General
Flower, Richard, The Cambridge companion to Christian heresy. (Companions to Religion.) Pp. xii + 459. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2025. £30.99 (paper). 978 1 108 45485 8
Irving-Stonebraker, Sarah (foreword John Dickson), Priests of history. Stewarding the past in an ahistoric age. Pp. xxviii + 225 incl. 14 ills. Grand Rapids, Mi: Zondervan Reflective, 2024. $19.99 (paper). 978 0 310 16113 4
Ancient world
Csepregi, Ildikó, Incubation in early Byzantium. The formation of Christian incubation cults and miracle collections. (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 41.) Pp. 328. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. €105. 978 2 503 60660 6; 1378 8779
Kinzig, Wolfram, A history of early Christian creeds. Pp. xviii + 768. Berlin–Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2024. £36.50. 978 3 11 031852 4
Morales, Xavier, Athanase D’Alexandrie. Sur les décrets du concile de Nicée. (Sources Chrétiennes, 649.) Pp. 375. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2025. €54 (paper). 978 2 204 15958 6; 0750 1978
Öhler, Markus (trans. Jason Valdez), History of early Christianity. Religion, culture, identity. Pp. xvi + 321 incl. 3 figs, 8 maps and 4 tables. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2025. £49.99 (paper). 978 1 4813 1395 7
Vidalis, Markos, L’Anaphore syriaque de saint Denys l’Aréopagite. Texte critique, traduction, contexte historique et analyse. (Spicilegium Friburgense, 53.) Pp. 277. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2025. €57 (paper). 978 3 402 13817 5
Medieval Europe and Byzantium
Dezza, Ernesto and Antonio Petagine (eds), William of Ware on the Sentences. Teaching philosophy and theology in the 13th century between Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus. (Studia Sententiarum, 8.) Pp. xxvi + 618 incl. 2 colour ills. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. €105. 978 2 503 61747 3; 2506 7338
Efthymiadis, Stephanos, The hagiography of Byzantine Cyprus. Saints, hagiographers and texts (fourth to thirteenth century). Pp. xii + 346 incl. 11 tables and 1 map. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2025. £90. 978 1 009 35560 5
Gerrits, G. H. (intro. and trans.), The sisterbook of Master Geert’s house, Deventer. The lives and spirituality of the sisters, c.1390–c.1460. (Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, 33.) Pp. 351 incl. 4 colour figs. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. €105. 978 2 503 60249 3; 1782 3366
Lopez, Bianca M., Queen of sorrows. Plague, piety, and power in late medieval Italy. (Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures.) Pp. xviii + 208 incl. 13 figs. London–Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. £46. 978 1 5017 7591 8
Nassis, Chrysostomos, Arsenius Mikhail and Daniel Galadza (eds), Logike Latreia. Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of the Society of Oriental Liturgy, Thessaloniki, Greece, 13–18 June 2022. (Studies in Eastern Christian Liturgies, 6.) Pp. 486. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2025. €74 (paper). 978 3 402 21778 8
Rainini, Marco and Andrea Riedl (eds), Die zweite Generation. Transformationsprozesse in den Anfängen von Orden und religiösen Gemeinschaften in der Geschichte des Christentums. Pp. 406 incl. 3 figs. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2025. €64. 978 3 402 25038 9
Schwarz, Brigide (trans. and ed. Wolfgang P. Mūller), Careers and opportunities at the Roman Curia, 1300–1500. A socio-economic history of papal administration. (Europa Sacra, 29.) Pp. 327 incl. frontispiece, 8 figs, 1 map and 9 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. €95. 978 2 503 59538 2; 2030 3068
Vargha, Mária and Ivo Štefan, Power in numbers. State formation and christianization on the eastern edge of Europe. (Borders, Boundaries, Landscapes, 4.) Pp. 309 incl. 110 colour and black-and-white figs and 11 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. €130. 978 2 503 60891 7; 2736 6871
Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe
Gerbner, Katharine, Archival irruptions. Constructing religion and criminalizing Obeah in eighteenth-century Jamaica. (Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People.) Pp. xviii + 218 incl. 13 figs, 2 tables and 5 maps. Durham, NC–London: Duke University Press, 2025. £20.99 (paper). 978 1 4780 3240 3
Jones, Meirav, England’s Israel and the foundations of modern political thought. (Jewish Culture and Contexts.) Pp. vi + 240. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. £52. 978 1 5128 2780 4
Mandelbrote, Scott (ed.), Music, politics and religion in early seventeenth-century Cambridge. The Peterhouse partbooks in context. Pp. xx + 764 incl. frontispiece and 95 colour and black-and-white ills. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2025 (for The Master and Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge). £95. 978 1 84384 439 6
Sinnema, Donald, The Synod of Dordt (1618–1619) and the canons. Historical perspectives. (Reformed Historical Theological Studies.) Pp. xiv + 508 incl. 9 ills and 1 table. Grand Rapids, Mi: Reformation Heritage Books, 2025. $30 (paper). 978 8 88686 178 5
Vine, Emily, Birth, death, and domestic religion in early modern London. (Studies in Early Modern History.) Pp. x + 264 incl. 5 ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2025. £90. 978 1 009 45723 1
Modern Europe
Anderson-Faithful, Sue and Catherine Holloway, Women and the Anglican Church congress, 1861–1938. Space, place and agency. (Studies in Religion, Gender and Sexuality.) Pp. xii + 259 incl. 6 ills and 2 tables. London–New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025 (first publ. 2023). £28.99 (paper). 978 1 3503 2422 0
Carleton Paget, James, ‘A stranger and an enigma’. The contexts and contested legacy of Albert Schweitzer. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 539.) Pp. xxvi + 553 incl. 1 colour ill. Tūbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2025. €169. 978 3 16 155755 2
Maynard, Jean Olwen, Catholics in London, 1800–1850. Pp. x + 666. Leominster: Gracewing, 2025. £40 (paper). 978 0 85244 709 3
Nichols, Aidan op, After Newman. A eulogy for Anglo-Catholics, 1845–1965. Pp. xii + 255. Leominster: Gracewing, 2025. £20 (paper). 978 0 85244 788 8
Stevener, Crawford M., William Goode (1801–1868). Anti-Tractarian polemicist. (Studies in Evangelicalism.) Pp. viii + 200 incl. frontispiece. London–New York: Routledge, 2025. £145. 978 1 032 86461 7
Watts, Michael R., ed. Joel C. Gregory and David W. Bebbington, John Clifford and radical Nonconformity, 1836–1923. Pp. xviii + 355. Waco, Tx: 1845 Books, 2025. £61 (paper). 978 1 4813 2197 6
The Americas
Allured, Janet and M. Kathryn Armistead (eds) (foreword Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller), Southern Methodist women and social justice. Interracial activism in the long twentieth century. Pp. xviii + 323 incl. 17 ills. Gainesville, Fl: University Press of Florida, 2025. £76. 978 0 8130 7931 8
Koeth, Stephen M., Crabgrass Catholicism. How suburbanization transformed faith and politics in post war America. (Historical Studies of Urban America.) Pp. xii + 316 incl. 22 figs and 2 tables. London–Chicago, Il: University of Chicago Press, 2025. $30 (paper). 978 0 226 84220 2
Russell, Stephen C., A lesson on race. The Bible and the Morant Bay rebellion in the Atlantic world. (Histories of Slavery and its Global Legacies.) Pp. xii + 229 incl. 10 ills. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. £26 (paper). 978 1 009 57542 3
Schmidt, Stephanie, Child martyrs and militant evangelization in new Spain. Missionary narratives, Nahua perspectives. Pp. x + 213 incl. 10 ills. Austin, Tx: University of Texas Press, 2024. £36. 978 1 4773 3954 8
Tweed, Thomas A., Religion in the lands that became America. A new history. Pp. xvi + 620 incl. 55 ills. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2025. £18. 978 0 300 22148 0
General: Modern world
Hempton, David N., Christianity at the crossroads. The global Church from the print revolution to the digital era. Pp. xvi + 254. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2025. £30. 978 1 009 59743 2
