General

Adam, Will, Legal flexibility and the mission of the Church. Dispensation and economy in ecclesiastical law. Pp. xix+243. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £50. 978 1 4094 2055 2

Carey, Hilary M. and John Gascoigne (eds), Church and State in old and new worlds. (Brill's Series in Church History, 51.) Pp. xi+344. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €99. 978 90 04 19200 3; 1572 4107

Duffy, Eamon, Ten popes who shook the world. Pp. 151 incl. 41 ills. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2011. £14.99. 978 0 300 17688 9

Emery, Gilles and Matthew Levering (eds), The Oxford handbook of the Trinity. Pp. xvi+632 incl. 4 figs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £95. 978 0 19 955781 3

George, Timothy, Evangelicals and Nicene faith. Reclaiming the apostolic witness. (Beeson Divinity Studies.) Pp. xxiv+247. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2011. $24.99 (paper). 978 0 8010 3926 3

Heullant-Donat, Isabelle, Julie Claustre and Élisabeth Lusset (eds), Enfermements. Le cloître et la prison (VIe–XVIIIe siècle. Actes du colloque international organisé par le Centre d’études et de recherché en histoire culturelle (CERHiC–EA 2616) de l'Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne et l'association Renaissance de l'abbaye de Clairvaux (Troyes – Bar-sur-Aube – Clairvaux, 22–24 octobre 2009). (Homme et société, 38.) Pp. 379 incl. 8 colour plates. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2011. €35 (paper). 978 2 85944 673 4; 0292 6679

Kempshall, Matthew, Rhetoric and the writing of history, 400–1500. (Historical Approaches.) Pp. ix+627. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. £90. 978 0 7190 7030 3

Laird, Martin, A sunlit absence. Silence, awareness, and contemplation. Pp. xv+192. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £11.99 978 0 19 537872 6

Michael, Robert, A history of Catholic antisemitism. The dark side of the Church. Pp. ix+282. New York–Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 (first publ. 2008). £17.99 (paper). 978 0 230 11131 8

Nagy, Piroska, Michel-Yves Perrin and Pierre Ragon (eds), Les Controverses religieuses entre débats savants et mobilisations populaires (monde chrétien, Antiquité tardive – XVIIe siècle). (Changer d’époque, 23.) Pp. 155 incl. 3 tables. Mont-Saint-Aignan: Publications des universities de Rouen et du Havre, 2011. €18 (paper). 978 2 87775 512 2

Ó Riain, Pádraig, A dictionary of Irish saints. Pp. 660. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011. £55. 978 1 84682 318 3

Saward, John, John Morrill and Michael Tomko (eds) (foreword Vincent Nichols), Firmly I believe and truly. The spiritual tradition of Catholic England. An anthology of writings from 1483 to 1999. Pp. xxiv+730 incl. frontispiece and 3 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £35. 978 0 19 929122 9

Steiger, Johann Anselm and Wilhelm Külmann (eds) (with Ulrich Heinen), Der problematische Prophet. Die biblische Jona Figur in Exegese, Theologie, Literatur und Bildender Kunst. (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 118.) Pp. xi+541 incl. 26 figs and 28 colour plates. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011. €139.95. 978 3 11 026651 1

The English parish church through the centuries. Daily life and spirituality, art and architecture, literature and music. Interactive DVD-ROM. York: The Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture, University of York, 2010. £17.50. 978 0 9550673 2 7

Tucker, Ruth A., Parade of faith. A biographical history of the Christian Church. Pp. 512 incl. numerous ills. Grand Rapids, Mi: Zondervan, 2011. $39.99. 78 0 310 20638 5

Ancient world

Albrektson, Bertil, Text, translation, theology. Selected essays on the Hebrew Bible. (Society for Old Testament Study Monographs.) Pp. xii+142. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2010. £45. 978 0 7546 6908 1

Anatolios, Khaled, Retrieving Nicaea. The development and meaning of Trinitarian doctrine. Pp. xviii+322. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2011. $39.99. 978 0 8010 3132 8

Bettenson, Henry and Chris Maunder (eds), Documents of the Christian Church. 4th edn. Pp. xxiv+529. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 (first publ. 1943, 1963, 1999). £16.99 (paper). 978 0 19 956898 7

Bumazhnov, Dmitrij and Hans Reinhard Seeliger (eds), Syrien im 1.–7. Jahrhundert nach Christus. Akten der 1. Tübinger Tagung zum Christlichen Orient (15.–16. Juni 2007). (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 62.) Pp. viii+287 incl. 3 ills. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011. €64 (paper). 978 3 16 151000 7

Cosgrove, Charles H., An ancient Christian hymn with musical notation. Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1786. Text and commentary. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 65.) Pp. xi+235. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011. €69 (paper). 978 3 16 150923 0; 1436 3003

Ehrman, Bart D., The New Testament. A historical introduction to the early Christian writings. 5th edn. Pp. xxxvii+536 incl. numerous colour ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £40 (paper). 978 0 19 975753 4

Fürst, Alfons, Von Origenes und Hieronymus zu Augustinus. Studien zur antiken Theologiegeschichte. (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 115.) Pp. viii+535. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011. €99.95. 978 3 11 025102 9

Hoyland, Robert G. (trans., intro. and notes), Theophilus of Edessa's Chronicle and the circulation of historical knowledge in late antiquity and early Islam. (Translated Texts for Historians, 57.) Pp. viii+368 incl. 3 maps and 1 fig. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011. £65 (cloth), £19.99 (paper). 978 1 84631 697 5; 978 1 84631 698 2

Inowlocki, Sabrina and Claudio Zamagni (eds), Reconsidering Eusebius. Collected papers on literary, historical, and theological issues. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae. Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language, 107.) Pp. xii+254+14 figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €105. 978 90 04 20385 3; 0920 623x

Leemans, Johan, Peter van Nuffelen, Shawn W. J. Keough and Carla Nicolaye (eds), Episcopal elections in late antiquity. (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 119.) Pp. xii+606. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011. €129.95. 978 3 11 026855 3

McSherry, James, Outreach and renewal. A first-millenium legacy for the third-millennium Church. (Cistercian Studies, 236.) Pp. x+276. Collegeville, Minnesota: Cistercian Publications/Liturgical Press, 2011. $34.95 (paper). 978 0 87907 236 0

Vinzent, Markus, Christ's Resurrection in early Christianity and the making of the New Testament. Pp. v+276. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £60. 978 1 4094 1791 0; 978 1 4094 1792 7

Young, Robin Darling and Monica J. Blanchard (eds), To train his soul in books. Syriac asceticism in early Christianity. (CUA Studies in Early Christianity, 4.) Pp. xix+217. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2011. $39.95. 978 0 8132 1732 1

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

Alwis, Anne P., Celibate marriages in late antique and Byzantine hagiography. The lives of Saints Julian and Basilissa, Andronikos and Athanasia, and Galaktion and Episteme. Pp. xii+340. London–New York: Continuum, 2011. £65. 978 1 4411 1525 6

Augé, Isabelle, Église en dialogue. Arméniens et Byzantins dans la seconde moitié du XIIe siècle. (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 633. Subsidia, 124.) Pp. xxix+317. Louvain: Peeters, 2011. €75 (paper). 978 90 429 2357 7; 0070 0444

Betty, Joseph, Morning stars of the Reformation. Early religious reformers in the Bristol region. (ALHA Books, 8.) Pp. 39 incl. 9 ills. Bristol: Avon Local History & Archaeology, 2011. £3.50 (paper).

Boynton, Susan and Diane J. Reilly (eds), The practice of the Bible in the Middle Ages. Production, reception, and performance in western Christianity. Pp. xi+364 incl. 25 figs and 7 tables. New York–Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2011. £62 (cloth), £20.50 (paper). 978 0 231 14826 9; 978 0 231 14827 6

Brubaker, Leslie and Mary B. Cunningham (eds), The cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium. Texts and images. Pp. xxii+306 incl. 5 figs+36 black-and-white and colour plates. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £65. 978 0 7546 6266 2

Brunet, Ester, La ricezione del concilio Quinisesto (691–692) nelle fonti occidentali (VII–IX sec.). Diritto – Arte – Teologia. (Autour de Byzance, 2.) Pp. 302+7 plates. Paris: Centre d’études byzantines, néo-helleniques et sud-est européennes, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2011. 2 9530655 2 7; 2108 9361

Bynum, Caroline Walker, Christian materiality. An essay on religion in late medieval Europe. Pp. 408 incl. 50 figs. New York: Zone Books, 2011. £22.95. 978 1 935408 10 9

Canning, Joseph, Ideas of power in the late Middle Ages, 1296–1417. Pp. xii+219. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £60. 978 1 107 01141 0

Canning, Joseph, Edmund King and Martial Staub (eds), Knowledge, discipline and power in the Middle Ages. Essays in honour of David Luscombe. (Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, 106.) Pp. xv+286 incl. 5 figs+ frontispiece. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €110. 978 90 04 20434 8; 1069 8028

Cooper, Janet, The church dedications and saints' cults of medieval Essex. Pp. xii+188 incl. 12 maps and 5 tables. Lancaster: Scotforth Books, 2011. £15.99 (paper). 978 1 904244 67 7

Dove, Mary (ed.), The earliest advocates of the English Bible. The texts of the medieval debate. (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies.) Pp. lxvii+236. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2010. £55. 978 0 85989 852 2

Efthymiadis, Stephanos, Hagiography in Byzantium. Literature, social history and cult. (Collected Studies, 989.) Pp. xvi+356 incl. frontispiece and 2 ills. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate/Variorum, 2011. £85. 978 1 4094 3016 2

Fassler, Margot E., Gothic song. Victorine sequences and Augustinian reform in twelfth-century Paris. 2nd edn. Pp. xxxix+487 incl. frontispiece. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011 (first publ. Cambridge University Press, 1993). $55 (paper). 978 0 268 02889 3

Fergusson, Peter, Canterbury cathedral priory in the age of Becket. Pp. x+190 incl. 100 black-and-white and 50 colour plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2011. £50. 978 0 300 17569 1

Finucane, Ronald C., Contested canonizations. The last medieval saints, 1482–1423. Pp. xi+276. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2011. $64.95. 978 0 8132 1875 5

Guibert of Nogent (trans., intro. and notes Joseph McAlhany and Jay Rubenstein), Monodies and On the Relics of Saints. The autobiography and a manifesto of a French monk from the time of the crusades. Pp. xl+357 incl. map. New York–London: Penguin, 2011. £12.99 ($20) (paper). 978 0 14 310630 2

Guido of Monte Roche (trans. with intro. Anne T. Thayer and Katharine J. Lualdi), ‘Handbook for curates’. A late medieval manual on pastoral ministry. (Medieval Texts in Translation.) Pp. vii+351 incl. 2 plates. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2011. $34.95 (paper). 978 0 8132 1869 4

Henel, Pierre-Aelred and others (eds), Les Chartreuses de la Provincia Burgundiae, aujourd'hui dans le department de L'Ain et L'Ordre des Chartreux. 2 vols. (Analecta Cartusiana, 260.) Pp. 270, 271–710 incl. numerous black-and-white and colour plates. Salzburg: Universität Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2011. 978 3 902649 64 80 5

Hoskin, Philippa M. (ed.), London, 1229–1280. 1280–1303. 2 vols. (English Episcopal Acta, 38, 39.) Pp. cxvi+160; xxxv+161–341. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2011. £60, £60. 978 0 19 726485 0; 978 0 19 726486 7

Hurlock, Kathryn, Wales and the crusades, c. 1095–1291. (Studies in Welsh History, 33.) Pp. xiii+267 incl. 3 ills. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2011. £24.99 (paper). 978 0 7083 2427 1

Kienzle, Beverly Mayne (trans. with intro. and notes), Hildegard of Bingen. Homilies on the Gospels. (Cistercian Studies, 241.) Pp. xviii+224. Collegeville, Minnesota: Cistercian Publications/Liturgical Press, 2011. $29.95 (paper). 978 0 87907 241 4

Körntgen, Ludger and Dominik Wassenhoven (eds), Patterns of episcopal power. Bishops in tenth and eleventh century western Europe. (Prinz-Albert-Forschungen, 6.) Pp. 226. Berlin–Boston: de Gruyter, 2011. €89.95. 978 3 11 026202 5

Krafl, Pavel (ed.), Regesta Bohemiae et Moraviae aetatis Venceslai IV. (1378 dec.–1419 aug. 16.). (Fontes Archivi terrae Moraviae Brunae, 7.) Pp. 496 incl. 2 ills. Prague: Institutum historicum Academiae scientiarum Rei publicae Bohemicae, 2010. 570 Kč. 978 80 7286 172 9

MacCoull, Leslie S. B., Documenting Christianity in Egypt, sixth to fourteenth centuries. (Collected Studies, CS981.) Pp. xii+366 incl. 13 ills. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate Variorum, 2011. £85. 978 1 4094 2788 9

McGuire, Brian Patrick (ed.), A companion to Bernard of Clairvaux. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 25.) Pp. xviii+405 incl. 11 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €150. 978 90 04 20139 2; 1871 6377

Mews, Constant J. and John N. Crossley (eds), Communities of learning. Networks and the shaping of intellectual identity in Europe, 1100–1500. (Europa Sacra, 9.) Pp. vii+367. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. €80. 978 2 503 53233 2

Nicholson, Helen J. (ed.), The proceedings against the Templars in the British isles, I: The Latin edition. Pp. xl+432. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £75. 978 1 4094 3650 8

Nicholson, Helen J. (ed.), The proceedings against the Templars in the British isles, II: The translation. Pp. lx+651. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £90. 978 1 4094 3655 2

Parisse, Michel, Religieux et religieuses en empire du Xe au XIIe siècle. (Les Médiévistes français, 11.) Pp. 253. Paris: Picard, 2011. €34 (cloth). 978 2 7084 0908 8

Powell, Susan, John Mirk's Festial. Edited from British Library MS Cotton Claudius A.II. Vol. 2. (Early English Text Society, O. S. 335.) Pp. viii+189–690 incl. 2 plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the Early English Text Society), 2011. £70. 978 0 19 959037 7

Raymond, Joad (ed.), Conversations with angels. Essays towards a history of spiritual communication, 1100–1700. Pp. xiii+349 incl. 24 ills. Basingstoke–New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. £65. 978 0 230 55203 6

Rogers, Alan (ed.), The act book of St Katherine's gild, Stamford, 1480–1534. Pp. iv+299. Bury St Edmunds: Abramis Academic Publishing (for the Stamford Survey Group), 2011. £19.95 (paper). 978 1 84549 509 1

Rubenstein, Jay, Armies of heaven. The First Crusade and the quest for apocalypse. Pp. xiv+402 incl. 6 figs and 8 maps+12 colour plates. New York: Basic Books, 2011. $29.99. 978 0 465 01929 8

Schima, Stefan, Papsttum und Nachfolgebeeinflussung. Von den Anfängen bis zur Papstwahlordnung von 1179. (Kirche und Recht, 26.) Pp. xxx+466. Freistadt, Plöchl Druck, 2011. €50 (paper). 978 3 901479 72 4; 0259 0735

Smith, J. Warren, Christian grace and pagan virtue. The theological foundation of Ambrose's ethics. (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. xxi+317. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £45. 978 0 19 536993 9

Somerville, Robert, Pope Urban II's council of Piacenza. March 1–7, 1095. Pp. viii+151. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £55. 978 0 19 925859 8

Stone, Rachel, Morality and masculinity in the Carolingian empire. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. 4th Ser.) Pp. xix+399 incl. 1 map and 1 fig. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012(11). £60. 978 1 107 00674 4

Suchla, Beate Regina (ed.), Corpus Dionysiacum, IV/1: Ioannis Scythopolitani prologus et scholia in Dionysii Areopagitae librum ‘De divinis nominibus’ cum additamentis interpretum aliorum. (Patristische Texte und Studien, 62.) Pp. 618. Berlin–Boston: de Gruyter, 2011. €149,95. 978 3 11 019571 2; 0553 4003

Sykes, Katharine, Inventing Sempringham. Gilbert of Sempringham and the origins of the role of the Master. (Vita Regularis. Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter, 46.) Pp. v+266. Zurich–Berlin, LIT, 2011. €29.90 (cloth). 978 3 643 90122 4

Vanderputten, Steven (ed.), Understanding monastic practices of oral communication. (Western Europe, tenth–thirteenth centuries.) (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 21.) Pp. xi+390 incl. 7 figs. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. €85. 978 2 503 53482 4

Vargas, Michael A, Taming a brood of vipers. Conflict and change in fourteenth-century Dominican convents. (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 42.) Pp. xii+353 incl. 2 maps. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €128. 978 90 04 20315 0; 1569 1934

Whalen, Brett Edward (ed.), Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages. A reader. (Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures, 16.) Pp. xiv+386. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. £42.95 (paper). 978 1 4426 0199 4

Woolgar, C. M. (ed.), Testamentary records of the English and Welsh episcopate, 1200–1413. Wills, executors' accounts and inventories, and the probate process. (Canterbury and York Society, 102.) Pp. lvii+360. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Canterbury and York Society), 2011. £25. 978 0 907239 74 1; 0262 995X

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

Almond, Philip C., England's first demonologist. Reginald Scot and ‘The discoverie of witchcraft’. Pp. ix+246 incl. frontispiece. London–New York: I. B. Tauris, 2011. £54.50. 978 1 84885 793 3

Arnold, Jonathan, The great humanists. An introduction. Pp. vii+327 incl. 13 ills. London–New York: I. B. Tauris, 2011. $85 (paper). 978 1 84885 081 1; 978 1 84885 082 8

Autiero, Antonio and Marinella Perroni, Anatemi di ieri sfide di oggi. Contrappunti di genere nella rilettura del concilio di Trento. (Scienze religiose. New Ser., 26.) Pp. 303. Bologna: EDB, 2011. €23,70 (paper). 978 88 10 41523 8

Backus, Irena and Philip Benedict (eds), Calvin and his influence, 1509–2009. Pp. xv+336. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £27.50 (paper). 978 0 19 975184 6; 978 0 19 975185 3

Carter, Benjamin, ‘The little commonwealth of man’. The Trinitarian origins of the ethical and political philosophy of Ralph Cudworth. (Studies in Philosophical Theology, 42.) Pp. xxvi+192. Leuven: Peeters, 2011. €44 (paper). 978 90 429 2214 3

Chavura, Stephen A., Tudor Protestant political thought, 1547–1603. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 155.) Pp. xiv+252. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €99. 978 90 04 20632 8; 1573 5664

Crǎciun, Maria and Elaine Fulton (eds), Communities of devotion. Religious orders and society in east central Europe, 1450–1800. (Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700.) Pp. xvii+284 incl. 13 ills. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £65. 978 0 7546 6312 6

Cox, Virginia, The prodigious muse. Women's writing in Counter-Reformation Italy. Pp. xxv+439. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. £31. 978 1 4214 0032 7

Dragseth, Jennifer Hockenbery (ed.), The devil's whore. Reason and philosophy in the Lutheran tradition. (Studies in Lutheran History and Theology.) Pp. xvii+247. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2011. $49. 978 0 8006 9732 7

Grell, Ole Peter, Brethren in Christ. A Calvinist network in Reformation Europe. Pp. xx+318 incl. 2 maps and 35 figs. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £60. 978 0 107 00881 6

Holloway iii, Ernest R., Andrew Melville and humanism in Renaissance Scotland, 1545–1622. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 154.) Pp. xii+375. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €99. 978 90 04 20539 0; 1573 5664

Huffman, Tim (ed.), The Lutheran confessions. A digital anthology. CD-ROM. Minneapolis, Mn: Augsburg Fortress, 2011. £46.99. 978 0 8006 9842 3

Kaufmann, Thomas, Luthers Judenschriften. Ein Beitrag zu ihrer historischen Kontextualisierung. Pp. xi+231 incl. 15 ills. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011. €29 (paper). 978 3 16 150772 4

Kelly, Henry Ansgar, Louis W. Karlin and Gerard B. Wegemer (eds), Thomas More's trial by jury. A procedural and legal review with a collection of documents. Pp. xix+240. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011. £55. 978 1 84383 629 2

Lorenz, Sönke, Anton Schindling and Wilfried Setzler (eds), Primus Truber. Der slowenische Reformator und Württemberg. (Eine Veröffentlichung der Kommission für geschichtliche Landeskunde in Baden-Württemberg.) Pp. xi+451 incl. 118 plates. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 2011. €39. 978 3 17 021273 2

Middleton-Stewart, Judith (ed.), Records of the churchwardens of Mildenhall. Collections, 1446–1454. Accounts, 1503–1553. (Suffolk Records Society, 54.) Pp. lxxiii+243 incl. frontispiece, 2 maps, 4 tables and 9 plates. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Suffolk Records Society), 2011. £35. 978 0 85115 578 4

Mostaccio, Silvia (ed.) (with Jean-Pierre Delville), Genre et identities aux Pays-Bas méridionaux. L’éducation religieuse des femmes après le concile de Trente. Actes du colloque international Université catholique de Louvain, 7 mars 2008. (Collection Sillages, 14.) Pp. 236. Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia-Bruylant, 2010. €28 (paper). 978 2 87209 952 8

Nowak, Jessika, Ein Kardinal im Zeitalter der Renaissance. Die Karriere des Giovanni di Castiglione (ca. 1413–1460). (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation, 59.) Pp. xvii+520. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011. €99. 978 3 16 150545 4; 1965 2840

Ostling, Michael, Between the devil and the host. Imagining witchcraft in early modern Poland. (Past and Present.) Pp. xv+279 incl. 2 frontispieces, 4 tables and 13 figs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £60. 978 0 19 958790 2

Pask, Brenda M. (ed.) (with Margaret Harvey), The letters of George Davenport, 1651–1677. (The Publications of the Surtees Society, 215.) Pp. xv+296 incl. frontispiece. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Surtees Society), 2011. £50. 978 0 85444 070 2; 0307 5362

Pollmann, Judith, Catholic identity and the revolt of the Netherlands, 1520–1635. (Past and Present.) Pp. xvii+239 incl. 9 ills and 6 maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £55. 978 0 19 960991 8

Prior, Charles W. A. and Glenn Burgess (eds), England's wars of religion, revisited. Pp. xiv+335. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £65. 978 1 4094 1973 0; 978 1 4094 1974 7

Remmert, Volker R., Picturing the scientific revolution. Title engravings in early modern scientific publications. (Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts, 4.) Pp. vi+295 incl. 107 black-and-white and colour plates. Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's University Press, 2009. $65. 978 0 916101 67 1

Safley, Thomas Max (ed.), A companion to multiconfessionalism in the early modern world. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 28.) Pp. xi+500. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €161. 978 90 04 20697 7; 1871 6377

Schutte, Anne Jacobson, By force and fear. Taking and breaking monastic vows in early modern Europe. Pp. xiii+285 incl. 8 figs, 2 tables, 8 charts and 7 maps+2 colour plates. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2011. $45. 978 0 8014 4977 2

Stanglin, Keith D., The missing public disputations of Jacobus Arminius. Introduction, text, and notes. (Brill's Series in Church History, 47.) Pp. xvi+630 incl. 35 plates. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €149. 978 90 04 18867 9; 1572 4107

Steinmetz, David C., Taking the long view. Christian theology in historical perspective. Pp. ix+187. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £13.99 (paper). 978 0 19 967893 6; 978 0 19 976894 3

Witt, Christian Volkmar, Protestanten. Das Werden eines Integrationsbegriffs in der Frühen Neuzeit. (Beiträge zur historischen Theologie, 163.) Pp. xi+314. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011. €84. 978 3 16 150951 3; 0340 6741

Zanchi, Girolamo (trans. Emanuele Fiume, ed. Emidio Campi), La fede cristiana. Che precisamente ora, a sessantanove anni d'etá, mise alla luce a nome suo e della sua famiglia. Pp. 274. Rome: Edizioni GBU, 2011. €20 (paper). 978 88 96441 11 4

Modern Europe

Cerny-Werner, Roland, Vatikanische Ostpolitik und die DDR. Pp. 380 incl. 15 ills and 1 colour plate. Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2011. €49.90. 978 3 89971 875 1

Daly, Edward, A troubled see. Memoirs of a Derry bishop. Pp. 282+26 plates. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011. £11.95 (paper). 978 1 84682 312 1

Davies, Graham, The Schweich lectures and biblical archaeology. (The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy. Centenary Lecture 2008.) Pp. xi+69 incl. 1 fig.+12 plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2011. £19.95. 978 0 19 726487 4

Fattorini, Emma, Hitler, Mussolini and the Vatican. Pope Pius XI and the speech that was never made. (Trans. by Carl Ipsen of Pio XI, Hitler e Mussolini, Giulio Einaudi Editore, 2007.) Pp. xvi+260. Cambridge–Malden, Ma: Polity Press, 2011. £20. 978 0 7456 4488 2

Fletcher, Stella, A very agreeable society. The Ecclesiastical History Society, 1961–2011. Pp. ii+127. Warrington: Ecclesiastical History Society, 2011. £5 + post and packing from Dr Stella Fletcher, 32 Highfield Avenue, Great Sankey, Warrington, WA5 2TW, UK. 978 0 9569727 0 5

Giewald, Arne and Günther Thomann, The Lutheran High Church movement in Germany and its liturgical work. An introduction. Pp. 114. Raleigh, NC: Lulu, 2011. €8.90 (paper).

Green, Todd H., Responding to secularization. The Deaconess movement in nineteenth-century Sweden. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 163.) Pp. xi+188 incl. 4 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €99. 978 90 04 19479 3; 1573 5664

Hempton, David, The Church in the long eighteenth century. (The I. B. Tauris History of the Christian Church.) Pp. xxi+243 incl. 3 maps. London–New York: I. B. Tauris, 2011. £24.50. 978 1 84511 440 4

Hessayon, Ariel and David Finnegan (eds), Varieties of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century English radicalism in context. Pp. xiv+271 incl. 1 plate. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £65. 978 7546 6905 0

Kämper, Burkhard and Hans-Werner Thönnes (eds), Das Verhältnis von Staat und Kirche in der Orthodoxie. (Essener Gespräche zum Thema Staat und Kirche, 45.) Pp. x+277. Münster: Aschendorff, 2011. €34.80 (paper). 978 3 402 10563 4; 0720 891X

Kranemann, Benedikt and Klaus Raschzok (eds), Gottesdienst als Feld theologischer Wissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert. Deutschsprachige Liturgiewissenschaft in Einzelporträts. 2 vols. (Liturgiewissenschaftliche Quellen und Forschungen, 98.) Pp. 632, 633–1204. Münster: Aschendorff, 2011. €124 (paper). 978 3 402 11261 8; 0076 0048

McInerny, Ralph, The very rich hours of Jacques Maritain. A spiritual life. (First publ. 2003: rev. ante lvi. 412.) Pp. viii+236. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. $27 (paper). 0 268 04359 0; 978 0 268 03524 2

Moxnes, Halvor, Jesus and the rise of nationalism. A new quest for the nineteenth-century historical Jesus. Pp. xi+270. London–New York: I. B. Tauris, 2012 (2011). £54.50. 978 1 84885 080 4

O'Shea, Paul, A cross too heavy. Pope Pius XII and the Jews of Europe. Pp. xi+273. New York–Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. £22.99 (paper). 978 0 230 11079 3; 978 0 230 11080 9

Olney, Richard, Church and community in South London. St Saviour's, Denmark Park, 1881–1905. Pp. xvi+128 incl. 7 tables, 3 maps and 14 ills. Studley: History into Print, 2011. £11.95 (paper). 978 1 85858 335 8

Perin, Raffaella, Chiesa cattolica e minoranze in Italia nella prima metà del novecento. Il caso vento a confront. (I libri di Viella, 122.) Pp. 232. €32 (paper). 978 88 8334 630 9

Porter, Muriel, Sydney Anglicans and the threat to world Anglicanism. The Sydney experiment. (Ashgate Contemporary Ecclesiology.) Pp. xvi+173. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £55. 978 1 4094 2028 6; 978 1 4094 2027 9

Saresella, Daniela, Cattolici a sinistra. Dal modernism ai giorni nostri. (Quadrante Laterza, 178.) Pp. xi+285. Rome: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 2011. €22 (paper). 978 88 420 9785 3

Schelkens, Karim (ed.), The council notes of Edward Schillebeeckx, 1962–1963. Critically annotated bilingual edition. (Instrumenta Theologica, 34.) Pp. xxix+77. Leuven: Maurits Sabbebibliotheek, Faculteit Godgeleerdheid/Peeters, 2011. €28 (paper). 978 90 429 2453 6

Schmerbauch, Maik, Prälat Franz Wolsnitza (1902–1979) ehemaliger Generalvikar von Kattowitz. (Arbeiten zur schlesischen Kirchengeschichte, 21.) Pp. 199 incl. frontispiece, 2 maps and 12 ills. Münster: Aschendorff, 2010. €19.80 (paper). 978 3 402 10179 7

Stan, Lavinia and Lucian Turcescu, Church, State, and democracy in expanding Europe. (Religion and Global Politics.) Pp. xiii+287. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £40. 978 0 19 533710 5

Wessel, Martin Schulze, Revolution und religiöser Dissens. Der römisch-katholische und der russisch-orthodoxe Klerus als Träger religiösen Wandels in den böhmischen Ländern und in Russland, 1848–1922. (Veröffentlichungen des Collegium Carolinum, 123.) Pp. vii+344. München: Oldenbourg, 2011. €49.80. 978 3 486 70662 8

Africa, Asia and Australasia

Bays, Daniel H., A new history of Christianity in China. (Blackwell Guides to Global Christianity.) Pp. x+241 incl. 8 ills. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 (2011). £24.99 (paper). 978 1 4051 5954 8

Bernard-Maître, Henri, Pierre Humbertclaude and Maurice Prunier (ed. Christophe Marquet), Présences occidentals au Japon. Du siècle chrétien à la réouverture du XIXe siècle. Pp. 432. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2011. €35 (paper). 978 2 204 08525 0; 0769 2633

Phan, Peter C. (ed.), Christianities in Asia. (Blackwell Guides to Global Christianity.) Pp. xvii+271 incl. 11 maps. Chichester: Wiley–Blackwell, 2011. £22.99 (paper). 978 1 4051 6089 6; 978 1 4051 6090 2

Troughton, Geoffrey and Hugh Morrison (eds), The spirit of the past. Essays on Christianity in New Zealand history. Pp. 255 incl. 8 figs and 1 colour plate. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2011. $50 (paper). 978 0 86473 654 3

The Americas

Chryssides, George D. (ed.), Heaven's gate. Postmodernity and popular culture in a suicide group. (Ashgate New Religions.) Pp. xi+215+2 colour frontispieces. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £50. 978 0 7546 6374 4

Gellman, Erik S. and Jarold Roll, The gospel of the working class. Labor's southern prophets in new deal America. (The Working Class in American History.) Pp. xvii+228 incl. map and 13 ills. Urbana–Chicago–Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2011. $75 (cloth), $30 (paper). 978 0 252 03630 9; 978 0 252 07840 8

Gill, Jill K., Embattled ecumenism. The National Council of Churches, the Vietnam war, and the trials of the Protestant left. Pp. xii+551 incl. 1 chart and 26 ills. DeKalb, Il: Northern Illinois University Press, 2011. $40. 978 0 87580 443 9

Norgren, William A., Faith and order in the U.S.A. A brief history of studies and relationships. Pp. vi+97. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2011. £12.99 ($20) (paper). 978 0 8028 6599 1

Reumann, John (ed.), Muhlenberg's ministerium, Ben Franklin's deism, and the Churches of the twenty-first century. Reflections on the 250th anniversary of the oldest Lutheran church body in North America. Pp. vii+235. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2011. £14.99 ($22) (paper). 978 0 8028 6246 4

General : Modern world

Friedman, Richard Elliott and Shawna Dolansky, The Bible now. Pp. xvii+220. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £16.99. 978 0 19 531163 1

Nielssen, Hilde, Inger Marie Okkenhaugh and Karina Hestad Skeie (eds), Protestant missions and local encounters in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Unto the ends of the world. (Studies in Christian Mission, 40.) Pp. viii+337 incl. 21 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €110. 978 90 04 20298 6; 0924 9389

Oelrich, Anthony, A Church fully engaged. Yves Congar's vision of ecclesial authority. (A Michael Glazier Book.) Pp. xiii+163. Collegeville, Min: Liturgical Press, 2011. $29.95 (paper). 978 0 8146 5797 3

Van der Beek, A., E. A. J. G. Van der Borght and B. P. Vermeulen (eds), Freedom of religion. (Studies in Reformed Theology, 19.) Pp. vi+269. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2010. €93. 978 90 04 15807 8; 1571 4799