General

Beeley, Christopher A., Leading God's people. Wisdom from the early Church for today. Pp. xi+149. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2012. £12.99 ($20) (paper). 978 0 8028 6700 1

Cameron, Averil and Robert Hoyland (eds), Doctrine and debate in the east Christian world, 300–1500. (The Worlds of Eastern Christianity, 300–1500, 12.) Pp. liv+415. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £100. 978 1 4094 0034 9

Campion, Nicholas, Astrology and cosmology in the world's religions. Pp. ix+273. New York–London: New York University Press, 2012. $75 (cloth), $23 (paper). 978 0 8147 1713 4; 978 0 8147 1714 1

Clarke, Peter and Charlotte Methuen (eds), The Church and literature. (Studies in Church History, 48.) Pp. xxvi+503 incl. 4 figs. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Ecclesiastical History Society), 2012. £45. 978 0 95468 099 2; 0424 2084

Confalonieri, Luca Badini, Democracy in the Christian Church. An historical, theological and political case. (Ecclesiological Investigations, 16.) Pp. xi+286. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2012. £65. 978 0 567 44952 8

Douglas, Brian, A companion to Anglican eucharistic theology, I: The Reformation to the 19th century; II: The 20th century to the present. Pp. ix+679, viii+791. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2012. €188, €206. 978 90 04 21930 4; 978 90 04 22126 0

Fürst, Alfons, Harutyun Harutyunyan, Eva-Maria Schrage and Verena Voigt (eds), Von Ketzern und Terroristen. Interdisziplinäre Studien zur Konstruktion und Rezeption von Feindbildern. Pp. 239 incl. 5 figs and 1 map. Munich: Aschendorff, 2012. €29.80. 978 3 402 12871 8

Häussling, Angelus Albert (ed. Martin Klöckener), Tagzeitenliturgie in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Historische und theologische Studien. (Liturgiewissenschaftliche Quellen und Forschungen, 100.) Pp. 356. Munich: Aschendorff, 2012. €68 (paper). 978 3 402 11263 2; 0076 0048

Koschorke, Klaus (ed.), Etappen der Globalisierung in christentumsgeschichtlicher Perspektive. Phases of globalization in the history of Christianity. (Studien zur Aussäischen Christentumsgeschichte (Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika). Studies in the History of Christianity in the Non-Western World, 19.) Pp. viii+279. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012. 978 3 447 06672 3; 1611 0080

Lang, Bernhard, Meeting in heaven. Modernising the Christian afterlife, 1600–2000. Pp. 166 incl. 6 figs and 5 tables. Frankfurt-am-Main: Peter Lang, 2011. £25.10 (€27,90). 978 3 631 62000 7

Lyons, William John and Isabella Sandwell (eds), Delivering the word. Preaching and exegesis in the western Christian tradition. (Bible World.) Pp. ix+254. Sheffield–Bristol, Ct: Equinox Publishing, 2012. £60. 978 1 84553 892 7

Noll, Mark A., Turning points. Decisive moments in the history of Christianity. 3rd edn. Pp. xii+356 incl. 31 ills and 4 maps. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2012 (first publ. 1997, 2000). $22.99 (paper). 978 0 8020 3996 6

Turnbull, Richard, A passionate faith. What makes an Evangelical? Pp. 176. Oxford: Monarch Books, 2012. £9.99 (paper). 978 1 85424 901 2

Ancient world

Aragione, Gabriella, Enrico Norelli and Flavio G. Nuvolone (eds), A Diognète. Visions chrétiennes face à l'empire romain. Actes de la journée d’étude du GSEP du 24 novembre 2007. (Cahiers du Groupe Suisse d’études Patristiques, 1.) Pp. 129. Prahins: Éditions du Zèbre, 2012. €20 (paper). 978 2 940351 14 5

Bradshaw, Paul F. and Maxwell E. Johnson, The eucharistic liturgies. Their evolution and interpretation. (A Pueblo Book.) Pp. xvi+368. Collegeville, Mi: Liturgical Press, 2012. $39.95 (paper). 978 0 8146 6240 3

Brown, Peter, Through the eye of a needle. Wealth, the fall of Rome, and the making of Christianity in the west, 350–550 AD. Pp. xxx+759 incl. 6 maps+19 colour plates. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012. £27.95. 978 0 691 15290 5

Chiapparini, Giuliano (preface Giulia Sfameni Gasparro), Valentino gnostico e platonico. Il valentinianesimo della Grande notizia di Ireneo di Lione. Fra esegesi gnostica e filosofia medioplatonica. (Temi metafisici e problemi del pensiero antico. Studi e testi, 126.) Pp. xv+490. Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2012. €32 (paper). 978 88 343 2059 4

DelCogliano, Mark (trans. and intro), Gregory the Great on the Song of Songs. (Cistercian Studies, 244.) Pp. xviii+326. Collegeville, Mi: Liturgical Press, 2012. $34.95 (paper). 978 0 87907 244 5

Digeser, Elizabeth DePalma, A threat to public piety. Christians, Platonists, and the Great Persecution. Pp. xvii+218. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2012. $45. 978 0 8014 418 1 3

Gallagher, Edmon L., Hebrew Scriptures in patristic biblical theory. Canon, language, text. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae. Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language, 114.) Pp. ix+266. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2012. €123. 978 90 04 22633 3; 0920 623X

Hovhanessian, Vahan S. (ed.), The canon of the Bible and the apocrypha in the Churches of the east. (Bible in the Christian Orthodox Tradition, 2.) Pp. vii+114. New York: Peter Lang, 2012. £39 (€43,30). 978 1 4331 1035 1

Hunt, Hannah, Clothed in the body. Asceticism, the body and the spiritual in the late antique era. (Ashgate Studies in Philosophy & theology in Late Antiquity.) Pp. xii+237. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £55. 978 1 4094 0914 4

Jacobs, Andrew S., Christ circumcised. A study in early Christian history and difference. (Divinations. Rereading Late Ancient Religion.) Pp. xi+314. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. £49 ($75). 978 0 8122 4397 0

Moss, Candida R., Ancient Christian martyrdom. Diverse practices, theologies, and traditions. (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library.) Pp. xiv+256. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2012. £35. 978 0 300 15465 8

Pardee, Dennis, The Ugaritic texts and the origins of west-Semitic literary composition. (The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy, 2007.) Pp. x+149 incl. 2 maps, 4 figs and 4 tables+5 colour plates. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2012. £35. 978 0 19 726492 8

Rüpke, Jörg, The Roman calendar from Numa to Constantine. Time, history and the fasti. (Trans. by David M. B. Richardson of Kalender und Öffentlichkeit: Die Geschichte der Repräsentation und religiösen Qualifikation von Zeit in Rom, Walter de Gruyter, 1995.) Pp. xii+226 incl. 1 map, 1 table and loose erratum slip. Chichester: Wiley–Blackwell, 2011. £94.99. 978 0 470 65508 5

Von Caesarea, Basilius and Rufinus Von Aquileia (ed. Heinrich Marti), Nosce te ipsum … animam tuam … Deum. Predigt 3 des Basilius Caesariensis in der Übersetzung des Rufinus. Kritische Ausgabe des lateinischen Textes mit Einleitung, griechischer Fassung und deutscher Übersetzung. (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literature, 168.) Pp. xli+170. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter/Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2012. €99.95. 978 3 11 025849 3; 0082 3589

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

Barber, Malcolm, The crusader states. Pp. xvii+476 incl. 21 maps and 2 figs+15 plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2012. £25. 978 0 300 11312 9

Bernard, G. W., The late medieval English Church. Vitality and vulnerability before the break with Rome. Pp. x+304+12 ills. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2012. £25. 978 0 300 17997 2

Boutry, Monique (ed.), Petrus cantor parisiensis. Verbum adbreviatum. 2 vols. Textus prior. Textus alter. (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 196A, 196B). Pp. xlvi+837+2 colour plates; xiv+721+1 black-and-white plate. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. €455, €380. 978 2 503 54007 8; 978 2 503 54008 5

Bysted, Ane L., Carsten Selch Jensen, Kurt Villads Jensen and John H. Lind, Jerusalem in the north. Denmark and the Baltic crusades, 1100–1522. (Outremer. Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East, 1.) (Trans. by Sarah Pedersen and Frederick Pedersen of Danske korstog – krig og mission i Østersøen, Copenhagen: Høst & Søn, 2004.) Pp. xiv+393 incl. 57 ills, 4 genealogical tables and 5 maps. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. €75. 978 2 503 52325 5

Clarke, Catherine A. M., Writing power in Anglo-Saxon England. Texts, hierarchies, economies. (Anglo Saxon Studies, 17.) Pp. xi+194. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2012. £50. 978 1 84384 319 1

Darby, Peter, Bede and the end of time. (Studies in Early Medieval Britain.) Pp. xiii+261. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £65. 978 1 4094 3048 3

Donkin, Lucy and Hanna Vorholt (eds), Imagining Jerusalem in the medieval west. (Proceedings of the British Academy, 175.) Pp. xxiii+277 incl. 62 figs+8 colour plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2012. £70. 978 0 19 726504 8; 0068 1202

Dzon, Mary and Theresa M. Kenney (eds), The Christ child in medieval culture. Alpha es et O! Pp. xxii+349 incl. 44 ills. Toronto–Buffalo–London: University of Toronto Press, 2012. $80. 978 0 8020 9894 8

Eledevik, John, Episcopal power and ecclesiastical reform in the German empire. Tithes, lordship, and community, 950–1150. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. 4th Ser.) Pp. xv+315 incl. 4 maps and 2 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. $99. 978 0 521 19346 7

Field, Sean L., The beguine, the angel, and the inquisitor. The trials of Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart. Pp. xi+408. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. $40 (paper). 978 0 268 02892 3

Fried, Johannes, Canossa. Entlarvung einer Legende. Eine Streitschrift. Pp. 181. Berlin: Academie Verlag, 2012. €29.80. 978 3 05 005683 8

Geltner, G., The making of medieval antifraternalism. Polemic, violence, deviance and remembrance. Pp. xv+188. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £60. 978 0 19 963945 8

Gilchrist, Roberta, Medieval life. Archaeology and the life course. Pp. xvi+336 incl. 80 figs+18 plates. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2012. £30. 978 1 84383 722 0

Haas, Thomas, Geistliche als Kreuzfahrer. Der Klerus im Konflikt zwischen Orient und Okzident, 1095–1221. (Heidelberg Transcultural Studies, 3.) Pp. 341 incl. 4 maps. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012. €45. 978 3 8253 6038 2

Haile, Getatchew (ed.), A history of the first Ἐsṭifanosite monks. 2 vols. (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 635, 636. Scriptores Aethiopici, 112, 113.) Pp. vii+109; xii+81. Louvain: Peeters, 2011. €60 (paper). 978 90 429 2512 0; 978 90 429 2513 7; 0070 0398

Harper-Bill, Christopher (ed.), Norwich, 1266–1288. Norwich, 1289–1299. (English Episcopal Acta, 40, 41.) Pp. lxii+214+4 plates; xxvi+215–381. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2012. £55, £40. 978 0 19 726516 1; 978 0 19 726517 8

Karras, Ruth Mazo, Unmarriages. Women, men, and sexual unions in the Middle Ages. (The Middle Ages.) Pp. vii+283. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. £32.50 ($49.95). 978 0 8122 4420 5

Kaylor, Noel Harold, Jr, and Philip Edward Phillips (eds), A companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 30.) Pp. xxii+661. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2012. €199. 978 04 18354 4; 1871 6377

Koziol, Geoffrey, The politics of memory and identity in Carolingian royal diplomas. The west Frankish kingdom (840–987). (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 19.) Pp. xix+661 incl. map. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. €100. 978 2 503 53595 1

Levy, Ian Christopher, Holy Scripture and the quest for authority at the end of the Middle Ages. (Reading the Scriptures.) Pp. xvi+320. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. $38. 978 0 268 03414 6

McDougall, Sara, Bigamy and Christian identity in late medieval Champagne. (The Middle Ages.) Pp. vii+283. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. £36 ($55). 978 0 8122 4398 7

Pierce, Jerry B., Poverty, heresy and the apocalypse. The order of apostles and social change in medieval Italy, 1260–1307. Pp. xiii+197 incl. 2 maps. London–New York: Continuum, 2012. £65. 978 1 4411 5641 9

Pringle, Denys, Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, 1187–1291. (Crusade Texts in Translation, 23.) Pp. xxiv+463 incl. 9 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £70. 978 0 7546 5125 3

Raban, Sandra (ed. and trans.), The accounts of Godfrey of Crowland, abbot of Peterborough, 1299–1321. (Dean and Chapter of Peterborough. Anthony Mellows Memorial Trust, 5. Northamptonshire Record Society, 45.) Northampton: Northamptonshire Record Society, 2011. Pp. xlix+742 incl. 1 map, 3 tables and 7 ills. £20. 978 0 981275 69 1

Riley-Smith, Jonathan, The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c. 1070–1309. Pp. xviii+334 incl. 3 maps. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. £65. 978 0 230 29083 9

Rumble, Alexander R. (ed.), Leaders of the Anglo-Saxon Church. From Bede to Stigand. (Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, 12.) Pp. xii+204 incl. frontispiece, 1 table and 9 figs. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2012. £55. 978 1 84383 700 8

Saak, E. L., Creating Augustine. Interpreting Augustine and Augustinianism in the later Middle Ages. Pp. xv+258. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £65. 978 0 19 964638 8

Schmugge, Ludwig and Alessandra Mosciatti (eds text); Hildegard Schneider- Schmugge and Ludwig Schmugge (indices), Repertorium poenitentiariae germanicum. Verzeichnis der in den Supplikenregistern der Pönitentiarie vorkommenden Personen, Kirchen und Orte des deutschen Reiches, VIII: Alexanders VI. 1492–1503. 2 vols. (Deutsche Historische Institut in Rom.) Pp. xxxviii+814; vii+418. Berlin–Boston: de Gruyter, 2012. €149.95 (paper). 978 3 11 025956 8

Şenocak, Neslihan, The poor and the perfect. The rise of learning in the Franciscan order, 1209–1310. Pp. xv+276. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2012. $49.95. 978 0 8014 5057 0

Sønnesyn, Sigbjørn Olsen, William of Malmesbury and the ethics of history. Pp. ix+291. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2012. £60. 978 1 84383 709 1

Stroll, Mary, Popes and antipopes. The politics of eleventh century church reform. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 159.) Pp. xviii+266 incl. 2 maps. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2012. €99. 978 90 04 21701 0; 1573 5664

Thompson, Victoria, Dying and death in later Anglo-Saxon England. (Anglo-Saxon Studies, 4.) Pp. x+237 incl. 8 ills. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2012 (first publ. 2004). £19.99 (paper). 978 1 84383 731 2

Truax, Jean, Archbishops Ralph d'Escures, William of Corbeil and Theobold of Bec. Heirs of Anselm and ancestors of Becket. (The Archbishops of Canterbury.) Pp. xi+293. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £55. 978 0 7546 6836 7; 978 0 7546 6833 6

Vaughn, Sally N., Archbishop Anselm, 1093–1109. Bec missionary, Canterbury primate, patriarch of another world. (The Archbishops of Canterbury.) Pp. xxii+287 incl. frontispiece and 3 ills. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £55 (cloth), £19.99 (paper). 978 1 4094 0121 6; 978 1 4094 0122 3

Ward, Benedicta and Paul Savage (trans.), E. Rozanne Elder (ed.) (foreword Brian Patrick McGuire), The great beginning of Cîteaux. A narrative of the beginning of the Cistercian order. The Exordium magnum of Conrad of Eberbach. (Cistercian Fathers, 72.) Pp. xxx+614. Collegeville, Mi: Liturgical Press/Cistercian Publications, 2012. $59.95. 978 0 87907 172 1

Williams, Rowan and Benedicta Ward (eds), Bede's ecclesiastical history of the English people. An introduction and selection. Pp. vii+175. London: Bloomsbury, 2012. £16.99. 978 1 4411 2354 1

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

Alfani, Guido and Vincent Gourdon (eds), Spiritual kinship in Europe, 1500–1900. Pp. xii+324 incl. 17 figs and 43 tables. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. £65. 978 0 230 36221 5

Barbierato, Federico, The inquisitor in the hat shop. Inquisition, forbidden books and unbelief in early modern Venice. Pp. xxxiii+396. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £70. 978 1 4094 3547 1; 978 1 4094 3548 8

Bonner, Elizabeth (ed.), (trans. Catherine Baranger, preface Nicole Lemaitre), Documents sur Robert Stuart seigneur d'Aubigny (1508–1544). Guerrier et courtesan au service de Louis XII et de François Ier. (Collection de Documents inédits sur l'Histoire de France, Ser. 8, 54.) Pp. 180. Paris: CTHS, 2011. €30 (paper). 978 2 7355 0736 8

Brindle, Franz and Anton Schindling (eds), Religionskriege im Alten Reich und in Alteuropa. 2nd edn. Pp. 575 incl. frontispiece. Munich: Aschendorff, 2012 (first publ. 2006). €49 (paper). 978 3 402 06363 7

Bruening, Michael W. (ed.), Epistolae Petri Vireti. The previously unedited letters and a register of Pierre Viret's correspondence. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 494.) Pp. 655 incl. 1 ill. Geneva: Libraire Droz, 2012. €108.41. 978 2 600 01553 0; 0082 6081

Burton, Simon J. G., The hallowing of logic. The Trinitarian method of Richard Baxter's ‘Methodus theologiae’. (Brill's Series in Church History, 57.) Pp. xiii+415. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2012. €105. 978 90 04 22640 1

Chevalier, Françoise (ed.), Actes des synodes nationaux des Eglises Réformées de France. Charenton (1644) et Loudun (1659). (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 498.) Pp. 454. Geneva: Libraire Droz, 2012. €72,90. 978 2 600 01555 4; 0082 6081

Da Costa, Alexandra, Reforming printing. Syon Abbey's defence of orthodoxy, 1525–1534. (Oxford English Monographs.) Pp. ix+205. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £60. 978 0 19 965356 0

Delaveau, Martine and Yann Sordet (eds), Édition et diffusion de l'Imitation de Jésus-Christ (1470–1800). Études et catalogue collectif des fonds conservés à la bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, à la Bibliothèque Nationale de France, à la Bibliothèque Mazarine et à la Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne. Pp. 514 incl. numerous ills and colour plates. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France/Bibliothèque Mazarine/Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, 2011. €190. 978 2 7177 2489 9; 979 1 0908 5300 3; 978 2 900307 09 0

Dougall, Alistair, The devil's book. Charles I, the Book of sports and Puritanism in Tudor and early Stuart England. Pp. xviii+230+8 ills. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2011. £50. 978 0 85989 856 0

Duerloo, Luc, Dynasty and piety. Archduke Albert (1598–1621) and Habsburg political culture in an age of religious wars. Pp. xvii+592 incl. frontispiece and 13 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £80. 978 0 7546 6904 3

Duffy, Eamon, Saints, sacrilege and sedition. Religion and conflict in the Tudor reformations. Pp. vii+311 incl. 10 figs+ frontispiece and 6 colour plates. London: Bloomsbury, 2012. £20. 978 1 4411 8117 6

Ellis, Brannon, Calvin, classical Trinitarianism, and the aseity of the Son. Pp. vi+250. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £70. 978 0 19 965240 2

Evans, G. R., The roots of the Reformation. Tradition, emergence and rupture. Pp. 528. Downers Grove, Il: IVP Academic, 2012. $30 (paper). 978 0 8308 3947 6

Gay, Jean-Pascal, Jesuit civil wars. Theology, politics and government under Tirso González (1687–1705). (Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700.) Pp. xi+323. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £70. 978 1 4094 3852 6; 978 1 4094 3853 3

Hickson, Sally Anne, Women, art and architectural patronage in Renaissance Mantua. Matrons, mystics and monasteries. (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World.) Pp. xi+192 incl. 21 ills. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £60. 978 1 4094 2752 0

Ives, Eric, The reformation experience. Living through the turbulent 16th century. Pp. 320. Oxford: Lion Hudson, 2012. £9.99 (paper). 978 0 7459 5277 2

Johnson, Anna Marie and John A. Maxfield (eds), The Reformation as Christianization. Essays on Scott Hendrix's Christianization thesis. (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation, 66.) Pp. xii+433. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012. €109. 978 3 16 151723 5; 1865 2840

King, Clare Costley, Miserere mei. The penitential psalms in late medieval and early modern England. (Reformations. Medieval and Early Modern.) Pp. xxi+284 incl. 25 figs. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. $38 (paper). 978 0 268 03324 8

Kooi, Christine, Calvinists and Catholics during Holland's Golden Age. Heretics and idolaters. Pp. ix+246. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. £65. 978 1 107 02324 6; 978 0 107 61655 4

Marshall, Peter, Reformation England, 1480–1642. 2nd edn. (Reading History.) (First publ. Hodder Education, 2003: rev. ante lv. 590.) Pp. xiv+258. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. £22.99 (paper). 978 1 84966 529 2

Milton, Anthony, Laudian and royalist polemic in seventeenth-century England. The career and writings of Peter Heylyn. (First publ. 2007: rev. ante lx. 391–2.) (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern England.) Pp. xii+255. Manchester–New York: Manchester University Press, 2012. £15.99 (paper). 978 0 7190 6445 6

Mortimer, Sarah and John Robertson (eds), The intellectual consequences of religious heterodoxy, 1600–1750. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 211.) Pp. xi+331. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2012. €129. 978 90 04 22146 8

Murphy, Martin, Ingleses de Sevilla. El Colegio de San Gregorio, 1592–1767. Pp. 269 incl. frontispiece, 8 figs and 2 colour plates. Seville: Universidad de Sevillia, 2012. €30 (paper). 978 84 472 1348 1

Nevin, John Williamson (ed. Linden J. DeBie), The mystical presence and the doctrine of the Reformed Church on the lord's supper. (The Mercersburg Theology Study Ser., 1.) Pp. xlii+340. Eugene, Or: Wipf & Stock, 2012. $42 (paper). 978 1 61097 169 0

Ohlmeyer, Jane, Making Ireland English. The Irish aristocracy in the seventeenth century. Pp. xxii+668 incl. 10 maps, 31 tables and 10 figs+19 plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2012. £40. 978 0 300 11834 6

Parry, Glyn, The arch-conjuror of England. John Dee. Pp. xii+335+14 black-and-white plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2011. £25. 978 0 300 11719 6

Plummer, Marjorie Elizabeth, From priest's whore to pastor's wife. Clerical marriage and the process of reform in the early German Reformation. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xvii+349 incl. 14 figs, 6 tables and 3 maps. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £65. 978 1 4094 4154 0

Raffe, Alasdair, The culture of controversy. Religious arguments in Scotland, 1660–1714. (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 28.) Pp. xiii+293 incl. 2 maps and 4 ills. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2012. £55. 978 1 84383 729 9

Rhea, Nicholas, Blessed Nicholas Postgate. Martyr of the moors. Pp. x+233 incl. map and 5 figs. Leominster: Gracewing, 2012. £12.99 (paper). 978 085244 785 7

Rittgers, Ronald K., The reformation of suffering. Pastoral theology and lay piety in late medieval and early modern Germany. (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. xiv+482. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £45. 978 0 19 979508 6

Robinson, Adam Patrick, The career of Cardinal Giovanni Morone (1509–1580). Between council and inquisition. Pp. xiv+255 incl. frontispiece. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £65. 978 1 4094 1783 5

Schwanda, Tom (foreword J. I. Packer), Soul recreation. The contemplative-mystical piety of Puritanism. Pp. xix+292 incl. frontispiece and matrix. Eugene, Or: Pickwick Publications, 2012. $35 (paper). 978 1 61097 455 4

Spicer, Andrew (ed.), Lutheran Churches in early modern Europe. Pp. xxiii+512 incl. 130 ills. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £75. 978 0 7546 6583 0

Staley, Lynn, The island garden. England's language of nation from Gildas to Marvell. (Reformations Medieval and Early Modern.) Pp. x+346 plus 1 black-and-white and 6 colour plates. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. $39 (paper). 978 0 268 04140 3

Sweetnam, Mark S. (ed.), The minutes of the Antrim ministers' meeting, 1654–8. Pp. 190 incl. map. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012. £40. 978 1 84682 329 9

Thomas, George Antony, The politics and poetics of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World.) Pp. vii+144. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £50. 978 1 4094 3767 7

Thornton, Tim, The Channel Islands, 1370–1640. Between England and Normandy. Pp. xiv+194 incl. 4 maps. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2012. £45. 978 1 84383 711 4

Todd, Margo (ed.), The Perth kirk session books, 1577–1590. (Scottish History Society. 6th Ser., 2.) Pp. x+574 incl. map. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press/Scottish History Society, 2012. £40. 978 0 906245 31 6

Van Liere, Katherine, Simon Ditchfield and Howard Louthan (eds), Sacred history. Uses of the Christian past in the Renaissance world. Pp. xxiii+339 incl. 2 maps and 8 figs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £65. 978 0 19 959479 5

Wengert, Timothy J., Defending faith. Lutheran responses to Andreas Osiander's doctrine of justification, 1551–1559. (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation, 65.) Pp. xiv+471. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012. €139. 978 3 16 151798 3; 1865 2840

Zeeden, Ernst Walter, Faith and act. The survival of medieval ceremonies in the Lutheran reformation. (Trans. by Kevin G. Walker of Katholische Überlieferungen in den lutherischen Kirchenordnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts, Munich: Aschendorff, 1959.) Pp. xxix+152 incl. 3 maps. Saint Louis: Concordia, 2012. $36.99 (paper). 978 0 7586 2701 8

Modern Europe

Armenteros, Carolina, The French idea of history. Joseph de Maistre and his heirs, 1794–1854. Pp. xiii+361. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2011. $59.95. 978 0 8014 4943 7

Barry, Gearóid, The disarmament of hatred. Marc Sangnier, French Catholicism and the legacy of the First World War, 1914–45. Pp. xiv+293 incl. 5 figs. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. £60. 978 0 230 21825 3

Bebbington, David, Victorian religious revivals. Culture and piety in local and global contexts. Pp. xii+307 incl. 7 maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £60. 978 0 19 957548 0

Brown, Stewart J. and Peter B. Nockles (eds), The Oxford Movement. Europe and the wider world, 1830–1930. Pp. xii+273. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. £60. 978 1 107 01644 6

Chandler, Andrew and David Hein, Archbishop Fisher, 1945–1961. Church, State and world. (The Archbishops of Canterbury.) Pp. vii+261. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £55. 978 1 4094 1232 8; 978 1 4094 1233 5

Dauzet, Dominique-Marie and Martine Plouvier, L'Ordre de Prémontré au XVIIIe siècle. Pp. viii+315 incl. 10 figs+16 colour plates. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011. £57 (€62,80) (paper). 978 3 0343 1056 7

Eason, Andrew M. and Roger J. Green (eds), Boundless salvation. The shorter writings of William Booth. Pp. x+207 incl. 5 ills. New York: Peter Lang, 2012. £48. 978 1 4331 1391 8

Ernesti, Jörg, Paul VI. Der vergessene Papst. Pp. 374 incl. 41 ills. Freiburg: Herder, 2012. €29.99. 978 3 451 30703 4

Garnham, Neal, The militia in eighteenth-century Ireland. In defence of the Protestant interest. (Irish Historical Monographs, 8.) Pp. x+198. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2012. £65. 978 1 84383 724 4; 1740 1097

Hannah, Rosemary, The grand designer. Third marquess of Bute. Pp. xx+428+83 black-and-white and colour plates. Edinburgh: Berlin, 2012. £25. 978 1 78027 027 2

Husselbee, Lesley and Paul Ballard (eds), Free Churches and society. The Nonconformist contribution to social welfare, 1800–2010. Pp. x+252. London–New York: Continuum, 2012. £19.99 (paper). 978 1 4411 5613 6; 978 1 4411 0911 8

Hutchinson, Mark and John Wolffe, A short history of global Evangelicalism. Pp. xiv+306 incl. 4 figs and 3 tables. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. £60 (cloth), £19.99 (paper). 978 0 521 76945 7; 978 0 521 74605 2

James, William (ed. with intro. and notes Matthew Bradley), The varieties of religious experience. A study in human nature. (Oxford World's Classics.) Pp. xxxvi+444. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £10.99 (paper). 978 0 19 969164 7

Jones, David Ceri, Boyd Stanley Schlenther and Eryn Mant White, The elect Methodists. Calvinistic Methodism in England and Wales, 1735–1811. Pp. xvii+307 incl. 8 ills. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2012. £55. 978 0 7083 2501 8

Jones, F. Stanley (ed.), The rediscovery of Jewish Christianity. From Toland to Baur. (History of Biblical Studies, 5.) Pp. xii+248. Atlanta, Ga: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012. $33.95 (paper). 978 1 58983 646 4

Kilroy, Phil, The Society of the Sacred Heart in nineteenth-century France, 1800–1865. Pp. xi+314. Cork: Cork University Press, 2012. £35 ($39). 978 185918 499 8

Probst, Christopher J., Demonizing the Jews. Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany. Pp. xiv+251 incl. 9 ills. Bloomington, In: Indiana University Press (in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum), 2012. $70 (cloth), $25 (paper). 978 0 253 00098 9; 978 0 253 00100 9

Rosseaux, Ulrich and Gerhard Poppe (eds), Konfession und Konflikt. Religiöse Pluralisierung in Sachsen im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Pp. 343. Munich: Aschendorff, 2012. €49,80 (paper). 978 3 402 12944 9

Savage, Ruth (ed.), Philosophy and religion in Enlightenment Britain. (New Case Studies.) Pp. x+289. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £40. 978 0 19 922704 4

Turnbull, Richard, Reviving the heart. The story of the 18th century revival. Pp. 191. Oxford: Lion Hudson, 2012. £9.99 (paper). 978 0 7459 5349 6

Wickins, Peter, Victorian Protestantism and bloody Mary. The legacy of religious persecution in Tudor England. Pp. xi+378 incl. map. Bury St. Edmunds: Arena Books, 2012. £17.99 (paper). 978 1 906791 95 7

Africa, Asia and Australasia

Harries, Patrick and David Maxwell (eds), The spiritual in the secular. Missionaries and knowledge about Africa. (Studies in the History of Christian Missions.) Pp. xvi+341. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2012. £22.99 ($45) (paper). 978 0 8028 6634 9

Koschorke, Klaus (ed.), †Samuel A. W. Mottau (trans.), The Dutch Reformed Church in colonial Ceylon (18th century). Minutes of the consistory of the Dutch Reformed Church in Colombo held at the Wolvendaal church, Colombo (1735–1797). (Documents on the History of Christianity in Asia, Africa and Latin America, 2.) Pp. xviii+749 incl. 1 map and 6 colour plates. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2011. €98. 978 3 447 06546 7; 2190 3603

Ruyssen, Georges-Henri, La Santa Sede e i massacri degli armeni, 1894–1896. Pp. 274. Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 2012. €20 (paper). 978 88 7210 376 0

Thompson, T. Jack, Light on darkness? Missionary photography of Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Studies in the History of Christian Missions.) Pp. xviii+286 incl. 71 figs. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2012. £29.99 ($45) (paper). 978 0 8028 5524 3

The Americas

Curran, Robert Emmett, Shaping American Catholicism. Maryland and New York, 1805–1915. Pp. ix+308. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2012. $69.95. 978 0 8132 1967 7

Edwards, Mark Thomas, The right of the Protestant left. God's totalitarianism. Pp. x+286. New York–Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. £55. 978 1 137 01989 9

Kidd, Thomas S., God of liberty. A religious history of the American revolution. Pp. vi+298. Philadelphia: Basic Books, 2010. $16.99 (paper). 978 0 465 00235 1

Miller, Nicholas P. (foreword Mark Noll), The religious roots of the First Amendment. Dissenting Protestants and the separation of Church and State. Pp. xix+242. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £22.50. 978 0 19 985836 1

General : Modern world

Farhadian, Charles E. (foreword Robert W. Hefner), Introducing world Christianity. Pp. xii+280 incl. 18 maps, 33 figs and 3 tables. Chichester: Wiley–Blackwell, 2012. £19.99 (paper). 978 1 4051 8249 2

Finn, Daniel K. (ed.), The moral dynamics of economic life. An extension and critique of ‘Caritas in veritate’. Pp. xxii+166. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £18.99 (paper). 978 0 19 985833 0; 978 0 19 985835 4

Plekon, Michael, Saints as they really are. Voices of holiness in our time. Pp. viii+278+16 plates. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. $30 (paper). 978 0 268 03838 0

Radano, John A. (ed.) (foreword Walter Cardinal Kasper), Celebrating a century of ecumenism. Exploring the achievements of international dialogue. In commemoration of the centenary of the 1910 Edinburgh world missionary conference. Pp. xxv+330. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2012. £26.99 ($40) (paper). 978 0 8028 6705 6

Rutherford, Janet E. (ed.), Benedict XVI and beauty in sacred music. Proceedings of the third Fota international liturgical conference, 2010. (Fota Liturgy, 3.) Pp. 229. Dublin: Four Courts Press/New York: Scepter Publishers, 2012. £25. 978 1 84682 311 4

Seasoltz, R. Kevin, A virtuous Church. Catholic theology, ethics, and liturgy for the 21st century. Pp. vi+249. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2012. $38 (paper). 978 1 57075 973 4

Smith, Nicole D., Sartorial strategies. Outfitting aristocrats and fashioning conduct in late medieval literature. Pp. xiii+282 incl. 3 figs+2 colour plates. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. $35 (paper). 978 0 268 04137 3