General

Beal, Jane (ed.), Illuminating Moses. A history of reception from Exodus to the Renaissance. (Commentaria, 4.) Pp. xv+440. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2014. €146. 978 90 04 23577 9; 1874 8236

Bhattacharji, Santha, Rowan Williams and Dominic Mattos (eds), Prayer and thought in monastic tradition. Essays in honour of Benedicta Ward slg. Pp. xi+354 incl. 16 ills. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. £75. 978 0 567 08295 4

Catto, Jeremy (ed.), Oriel college. A history. Pp. xx+847 incl. 119 ills and 6 maps + colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £85. 978 0 19 959572 3

Freudenberg, Matthias, Theologische Köpfe aus 20 Jahrhunderten. Christliche Denker im Porträt. Pp. 211. Neukirchen–Vluyn: Neukirchener, 2014. €24·99 (paper). 978 3 7887 2736 9

Gabra, Gawdat (ed.), Coptic civilization. Two thousand years of Christianity in Egypt. Pp. xxii+338 incl. 174 colour ills and 1 table. Cairo–New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2014. £29·95. 978 977 416 655 6

Janz, Denis R. (ed.), A people's history of Christianity. One volume student edition. Pp. xii+279 incl. 51 ills. Minneapolis, Mn: Fortress Press, 2014. $39 (paper). 978 1 4514 7053 6

Nordeide, Sæbjørg Walaker and Stefan Brink (eds), Sacred sites and holy places. Exploring the sacralization of landscape through time and space. (Studies in the Early Middle Ages, 11.) Pp. xii+285 incl. 4 maps and 63 figs. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €80. 978 2 503 54100 6

Noyes, James, The politics of iconoclasm. Religion, violence and the culture of image-breaking in Christianity and Islam. Pp. xv+235 incl. 9 ills. London–New York: I. B. Tauris, 2013. £56. 978 1 84885 565 6

Sterk, Andrea and Nina Caputo (eds), Faithful narratives. Historians, religion, and the challenge of objectivity. Pp. ix+278. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2014. $79.95 (paper). 978 0 8014 5182 9; 978 0 8014 7857 4

Ancient world

Chrysostome, Jean (ed. Nathalie Rambault), Homélies sur la Résurrection, l'Ascension et la Pentecôte. Tome premier. (Sources Chrétiennes, 561.) Pp. 333. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2013. €30 (paper). 978 2 204 10191 2; 0750 1978

Collins, John J. (ed.), The Oxford handbook of apocalyptic literature. Pp. xv+546. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £97. 978 0 19 985649 7

Couenhoven, Jesse, Stricken by sin, cured by Christ. Agency, necessity, and culpability in Augustinian theology. Pp. xv+258. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £47·99. 978 0 19 994869 7

De Tyane, Évêque (ed. Joseph Paramelle and Louis Neyrand), Protestation. Lettres. Texte de M. Tetz (PTS). (Sources Chrétiennes, 557.) Pp. 419. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2014. €35 (paper). 978 2 204 10214 8; 0750 1978

Hahn, Johannes and others (eds), Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum, 55–2012. Pp. 188+8 black-and-white and colour plates. Münster: Aschendorff, 2014. €74. 978 3 402 10705 8; 0075 2541

Hildebrand, Stephen M., Basil of Caesarea. (Foundations of Theological Exegesis and Christian Spirituality.) Pp. xx+204. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2014. $26.99 (paper). 978 0 8010 4907 1

Karamanolis, George, The philosophy of early Christianity. (Ancient Philosophies.) Pp. xvi+317. Durham: Acumen Publishing, 2013. £55 (cloth), £17·99 (paper). 978 1 84465 567 0; 978 1 84465 568 7

Morlet, Sébastien, Olivier Munnich and Bernard Pouderon (eds), Les Dialogues ‘Aduersus Iudaeos’. Permanences et mutations d'une tradition polémique. Actes du colloque international organisé les 7 et 8 décembre 2011 à l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne. (Collection des Études Augustiniennes. Série Antiquité, 196.) Pp. 439. Paris: Institut d’Études Augustiniennes, 2013. €46 (paper). 978 2 85121 263 4; 1158 7032

Neil, Bronwen, and Matthew Dal Santo (eds), A companion to Gregory the Great. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 47.) Pp. xxv+427. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €178. 978 90 04 25775 7; 1871 6377

Pfeilschifter, Rene, Die Spätantike. Der eine Gott und die vielen Herrscher. (C. H. Beck Geschichte der Antike.) Pp. 304. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2014. €16·95 (paper). 978 3 406 66014 6

Philostorge (ed. J. Bidez, Édouard des Places, Bruno Bleckmann, Doris Meyer and Jean-Marc Prieur), Histoire ecclésiastique. Texte critique. (Sources Chrétiennes, 564.) Pp. 633. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2013. €48 (paper). 978 2 204 10189 9; 0750 1978

Torrance, Alexis and Johannes Zachhuber (eds), Individuality in late antiquity. (Ashgate Studies in Philosophy & Theology in Late Antiquity.) Pp. ix+193. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2014. £60. 978 1 4094 4056 7

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

Bagge, Sverre, Cross and scepter. The rise of the Scandinavian kingdoms from the Vikings to the Reformation. Pp. ix+325 incl. 20 figs. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014. £19·95. 978 0 691 16150 1

Berthe, Pierre-Marie (preface Andreas Sohn), Les Procureurs français à la cour pontificale d'Avignon, 1309–1376. (Mémoires et documents de l'École des chartes, 96.) Pp. 1,004 incl. 189 tables, 38 graphs and 11 maps. Paris: École des chartes, 2014. €55 (paper). 978 2 35723 052 1; 1158 6060

Buttigieg, Emanuel and Simon Phillips (eds), Islands and military orders, c. 1291–c.1798. Pp. xxi+276 incl. 26 figs and 6 tables+4 colour plates. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £75. 978 1 4724 0990 4

Cameron, Averil, Byzantine matters. Pp. xix+164 incl. 3 maps and 11 figs. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014. £15·95 ($22.95). 978 0 691 15763 4

Camporeale, Salvatore I. (ed. Patrick Baker and Christopher S. Celenza), Christianity, Latinity, and culture. Two studies on Lorenzo Valla. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 172.) Pp. xv+336 incl. 2 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2014. €1439. 978 90 04 26196 9; 1573 5664

Chrissis, Nikolaos G., and Mike Carr (eds), Contact and conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204–1453. Crusade, religion and trade between Latins, Greeks and Turks. (Crusades. Subsidia, 5.) Pp. xix+232 incl. 3 maps. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2014. £70. 978 1 4094 3926 4

Colish, Marcia L., Faith fiction and force in medieval baptismal debates. Pp. xiii+370. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2014. $69.96. 978 0 8132 2511 8

De Visscher, Eva, Reading the rabbis. Christian Hebraism in the works of Herbert of Bosham. (Commentaria, 5.) Pp. xv+222 incl. 3 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2014. €103. 978 90 04 25468 8; 1874 8236

Easting, Robert, and Richard Sharpe, Peter of Cornwall's book of revelations. (Studies and Texts, 184. British Writers of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, 5.) Pp. xvi+615. Toronto, On: PIMS Publications/Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2013. $150. 978 0 88844 184 3; 978 1 85124 254 2

Efthymiadis, Stephanos (ed.), The Ashgate research companion to Byzantine hagiography, II: Genres and contexts. (Ashgate Research Companion.) Pp. xxiv+512 incl. 4 maps. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2014. £90. 978 0 4094 0951 9

Favier, Jean, and Nicole Lemaitre (eds), Le Livre du chapitre de Saint-Just et Saint-Pasteur de Narbonne. (Recueil des Historiens de la France. Obituaires, Série IN-8°, 13.) Pp. viii+518 incl. 22 figs and 16 colour plates. Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres/de Boccard, 2014. €50 (paper). 978 287 75431 32

Fudge, Thomas A., Heresy and Hussites in late medieval Europe. (Variorum Collected Studies, 1044.) Pp. xiv+418 incl. frontispiece. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2014. £100. 978 1 4724 2933 9

Garver, Valerie L., and Owen M. Phelan (eds), Rome and religion in the medieval world. Studies in honor of Thomas F. X. Noble. (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West.) Pp. xxviii incl. frontispiece+349+11 colour plates. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2014. £80. 978 1 4724 2112 8

Gasper, Giles E. M., and Ian Logan (eds), Saint Anselm of Canterbury and his legacy. (Durham Medieval and Renaissance Monographs and Essays, 2.) Pp. xii+461. Durham: Institute of Renaissance Studies/Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012. €80. 978 0 88844 861 8

Griffiths, Fiona J., and Julie Hotchin (eds), Partners in spirit. Women, men, and religious life in Germany, 1100–1500. (Medieval Women. Texts and Contexts, 24.) Pp. x+430 incl. 15 figs and 2 maps. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. €100. 978 2 503 54096 2

Hammond, Jay M., J. A. Wayne Hellmann, and Jared Goff (eds), A companion to Bonaventure. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 48.) Pp. x+588. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2014. €196. 978 90 04 26072 6; 1871 6377

Jamroziak, Emilia, and Karen Stöber (eds), Monasteries on the borders of medieval Europe. Conflict and cultural interaction. (Medieval Church Studies, 28.) Pp. ix+274 incl. 9 figs and 8 maps. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €80. 978 2 503 54535 6

Jarett, Jonathan, and Allan Scott McKinley (eds), Problems and possibilities of early medieval charters. (International Medieval Research, 19.) Pp. x+304 incl. 5 figs, 6 graphs, 1 map and 4 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €80. 978 2 503 54830 2

Jones, Sarah Rees, York. The making of a city, 1068–1350. Pp. xxxii+373 incl. 18 maps, 3 figs and 8 tables. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £75. 978 0 19 820194 6

Le Goff, Jacques (trans. Lydia G. Cochrane), In search of sacred time. Jacobus de Voragine and the ‘Golden Legend’. Pp. xiii+214. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. $29.95. 978 0 691 15645 3

Licence, Tom (ed. with intro. and notes) (trans. Tom Licence and Lynda Lockyer), Herman the archdeacon and Goscelin of Saint-Bertin. Miracles of St Edmund. (Oxford Medieval Texts.) Pp. cxxxiii+402. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2014. £125. 978 0 19 968919 4

McGinn, Bernard, Thomas Aquinas's ‘Summa theologiae’. A biography. (Lives of Great Religious Books.) Pp. xi+260. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014. $24.95. 978 0 691 15426 8

McInerney, Luke, Clerical and learned lineages of medieval Co. Clare. A survey of the fifteenth-century papal registers. Pp. xx+324 incl. 2 frontispieces, 210 ills and 18 tables. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014. €54. 978 1 84682 391 6

Marsengill, Katherine, Portraits and icons. Between reality and spirituality in Byzantine art. (Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization, 5.) Pp. xi+463 incl. 115 black-and-white and colour plates. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €85 (paper). 978 2 503 54405 5

Mecham, June L. (ed. Alison I. Beach, Constance H. Berman and Lisa M. Bitel), Sacred communities, shared devotions. Gender, material culture, and monasticism in late medieval Germany. (Medieval Women. Texts and Contexts, 29.) Pp. xviii+310 incl. 1 map, 2 tables and 48 figs. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. €85. 978 2 503 54134 1

Melvani, Nicholas, Late Byzantine sculpture. (Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages, 6.) Pp. x+299 incl. 114 figs, 5 drawings and 10 colour plates. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €100. 978 2 503 53064 2

O'Brien, William P. (trans. and commentary) (foreword Gérard Ferreyrolles), Claude La Colombière sermons, I: Christian conduct. Pp. xxxiv+240 incl. frontispiece. DeKalb, Il: Northern Illinois University Press, 2014. $35. 978 0 87580 472 9

O'Sullivan, Dierdre, In the company of preachers. The archaeology of medieval friaries in England and Wales. (Leicester Archaeology Monograph, 23.) Pp. xvi+411 incl. 233 ills. Leicester: School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester, 2013. £38 (paper). 978 0 9574 7920 3

Patricios, Nicholas N., The sacred architecture of Byzantium. Art, liturgy and symbolism in early Christian churches. (Library of Classical Studies, 4.) Pp. xvii+446 incl. colour frontispiece and 1,120 ills+20 colour plates. London–New York: I. B. Tauris, 2014. £45. 978 1 78076 291 3

Rennie, Kriston R., The foundations of medieval papal legation. Pp. xii+236. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. £55. 978 1 137 26493 0

Riehle, Wolfgang , The secret within. Hermits, recluses, and spiritual outsiders in medieval England. (Trans. by Charity Scott-Stokes of Englische Mystik des Mittelalters, Munich: C. H. Beck, 2011.) Pp. xix+427 incl. 16 ills. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2014. $35. 978 0 8014 5109 6

Rogers, Alan (ed.) (with members of the Stamford Survey Group), The wardens. Managing a late medieval hospital. Browne's Hospital, Stamford, 1495–1518. Pp. 368 incl. 4 figs. Bury St Edmunds: Abramis (for the Stamford and District Local History Society) (with assistance from the Lincoln Record Society), 2013. £25 (paper). 978 1 84549 599 2

Romano, John F., Liturgy and society in early medieval Rome. (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West.) Pp. xii+308. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2014. £70. 978 1 4094 4393 3

Somerset, Fiona, Feeling like saints. Lollard writings after Wyclif. Pp. xv+315. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2014. $65. 978 0 8014 5281 9

Strathakopoulos, Dionysios, A short history of the Byzantine Empire. (I. B. Tauris Short Histories.) Pp. xviii+238 incl. 5 maps and 30 figs. London–New York: I. B. Tauris, 2014. £47·50 (cloth), £12·99 (paper). 978 1 78076 193 0; 978 1 78076 194 7

Van Liere, Frans, An introduction to the medieval Bible. Pp. xv+320 incl. 12 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. £55 (cloth), £18·99 (paper). 978 0 521 86578 4; 978 0 521 68460 6

Ward, Jennifer (ed. and trans.), Elizabeth de Burgh, lady of Clare (1295–1360). Household and other records. (Suffolk Records Society, 57.) Pp. xxx+188 incl. frontispiece and geneaological table+4 plates. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press (for the Suffolk Records Society), 2014. £25. 978 1 84383 891 3

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

Avis, Paul, In search of authority. Anglican theological method from the Reformation to the Enlightenment. Pp. xix+393. London–New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2014. £19·99 (paper). 978 0 5673 2846 5; 978 0 5670 2648 4

Balserak, Jon, John Calvin as sixteenth-century prophet. Pp. xiii+208. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £55. 978 0 19 870325 9

Barral-Baron, Marie, L'Enfer d'Erasme. L'humaniste chrétien face à l'histoire. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 523.) Pp. 752 incl. 10 ills. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014. €94 (paper). 978 2 600 01645 2

Benedict, Philip, Hughes Daussy and Pierre-Olivier Léchot (eds), L'Identité huguenote. Faire mémoire et écrire l'histoire (XVIe–XXIe siècle). (Publications de l'Association suisse pour l'histoire du refuge huguenot, 9.) Pp. 662 incl. 14 ills. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014. 978 2 600 01752 7; 1422 7614

Buck, Lawrence P., The Roman monster. An icon of the papal AntiChrist in Reformation polemics. (Early Modern Studies, 13.) Pp. xiii+258 incl. 13 figs. Kirksville, Mi: Truman State University Press, 2014. $41.99 (paper). 978 1 61248 106 7

Burden, Mark, A biographical dictionary of tutors at the dissenters' private academies, 1660–1729. Pp. 543. London: Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies, 2013. http://www.english.qmul.ac.uk/drwilliams/pubs/dictionary.html (25 Feb. 2014)

Burkard, Dominik, and Tanja Thanner (eds), Der Jansenismus. Eine ‘katholische Häresie’? Das Ringen um Gnade, Rechtfertigung und die Autorität Augustins in der frühen Neuzeit. (Reformationsgeschichtliche Studien und Texte, 159.) Pp. viii+464. Munich: Aschendorff, 2014. €56. 978 3 402 11583 1; 0171 3469

Crousaz, Karine, and Daniela Solfaroli Camillocci (eds), Pierre Viret et la diffusion de la Réforme. Pensée, action, contexts religieux. (La Collection Histoire Moderne Dirigée par Danièle Tosato Rigo.) Pp. 424 incl. 5 ills. Lausanne: Éditions Antipodes, 2014. €37 (paper). 978 2 88901 054 7

Daussy, Hugues, Le Parti huguenot. Chronique d'une désillusion (1557–1572). (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 527.) Pp. 885. Geneva: Droz, 2014. €79·90 (paper). 978 2 600 01721 3; 0082 6081

Dixon, Leif, Practical predestinarians in England, c. 1590–1640. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. viii+389. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2014. £80. 978 1 4094 6386 3

Faesen, Rob, and Leo Kenis (eds), The Jesuits of the Low Countries. Identity and impact (1540–1773). Proceedings of the international congress at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven (3–5 December 2009). (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 251.) Pp. x+302. Leuven–Paris–Walpole, Ma: Peeters, 2012. €65 (paper). 978 90 429 2698 1

Fisher, Alexander J., Music, piety and propaganda. The soundscapes of counter-Reformation Bavaria. (The New Cultural History of Music.) Pp. xvii+359 incl. 23 musical examples and 9 figs. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £45. 978 0 19 976464 8

Frandsen, Henrik, Hemmingius in the same world as Perkinsius and Arminius. Niels Hemmingsen, 1513–2013. Pp. 71 incl. 14 ills. Copenhagen: Henrik Frandsen, 2013. £22 (paper). 978 87 997292 1 0

Glaser, Eliane, Religious tolerance in the Atlantic world. Early modern and contemporary perspectives. Pp. ix+275. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. £60. 978 1 137 02803 7

Goodare, Julian, Scottish witches and witch-hunters. (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic.) Pp. xiii+258 incl. frontispiece, 5 figs and 4 tables. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. £55. 978 1 137 35593 5

Green, Jonathan, The strange and terrible visions of Wilhelm Friess. The paths of prophecy in Reformation Europe. (Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World.) Pp. xi+207 incl. 5 figs. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014. $70. 978 0 472 11921 9

Hall, H. Ashley, Philip Melanchthon and the Cappadocians. A reception of Greek patristic sources in the sixteenth century. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 16.) Pp. 272 incl. 1 fig. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014. €74·99. 978 3 525 55067 0

Hamilton, Alastair, The Family of Love, I: Henrik Niclaes. (Bibliotheca Bibliographica Aureliana, 191. Bibliotheca Dissidentium, 22.) Pp. 218 incl. 45 ills. Baden-Baden–Bouxwiller: Éditions Valentin Koerner, 2003. €98 (paper). 978 3 87320 191 7

Hamilton, Alastair, The Family of Love, II: Hiël (Hendrik Jansen van Barrefelt). Addenda to the Family of Love, I: Henrik Niclaes. (Bibliotheca Bibliographica Aureliana, 235. Bibliotheca Dissidentium, 29.) Pp. 239 incl. 50 ills. Baden-Baden–Bouxwiller: Éditions Valentin Koerner, 2013. €98 (paper). 978 3 87320 735 6; 0067 7884

Krentz, Natalie, Ritualwandel und Deutungshoheit. Die frühe Reformation in der Residenzstadt Wittenberg (1500–1533). (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation, 74.) Pp. xii+438. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014. €99. 978 3 16 152679 4; 1865 2840

Laqua-O'Donnell, Simone, Women and the Counter-Reformation in early modern Münster. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) Pp. xiv+214 incl. 2 frontispieces and 2 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £60. 978 0 19 968331 4

Loop, Jan, Johann Heinrich Hottinger. Arabic and Islamic studies in the seventeenth century. (Oxford Warburg Studies.) Pp. xii+271 + frontispiece and 4 plates. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £80. 978 0 19 968214 0

Lynn, Kimberly, Between court and confessional. The politics of Spanish inquisitors. Pp. xviii+391 incl. 3 frontispieces and 7 figs. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £60. 978 1 107 03116 6

Moger, Jourden Travis, Priestly resistance to the early Reformation in Germany. (Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World, 15.) Pp. xii+205. London–Brookfield, Vermont: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. £60 ($99). 978 1 84393 454 2

Op't Hof, W. J., and F. W. Huisman (eds), Nederlandse liefde voor Christopher Love (1618–1651). Studies over het vertaalde werk van een presbyteriaanse puritein. Pp. 543 incl. 46 ills. Amsterdam: Eon Pers Amstelveen, 2013. €50 (paper). 978 90 77246 62 7

Parish, Helen, Elaine Fulton and Peter Webster (eds), The search for authority in Reformation Europe. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. viii+215. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2014. £70. 978 1 4094 0854 3

Perry, Nandra, ‘Imitatio Christi’. The poetics of piety in early modern England. Pp. viii+280 incl. 3 figs. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014. $32 (paper). 978 0 268 03841 0

Reeves, Ryan M., English evangelicals, and Tudor obedience, c. 1527–1570. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 167.) Pp. ix+212. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2014. €99. 978 90 04 25011 6; 1573 5664

Snoddy, Richard, The soteriology of James Ussher. The act and object of saving faith. (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. xv+287. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £50. 978 0 19 933857 3

Spohnholz, Jesse and Gary K. Waite (eds), Exile and religious identity, 1500–1800. (Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World, 18.) Pp. xv+265 incl. 1 fig. and 1 table. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. £60. 978 1 84893 457 3

Steen, Charlie R., Margaret of Parma. A life. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 174.) Pp. ix+321 incl. 6 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €129. 978 90 04 25744 3; 1573 4188

Tausiet, María (trans. Susannah Howe), Urban magic in early modern Spain. Abracadabra omnipotens. (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic.) Pp. xiv+254 incl. 10 ills. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. £50. 978 1 137 35587 4

Touber, Jetze, Law, medicine, and engineering in the cult of the saints in Counter-Reformation Rome. The hagiographical works of Antonio Gallonio, 1556–1605. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 178.) Pp. xiii+33 incl. 41 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2014. €123. 978 90 04 26513 4; 1573 4188

Viladesau, Richard, The pathos of the Cross. The Passion of Christ in theology and the arts. The Baroque era. Pp. xvi+344 incl. 40 ills. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £35·99. 978 0 19 935268 5

Modern Europe

Alston, Charlotte, Tolstoy and his disciples. The history of a radical international movement. Pp. x+309 incl. 11 figs. London–New York: I. B. Tauris, 2014. £59·50. 978 1 84511 261 5

Blake, Richard, Religion in the British navy, 1815–1879. Piety and professionalism. Pp. xii+281. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2014. £75. 978 1 84383 885 2

Blaufuss, Dietrich (ed.), Wilhelm Löhe. Theology and history. Theologie und Geschichte. Loehe theological conference III Fort Wayne/IN July 26th–30th 2011 of the international Loehe society. (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte Bayerns, 94. Wilhelm Löhe. Gesammelte Werke. Ergänzungsreihe, 4.) Pp. 352. Nürnberg: VBKG/Neuendettelsau: Freimund-Verlag, 2013. €34·80. 978 3 940803 10 8; 978 3 86540 175 5

Burstein, Miriam Elizabeth, Victorian reformations. Historical fiction and religious controversy, 1820–1900. Pp. x+301. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014. $39 (paper). 978 0 268 02238 9

Chapman, Mark D., The fantasy of reunion. Anglicans, Catholics, and ecumenism, 1833–1882. Pp. ix+329. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £55. 978 0 19 968806 7

Harrison, Carol E., Romantic Catholics. France's postrevolutionary generation in search of a modern faith. Pp. xv+328 incl. 13 figs. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2014. $49.95. 978 0 8014 5245 1

Heffernan, Brian, Freedom and the fifth commandment. Catholic priests and political violence in Ireland, 1919–21. Pp. xiv+290 incl. 1 map, 2 tables and 1 fig. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. £70. 978 0 7190 9048 6

Hughes, Michael, Beyond holy Russia. The life and times of Stephen Graham. Pp. xi+357 incl. 9 ills. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2014. £32·95 (cloth), £18·95 (paper). 978 1 78374 013 0; 978 1 78374 012 3

Kenis, Leo, and Ernestine Van Der Wall (eds), Religious modernism in the Low Countries. (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 255.) Pp. x+278 incl. colour frontispiece. Leuven–Paris–Walpole, Ma: Peeters, 2013. €75 (paper). 978 90 429 2741 4

McInelly, Brett C., Textual warfare and the making of Methodism. Pp. x+245. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £50. 978 0 19 870894 0

Pettinaroli, Laura (ed.), Le Gouvernement pontifical sous Pie XI. Pratiques romaines et gestion de l'universel. (Collection de l’École française de Rome, 467.) Pp. xi+848 incl. 12 ills. Rome: École française de Rome, 2013. €45 (paper). 978 2 7283 0957 3; 0223 5099

Snow, Heidi J., William Wordsworth and the theology of poverty. Pp. viii+152. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £60. 978 1 4094 6591 1

Tovey, Phillip, Anglican confirmation, 1662–1820. (Liturgy, Worship and Society.) Pp. xi+201 incl. frontispiece, 1 figure and 43 tables. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2014. £60. 978 1 4724 2217 0

Africa, Asia and Australasia

Daily, Christopher A., Robert Morrison and the Protestant plan for China. Pp. xiii+261. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press (for the Royal Asiatic Society), 2013. £41·50. 978 988 8208 03 6

Hovland, Ingie, Mission station Christianity. Norwegian missionaries in colonial Natal and Zululand, southern Africa, 1850–1890. (Studies in Christian Mission, 44.) Pp. xii+263 incl. 5 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €109. 978 90 04 25488 6; 0924 9389

The Americas

Andes, Stephen J. C., The Vatican and Catholic activism in Mexico and Chile. The politics of transnational Catholicism, 1920–1940. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) Pp. xiii+250. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £60. 978 0 19 968848 7

Brand, Chad and Tom Pratt, Seeking the city. Wealth, poverty, and political economy in Christian perspective. Pp. 905. Grand Rapids, Mi: Kregel, 2013. $54.99. 978 0 8254 4304 6

Connolly, Mary Beth Fraser, Women of faith. The Chicago Sisters of Mercy and the evolution of a religious community. Pp. xv+356 incl. 27 ills. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014. £44. 978 0 8232 5473 6

Grubiak, Margaret M., White elephants on campus. The decline of the university chapel in America, 1920–1960. Pp. xii+168 incl. 27 figs. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame, 2014. $28 (paper). 978 0 268 02987 6

Hammond, Geordan, John Wesley in America. Restoring primitive Christianity. Pp. xvii+237 incl. frontispiece. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £55. 978 0 19 870160 0

Levy, Evonne, and Kenneth Mills (eds), Lexikon of the Hispanic baroque. Transatlantic exchange and transformation. (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture.) Pp. xiii+352 incl. 91 ills. Austin, Tx: University of Texas Press, 2013. £50. 978 0 292 74309 9

McNeil, Genna Rae, Houston Bryan Roberson, Quinton Hosford Dixie and Kevin McGruder, Witness. Two hundred years of African-American faith and practice at the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem, New York. Pp. xii+708 incl. numerous ills. Grand Rapids, Mi: Eerdmans, 2014. £29·99 ($45). 978 0 8028 6341 6

Miller, Steven P., The age of Evangelicalism. America's born-again years. Pp. viii+221+8 figs. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £16·99. 978 0 19 977795 2

Turner, James, Philology. The forgotten origins of the modern humanities. Pp. xxiv+550. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014. £24·95 ($35). 978 0 691 14564 8

Worthen, Molly, Apostles of reason. The crisis of authority in American Evangelicalism. Pp. ix+352+24 figs. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £18·99. 978 0 19 989646 2

General: Modern world

Arnold, Claus and Johannes Wischmeyer (eds), Transnationale Dimensionen wissenschaftlicher Theologie. (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, 101.) Pp. 471 incl. 3 ills. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013. €69,99. 978 3 525 10130 8

French, April (ed.), and Christa Belyaeva (trans.), An inner step toward God. Writings and teachings on prayer by Father Alexander Men. Pp. 192. Brewster, Ma: Paraclete Press, 2014. $19.99 (paper). 978 1 61261 238 6

Ormerod, Neil, Re-visioning the Church. An experiment in systematic historical ecclesiology. Pp. x+444. Minneapolis, Mn: Fortress Press, 2014. $49 (paper). 978 1 4514 7816 7