Allan, Arlene, Anagnostou-Laoutides, Eva and Stafford, Emma (eds), Herakles inside and outside the Church. From the first apologists to the end of the Quattrocento. (Metaforms, 18.) Pp. xx + 360 incl. 44 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €139. 978 90 04 42152 3; 2212 9405

Hampton, Alexander J. B. and Kenney, John Peter (eds), Christian Platonism. A history. Pp. xvi + 497 incl. 7 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £99.99. 978 1 108 49198 3

Batten, Alicia J. and Olson, Kelly (eds), Dress in Mediterranean antiquity. Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians. Pp. xxii + 401 incl. 83 colour and black-and-white ills. New York–London: T&T Clark, 2021. £130. 978 0 5676 8465 3

Berglund, Carl Johan, Origen's references to Heracleon. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 450.) Pp. xii + 403 incl. 2 figs. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. €149. 978 3 16 159221 8

Dijkstra, Roald (ed.), The early reception and appropriation of the Apostle Peter (60–800 CE). The anchors of the fisherman. (Eurhormos, 1.) Pp. xviii + 342 incl. 26 colour and black-and-white ills. Boston–Leiden: Brill, 2020. €116. 978 90 04 42567 5; 2590 1796

Falcasantos, Rebecca Stephens, Constantinople. Ritual, violence and memory in the making of a Christian imperial capital. (Christianity in Late Antiquity, 9. The Official Book Series of the North American Patristics Society. A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature.) Pp. xii + 221 incl. 2 maps. Oakland, Ca: University of California Press, 2020. £78. 978 052 030455 0

Glowasky, Michael, Rhetoric and Scripture in Augustine's homiletic strategy. Tracing the narrative of Christian maturation. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 166.) Pp. viii + 195. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €104. 978 90 04 44668 7; 0920 623X

Heath, J. M. F., Clement of Alexandria and the shaping of Christian literary practice. Miscellany and the transformation of Greco-Roman writing. Pp. viii + 428. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £75. 978 1 108 84342 3

Kim, Richard Young, The Cambridge companion to the Council of Nicaea. Pp. xx + 424 incl. 7 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £28.99 (paper). 978 1 108 44811 6

Kreutzer, Caroline Sophia, Weisheit und Alter in der Spätantike. Die Konstruktion von sapientia und senectus bei Ambrosius von Mailand und Paulinus von Nola. (KLIO Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, 33.) Pp. xii + 557. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2021. £91. 978 3 11 070503 4; 1438 7689

Lieu, Samuel N. C. and Thompson, Glen L. (eds), The Church of the East in central Asia and China. (International Union of Academies. China and the Mediterranean World Project 67) Pp. xiii + 245 incl. 33 colour and black-and-white ills. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. €75. 978 2 503 58664 9

Lynskey, Matthew R., Tyconius’ book of rules. An ancient invitation to ecclesial hermeneutics. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 167.) Pp. xviii + 456. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €138. 978 90 04 45483 5; 0920 623X

Patricios, Nicholas N., Sacred architecture and art of four Byzantine capitals. Constantinople, Thessaloniki, Mystras, Mount Athos. Pp. xv + 409 incl. 476 colour and black-and-white ills. Columbia: Kindle Direct Publishing, 2020. £38.57 (paper). 979 8580092782

Schroeder, Caroline T., Children and family in late antique Egyptian monasticism. Pp. xiv + 255 incl. 10 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £75. 978 1 107 15687 6

Smith, J. Warren, Ambrose, Augustine, and the pursuit of greatness. Pp. xiv + 293. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £75. 978 1 108 49074 0

Taylor, Joan E. and Ramelli, Ilaria L. E. (eds), Patterns of women's leadership in early Christianity. Pp. xvi + 345 incl. 33 colour and black-and-white figs and 3 maps. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £90. 978 0 19 886706 7

Tefera, Amsalu and Stuckenbruck, Loren T. (eds), Representations of angelic beings in early Jewish and in Christian traditions. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe, 544.) Pp. xii + 247 incl. 4 figs. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021. €79. 978 3 16 159760 2

Boyle, Elizabeth, History and salvation in medieval Ireland. (Studies in Early Medieval and Ireland.)Pp. xii + 205. London–New York: Routledge, 2021. £96. 978 1 138 61048 4

Cartwright, Jane, Hystoria Gweryddon yr Almaen. The middle Welsh life of St Ursula and the 11,000 virgins. (Modern Humanities Research Association Library of Medieval Welsh Literature.) Pp. x + 133. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2020. £24.99. 978 1 907322 59 4

Given-Wilson, Chris, Continuatio Euloggi. The continuation of the Eulogium Historiarum, 1364–1413. (Oxford Medieval Texts.) Pp. liii + 177. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £85. 978 0 19 882337 7

Golden, Rachel May, Mapping medieval identities in Occitanian crusade song. Pp. xviii + 284 incl. 8 figs, 9 musical examples and 1 table. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £35. 978 0 19 094861 0

Kramer, Rutger, Reimitz, Helmut and Ward, Graeme (eds), Historiography and identity, III: Carolingian approaches. (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 29.) Pp. viii + 399 incl. 1 table. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. €100. 978 2 503 58655 7; 1378 8779

Maier, Harry O. and Waldner, Katharina (eds), Desiring martyrs. Locating martyrs in space and time. (SpatioTemporality/RaumZeitlichkeit, 10.) Pp. iv + 236. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2021. £54.50. 978 3 11 068248 9; 2365 3221

Mazel, Florian, La Fabrique d'une légende. Saint Julien du Mans et son culte au moyen âge (IXe-XIIIe siècle). (Histoire.) Pp. 408 incl. 25 colour and black-and-white figs, 13 tables and 2 graphs. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2021. €25 (paper). 978 2 7535 8051 0

Mellas, Andrew, Liturgy and the emotions in Byzantium. Compunction and hymnody. Pp. xii + 206 incl. 1 ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £75. 978 1 108 48759 7

Pabst, Stefan, Das theologische Profil des Julian von Toledo. Das Leben und Wirken eines westgotischen Bischofs des siebten Jahrhunderts. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 165.) Pp. xii + 518. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €139. 978 90 04 44543 7; 0920 623X

Williamson, Beth, Reliquary tabernacles in fourteenth-century Italy. Image, relic and material culture. (Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture.) Pp. xvi + 240 incl. 61 ills and 12 colour plates. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2020. £75. 978 1 78327 476 5

Balserak, Jon (ed.), A companion to the Reformation in Geneva. (Companions to the Christian Tradition, 96.) Pp. xvi + 477 incl. 6 colour maps and 2 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €185. 978 90 04 37157 6; 1871 6377

Booth, Philip and Tingle, Elizabeth (eds), A companion to death, burial, and remembrance in late medieval and early modern Europe, 1300–1700. (Companions to the Christian Tradition, 94.) Pp. xviii + 511 incl. 26 colour figs. Boston–Leiden: Brill, 2021. €229. 978 90 04 36123 2; 1871 6377

Bowie, Karin, Public opinion in early modern Scotland, c.1560–1707. (Studies in Early Modern British History.) Pp. viii + 294. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £75. 978 1 108 84347 8

Breul, Wolfgang (ed.) with Hahn-Bruckart, Thomas, Pietismus Handbuch. Pp. xii + 797. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021. €59 (paper). 978 3 16 153952 7

Christopoulos, John, Abortion in early modern Italy. (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History.) Pp. viii + 360 incl. 8 figs. Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 2021. £39.95. 978 0 674 24809 0

Cohen, Leonardo (ed.), Narratives and representations of suffering, failure, and martyrdom. Early modern Catholicism confronting the adversities of history. (Estudos de Historia Religiosa, 28.) Pp. 318 incl. 3 figs. Lisbon: Centro de Estudos de Historia Religiosa, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2020. €20 (paper). 978 972 8361 93 8

Evener, Vincent, Enemies of the cross. Suffering, truth, and mysticism in the early Reformation. Pp. xii + 420. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £64. 978 0 19 007318 3

Gregory, Eilish, Catholics during the English revolution, 1642–1660. Politics, sequestration and loyalty. Pp. xii + 234. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2021. £75. 978 1 78327 594 6

Ingram, Jill P., Festive enterprise. The business of drama in medieval and renaissance England. (ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern.) Pp. xiv + 245 incl. 6 figs. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. £40.99 (paper). 978 0 268 10909 7

Ingram, Kevin (ed.), The Conversos and Moriscos in late medieval Spain and beyond, IV: Resistance and reform. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 225; Converso and Morisco Studies, 4.) Pp. viii + 284 incl. 5 colour ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €129. 978 90 04 44727 1; 1573 4188

McNamara, Celeste, The bishop's burden. Reforming the Catholic Church in early modern Italy. Pp. xviii + 297 incl. 1 map. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2020. £76.95. 978 0 8132 3357 4

Pennington, Madeleine, Quakers, Christ, and the Enlightenment. (Theology and Religion Monographs.) Pp. xxx + 242. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £75. 978 0 19 289527 1

Quatrini, Francesco, Adam Boreel (1602–1665). A Collegiant's attempt to reform Christianity. (Church History and Religious Culture, 81.) Pp. xvi + 423 incl. 12 colour ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €160. 978 90 04 42000 7; 1572 4107

Rappo, Hitomi Omata (foreword Pierre Antoine Fabre), Des Indes Iointaines aux scenes des collèges. Les reflets des martyrs de la mission japonaise en Europe (XVIe–XVIIIe siècle). (Studia Oecumenica Friburgensia, 101.) Pp. 598 incl. 136 figs and 3 tables. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2020. €76. 978 3 402 12211 2

Waddell, Mark A., Magic, science, and religion in early modern Europe. (New Approaches in the History of Science and Medicine.) Pp. x + 220 incl. 36 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £19.99 (paper). 978 1 108 44165 0

Walsham, Alexandra, Wallace, Bronwyn, Law, Ceri and Cummings, Brian (eds), Memory and the English Reformation. Pp. xvi + 448 incl. 40 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £90. 978 1 108 82999 1

Yoder, Peter James, Pietism and the sacraments. The life and theology of August Hermann Francke. (Pietist, Moravian and Anabaptist Studies.) Pp. xii + 207. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021. $89.95. 978 0 271 088006

Abreu, Adélio Fernando and Amaral, Luis Carlos (eds), Ente a Monarquia e a República. Os tempos de D. António Barroso no centenário da sua morte (1918–2018). (Estudos de Historia Religiosa, 27.) Pp. 220 incl. 9 colour figs. Lisbon: Centro de Estudos de Historia Religiosa, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2020. €20 (paper). 978 972 8361 90 7

Beiser, Frederick C., David Friedrich Strauss, father of unbelief. An intellectual biography. Pp. x + 293. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £65. 978 0 19 885985 7

Cavognini, Giovanni and Grossi, Giulia (eds), Melloni, Alberto (dir.), Benedict XV. A pope in the world of the ‘useless slaughter’ (1914–1918). 2 vols. Pp. 852 + 853–1707. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. €185. 978 2 503 58287 0; 978 2 503 58288 7

Curran, Daragh, The rise and fall of the Orange Order during the famine years. From reformation to Dolly's Brae. Pp. 221 incl. 3 ills. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2021. £45. 978 1 84682 864 5

Lenton, John, Norris, Clive Murray and Ryan, Linda A. (eds), Women, preachers, Methodists. Papers from two conferences held in 2019, the 350th anniversary of Susanna Wesley's birth. Pp. xviii + 390 incl. 3 ills and 3 tables. Oxford: Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, 2020. £13.99 (paper). 978 5 563399 8 9

O'Reilly, Kevin J. (foreword Timothy Cardinal Dolan), Heart speaks to heart. Saint John Henry Newman and the call to holiness. Pp. xx + 161. Leominster: Gracewing, 2021. £16.99 (paper). 978 085244 963 9

Phillips, Jacob, Human subjectivity ‘in Christ’ in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology. Integrating simplicity and wisdom. (T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology, 31.) Pp. xii + 212. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2021 (paper) (first publ. 2020). £28.99 (paper). 978 0 5676 9827 8

Rodríguez, Antonio J. Díaz, El mercado curial. Bulas y negocios entre Roma y el mundo ibérico en la edad moderna. (Historia y Sociedad. Cátedra Simón Ruiz. 7.) Pp. 266 incl. 11 ills and 8 tables. Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, 2020. €19 (paper). 978 84 1320 113 9

Scotland, Nigel, Joseph Cotton Wigram, bishop of Rochester. Educator, strategist, pastor and leader. Pp. xiv + 164. Leominster: Gracewing, 2021. £15.99 (paper). 978 085244 964 6

Smith, Gary Scott, Duty and destiny. The life and faith of Winston Churchill. (Library of Religious Biography.) Pp. xii + 255. Grand Rapids, Mi: Wm B. Eerdmans, 2021. £22.99. 978 0 8028 7700 0

Smith, Valerie, Rational dissenters in late eighteenth-century England. ‘An ardent desire of truth’. (Studies in Modern British Religious History.) Pp. xviii + 350 incl. 2 figs and 17 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2021. £75. 978 1 78327 566 3

Stokes, Christopher, Romantic prayer. Reinventing the poetics of devotion, 1773–1832. Pp. x + 245. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £75. 978 0 19 885780 8

Tietz, Christiane (trans. Barnett, Victoria J.), Karl Barth. A life in conflict. Pp. xx + 448 incl. 47 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £25. 978 0 19 885246 9

Tipson, Baird, Inward baptism. The theological origins of evangelicalism. Pp. xiv + 205 incl. 4 ills. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. £65. 978 0 19 751147 3

Aniyekattu, Kisincher Job Mst, Visit of the Holy Spirit. A theological evaluation of the contemporary pneumatic phenomenon in the Catholic charismatic renewal in the Syro-Malabar Church. (Studia Oecumenica Friburgensia, 97.) Pp. viii + 292. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2020. €46 (paper). 978 3 402 12245 7

Emmett, David, W. F. P. Burton (1886–1971). A Pentecostal pioneer's missional vision for Congo. (Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, 39.) Pp. xxiv + 330 incl. 28 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €59 (paper). 978 90 04 42682 5; 1876 2247

Gilhus, Ingvild Sælid, Tsakos, Alexandros and Wright, Marta Camilla (eds), The archangel Michael in Africa. History, cult and persona. Pp. xvi + 246 incl. 26 ills and 5 maps. London–New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 (paper) (first publ. 2019). £28.99 (paper). 978 1 3502 4267 8

Leach, Fiona, Reclaiming the women of Britain's first mission to West Africa. Three lives lost and found. (Studies of Religion in Africa, 47.) Pp. xx + 448 incl. 21 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €239. 978 90 04 38711 9; 0169 9814

Sweeney, Douglas A. and Stievermann, Jan, The Oxford handbook of Jonathan Edwards. Pp. xx + 596. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £110. 978 0 19 875406 0

Frederiks, Martha and Nagy, Dorottya (eds), World Christianity. Methodological considerations. (Theology and Mission in World Christianity, 19.) Pp. xii + 315. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €59 (paper). 978 90 04 44166 8; 2452 2953

Grosby, Steven, Hebraism in religion, history and politics. The third culture. Pp. xii + 191. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £64. 978 0 19 964031 7

Newheiser, David, Hope in a secular age. Deconstruction, negative theology, and the future of faith. Pp. x + 177. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £75. 978 1 108 49866 1

Vu Thanh, Hélène and Županov, Ines G. (eds), Trade and finance in global missions (16th–18th centuries). (Studies in Christian Mission, 57.) Pp. xviii + 314 incl. 7 colour ills and 5 maps. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €138. 978 90 04 44417 1; 0924 9389