Baumann, Notker, ‘Götter in Gottes Hand’. Die Darstellung zeitgenössischer Kaiser bei Gregor von Nazianz. (Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum. Ergänzungsband Kleine Reihe, 15.) Pp. vi + 472. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2018. €65. 978 3 402 100922 9

Bergjan, Silke-Petra and Elm, Susanna (eds), Antioch II. The many faces of Antioch. Intellectual exchange and religious diversity, CE 350–450. (Civitatum Orbis Mediterranei Studia, 3.) Pp. xiv + 507 incl. 6 ills, 1 table and 1 map. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. €139. 978 3 16 155126 0

Grossberg, David M., Heresy and the formation of the Rabbinic community. (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, 168.) Pp. x + 278. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017. €129. 978 3 16 155147 5

Heine, Ronald E. (trans. and intro.), The commentary of Origen on the Gospel of St Matthew. 2 vols. (Oxford Early Christian Texts.) Pp. x + 365; viii + 369–773. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £195. 978 0 19 966908 0; 978 0 19 966090 7

Lanfranchi, Pierluigi and Verheyden, Joseph (eds), Jews and Christians in antiquity. A regional perspective. (Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion, 18.) Pp. vi + 370 incl. 1 fig. Leuven–Bristol, Ct: Peeters, 2018. €84 (paper). 978 90 429 3461 0

Larsen, Lillian and Rubenson, Samuel (eds), Monastic education in late antiquity. The transformation of classical paideia. Pp. x + 399 incl. 34 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. £90. 978 1 107 19495 3

McGowan, Anne and Bradshaw, Paul F. (eds), The pilgrimage of Egeria. A new translation of the Itinerarium Egeria with introduction and commentary. (Alcuin Club Collections, 93.) Pp. xii + 235 incl. 4 figs and 1 table. Collegeville, Mn: Liturgical Press Academic, 2018. $29.95 (paper). 978 0 8146 8421 4

McLarty, J. D., Thecla's devotion. Narrative, emotion and identity in the Acts of Paul and Thecla. Pp. viii + 257 incl. 20 ills. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co, 2018. £65. 978 0 227 17609 2

Marmodoro, Anna and Cartwright, Sophie (eds), A history of mind and body in late antiquity. Pp. xii + 428. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. £74.99. 978 1 107 18121 2

Maspero, Giulio, Brugarolas, Miguel and Vigorelli, Ilaria (eds), Gregory of Nyssa. In Canticum Canticorum. Analytical and supporting studies. Proceedings of the 13th international colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa (Rome, 17–20 September 2014). (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 150.) Pp. xvi + 594 incl. frontispiece. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €199. 978 90 04 38144 5;

Parsons, Mikeal C. and Martin, Michael Wade (eds), Ancient rhetoric and the New Testament. The influence of elementary Greek composition. Pp. x + 326 incl. 1 ill and 2 tables. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2018. $69.95. 978 1 4813 0980 6

Safranski, Benjamin, St Cyprian of Carthage and the college of bishops. Pp. xx + 229. New York–London: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2018. £70. 978 1 9787 0078 9

Schröter, Jens, Butticaz, Simon and Dettwiler, Andreas (eds), Receptions of Paul in early Christianity. The person of Paul and his writings through the eyes of his early interpreters. (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft.) Pp. x + 910 incl. 1 ill and 15 tables. Boston–Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2018. €129.95. 978 3 11 053370 5;

Segal, Alan F., The other Judaisms of late antiquity. Second edition. (Library of Early Christology.) Pp. xiv + 293 incl. 2 tables. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2018. (First publ. 1987 by Scholars Press; reprinted 2017 by Baylor University Press.) $39.95 (paper). 978 1 4813 0759 8

Vopřada, David, La Mistagogia del Commento al Salmo 118 di sant'Ambrogio. (Studia Ephemeridis Augustinianum, 146.) Pp. 576. Rome: Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, 2016. €39. 978 88 7961 145 9

Watson, Francis and Parkhouse, Sarah (eds), Connecting Gospels. Beyond the canonical/non-canonical divide. Pp. xii + 282 incl. 2 tables. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. £65. 978 0 19 881480 1

Bériou, Nicole, Religion et communication. Un Autre Regard sur la prédication au moyen âge. (Titre courant, 64.) Pp. 568 incl. 26 ills. Genève: Droz, 2018. €24 (paper). 978 2 600 00564 7; 1420 5254

Cleaver, Laura, Illuminated history books in the Anglo-Norman world, 1066–1272. Pp. xx + 222 incl. 60 ills, 1 map and 2 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £65. 978 0 19 880262 4

Cleaver, Laura and Worm, Andrew (eds), Writing history in the Anglo-Norman world. Manuscripts, makers and readers. c.1066–1250. (Writing History in the Middle Ages.) Pp. xii + 271 incl. 31 figs and 5 colour plates. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press (York Medieval Press), 2018. £60. 978 1 903153 80 2

Daley, Brian E. sj, God visible. Patristic Christology reconsidered. (Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology.) Pp. xviii + 294. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £65. 978 0 19 928133 6

De Capellis, Pseudo Giacomo, Summa contra hereticos (secolo XIII). Edizione critica a cura di Paola Romagnoli. Introduzione, appendici e bibliografia a cura di Maurizio Ulturale. (Studi su Istituzioni e Società nel Medioevo Europeo, 7.) Pp. xii + 402 incl 1 ill. Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2018. €50 (paper). 978 88 343 3358 7

Doublier, Étienne and Johrendt, Jochen, Economia della salvezza e indulgenza nel Medioevo. (Studi su Istituzioni e Società nel Medioevo Europeo, 6.) Pp. viii + 245. Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2017. €25 (paper). 978 88 343 3401 0

Gabriele, Matthew and Palmer, James T. (eds), Apocalypse and reform from late antiquity to the Middle Ages. Pp. x + 234 incl. 3 tables. London–New York: Routledge, 2019. £110. 978 1 138 68402 7

Gittos, Helen and Hamilton, Sarah, Understanding medieval liturgy. Essays and interpretation. Pp. xvi + 332 incl. 8 figs and 5 tables. London–New York: Routledge, 2016. £83.99. 978 1 4094 5150 1

Hawkes, Jane and Sidebottom, Philip (eds) (with Martin Biddle), Derbyshire and Staffordshire. (Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, XIII.) Pp. xx + 553 incl. 64 figs, 665 ills, 1 colour plate and 2 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press (for The British Academy), 2018. £100. 978 0 19 726621 2

Lee, John S. and Steer, Christian (eds), Commemoration in medieval Cambridge. (History of the University of Cambridge: Texts and Studies, 9.) Pp. xvi + 103 incl. 14 colour plates and 22 black and white plates. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2018. £60. 978 1 78327 334 8

Maskarinec, Maya, City of saints. Rebuilding Rome in the early Middle Ages. (The Middle Ages.) Pp. x + 290 incl. 25 figs, 2 maps and 21 colour plates. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. £44. 978 0 8122 5008 4

Morgan, Nigel J., English monastic litanies of the saints after 1100, III: Addenda, commentary, catalogue of saints, indexes. (Henry Bradshaw Society.) Pp. xii + 375. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press (for Henry Bradshaw Society), 2018. £60. 978 1 90749 733 9

Orme, Nicholas, Medieval pilgrimage. With a survey of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Bristol. Pp. xiv + 191 incl. 46 colour ills. Exeter: Impress Books, 2018. £14.99 (paper). 978 1 911293 35 4

Perisanidi, Maroula, Clerical continence in twelfth-century England and Byzantium. Property, family, and purity. Pp. x + 193. London–New York: Routledge, 2019. £115. 978 1 138 49513 5

Rapp, Claudia, Brother-making in late antiquity and Byzantium. Monks, laymen, and Christian ritual. (Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture.) Pp. xiv + 349 incl. 10 figs and 2 maps. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. £54. 978 0 19 538933 3

Ryan, W. E. David, English medieval church towers. The Northern Province. Pp. xii + 332 incl. 502 black-and-white and colour ills. Woodbridge–Rochester: Boydell Press, 2018. £19.99 (paper). 978 1 78327 353 9

Thomas, Sarah E., The parish and the chapel in medieval Britain and Norway. (St Andrews Studies in Scottish History.) Pp. xiv + 219 incl. 21 ills, 20 figs and 26 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2018. £60. 978 1 78327 314 0

Vauchez, André, Saint Homebon de Crémone «père des pauvres» et patron des tailleurs. Vies médiévales et histoire du culte. (Subsidia hagiographica, 96.) Pp. viii + 189 incl. 16 colour plates. Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes, 2018. €50. 978 2 87365 033 9

Argent, Alan, The Richard Baxter treatises. A catalogue and guide. Pp. xii + 280. Woodbridge–Rochester: Boydell Press, 2018. £125. 978 1 78327 292 1

Barham, Joan and Foster, Andrew (eds), Church surveys of Chichester archdeaconry, 1602, 1610 and 1636. (Sussex Record Society, 98.) Pp. lxxiv + 218 incl. frontispiece, 30 colour plates, 393 colour and black-and-white ills, 1 map and 1 table. Lewes: Sussex Record Society, 2018. £25. 978 0 85445 080 0

Blažek, Pavel (ed.), Sacramentum Magnum. Die Ehe in der mittelalterlichen Theologie. Le marriage dans la théologie médiévale. Marriage in medieval theology. (Archa Verbi, 15.) Pp. vi + 531 incl. 2 ills and 7 tables. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2018. €64. 978 3 402 10225 1; 1865 2964

Brundin, Abigail, Howard, Deborah and Laven, Mary (eds), The sacred home in renaissance Italy. Pp. xxxii + 366 incl. 166 figs, 3 maps and 35 colour plates. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £35. 978 0 19 881655 3

Clifford, Alan C., Richard Baxter. The Gospel truth. Pp. 459 incl. 18 ills. Oswestry: Charenton Reformed Publishing, 2016. £20. 978 0 9929465 3 1

Collier, Jay T., Debating perseverance. The Augustinian heritage in post-Reformation England. (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. vi + 229. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £64. 978 0 19 085852 0

Como, David R., Radical parliamentarians and the English Civil War. Pp. xviii + 457 incl. 13 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £85. 978 0 19 954191 1

Cummings, Brian, The Book of Common Prayer. A very short introduction. Pp. xviii + 140 incl. 5 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £7.99 (paper). 978 0 19 880392 8

Cummings, Brian (ed.), The Book of Common Prayer. The texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662. (World's Classics.) Pp. lxxiv + 822 incl. 4 ills and 18 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2013 (first publ. 2011). £10.99 (paper). 978 0 19 964520 6

Erdélyi, Gabriella, Negotiating violence. Papal pardons and everyday life in east central Europe (1450–1550). (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 213.) Pp. x + 247 incl. 13 black-and-white and colour figs and 3 maps. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €129. 978 90 04 36115 7; 1573 4188

François, Wim and Soen, Violet (eds), The Council of Trent: reform and controversy in Europe and beyond (1545–1700), I: Between Trent, Rome and Wittenberg; II: Between bishops and princes; III: Between artists and adventurers. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 35,1; 35,2; 35,3.) Pp. 423 + 412 + 315 incl. 52 colour and black-and-white figs, 12 tables and 2 maps. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2018. €300. 978 3 525 55107 3; 978 3 525 55108 0; 978 3 525 55109 7

Houliston, Victor, Crosignanip, Ginevra and McCoog, Thomas M. sj (eds), The correspondence and unpublished papers of Robert Persons, SJ, I: 1574–1588. (Studies and Texts, 207.) Pp. xx + 729 incl. 3 maps. Toronto, On: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2017. $115. 978 0 88844 207 9

Kroll, Frank-Lothar, Redworth, Glyn and Weiss, Dieter J. (eds), Deutschland und die Britischen Inseln im Reformationsgeschehen. Vergleich, Transfer, Verflechtungen. (Prinz-Albert-Studien, 34.; Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte Bayerns, 97.) Pp. x + 351 incl. 58 colour and black-and-white ills. Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 2018. €71.90. 978 3 940803 15 3; 0941 6242

Lyttleton, James and Stout, Matthew (eds), Church and settlement in Ireland. Pp. xxiv + 272 incl. 46 ills, 16 plates and 2 tables. Dublin–Chicago, Il: Four Courts Press, 2018. £45. 978 1 84682 728 0

Péter, Katalin (ed. Gabriella Erdélyi), Studies on the history of the reformation in Hungary and Transylvania. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 45.) Pp. 214 incl. 10 figs and 6 tables. Göttingen: Vandehoeck & Ruprecht, 2018. €80. 978 3 525 55271 1; 2198 3089

Plummer, Marjorie Elizabeth and Christman, Victoria (eds), Topographies of tolerance and intolerance. Responses to religious pluralism in reformation Europe. (Studies in Central European Histories, 64.) Pp. x + 267 incl. 4 colour figs and 5 maps. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €114. 978 90 04 36765 4; 1547 1217

Pullin, Naomi, Female Friends and the making of transatlantic Quakerism, 1650–1750. (Studies in Early Modern British History.) Pp. xvi + 302 incl. 5 figs and 5 tables. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. £75. 978 1 316 51023 0

Thomas, Jeremy A. (foreword Rico Tice), The nation's Gospel. Spreading the Christian faith in Britain since the reformation, I: (1516–1791) Reformation to revolution. Pp. 431. London: Wilberforce Publications, 2017. £14 (paper). 978 0 9956832 4 2

Whitford, David M. (ed.), Martin Luther in context. Pp. xvi + 425 incl. 9 ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. £84.99. 978 1 107 15088 1

Zwierlein, Cornel and Lavenia, Vincenzo (eds), Fruits of migration. Heterodox Italian migrants and central European culture, 1550–1620. (Intersections, 57.) Pp. xiv + 402 incl. 13 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €127. 978 90 04 34566 9; 1568 1181

Albrecht-Birkner, Veronika, Freiheit in Grenzen. Protestantismus in der DDR. (Christentum und Zeitgeschichte, 2.) Pp. 284. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2018. €24 (paper). 978 3 374 05343 8

Brewitt-Taylor, Sam, Christian radicalism in the Church of England. And the invention of the British sixties, 1957–1970. The hope of a world transformed. (Historical Mongraphs.) Pp. xiv + 272. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £65. 978 0 19 882700 9

Fleming, Brian, Irish education and Catholic emancipation, 1791–1831. The campaigns of Bishop Doyle and Daniel O'Connell. Pp. x + 235 incl. 3 colour and black-and-white figs. Berlin–New York: Peter Lang, 2017. £38.95 (paper). 978 1 78707 310 4

Jones, Mark and Haykin, Michael A. G. (eds), A new divinity. Transatlantic reformed Evangelical debates during the long eighteenth century. (Reformed Historical Theology, 49.) Pp. 308. Göttingen: Vandehoeck & Ruprecht, 2018. €74.99. 978 3 525 55285 8; 2198 8226

Lewis, Donald M., In darkest London. The manuscript of Joseph Oppenheimer, city missionary. Pp. xxviii + 275 incl. 26 ills. Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2018. £18.99 (paper). 978 1 57383 564 0

Malcolmson, Patricia and Malcolmson, Robert (eds), A vicar's wife in Oxford, 1938–1943. The diary of Madge Martin. (Oxfordshire Record Society, 72.) Pp. xiv + 270 incl. 16 black-and-white plates and 4 maps. Woodbridge–Rochester: Boydell Press (for the Oxfordshire Record Society), 2018. £25. 978 0 902509 74 0

Martins, Susanna Wade, A vicar in Victorian Norfolk. The life and times of Benjamin Armstrong (1817–1890). Pp. xiv + 303 incl. 34 ills and 1 map. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2018. £25. 978 1 78327 330 0

Power, Thomas P. (ed.), A flight of parsons. The divinity diaspora of Trinity College Dublin. Pp. x + 329. Eugene, Or: Pickwick Publications, 2018. $31.50 (paper). 978 1 5326 0909 1

Price, Roger, The Church and the State in France, 1789–1870. ‘Fear of God is the basis of social order’. Pp. xiv + 341. London–New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. €106.99. 978 3 319 63268 1

Prunty, Jacinta, The monasteries, Magdalen asylums and reformatory schools of Our Lady of Charity in Ireland, 1853–1973. Pp. 616 incl. 55 figs. Dublin: Columba Press, 2017. €34.99. 978 1 78218 322 8

Rivers, Isabel, Vanity Fair and the celestial city. Dissenting, Methodist, and Evangelical literary culture in England, 1720–1800. Pp. xviii + 457. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £95. 978 0 19 826996 0

Thompson, Andrew C., The Oxford history of Protestant dissenting traditions, II: The long eighteenth century, c. 1689–c. 1828. (History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions.) Pp. xxii + 464 incl. 14 figs. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £95. 978 0 19 870224 5

Hsia, R. Po-chia, Matteo Ricci and the Catholic mission to China. A short history with documents. (Passages: Key Moments in History.) Pp. xviii + 146 incl. 4 colour ills. Indianapolis–Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 2016. $18 (paper). 978 1 62466 432 8

Houchins, Sue E. and Fra-Molinero, Baltasar (eds), Black bridge of Christ. Chicaba, an African nun in eighteenth century Spain. Pp. xvi + 307 incl. 8 ills. Nashville, Tn: Vanderbilt University Press, 2018. £69.95. 978 0 8265 2103 3

Robert, Dana L. (ed.), African Christian biography. Stories, lives, and challenges. Pp. xx + 354. Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications, 2018. $15 (paper). 978 1 920620 25 7

Walker-Said, Charlotte, Faith, power and family. Christianity and social change in French Cameroon. (Religion in Transforming Africa.) Pp. xxii + 314 incl. 7 maps. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2018. £40. 978 1 84701 182 4

Wong, Wai Ching Angela and Chiu, Patricia P. K., Christian women in Chinese society. The Anglican story. (Sheng Kung Hui: Historical Studies of Anglican Christianity in China.) Pp. xvi + 274 incl. 18 ills. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2018. £45. 978 988 8455 92 8

Bebbington, David W., Baptists through the centuries. A history of a global people. 2nd edn. (rev. ante lxiv. 422–3). Pp. xii + 371 incl. 19 ills. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2018. £39.95 (paper). 978 1 4813 0866 3

Cragun, Ryan T., Manning, Christel and Fazzino, Lori L. (eds), Organised secularism in the United States. New directions in research. (Religion and its Others, 6.) Pp. viii + 321 incl. 21 tables. Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. €99.95. 978 3 11 045742 1; 2330 6262

Gaustad, Edwin S., Noll, Mark A. and Carter, Heath W. (eds), A documentary history of religion in America. Fourth edition. Pp. xxxii + 768 incl. 30 ills. Grand Rapids, Mi: Eerdmans, 2018 (first publ. 1982). $60. 978 0 8028 7358 3

Hayes, Stephen R. (foreword Charles Marsh), The battle for Bonhoeffer. Debating discipleship in the age of Trump. Pp. xx + 193. Grand Rapids, Mi: William B. Eerdmans, 2018. $19 (paper). 978 0 8028 7601 0

Marsden, George M., Religion and American culture. A brief history. Third edition. Pp. xii + 292. Grand Rapids, Mi: William B. Eerdmans, 2018 (first publ. 1990.) $30 (paper). 978 0 8028 7539 6

Newman, Mark, Desegregating Dixie. The Catholic Church in the South and desegregation, 1945–1992. Pp. xviii + 455. Jackson, Ms: University Press of Mississippi, 2018. $30 (paper). 978 1 4968 1896 6

Waldrop, Jeffrey A., The emergence of religious toleration in 18th century New England. Baptists, Congregationalists, and the contribution of John Callender (1706–1748). (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 138.) Pp. viii + 251. Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. €86.95. 978 3 11 058627 5; 1861 5996

Steinmetz, Uwe and Deeg, Alexander (eds), Blue church. Improvisation als Klangfarbe des Evangelischen Gottesdienstes. (Beiträge zu Liturgie und Spiritualität, 31.) Pp. 320 incl. 10 ills. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2018. €68 (paper). 978 3 374 05441 1