 84383 816 6

Hart, D. G., Calvinism. A history. Pp. x + 339. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2013. £25. 978 0 300 14879 4

McCoog, Thomas M., ‘And touching our Society’. Fashioning Jesuit identity in Elizabethan England. (Studies and Texts, 183. Catholic and Recusant Texts of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods, 3.) Pp. xiv + 476 incl. 9 ills. Toronto, On: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2013. $95. 978 0 88844 183 6

Marsh, Christopher, Music and society in early modern England. Pp. xiii + 609 incl. 40 ills, 3 tables and 18 musical examples. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013 (first publ. 2010). £24·99 (paper). 978 0 521 89832 4; 978 1 107 61024 8

Miller, Charles, Richard Hooker and the vision of God. Exploring the origins of Anglicanism. Pp. 349. Cambridge: James Clarke, 2013. £25 ($50) (paper). 978 0 227 17400 5

Neufeld, Matthew, The civil wars after 1660. Public remembering in late Stuart England. (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History, 17.) Pp. xiv + 286 incl. 5 figs. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2013. £60. 978 1 84383 815 9; 1476 9107

Roeber, A. G., Hopes for better spouses. Protestant marriage and church renewal in early modern Europe, India, and north America. (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion.) Pp. xxviii + 289 incl. frontispiece and 9 figs. Grand Rapids, Mi: Eerdmans, 2013. £19.99 ($29) (paper). 978 0 8028 6861 9

Sell, Alan P. F., The theological education of the ministry. Soundings in the British reformed and dissenting traditions. Pp. xiv + 313. Eugene, Or: Pickwick, 2013. $36 (paper). 978 1 62032 593 3

Stephen, Jeffrey, Defending the revolution. The Church of Scotland, 1689–1716. Pp. v + 348. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £70. 978 1 4094 0134 6

Woodbridge, John D. and Frank A. James iii, Church history, II: From pre-Reformation to the present day. The rise and growth of the Church in its cultural, intellectual, and political context. Pp. 862 incl. 4 maps, 8 charts and 104 ills. Grand Rapids, Mi: Zondervan, 2013. $44.99. 978 0 310 25743 1

Wort, Oliver, John Bale and religious conversion in Reformation England. (Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World, 11.) Pp. xvi + 198. London–Brookfield, Vt: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. £60 ($99). 978 1 84893 388 0

Modern Europe

Argent, Alan, The transformation of Congregationalism,1900–2000. Pp. xii + 557 incl. frontispiece and 28 ills. Nottingham: Congregational Federation, 2013. £35. 978 1 904080 03 9

Atherstone, Andrew and David Ceri Jones (eds) (foreword J. I. Packer), Engaging with Martyn Lloyd-Jones. The life and legacy of the Doctor. Pp. 375. Nottingham: Apollos, 2011. £17·99 (paper). 978 1 84474 553 1

Beebe, Keith Edward (ed.), The McCulloch Examinations of the Cambuslang revival (1742). A critical edition. Conversion narratives from the Scottish Evangelical awakening. 2 vols. Pp. lxii + 399 incl. 7 figs, x + 345 incl. 1 fig. Woodbridge: Boydell (for the Scottish History Society), 2011. £60. 978 0 906245 32 3; 978 0 906245 33 0

Brown, Stewart J., Frances Knight and John Morgan-Guy (eds), Religion, identity and conflict in Britain. From the Restoration to the twentieth century. Essays in honour of Keith Robbins. Pp. xi + 281 incl. frontispiece and 6 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £65. 978 1 4094 5148 8

Chandler, Andrew, The latter glory of this house. A history of two Christian commonwealths in modern Britain, 1828–1980. Pp. viii + 196. London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2013. £18·99. 978 0 232 53042 1

Correia, Margarida Sérvulo, O caso de Barbacena. Um pároco de Aaldeia entre a monarquia e a república. (História Religiosa. Fontes e Subsídios, 11.) Pp. 447 incl. 25 ills. Lisbon: Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, 2013. €20 (paper). 978 972 8361 50 1

Dunan-Page, Anne and Clotilde Prunier (eds), Croire à la letter. Religion et épistolarité dans l'espace franco-britannique (XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles). (Collection des Littératures. The European Spectator, 13.) Pp. 285. Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée , 2012. €29 (paper). 978 2 36781 006 5

Ellis, Katharine, The politics of plainchant in fin-de-siècle France. (Royal Musical Association Monographs, 20.) Pp. xxiii + 140 incl. frontispiece and 8 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £45. 978 1 4094 6373 3

Erb, Peter C. (ed.), The correspondence of Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone. The complete correspondence, 1833–1891. 4 vols. Pp. cxx + 485; xii + 557; xii + 442; xii + 550. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £350. 978 0 19 95773243; 978 0 19 957733 0; 978 0 19 957734 7; 978 0 19 957735 4; 978 0 19 957731 6 (set)

Erwin, Scott R., The theological vision of Reinhold Niebuhr's ‘The irony of American history’. ‘In the battle and above it’. (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs.) Pp. vii + 185. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £50. 978 0 19 967837 2

Gange, David, Dialogues with the dead. Egyptology in British culture and religion, 1822–1922. (Classical Presences.) Pp. ix + 357. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £75. 978 0 19 965310 2

Guasco, Alberto, Cattolici e fascisti. La Santa Sede e la politica italiana all'alba del regime (1919–1925). (Fondazione per le scienze religiose Giovanni, 23.) Pp. 580. Bologna: il Mulino, 2013. €40 (paper). 978 88 15 24520 5

Hancock, Angela Dienhart, Karl Barth's emergency homiletic, 1932–1933. A summons to prophetic witness at the dawn of the Third Reich. Pp. xvi + 356. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2013. £28·99 ($42) (paper). 978 0 8028 6734 6

Kirchhof, Ferdinand (and others), Die finanziellen Rahmenbedingungen kirchlichen Handelns. (Essener Gespräche zum Thema Staat und Kirche, 47.) Pp. x + 194. Munich: Aschendorff, 2013. €32·80 (paper). 978 3 402 10565 8; 0720 891X

Lackmann, Heinrich and Tobias Schrörs (eds), Katholische Reform im Fürstbistum Münster unter Ferdinand von Bayern. Die Protokolle von Weihbischof Arresdorf und Generalvikar Hartmann über ihre Visitationen im Oberstift Münster in den Jahren 1613 bis 1616. (Westfalia Sacra. Quellen und Forschungen zur Kirchengeschichte Westfalens, 16.) Pp. 452. Münster: Aschendorff, 2012. €59. 978 3 402 15495 3

Nash, David, Christian ideals in British culture. Stories of belief in the twentieth century. Pp. ix + 257. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. £55. 978 0 230 57265 2

Parkin, Jon and Timothy Stanton (eds), Natural law and toleration in the early Enlightenment. (Proceedings of the British Academy, 186.) Pp. xxi + 231. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2013. £60. 978 0 19 726540 6

Pritchard, John, Methodists and their missionary societies, 1760–1900. (Ashgate Methodist Studies.) Pp. xxiii + 293 incl. 15 ills and 18 maps. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £60. 978 1 4094 7049 6

Salonen, Kirsi, Kurt Villads Jensen and Torstein Jørgensen (eds), Medieval Christianity in the north. New studies. (Acta Scandinavica, 1.) Pp. xii + 277 incl. frontispiece, 10 figs, 3 graphs, 4 maps and 3 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €75. 978 2 503 54048 1

Schelkens, Karim, John A. Dick and Jürgen Mettepenningen, Aggiornamento? Catholicism from Gregory XVI to Benedict XVI. (Brill's Series in Church History, 63.) Pp. x + 247. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €109. 978 90 04 25410 7; 1572 4107

Snape, Michael and Edward Madigan (eds), The clergy in khaki. New perspectives on British army chaplaincy in the First World War. (Ashgate Studies in First World War History.) Pp. xvi + 222. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £65. 978 1 4094 3000 1

Sokolov, Ivan (foreword His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, preface Metropolitain Kallistos Ware, trans. Hieromonk Nikolai Sakharov), The Church of Constantinople in the nineteenth century. An essay in historical research. (Byzantine and Neohellenic Studies, 7.) Pp. xvi + 1028. Oxford–Bern: Peter Lang, 2013. £115. 978 3 0343 0202 9; 1661 1187

Thurau, Markus, Paul von Schanz (1841–1905). Zur sozial- und theologiegeschichtlichen Verortung eines katholischen Theologen im langen 19. Jahrhundert. (Contubernium, 80.) Pp. xii + 512 incl. 21 ills. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2013. €76. 978 3 515 10335 0

Vanderputten, Steven, Monastic reform as process. Realities and representations in medieval Flanders, 900–1100. Pp. xiii + 247 incl. frontispiece, 8 ills and 2 maps. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2013. $55. 978 0 8014 5171 3

Villis, Tom, British Catholicism and Fascism. Religious identity and political extremism between the wars. Pp. ix + 280. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. £60. 978 1 137 27418 2

Weinbrot, Howard D., Literature, religion, and the evolution of culture, 1660–1780. Pp. xiii + 371. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. £31. 978 1 4214 0516 4

Whitehead, Maurice, English Jesuit education. Expulsion, suppression, survival and restoration, 1762–1803. Pp. xx + 266 incl. 4 tables and 12 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £65. 978 1 4094 4882 2

Wolfe, Judith, Heidegger's eschatology. Theological horizons in Martin Heidegger's early work. (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £50. 978 0 19 968051 1

Africa, Asia and Australasia

Olabimtan, Kehinde, Samuel Johnson of Yorubaland, 1846–1901. Identity, change and the making of the mission agent. (Africa in Development, 12.) Pp. xv + 350 incl. frontispiece and 3 figs. Oxford–Bern: Peter Lang, 2013. £52 (paper). 978 3 0343 0809 0; 1662 1212

Sibre, Olivier, La Saint-Siège et l'Extrême-Orient (Chine, Corée, Japon). De Léon XIII à Pie XII (1880–1952) (Collection de l'École française de Rome, 459.) Pp. xvii + 882. Rome: École française de Rome, 2012. €90 (paper). 978 2 7283 0921 4; 0223 5099

Yates, Timothy, The conversion of the Māori. Years of religious and social change, 1814–1842. (Studies in the History of Christian Missions.) Pp. xv + 150 + 2 maps and 9 ills. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2013. £19·99 ($30) (paper). 978 0 8028 6945 6

Young, Ernest P., Ecclesiastical colony. China's Catholic Church and the French religious protectorate. Pp. xii + 383 + 11 ills. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £45. 978 0 19 992462 2

Young, Richard Fox and Jonathan A. Seitz (eds), Asia in the making of Christianity. Conversion, agency, and indigeneity, 1600s to the present. (Social Sciences in Asia, 35.) Pp. xxii + 444 incl. frontispiece and 15 figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €115 (paper). 978 90 23662 2; 1567 2794

The Americas

Bowler, Kate, Blessed. A history of the American prosperity gospel. Pp. xi + 337 incl. 37 figs and 4 tables. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £22·50. 978 0 19 982769 5

Coffman, Elesha J., The Christian century and the rise of the Protestant mainline. Pp. x + 271 incl. 18 figs and 1 table. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £17·99. 978 0 19 9938859 9

Japinga, Lynn, Loyalty and loss. The reformed Church in America, 1945–1994. (The Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America, 77.) Pp. xx + 318. Grand Rapids, Mi: Eerdmans, 2013. £19·99 ($30) (paper). 978 0 8028 7068 1

McGuinness, Margaret M., Called to serve. A history of nuns in America. Pp. xi + 266 incl. 8 ills. New York–London: New York University Press, 2013. $35. 978 0 8147 9556 9

Moore, Susan Hardman, Abandoning America. Life-stories from early New England. Pp. xxviii + 412. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2013. £55. 978 1 84383 817 3

General : Modern world

Boobbyer, Philip, The spiritual vision of Frank Buchman. Pp. xii + 217 incl. 10 ills. University Park, Pa: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. $59.95. 978 0 271 05979 2

Losito, Giacomo, La crisi modernista nella cultura europea. Atti del convegno di studi. Pp. 388. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2012. 978 88 12 00169 9