General

Boxall, Ian, Patmos in the reception history of the Apocalypse. (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs.) Pp. xiii+273+8 colour plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £65. 978 0 19 967420 6

Collins, Roger, Keepers of the keys of heaven. A history of the papacy. Pp. viii+550. New York: Basic Books, 2013 (first publ. 2009). $25 (paper). 978 0 465 01195 7; 978 0 465 06182 2

Constantinou, Eugenia Scarvelis, Guiding to a blessed end. Andrew of Caesarea and his apocalypse commentary in the ancient Church. Pp. xvii+350. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2013. $69.96. 978 08132 2114 4

Gibson, William, Peter Forsaith and Martin Wellings (eds), The Ashgate research companion to world Methodism. (Ashgate Methodist Studies.) Pp. xii+537. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £85. 978 1 4094 0138 4

McGrath, Alister E., Christian history. An introduction. Pp. xviii+374 incl. 2 maps and 43 ills. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. £22.99 (paper). 978 1 118 33780 6

Manning, Russell (ed.) (with John Hedley Brooke and Fraser Watts), The Oxford handbook of natural theology. Pp. xiv+632 incl. 3 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £95. 978 0 19 955693 9

Ancient world

Ball, Edward and Margaret Barker (eds), (trans. Margaret Kohl), ‘The unconquered land’ and other Old Testament essays. Selected studies by Rudolf Smend. (Society for Old Testament Study Monographs.) Pp. xvii+277. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £60. 978 1 4094 2945 6

Boersma, Hans, Embodiment and virtue in Gregory of Nyssa. An anagogical approach. (Oxford Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xviii+284. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £70. 978 0 19 964112 3

Burgess, R. W. and Michael Kulikowski, Mosaics of time. The Latin chronicle traditions from the first century BC to the sixth century AD, I: A historical introduction to the chronicle genre from its origins to the high Middle Ages. (Studies in the Early Middle Ages, 33.) Pp. xiv+446. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €100. 978 2 503 53140 3

Dihle, Albrecht (ed. Georg Schöllgen), Ausgewählte kleine Schriften zu Antike und Christentum. (Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum, 38 – 2013.) Pp. vi+430. Münster: Aschendorff, 2010. €59. 978 3 402 10806 2

Dümler, Bärbel, Zeno von Verona zu heidnischer Kultur und christlicher Bildung. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 75.) Pp. xiv+665. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013. €99 (paper). 978 3 16 150224 8; 1436 3003

Garsoïan, Nina, Interregnum. Introduction to a study on the formation of Armenian identity (ca 600–750). (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 640. Subsidia, 127.) Pp. xviii+195. Louvain: Peeters, 2012. €65 (paper). 978 90 429 2516 8; 0070 0444

Guarino, Thomas G., Vincent of Lérins and the development of Christian doctrine. (Foundations of Theological Exegesis and Christian Spirituality.) Pp. xxix+161. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2013. $26.99 (paper). 978 0 8010 4909 5

Havrda, Matyáš, Vit Hušek and Jana Plátová (eds), The seventh book of the Stromateis. Proceedings of the colloquium on Clement of Alexandria (Olomouc, October 21–23, 2010). (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae. Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language, 117.) Pp. xviii+386. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2012. €136. 978 90 04 22363 9

Hollingworth, Miles, Saint Augustine of Hippo. An intellectual biography. Pp. xix+312. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. £20. 978 14411 737 20

Jacob, Christian (trans. Arietta Papaconstantinou, ed. Scott Fitzgerald Johnson), The web of Athenaeus. (Hellenic Studies, 61.) Pp. x+139. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2013. £14.95 (paper). 978 0 674 07328 9

Lizorkin, E., Aphrahat's demonstrations. A conversation with the Jews of Mesopotamia. (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 642. Subsidia, 129.) Pp. xvi+176. Louvain: Peeters, 2012. €70 (paper). 978 90 429 2574 8; 0070 0444

McDonald, Lee Martin, Formation of the Bible. The story of the Church's canon. Pp. xiv+178 incl. 9 tables and 34 ills. Peabody, Ma: Hendrickson, 2012. £16.99 (paper). 978 1 59856 838 7

Pardee, Nancy, The genre and development of the Didache. A text-linguistic analysis. (Wissenschafliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. Ser. 2, 339.) Pp. xi+244. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012. €69 (paper). 978 3 16 148398 1; 0340 9570

Robinson, James M., The story of the Bodmer papyri. From the first monastery's library in Upper Egypt to Geneva and Dublin. Pp. vii+216. Cambridge: James Clarke, 2013. £20 (paper). 978 0 227 17278 0

Van den Broek, Roelof, Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem. ‘On the life and the passion of Christ’. A Coptic apocryphon. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae. Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language, 118.) Pp. ix+217. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €101. 978 90 04 23757 5; 0920 623X

Vollmer, Ulrich and others (eds), Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum, 54 – 2011. Pp. 204 + 5 black-and-white and colour plates. Münster: Aschendorff, 2011. €72. 3 402 10704 1; 0075 2541

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

Andenna, Cristina, Klaus Herbers and Gert Melville (eds), Die Ordnung der Kommunikation und die Kommunikation der Ordnungen, I: Netzwerke. Klöster und Orden im Europa des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts. (Schriften der Villa Vigoni, 1.1.) Pp. 308 incl. 7 figs+9 colour plates. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2012. €56. 978 3 515 09929 5

Bird, Jessalynn, Edward Peters and James M. Powell (eds), Crusade and Christendom. Annotated documents in translation from Innocent III to the fall of Acre, 1187–291. (The Middle Ages.) Pp. xxii+512 incl. 6 maps. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. £49 ($75). 978 0 8122 4478 6

Blanchet, Marie-Hélène (ed.), Théodore Agallianos. Dialogue avec un moine contre les latins (1442). (Textes et Documents d'Histoire Médiévale, 9. Byzantina Sorbonensia, 27.) Pp. x+253 incl. 5 colour plates. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2013. €40 (paper). 978 2 85944 732 8; 0398 7965

Blemmydès, Nicéphore (ed., intro., trans. and notes Michel Stavrou), Œuvres théologiques. Vol. II. (Sources Chrétiennes, 558.) Pp. 431. Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 2013. €35 (paper). 978 2 204 08515 1; 0750 1978

Brenner, Elma, Meredith Cohen and Mary Franklin-Brown (eds), Memory and commemoration in medieval culture. Pp. xxi+354 incl. 58 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £70. 978 1 4094 2393 5

Briden, Timothy, Moore's introduction to English canon law. 4th edn. Pp. xxvii+213. London: Bloomsbury, 2013 (first publ. Clarendon Press, 1967). £50 (cloth), £16.99 (paper). 978 1 4411 7565 6; 978 1 4411 6868 9

Brown, Phyllis R. and Stephen L. Wailes (eds), A companion to Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (fl. 960). Contextual and interpretive approaches. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 34.) Pp. xix+394 incl. frontispiece and 3 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €155. 978 90 04 22962 4; 1871 6377

Burton, Janet and Karen Stöber (eds), Monastic Wales. New approaches. Pp. xix+273 incl. 13 figs. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013. £80. 978 0 7083 2582 7

Carr, Annemarie Weyl and Andréas Nicolaïdes (eds), Asinou across time. Studies in the architecture and murals of the Panagia Phorbiotissa, Cyprus. (Dumbarton Oaks Studies, 43.) Pp. xvi+431 incl. 2 frontispieces and numerous colour plates. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2012. £55.95. 9780 88402 239 4

Cartwright, Steven R. (ed.), A companion to St Paul in the Middle Ages. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 39.) Pp. xi+509 incl. 11 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €145. 978 90 04 23671 4; 1871 6377

Chrissis, Nikolaos G., Crusading in Frankish Greece. A study of Byzantine-Western relations and attitudes, 1204–1282. (Medieval Church Studies, 22.) Pp. xlii+338 incl. 7 maps. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. €90. 978 2 503 53423 7

Clarke, Peter D. and Patrick N. R. Zutshi (eds), Supplications from England and Wales in the registers of the apostolic penitentiary, 1410–1503, I: 1410–1464. (Canterbury and York Society, 103.) Pp. lxi+244. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Canterbury and York Society), 2013. £35. 978 0 907239 75 8

Corbari, Eliana, Vernacular theology. Dominican sermons and audience in late medieval Italy. (Trends in Medieval Philology, 22.) Pp. xiv+248 incl. 13 figs. Berlin–Boston: de Gruyter, 2013. €99,95. 978 3 11 024032 0; 1612 443X

Courtenay, William J. and Eric D. Goddard (eds), Rotuli parisienses. Supplications to the pope from the University of Paris, II: 1352–1378. (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 15.) Pp. xi+691. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2004. €142. 978 90 04 13189 2; 0926 6070

Dahan, Gilbert (ed.), Pierre le Mangeur ou Pierre de Troyes. Maître du XIIe siècle. (Bibliothèque d'histoire culturelle du Moyen Âge, 12.) Pp. 364. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €80 (paper). 978 2 503 54759 6

Dalarun, Jacques, Bérard des Marses (1080–1130). Un évêque exemplaire avec la traduction française introduite et commentée de sa vie et de ses miracles. (Textes et documents d'histoire medieval, 8.) Pp. 150. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2013. €28 (paper). 978 2 85944 729 8

Doble, G. H. (ed. D. Simon Evans), Lives of the Welsh saints. Pp. x+248. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013 (first publ. 1971, 1984). £24.99 (paper). 978 07083 2655 8

Dubreucq, Odile (ed.), Jonas d'Orléans. Instruction des Laïcs, I: (Livres I–II, 16). (Sources Chrétiennes, 549.) Pp. 477. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2012. €48 (paper). 978 2 204 09985 1; 0750 1978

Dunne, Michael W. and Simon Nolan (eds), Richard Fitzralph. His life, times and thought. Pp. vii+216. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013. £49.50. 978 1 84682 369 5

Edgington, Susan B. (trans.), Albert of Aachen's ‘History of the journey to Jerusalem’, I: Books 1–6. The First Crusade, 1095–1099; II: Books 7–12. The early history of the Latin states, 1099–1119. (Crusade Texts in Translation, 24, 25.) Pp. xvi+289 incl. 5 maps; xiii+249 incl. 2 maps. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £32.50 (paper). 978 1 4094 6652 9; 978 1 4094 6653 6

Evans, Christopher P. (ed.), Writings on the spiritual life. (Victorine Texts in Translation. Exegesis, Theology and Spirituality from the Abbey of St Victor, 4.) Pp. 614+colour frontispiece. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €80. 978 2 503 54848 7

Evans, Claude, L'Abbaye cistercienne de Bégard les origins à 1476. Histoire et chartes. (Atelier de Recherche sur les Texts Médiévaux, 16.) Pp. 467. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. €85 (cloth). 978 2 503 54750 3

Favier, Jean (ed.) (with Jean-Loup Lemaitre, Marie-Paule Crochet-Théry and Michel Parisse), Le Nécrologes de l'abbaye de la Saint-Airy de Verdun. (Recueil des Historiens de la France. Obituaires, Série IN-8°, 12.) Pp. x+351 incl. 16 colour plates. Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres/de Boccard, 2013. €28 (paper). 978 2 87754 297 5

Flannery, Mary C. and Katie L. Walter (eds), The culture of inquisition in medieval England. (Westfield Medieval Studies, 4.) Pp. viii+194 incl. 1 ill. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2013. £60. 978 1 84384 336 8

Fontana, Emanuele, Frati, libri e insegnamento nella provincia minoritica di S. Antonio (secoli XIII–XIV). (Centro Studi Antoniani, 50.) Pp. 371+16 colour plates. Padua: Centro Studi Antoniani, 2012. €40 (paper). 978 88 85155 87 9

Gemmill, Elizabeth, The nobility and ecclesiastical patronage in thirteenth-century England. (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, 40.) Pp. xii+243 incl. frontispiece. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. £60. 978 1 84383 812 8; 0955 2480

George-Tvrtković, Rita, A Christian pilgrim in medieval Iraq. Riccoldo da Montecroce's encounter with Islam. (Medieval Voyaging, 1.) Pp. xvii+249. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. €80. 978 2 503 53237 0

Grosfillier, Jean (ed.), L'Oeuvre de Richard de Saint-Victor, II: De contemplatione (Beniamin maior). (Sous la Règle de Saint Augustin.) Pp. 671. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €95. 978 2 503 54758 9

Guard, Timothy, Chivalry, kingship and crusade. The English experience in the fourteenth century. (Warfare in History.) Pp. xiv+281 incl. 4 maps. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. £60. 978 1 84383 824 1; 1358 779X

Hackett, Jeremiah H. (ed.), A companion to Meister Eckhart. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 36.) Pp. xxx+781. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €195. 978 90 04 18347 6; 1871 6377

Hornbeck ii, J. Patrick, Stephen E. Lahey and Fiona Somerset (eds and trans.), Wycliffite spirituality. (The Classics of Western Spirituality.) Pp. xii+417. New York–Mahwah: Paulist Press, 2013. $39.95 (cloth), $29.95 (paper). 978 0 8091 0605 9; 978 0 8091 4765 6

Innes-Parker, Catherine and Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa (eds), Anchoritism in the Middle Ages. Texts and traditions. (Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages.) Pp. xvii+202 incl. 7 ills. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013. £90 (cloth), £29.99 (paper). 978 978 0 7083 2601 5; 978 0 7083 2602 2

Jones, E. A. (ed.), The medieval mystical tradition in England. Exeter symposium VIII. Papers read at Charney Manor, July 2011. Pp. xi+214 incl. 4 diagrams and 2 figs. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2013. £60. 978 1 84384 340 5; 0950 7299

Jones, Sarah Rees and Sethina Watson (eds), Christians and Jews in Angevin England. The York massacre of 1190, narratives and contexts. Pp. xx+355 incl. 1 map and 3 figs. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for York Medieval Press), 2013. £100. 978 1 903153 44 4

Kempf, D. and M. G. Bull (eds), The ‘Historia Iherosolimitana’ of Robert the monk. Pp. lxxiv+121 incl. frontispiece. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. £50. 978 1 84383 808 1

Lane, Anthony N. S., Bernard of Clairvaux. Theologian of the cross. (Cistercian Studies, 248.) Pp. xix+280. Collegeville, Mi: Liturgical Press, 2013. $29.95 (paper). 978 0 87907 248 3

Lewis, Andrew W. (ed. and trans.), The chronicle and historical notes of Bernard Itier. (Oxford Medieval Texts.) Pp. lxxix+305 incl. 4 ills. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2012. £95. 978 0 19 954643 5

Linehan, Peter, Portugalia pontificia. Materials for the history of Portugal and the papacy. 2 vols. Pp. 819 incl. colour plate; iv+ 845+colour plate. Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2013. €120. 978 972 31 1469 0

MacDonald, Iain G., Clerics and clansmen. The diocese of Argyll between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries. (The Northern World. North Europe and the Baltic c. 400–1700 ad. Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 61.) Pp. l+417 incl. 12 tables and 6 maps. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €131. 978 90 04 18547 0; 1569 1462

Matter, E. Ann and Lesley Smith (eds), From knowledge to beatitude. St Victor, twelfth-century scholars, and beyond. Essays in honor of Grover A. Zinn, Jr. Pp. xxiii+471 incl. frontispiece and 21 ills. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. $75. 978 0 268 03528 0

Mayer, Thomas F. (ed.), The Roman inquisition. A papal bureaucracy and its laws in the age of Galileo. Pp. v+385. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. £52 ($79.95). 978 0 8122 4473 1

Monti, James, A sense of the sacred. Roman Catholic worship in the Middle Ages. Pp. xxiv+684 incl. frontispiece. San Francisco, Ca: Ignatius Press, 2012. $34.95 (paper). 978 1 58617 283 1

Morrison, Karl F. and Rudolph M. Bell (eds), Studies on medieval empathies. (Disputatio, 25.) Pp. xxxii+350 incl. 2 figs+4 colour plates. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. €90. 978 2 503 53031 4

Newman, Elizabeth, Attending to the wounds on Christ's body. Teresa's scriptural vision. Pp. x+217. Cambridge: James Clarke, 2012. £19.50 (paper). 978 0 227 17403 6

O'Loughlin, Thomas, Gildas and the Scriptures. Observing the world through a biblical lens. (Studia Traditionis Theologiae. Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology, 12.) Pp. xii+396 incl. frontispiece. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. €75 (paper). 978 2 503 53436 7

Orme, Nicholas, English school exercises, 1420–1530. (Studies and Texts, 181.) Pp. xi+441 incl. 1 map. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2013. $95. 978 0 88844 181 2; 0082 5328

Ott, John S. and Trpimir Vedriš (eds), Saintly bishops and bishops’ saints. (Bibliotheca Hagiotheca. Series Colloquia, 2.) Pp. xv+282 incl. 5 ills. Zagrev: Hagiotheca/Humaniora, 2012. €25 (paper). 978 953 56205 1 8

Perrat, Charles and Jean Richard (eds) (with Christopher Schabel), Bullarium Cyprium, III: Lettres papales relatives à Chypre, 1316–1378. (Centre de Recherche Scientifique. Sources et Études de l'Histoire de Chypre, 68.) Pp. 548. Nicosia: Ministry of Education and Culture. Cyprus Research Centre, 2012. 978 9963 0 8126 4

Resnick, Irven M. (ed.), A companion to Albert the Great. Theology, philosophy, and the sciences. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 38.) Pp. xv+833. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €195. 978 90 04 23407 9; 1871 6377

Robinson, Jonathan, William of Ockham's early theory of property rights in context. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 166.) Pp. xxiii+396. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €105. 978 90 04 24346 0; 1573 4188

Roest, Bert, Order and disorder. The Poor Clares between foundation and reform. (The Medieval Franciscans, 8.) Pp. viii+441. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €194. 978 90 04 24363 7

Salonen, Kirsi and Jussi Hanska, Entering a clerical career at the Roman curia, 1458–1471. (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West.) Pp. xii+295 incl. 6 figs and 34 tables. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £70. 978 1 4094 2839 8

Thomson, John A. F. (ed. Graeme Small), Piety and politics in Britain, 14th–5th centuries. The essays of John A. F. Thomson. (Variorum Collected Studies, 1020.) Pp. xiv+280 incl. 1 ill. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £85. 978 1 4094 4636 1

Tugwell, Simon, Pelagius Parvus and his Summa. A preliminary enquiry and a sample of texts. (Institutum Historicum Fratrum Praedicatorum Romae. Dissertationes Historicae, 34.) Pp. xiii+531. Rome: Angelicum University Press, 2012. €45 (paper). 978 88 88660 37 0

Wallis, Faith (trans. and intro.), Bede. Commentary on Revelation. (Translated Texts for Historians, 58.) Pp. xv+343. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013. £75 (cloth), £18.99 (paper). 978 1 84631 844 3; 978 1 84631 845 0

Wilcox, Jonathan (ed.), Scraped, stroked, and bound. Materially engaged readings in medieval manuscripts. (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 23.) Pp. xvi+240 incl. 23 black-and-white and 14 colour ills. Turnout: Brepols, 2013. €80. 978 2 503 54549 3

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

Apperloo-Boersma, Karla and Herman J. Selderhuis (eds), Power of faith. 450 years of the Heidelberg catechism. Pp. 454 incl. 400 black-and-white and colour plates. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013. €39,99. 978 3 525 55049 6

Armstrong, Robert and Tadhg Ó Hannracháin (eds), Insular Christianity. Alternative methods of the Church in Britain and Ireland, c. 1570–c.1700. (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain.) Pp. x+278. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. $65. 978 0 7190 8698 4

Bamji, Alexandra, Geert H. Janssen and Mary Laven (eds), The Ashgate research companion to the Counter-Reformation. Pp. xix+488 incl. 3 maps and 21 ills. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £85. 978 1 4094 2373 7

Bärenfänger, Katharina, Volker Leppin and Stefan Michel (eds), Martin Luthers Tischreden. Neuansätze der Forschung. (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation, 71.) Pp. viii+267. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013. €89. 978 3 16 150877 6; 1865 2840

Bass, Clint C. (foreword Diarmaid MacCulloch), Thomas Grantham (1633–1692) and general Baptist theology. (Centre for Baptist History and Heritage Studies, 10.) Pp. xiii+242. Oxford: Regent's Park College, 2013. £22 (paper). 978 1 907600 11 1

Betteridge, Thomas and Suzannah Lipscomb (eds), Henry VIII and the court. Art, politics and performance. Pp. xviii+327+21 colour plates. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £70. 978 1 4094 1185 7

Bourgard, François and Pierre Petitmengin, La Bibliothèque de l'abbaye cistercienne de Vauluisant. Histoire et inventaires. (Documents, études et répertoires, 83.) Pp. 422 incl. 62 figs+16 colour plates. Paris: CNRS, 2012. €80. 978 2 271 07560 4; 0073 8212

Cervantes, Fernando and Andrew Redden (ed.), Angels, demons and the New World. Pp. xii+318 incl. 23 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £60. 978 0 521 76458 2

Cleveland, Christopher, Thomism in John Owen. Pp. xi+173. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £50. 978 1 4094 5579 0

Copeland, Clare and Jan Machielsen (eds), Angels of light? Sanctity and discernment of spirits in the early modern period. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 164.) Pp. xiv+306 incl. 11 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €105. 978 90 04 23369 0; 1573 4188

Crowe, Nicholas J., Jeremias Drexel's ‘Christian Zodiac’. Seventeenth-century publishing sensation. A critical edition, translated and with an introduction and notes. Pp. vii+153 incl. 16 ills. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £60. 978 1 4094 5212 6

Dailey, Alice, The English martyr from Reformation to revolution. (Reformations. Medieval and Early Modern.) Pp. xvi+333 incl. 6 figs. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. $38 (paper). 978 0 268 02612 7

Deutscher, Thomas B., Punishment and penance. Two phases in the history of the bishop's tribunal of Novara. Pp. xiii+215 incl. 1 map, 4 tables and 5 charts. Toronto–Buffalo–London: University of Toronto Press, 2013. $60. 978 1 4426 4442 7

Forclaz, Bertrand (dir.), L'Expérience de la différence religieuse dans l'Europe moderne (XVIe – XVIIIe siècles). Pp. 412. Neuchâtel: Éditions Alphil-Presses universitaires suisses, 2013. CHF 49 (€40) (paper). 978 2 940489 09 1

Fornerod, Nicolas (with Philippe Boros, Thierry Dubois and Olivier Labarthe), Registres de la Compagnie des pasteurs de Genève. Tome 14 et dernier (1618–1619). Le synode de Dordrecht. Pp. cxxii+531 incl. 3 ills. Geneva: Droz, 2012. CHF 84. 978 2 600 01643 8; 0082 6081

García Hernán, Enrique, Ignacio de Loyola. (Españoles Eminentes.) Pp. 568+19 colour plates. Madrid: Tauris/Fundación Juan March, 2013. €20 (paper). 978 84 306 0211 7

George, Victoria Ann, Whitewash and the new aesthetic of the Protestant Reformation. Pp. xxii+476 incl. 117 ills. London: The Pindar Press, 2012. £150. 978 1 904597 64 3

Gibney, John, The shadow of a year. The 1641 rebellion in Irish history and memory. (History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora.) Pp. xii+232 incl. 7 ills. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013. $29.95 (paper). 978 0 299 28954 6

Koller, Alexander (ed.), Nuntiaturen des Orazio Malaspina und des Ottavio Santacroce. Interim des Cesare dell'Arena (1578–1581). (Nuntiaturberichte aus Deutschland nebst ergänzenden Aktenstücken. Dritte Abteilung, 1572–1585, 10.) Pp. lxxxvii+671 incl. 3 ills. Berlin–Boston: de Gruyter, 2012. €139,95 (paper). 978 3 11 028710 3

Lane, Anthony N. S., Bernard of Clairvaux. Theologian of the Cross. (Cistercian Studies, 248.) Pp. xix+280. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2013. $29.95 (paper). 978 0 87907 248 3

Levack, Brian P., The devil within. Possession and exorcism in the Christian West. Pp. xii+346+16 plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2013. £25. 978 0 300 11472 0

Levack, Brian P. (ed.), The Oxford handbook of witchcraft in early modern Europe and colonial America. Pp. xiv+630 incl. 4 tables. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £95. 978 0 19 957816 0

McCall, Fiona, Baal's priests. The loyalist clergy and the English Revolution. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xvii+345 incl. 13 figs and 12 tables. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £70. 978 1 4094 5577 6

McManamon, John M., The text and contexts of Ignatius Loyala's ‘Autobiography’. Pp. xvii+230. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. £17.99 (paper). 978 0 8232 4504 8; 978 0 8232 4505 5

Mayer, Thomas F. (ed.), Reforming reformation. (Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700). Pp. xiv+251 incl. 14 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £65. 978 1 4094 5154 9

Mears, Natalie and Alec Ryrie (eds), Worship and the parish church in early modern Britain. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xi+259 incl. 4 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £65. 978 1 4094 2604 2

Michelson, Emily, Scott K. Taylor and Mary Noll Venables (eds), A linking of heaven and earth. Studies in religious and cultural history in honor of Carlos M. N. Eire. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xi+259. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £65. 978 1 4094 3943 1

Muldoon, James (ed.), Bridging the medieval-modern divide. Medieval themes in the world of the Reformation. (Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700.) Pp. xiii+241 incl. 2 figs and 2 tables. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £65. 978 1 4094 4763 4

Nongbri, Brent, Before religion. A history of a modern concept. Pp. ix+275. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2013. £25. 978 0 300 15416 0

Oestigaard, Terje, Water, Christianity and the rise of capitalism. Pp. xiii+209 incl. 34 ills. London–New York: I. B. Tauris, 2013. £49.50. 978 1 78076 066 7

Osculati, Roberto, Evangelismo cattolico (secoli XIV–XVII). Proposte di lettura. (Fondazione per le sciencze religiose Giovanni xxiii, New Ser., 49.) Pp. 662. Bologna: il Mulino, 2013. €45 (paper). 978 88 15 23491 9

Pattenden, Miles, Pius IV and the fall of the Carafa. Nepotism and papal authority in Counter-Reformation Rome. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) Pp. viii+154. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £55. 978 0 19 967062 8

Ross, Jan (ed.), The works of Thomas Traherne, V: Centuries of meditations and select meditations. With miscellaneous works from the Osborn manuscript. Pp. xxxvi+491 incl. 6 plates. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2013. £75. 978 1 84384 327 6

Ryrie, Alec, Being Protestant in Reformation Britain. Pp. xi+498 incl. 18 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £45. 978 0 19 956572 6

Sangha, Laura, Angels and belief in England, 1480–1700. (Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World.) Pp. ix+265. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012. £60. 978 1 84893 145 9

Scott, Tom, The early Reformation in Germany. Between secular impact and radical vision. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. ix+292. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £65. 978 1 4094 6898 1

Selderhuis, Herman J. (ed.), A companion to reformed Orthodoxy. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 40.) Pp. ix+689. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €199. 978 90 04 23622 6; 1871 6377

Stilma, Astrid, A king translated. The writings of King James VI and I and their interpretation in the Low Countries, 1593–1603. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xi+332. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £70. 978 0 7546 6188 7

Tapsell, Grant (ed.), The later Stuart Church, 1660–1714. (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain.) Pp. xii+252. Manchester–New York: Manchester University Press, 2012. £65. 978 0 7190 8160 6

Thomas, Samuel S., Creating communities in Restoration England. Parish and congregation in Oliver Heywood's Halifax. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 164.) Pp. xi+212 incl. 1 fig. and 2 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2013. €105. 978 90 04 22929 7; 1573 5664

Walker, Christopher J., Reason and religion in late seventeenth-century England. The politics and theology of radical dissent. Pp. ix+302. London–New York: I. B. Tauris, 2013. £58.50. 978 178076 292 0

Whitley, Laurence A. B., A great grievance. Ecclesiastical lay patronage in Scotland until 1750. Pp. xxiv+334. Eugene, Or: Wipf & Stock, 2013. $39 (paper). 978 1 61097 990

Wisch, Barbara and Nerida Newbigin, Acting on faith. The confraternity of the Gonfalone in Renaissance Rome. (Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts Series, 7.) Pp. xxii+514 incl. frontispiece and 249 black-and-white and colour plates. Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's University Press, 2013. $100+$9 post and packing. 978 0 916101 74 9

Yamamoto-Wilson, John R., Pain, pleasure and perversity. Discourses of suffering in seventeenth-century England. Pp. ix+286. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £65. 978 1 4094 4395 7

Young, Francis, English Catholics and the supernatural, 1553–1829. (Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700.) Pp. xii+308. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £70. 978 1 4094 5565 3

Modern Europe

Brady, Ciaran, James Anthony Froude. An intellectual biography of a Victorian prophet. Pp. xv+500. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £35. 978 0 19 966803 8

Bratt, James D. (foreword Mark A. Noll), Abraham Kuyper. Modern Calvinist, Christian democrat. (Library of Religious Biography.) Pp. xxviii+455 incl. 33 ills. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2013. £19.99 ($30) (paper). 978 0 8028 6906 7

Cifres, Alejandro (ed.), La validez de las ordenaciones anglicanas. Los documentos de la comisión preparatoria de la bula ‘Apostolicae curae’, II: Los documentos de 1896. (Fontes Archivi Sancti Officii Romani, 2.) Pp. xii+487. Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2012. €60 (paper). 978 88 209 8959 0

Deuschle, Matthias A., Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg. Ein Beitrag zur Erforschung des kirchlichen Konservatismus im Preußen des 19. Jahrhunderts. (Beiträge zur historischen Theologie, 169.) Pp. xiii+662 incl. 6 figs and 1 table. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013. €119. 978 3 16 151732 7

De Wolf, Koenraad (foreword David Alton) (trans. Nancy Forest-Flier), Dissident for life. Alexander Ogorodnikov and the struggle for religious freedom in Russia. Pp. xii+303+32 black-and-white plates. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge, Eerdmans, 2013. £18.99 ($28). 978 0 8028 6743 8

Fagan, Geraldine, Believing in Russia. Religious policy after Communism. (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe, 41.) Pp. xv+297 incl. 1 map, 1 graph and 18 figs. London–New York: Routledge, 2013. £90. 978 0 415 49002 3

Hampson, Daphne, Kierkegaard. Exposition and critique. Pp. xiv+344. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £25. 978 0 19 967323 0

Midgley, Patricia, The Churches and the working classes. Leeds, 1870–1920. Pp. ix+333 incl. 3 tables. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. £44.99. 978 1 4438 3982 2

Munden, Alan (ed.), The religious census of 1851. Northumberland and County Durham. (The Publications of the Surtees Society, 216.) Pp. lxxxv+581 incl. 3 ills. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Surtees Society), 2012. £50. 978 0 85444 071 9; 0307 5362

Newport, Kenneth G. C. and Gareth Lloyd (eds), The letters of Charles Wesley. A critical edition, with introduction and notes, I: 1728–1756. Pp. xxvi+472+3 plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £140. 978 0 19 925996 0

Rack, Henry D. (ed.), The works of John Wesley, X: The Methodist societies. The minutes of conference. (The Bicentennial Edition of the Works of John Wesley.) Pp. xxiii+1,046 incl. frontispiece. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2011. $57.99. 978 1 4267 1190 9

Shantz, Douglas H. (foreword Peter C. Erb), An introduction to German Pietism. Protestant renewal at the dawn of modern Europe. (Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies.) Pp. xxi+492 incl. 11 figs, 3 maps and 3 tables. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. £18 (paper). 978 1 4214 0830 9; 978 1 4214 0831 6

Thomas, Gordon, The Pope's Jews. The Vatican's secret plan to save Jews from the Nazis. Pp. xx+314+8 plates. New York: St Martin's Press, 2012. $27.99. 978 0 312 60421 9

Van Dijk, Maarten, Jan De Maeyer, Jeffrey Tyssens and Jimmy Koppen (eds), The economics of providence. Management, finances and patrimony of religious orders and congregations in Europe, 1773–c.1930. L’économie de la Providence. La gestion, les finances et le patrimoine des orders et congregations religieuses en Europe, 1773–vers 1930. Pp. 376 incl. numerous ills. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2012. €45 (paper). 978 90 5867 915 4

Wirtschafter, Elise Kimerling, Religion and enlightenment in Catherinian Russia. The teachings of metropolitan Platon. Pp. xi+193. DeKalb, Il: Northern Illinois University Press, 2013. $49. 978 0 87580 469 9

Wood, John Halsey, Jr, Going Dutch in the modern age. Abraham Kuyper's struggle for a Free Church in the nineteenth-century Netherlands. (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. xi+235 incl. 6 figs. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 22013. £45. 978 0 19 992038 9

Zamagni, Gianmaria, Fine dell'era costantiniana. Retrospettiva genealogica di un concetto critic. (Istituto per le scienze religiose – Bologna. Testi e ricerche di scienze religiose. Nuova Ser., 45.) Pp. 201. Bologna: il Mulino, 2012. €17 (paper). 978 88 15 13802 6

Africa, Asia and Australasia

Heyberger, Bernard, Hindiyya, mystic and criminal (1720–1798). A political and religious crisis in Lebanon. (Trans. by Renée Champion of Hindiyya, mystique et criminelle [1720–1798], Paris: Aubier, 2001.) Pp. xiv+322 incl. frontispiece. Cambridge: James Clarke, 2013. £25. 978 0 277 17388 6

Kuruvilla, Samuel J., Radical Christianity in Palestine and Israel. Liberation and theology in the Middle East. Pp. xxi+320 incl. 11 maps. London–New York: I. B. Tauris, 2013. £59.50. 978 1 84885 551 9

The Americas

Gallagher, Charles R., David I. Kertzer and Alberto Melloni (eds), Proceedings of the Brown University conference (Providence, October 2010). (Christianity and History series of the John xxiii Foundation for Religious Studies in Bologna, 11.) Pp. 452. Zurich–Munich: LIT Verlag, 2012. €39.90 (paper). 978 3 643 90146 0

Gunn, T. Jeremy and John Witte, Jr (eds), No establishment of religion. America's original contribution to religious liberty. Pp. ix+415. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £22.50 (paper). 978 0 19 986037 1; 978 0 19 986039 5

Harmon, Katharine E., There were also many women there. Lay women in the liturgical movement in the United States, 1926–59. (A Pueblo Book.) Pp. xxi+373. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2012. $39.95 (paper). 978 0 8146 6271 7

Laman, Gordon D., Pioneers to partners. The Reformed Church in America and Christian mission with the Japanese. (The Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America, 75.) Pp. xxvii+682 incl. 73 ills. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2012. £40.99 ($60). 978 0 8028 6965 4

McGregor, Alexander, The Catholic Church and Hollywood. Censorship and morality in 1930s cinema. Pp. vii+225. London–New York: I. B. Tauris, 2013. £56. 978 1 84885 653 0

Van den Broeke, Leon, Hans Krabbendam and Dirk Mouw (eds), Transatlantic pieties. Dutch clergy in colonial America. (The Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America, 76.) Pp. xviii+342 incl. 4 maps and 17 ills. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2012. £23.99 ($35). 978 0 8028 6972 2

General : Modern world

Adams, Nicholas, George Pattison and Graham Ward (eds), The Oxford handbook of theology and modern European thought. Pp. xiv+699. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £95. 978 0 19 960199 8

Bremner, G. A., Imperial gothic. Religious architecture and High Anglican culture in the British empire, c. 1840–1870. Pp. xx+484 incl. 4 maps and 362 black-and-white and colour ills. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2013. £50. 978 0 300 18703 8

Christie, Nancy and Michael Gauvreau (eds), The sixties and beyond. Dechristianization in north America and western Europe, 1945–2000. Pp. x+482 incl. 1 table, 1 fig and 3 ills. Toronto–Buffalo–London: University of Toronto Press, 2013. $80. 978 1 4426 4475 5

Coppa, Frank, The life and pontificate of Pope Pius XII. Between history and controversy. Pp. xxix+306 incl. frontispiece. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2013. $59.95 (cloth), $29.95 (paper). 978 0 8132 2015 4; 978 0 8132 2016 1

Johnson, Jonas, Wounded visions. Unity, justice, and peace in the world Church after 1968. (Trans. by Norman A. Hjelm of Kyrkornas världsråd i den ekumeniska rörelsen efter Uppsala 68, Stockholm: Verbum Publishing, 2008.) Pp. x+192. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2013. £16.99 ($24) (paper). 978 0 8028 6778 0

Lauret, Bernard (vol. eds Daniel-Odon Hurel and Maria-Cristina Pitassi), La Théologie. Une anthologie, IV: Les temps moderns. Pp. 597. Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 2013. €49 (paper). 978 2 204 09546 4; 0750 215X

Markham, Ian S., J. Barny Hawkins iv, Justyn Terry and Leslie Nuñez Steffensen (eds), The Wiley-Blackwell companion to the Anglican Communion. (The Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Religion.) Pp. xxv+753. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. £120. 978 0 470 65634 1

Percy, Martyn, Anglicanism. Confidence, commitment and communion. (Ashgate Contemporary Ecclesiology.) Pp. xiii+225. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013. £17.99 (paper). 978 1 4094 7035 9; 978 1 4094 7036 6

Perroni, Marinella, Alberto Melloni and Serena Noceti (eds), ‘Tantum aurora est’. Donne e Concilio Vaticano II. (Christianity and History series of the John xxiii Foundation for Religious Studies in Bologna, 12.) Pp. 392. Zurich–Munich: LIT Verlag, 2012. €34.90 (paper). 978 3 643 90245 0

Somorjai, Adam, The Cardinal Mindszenty documents in American archives. A repertory of the six Budapest Mindszenty boxes. (The Cardinal Joseph Mindszenty Documents, 1.) Pp. 288. Pannonhalma: Főapátsági Levéltár, 2012. 978 963 9053 89 2

Somorjai, Adam, ‘His eminence files’. American embassy, Budapest. From embassy archives, 15 (1971). 2nd edn. Pp. 360. Budapest: Metem, 2012 (first publ. 2008). 978 963 9662 25 4

Somorjai, Adam and Tibor Zinner, Do not forget this small honest nation. Cardinal Mindszenty to 4 US presidents and state secretaries, 1956–1971, as conserved in American archives and commented by American diplomats. Pp. xxx+417. Bloomington, In: Xlibris, 2013. $26.99 (cloth), $18.99 (paper). 978 1 4797 6860 8; 978 1 4797 6859 2

Stanley, Brian, The global diffusion of Evangelicalism. The age of Billy Graham and John Stott. (A History of Evangelicalism. People, Movements and Ideas in the English-speaking World.) Pp. 283. Nottingham: Inter-Varsity Press, 2013. £19.99. 978 1 84474 621 7