General

Armogathe, Jean-Robert, Pascal Montaubin and Michel-Yves Perrin (eds, vol. i); Jean-Robert Armogathe and Yves-Marie Hilaire (eds, vol. ii), Histoire générale du christianisme, I: Des Origines au XVe siècle; II: Du XVIe Siècle á nos jours. (Quadrige Dicos Poche.) Pp. xii+1533 incl. 15 maps; xiii+1330 incl. 13 maps. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2010. €69 (paper). 978 2 13 052292 8; 978 2 286 07293 3

Autiero, Antonio and Stefanie Knauss, L'enigma corporeità. Sessualità e religione. (Scienze Religiose. New Ser., 24.) Pp. 294. Bologna: EDB, 2010. €20.50 (paper). 978 88 10 41520 7

Bockmuehl, Markus, The remembered Peter in ancient reception and modern debate. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 262.) Pp. xiii+274 incl. 3 ills. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. €79. 978 3 16 150580 5; 0512 1604

Castagno, Adele Monaci, L'agiografia Cristiana antica. Testi, contesti, pubblico. (Letteratura Cristiana Antica. New Ser., 23.) Pp. 500. Brescia: Morcelliana, 2010. €32 (paper). 978 88 372 2441 7

De la Genière, Juliette, André Vauchez and Jean Leclant (eds), Les Sanctuaires et leur rayonnement dans le monde méditerranéen de l'antiquité à l'époque moderne. Actes du 20e colloque de la Villa Kérylos à Beaulieu-sur-Mer les 9 & 10 octobre 2009. (Cahiers de la Villa Kérylos, 21.) Pp. x+408 incl. 122 black-and-white and colour ills. Paris: de Boccard, 2010. €40 (paper). 978 2 87754 247 0; 1275 6229

Froehlich, Karlfried, Biblical interpretation from the church Fathers to the Reformation. (Collected Studies, 951.) Pp. xiv+350 incl. frontispiece. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate/Variorum, 2010. £70. 978 1 4094 0365 4

Griffith-Jones, Robin and David Park (eds), The Temple church in London. History, architecture, art. Pp. xx+286 incl. 6 figs+12 colour plates and 109 black-and- white plates. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010. £40. 978 1 84383 498 4

Lodi, Enzo, The Nicene-Constantinopolitan creed as ecumenical norm. Lex orandi – lex credendi. Pp. 410. Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 2010. 978 88 7210 369 2

Philippart, Guy (ed.), Hagiographies. International history of the Latin hagiographical literature in the west from its origins to 1550. (Corpus Christianorum. Hagiographies, 5.) Pp. 808+colour frontispiece. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. £275. 978 2 503 52583 9

Saul, Nigel and Tim Tatton-Brown (eds), St George's Chapel Windsor. History and heritage. Pp. 264. Wimborne Minster: Dovecote Press, 2010. £14.95 (paper). 978 1 904 34983 9

Ancient world

Ayres, Lewis, Augustine and the Trinity. Pp. xiv+360. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. £50. 978 0 521 83886 3

Bremmer, Jan N., The rise of Christianity through the eyes of Gibbon, Harnack and Rodney Stark. A valedictory lecture on the occasion of his retirement from the chair of religious studies, in the faculty of theology and religious studies, delivered in abbreviated form before the University of Groningen on 29 January 2010. Pp. ix+87. Groningen: Barkhuis, 2010. €13.50 (paper). 978 9077 9227 05

Cook, John Granger, Roman attitudes toward the Christians. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 261.) Pp. xv+375. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. €99. 978 3 16 150553 9; 0512 1604

Dihle, Albrecht and others (eds), Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum, 52–2009. Pp. 198 incl. 27 ills+8 black-and-white plates. Münster: Aschendorff, 2010. €72. 3 402 10702 7; 0075 2541

Dossey, Leslie, Peasant and empire in Christian north Africa. (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 47.) Pp. xix+352 incl. 13 figs and 13 tables. Berkeley–Los Angeles–London: University of California Press, 2010. £41.75. 978 0 520 25439 8

Eisele, Wilfried, Welcher Thomas? Studien zur Text- und Überlieferungsgeschichte des Thomasevangeliums. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 259.) Pp. xii+319. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. €99. 978 3 16 150543 0; 0512 1604

Hagman, Patrik, The asceticism of Isaac of Nineveh. (Oxford Early Christian Studies.) Pp. viii+254. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £60. 978 0 19 959319 4

Hubbard, Moyer V., Christianity in the Greco-Roman world. A narrative introduction. Pp. xix+320 incl. map. Peabody, Ma: Hendrickson, 2010. £16.99 (paper). 978 1 56563 663 7

Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Daniel, Christian memories of the Maccabean martyrs. Pp. xii+251. New York–Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 978 0 230 60279 7

Karmann, Thomas R., Meletius von Antiochien. Studien zur Geschichte des trinitätstheologischen Streits in den Jahren 360-364 n.Chr. (Regensburger Studien zur Theologie, 68.) Pp. ix+546. Frankfurt-am-Main: Peter Lang, 2009. £80.40 (paper). 978 3 631 56284 0

Kelly, Christopher, Richard Flower and Michael Stuart Williams (eds), Unclassical traditions, I: Alternatives to the classical past in late antiquity. (Cambridge Classical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society. Supplementary volume, 34.) Pp. vii+156. Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 2010. £45. 978 0 906014 33 2

Koltun-Fromm, Naomi, Hermeneutics of holiness. Ancient Jewish and Christian notions of sexuality and religious community. Pp. xv+309. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £45. 978 0 19 973648 5

Leithart, Peter J., Defending Constantine. The twilight of an empire and the dawn of Christendom. Pp. 373. Downers Grove, Il: IVP Academic, 2010. $27 (paper). 978 0 8308 2772 0

Lim, Timothy H. and John J. Collins (eds), The Oxford handbook of the Dead Sea scrolls. Pp. xx+785 incl. 2 maps, 8 figs and 5 tables. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £85. 978 0 19 920723 7

Murphy-O'Connor, Jerome, Keys to Second Corinthians. Revisiting the major issues. Pp. xi+203. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £60. 978 0 19 959210 4

O'Loughlin, Thomas, The Didache. A window on the earliest Christians. Pp. xvii+185 incl. 3 figs and 1 table. London: SPCK/Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2010. $24.99 (paper). 978 0 281 05953 9

Parker, D. C., Codex Sinaiticus. The story of the world's oldest Bible. Pp. xii+195 incl. 12 ills+16 colour plates. London: The British Library/Peabody, Ma: Hendrickson, 2010. £20. 978 0 7123 5803 3; 978 1 59856 576 8

Peterson, Erik (ed. Barbara Nichtweiss and Hans-Ulrich Weidemann, with Karl Kardinal Lehmann), Ekklesia. Studien zum altchristlichen Kirchenbegriff. (Ausgewählte Schriften. Special Volume.) Pp. 222 incl. 6 ills. Würzburg, Echter, 2010. €19.80 (paper). 978 3 429 03286 9

Rasimus, Tuomas, Troels Engberg-Pedersen and Ismo Dunderberg (eds), Stoicism in early Christianity. Pp. xiii+301. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2010. $39.99 (paper). 978 0 8010 3951 5

Timm, Stefan, Eusebius und die Heilige Schrift. Die Schriftvorlagen des Onomastikons der biblischen Ortsnamen. (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 166.) Pp. xiv+653. Berlin–New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. £149.95. 978 3 11 022600 3; 0082 3589

Twomey, D. Vincent and Dirk Krausmüller (eds), Salvation according to the Fathers of the Church. The proceedings of the sixth international patristic conference, Maynooth/Belfast, 2005. Pp. 188. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010. £45. 978 1 84682 200 1

Twomey, D. Vincent and Janet E. Rutherford (eds), The Holy Spirit in the Fathers of the Church. The proceedings of the seventh international patristic conference, Maynooth, 2008. Pp. 203. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010. £45. 978 1 84682 255 1

Verheyden, Joseph, Korinna Zamfir and Tobias Nicklas (eds), Prophets and prophecy in Jewish and early Christian literature. (Wissenshaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe, 286.) Pp. viii+359. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. €74 (paper). 978 3 16 150338 2; 0340 9570

Von Stockhausen, Annette and Hanns Christof Brennecke (eds), Von Arius zum Athanasianum. Studien zur Edition der Athanasius Werke. (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur. Archiv für die Ausgabe der Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte (TU), 164.) Pp. x+318. Berlin–New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. €89.95. 978 3 11 021860 2; 0082 3589

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

Adams, Marilyn McCord, Some later medieval theories of the eucharist. Thomas Aquinas, Giles of Rome, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham. Pp. viii+318. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £30. 978 0 19 959105 3

Bataillon, Louis-Jacques, Nicole Bériou, Gilbert Dahan and Riccardo Quinto (eds), Étienne Langton. Prédicateur, bibliste, théologien. (Bibliothèque d'Histoire Culturelle du Moyen Âge, 9.) Pp. 694. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. €95 (paper). 978 2 503 53519 7

Boyarin, Adrienne Williams, Miracles of the Virgin in medieval England. Law and Jewishness in Marian legends. Pp. xi+217 incl. 10 ills. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010. £50. 978 1 84384 240 8

Brown, Nancy Marie, The abacus and the cross. The story of the pope who brought the light of science to the dark ages. Pp. ix+288 incl. 17 ills+8 plates. New York: Basic Books, 2010. $27.95 (paper). 978 0 465 00950 3

Burgtorf, Jochen, Paul F. Crawford and Helen J. Nicholson (eds), The debate on the trial of the Templars (1307–1314). Pp. xxvi+399 incl. 5 maps and 18 ills. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2010. £60. 978 0 7546 6570 0

Cohen, Meredith and Justine Firnhaber-Baker (eds), Difference and identity in Francia and medieval France. Pp. xvii+237 incl. 33 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2010. £55. 978 0 7546 6757 5

Colnago, Filippo, Poesia e teologia in Giovanni Scoto l'Eriugena. (Biblioteca di Cultural Romanobarbarica, 11.) Pp. viii+405 incl. colour frontispiece. Rome: Herder Editrice e Libreria, 2009. €48 (paper). 978 88 89670 48 4

Coolman, Boyd Taylor, The theology of Hugh of St Victor. An interpretation. Pp. x+247 incl. frontispiece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. £50. 978 0 521 88625 3

Coon, Lynda L., Dark age bodies. Gender and monastic practice in the early medieval west. (The Middle Ages.) Pp. xi+390 incl. 42 figs+8 colour plates. Philadelphia–Oxford: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011(10). £42.50 ($65). 978 0 8122 4269 0

D'Avray, D. L., Medieval religious rationalities. A Weberian analysis. Pp. x+198. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. £50 (cloth), £17.99 (paper). 978 0 521 76707 1; 978 0 521 18682 7

D'Avray, D. L., Rationalities in history. A Weberian essay in comparison. Pp. x+214. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. £50 (cloth), £17.99 (paper). 978 0 521 19920 9; 978 0 521 12808 7

Eccher, Luciana, Documentazione papale in archive trentini tra XII e XIII secolo. (Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento. Fonti, 9.) Pp. 212. Bologna: il Mulino, 2010. €17.50 (paper). 978 88 15 13930 6

Flanagan, Marie Thérèse, The transformation of the Irish Church in the twelfth century. (Studies in Celtic History, 29.) Pp. xii+298. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010. £60. 978 1 84383 597 4; 0261 9865

Garnett, George, The Norman conquest. A very short introduction. Pp. xvii+150. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. £7.99 (paper). 978 0 19 2801616

Goodson, Caroline J., The Rome of pope Paschal I. Papal power, urban renovation, church rebuilding and relic translation, 812–824. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. 4th Ser.) Pp. xxi+385 incl. 46 ills. Cambridge University Press, 2010. £60. 978 0 521 76819 1

Hamilton, Louis I., A sacred city. Consecrating churches and reforming society in eleventh-century Italy. (Manchester Medieval Studies.) Pp. xi+272 incl. 3 tables and 2 figs. Manchester–New York: Manchester University Press, 2010. £60. 978 0 7190 8026 5

Hebgin-Barnes, Penny, The medieval stained glass of Cheshire. (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi. Great Britain. Summary Catalogue, 9.) Pp. cxcvi+362 pages incl. numerous black-and-white plates+24 colour plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2010. £110. 978 0 19 726469 0

Hoggett, Richard, The archaeology of the East Anglian conversion. (Anglo-Saxon Studies, 15.) Pp. xiv+208 incl. 35 figs and 13 plates. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2010. £50. 978 1 84383 595 0; 1475 2468

Jezierski, Wojtek, Total St Gall. Medieval monastery as a disciplinary institution. (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm Studies in History, 92.) Pp. Stockholm: University of Stockholm, 2010. SEK 299 (paper). 978 91 86071 47 9; 0491 0842

Kendall, Calvin B. and Faith Wallis (eds), Bede. On the nature of things and On times. (Translated Texts for Historians, 56.) Pp. xiv+222. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010. £60 (cloth), £16.99 (paper). 978 1 84631 495 7; 978 1 84631 496 4

Koopmans, Rachel, Wonderful to relate. Miracle stories and miracle collecting in high medieval England. (The Middle Ages.) Pp. ix+337 incl. 13 ills. Philadelphia–Oxford: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011(10). £42.50 ($65). 978 0 8122 4279 9

Kostick, Connor (ed.), The crusades and the near east. Cultural histories. Pp. xvi+272 incl. 8 figs and 3 maps. Abingdon–New York: Routledge, 2011[10]. £80. 978 0 415 58040 3p; 978 0 415 58041 0

McLaughlin, Megan, Sex, gender, and episcopal authority in an age of reform, 1000–1122. Pp. x+277 incl. 4 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. £55. 978 0 521 87005 4

Mahé, Jean-Pierre, Paul Rouhana and Boghos Levon Zekiyan (eds), Saint Grégoire de Narek et la liturgie de l'église. Colloque international organisé par le Patriarcat Arménien Catholique à l'Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik (USEK), Liban. (Revue Théologique de Kaslik, 3-4.) Pp. 519+11 black-and-white and colour figs and 35 colour photos. Kaslik: Faculté Pontificale de Théologie, 2010. 1998 6874

Meuthen, Erich, Nicholas of Cusa. A sketch for a biography. (Trans. by David Crowner and Gerald Christianson of the 7th edn of Nikolaus von Kues: Skizze einer Biographie, Münster: Aschendorff, 1992 first publ. 1964.) Pp. xxvii+179 incl. 9 figs. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2010. $24.95 (paper). 978 0 8132 1787 1

Minnis, Alastair and Rosalynn Voaden (eds), Medieval holy women in the Christian tradition, c. 1100–c. 1500. (Brepols Essays in European Culture, 1.) Pp. xi+748 incl. 3 figs and 7 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. €125. 978 2 503 53180 9

Montgomery, Scott B., St Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins of Cologne. Relics, reliquaries and the visual culture of group sanctity in late medieval Europe. Pp. xv+207 incl. 46 figs. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010. £35 (paper). 978 3 03911 852 6

Mueller, Joan, A companion to Clare of Assisi. Life, writings, and spirituality. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 21.) Pp. xii+316 incl. 8 black-and- white plates. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2010. €126. 978 90 04 18216 5; 1871 6377

Ó Carragáin, Tomás, Churches in early medieval Ireland. Architecture, ritual and memory. Pp. xvi+392 incl. 298 black-and-white and colour ills. New Haven–London: Yale University Press (for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art), 2010. £40. 978 0 300 15444 3

Page, Sophie (ed.), The unorthodox imagination in late medieval Britain. (UCL/Neale Series on British History.) Pp. x+220 incl. 21 figs. Manchester–New York: Manchester University Press, 2010. £60. 978 0 7190 783 54

Pétrossian, Lévon (ed.), Grégoire de Narek. Commentaire sur le Cantique des Cantiques. (Orientalia Christiana Analecta, 285.) Pp. 480 incl. 1 ill. Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 2010. €30 (paper). 978 88 7210 367 8

Renevey, Denis and Christiania Whitehead (eds), A companion to The doctrine of the hert. The middle English translation and its Latin and European contexts. (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies.) Pp. x+294. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2010. £60. 978 0 85989 821 8

Rennie, Kriston R., Law and practice in the age of reform. The legatine work of Hugh of Die (1073–1106). (Medieval Church Studies, 17.) Pp. xiii+248. Turnout: Brepols, 2010. €60. 978 2 503 53190 8

Robson, Michael and Jens Röhrkasten (eds), Franciscan organisation in the mendicant context. Formal and informal structures of the friars' lives and ministry in the Middle Ages. (Vita regularis. Ordnungen und Deutungen religiösen Lebens im Mittelalter, 44.) Pp. xxiii+416. Berlin: LIT, 2010. €44.90 (paper). 978 3 643 10820 3

Rogers, Nicholas (ed.), The friars in medieval Britain. (Harlaxton Medieval Studies, 19.) Pp. xii+372 incl. 1 fig.+44 black-and-white and colour plates. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2010. £49.50. 978 1 907730 03 0

Skylitzes, John (trans. John Wortley, with Jean-Claude Cheynet and Bernard Flusin), A synopsis of Byzantine history, 811–1057. Pp. xxxiii+491. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. £75. 978 0 521 76705 7

Stansbury, Ronald J. (ed.), A companion to pastoral care in the late Middle Ages (1200–1500). (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 22.) Pp. ix+426 incl. 2 colour plates and 3 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2010. €150. 978 90 04 18353 7; 1871 6377

Van Nieuwenhove, Rik and Joseph Wawrykow (eds), The theology of Thomas Aquinas. (First publ. 2005: rev. ante lvii. 579–80.) Pp. xx+472 incl. frontispiece. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. $35 (paper). 978 0 268 04364 3

Vroom, Wim (trans. Elizabeth Manton), Financing cathedral building in the Middle Ages. The generosity of the faithful. Pp. 734 incl. 93 ills and 14 graphs. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010. £65. 978 90 8964 035 2

Warntjes, Immo and Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (eds), Computus and its cultural context in the Latin west, AD 300–1200. Proceedings of the first international conference on the science of computus in Ireland and Europe, Galway, 14–16 July 2006. (Studia Traditionis Theologiae. Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology, 5.) Pp. xiv+382 incl. 16 ills, 20 tables and 8 plates. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. €65 (paper). 978 2 503 53317 9

Wooding, Jonathan M. (ed.) (with Rodney Aist, Thomas Owen Clancy and Thomas O'Loughlin), Adomnán of Iona. Theologian, lawmaker, peacemaker. Pp. 335. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010. £45. 978 1 84682 102 8

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

Álvarez-Recio, Leticia, Fighting the AntiChrist. A cultural history of anti-Catholicism in Tudor England. (Trans. by Bradley L. Drew of Rameras de Babilonia. Historia cultural del anticatolicismo en la Inglaterra Tudor, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2006.) Pp. ix+226+4 colour plates. Brighton–Portland–Toronto: Sussex Academic Press, 2011(2010). £49.95. 978 1 84519 427 7

Campbell, Gordon, Bible. The story of the King James version, 1611–2011. Pp. xiii+354 incl. 37 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. £16.99. 978 0 19 955759 2

Connor, James A., The last judgement. Michelangelo and the death of the Renaissance. Pp. xii+233+6 ills. New York–Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. £17.99. 978 0 230 60573 2

Corkery, James and Thomas Worcester (eds), The papacy since 1500. From Italian prince to universal pastor. Pp. x+275 incl. 10 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. £60 (cloth), £17.99 (paper). 978 0 521 50987 9; 978 0 521 72977 2

Garbe, Irmfried and Heinrich Kröger (eds), Johannes Bugenhagen (1485–1558). Der bischof der Reformation. Beiträge der Bugenhagen-Tagungen 2008 in Barth und Greifswald. Pp. 464 incl. 112 ills. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2010. €38. 978 3 374 02809 2

Halvorson, Michael J., Heinrich Heshusius and confessional polemic in early Lutheran orthodoxy. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xviii+372 incl. 10 figs and 8 tables. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2010. £60. 978 0 7546 6470 3

Hendrix, Scott H., Martin Luther. A very short introduction. Pp. xviii+126 incl. 2 frontispieces and 8 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £7.99 (paper). 978 0 19 957433 9

Houston, R. A., Punishing the dead? Suicide, lordship, and community in Britain, 1500–1830. Pp. xv+397 incl. 5 figs and 5 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. £75. 978 0 19 958642 4

Hunt, Arnold, The art of hearing. English preachers and their audiences, 1590–1640. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History.) Pp. viii+414+6 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. £60. 978 0 521 89676 4

Kühlmann, Wilhelm, Volker Hartmann, Susann El Kholi and Björn Spiekermann (eds), Die deutschen Humanisten. Dokumente zur Überlieferung der antiken und mittelalterlichen Literatur in der frühen Neuzeit, I: Die Kurpfalz; II: David Pareus, Johann Philipp Pareus and Daniel Pareus. (Europa Humanistica, 7.) Pp. lxiii+959. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. €65. 978 2 503 53238 7

Lausten, Martin Schwarz, Die heilige Stadt Wittenberg. Die Beziehungen des dänischen Königshauses zu Wittenberg in der Reformationszeit. (Schriften der Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt, 10.) Pp. 208 incl. 53 ills+16 colour plates. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2010. €34. 978 3 374 02723 1

Lemmings, David and Claire Walker (eds), Moral panics, the media and the law in early modern England. Pp. xi+279 incl. 6 ills. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. £55. 978 0 230 52732 4

Loades, David, The religious culture of Marian England. (Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World, 6.) Pp. viii+209. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010. £60. 978 1 85196 921 0

Mentzer, Raymond A., Françoise Moreil and Philippe Chareyre (eds), Dire l'interdit. The vocabulary of censure and exclusion in the early modern reformed tradition. (Brills' Series in Church History, 40.) Pp. xi+360. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2010. €99. 978 9004 17922 6; 1572 4107

Newstok, Scott L., Quoting death in early modern England. The poetics of epitaphs beyond the tomb. (Early Modern Literature in History.) Pp. xiv+228 incl. 13 ills. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. £50. 978 0 230 20325 9

Po-Chia Hsia, R., A Jesuit in the forbidden city. Matteo Ricci, 1552–1610. Pp. xvi+359 incl. 14 figs and 7 maps+10 colour plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £30. 978 0 19 959225 8

Poole, William, The world makers. Scientists of the Restoration and the search for the origins of the earth. (The Past and Present.) Pp. xvii+234 incl. 8 ills. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010. £30. 978 1 906165 08 6

Schneider, Carolyn M., I am a Christian. The nun, the devil, and Martin Luther. (Studies in Lutheran History and Theology.) Pp. vii+184. Minneapolis, Mn: Fortress Press, 2010. $30. 978 0 8006 9732 7

Selderhuis, Herman J. (ed.), Calvin – saint or sinner? (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation, 51.) Pp. vii+333 incl. 11 ills, 2 tables and 2 graphs. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. €89. 978 3 16 150339 9; 1865 2840

Steinmetz, David, Calvin in context. New 2nd edn. (First publ. 1995: rev. ante xlviii. 771.) Pp. xvii+302. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £17.99 (paper). 978 0 19 973638 6

Tadmor, Naomi, The social universe of the English Bible. Scripture, society, and culture in early modern England. Pp. xvi+208 incl. 18 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. £55. 978 0 521 76971 6

Thomas, Andrew L., A house divided. Wittelsbach confessional court cultures in the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1550–1650. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 150.) Pp. xi+403 incl. 1 map and 16 figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2010. €99. 978 90 04 18356 8; 1573 4188

Tulchin, Allan A., That men would praise the Lord. The triumph of Protestantism in Nîmes, 1530–1570. Pp. xxii+297 incl. 28 figs. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. £45. 978 0 19 973652 2

Modern Europe

Altnurme, Riho and others (eds), History of Estonian ecumenism. Pp. 635 incl. numerous ills. Tartu/Tallinn: University of Tartu, 2009. €20+postage (from Estonian Council of Churches, ekn@ekn.ee). 978 9949 18 689 1

Barr, Colin, The European culture wars in Ireland. The Callan schools affair, 1868–81. Pp. xiii+306. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2010. £42.50 (€50). 978 1 906359 53 9

Breul, Wolfgang, Marcus Meier and Lothar Vogel (eds), Der radikale Pietismus. Perspektiven der Forschung. (Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Pietismus, 55.) Pp. 480. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010. €70. 978 3 525 55839 3

Broadley, Martin John (ed.), Bishop Herbert Vaughan and the Jesuits. Education and authority. (Catholic Record Society Publications, 82.) Pp. xxxvii+248 incl. 7 frontispieces. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Catholic Record Society), 2010. £45. 978 0 902832 25 1

Byrne, Georgina, Modern spiritualism and the Church of England, 1850–1939. (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 25.) Pp. xi+255. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010. £55. 978 1 84383 589 9

Fergusson, David (ed.), The Blackwell companion to nineteenth-century theology. (Blackwell Companions to Religion.) Pp. xiii+534. Malden–Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. £110. 9780 631 21718 3

Greschat, Martin, Der Protestantismus in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (1945–2005). (Kirchengeschichte in Einzeldarstellungen, iv/2.) Pp. 248. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2010. €38. 978 3 374 02498 8

Hodsdon, James (ed.), The court books of the manor of Cheltenham 1692–1803. (Gloucestershire Record Series, 24.) Pp. lx+621 incl. 3 frontispieces. Cheltenham: The Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2010. £30+£6 overseas post and packing from Miss P. C. Bath, 17 Escourt Road, Gloucester GL1 3LU. 978 0 900197 765

Kehoe, S. Karly, Creating a Scottish Church. Catholicism, gender and ethnicity in nineteenth-century Scotland. Pp. xii+206 incl. 1 map, 18 figs and 14 tables. Manchester–New York: Manchester University Press, 2010. £60. 978 0 7190 8078 4

Lehner, Ulrich L. and Michael Printy (eds), A companion to the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 20.) Pp. v+463. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2010. €104. 978 90 04 18351 3; 1871 6377

Leustean, Lucian N. (ed.), Eastern Christianity and the Cold War, 1945–91. (Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe, 11.) Pp. xvii+363. London–New York: Routledge, 2010. £85. 978 0 415 47197 8

Monod, Paul, Murray Pittock and Daniel Szechi (eds), Loyalty and identity. Jacobites at home and abroad. Pp. xxi+269 incl. 10 ills and 2 tables. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. £55. 978 0 230 22257 1

Sell, Alan P. F., Four philosophical Anglicans. W. G. de Burgh, W. R. Matthews, O. C. Quick, H. A. Hodges. Pp. xi+327. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2010. £55. 978 1 4094 0059 2

Steinhoff, Anthony J., The gods of the city. Protestantism and religious culture in Strasbourg, 1870–1914. (Studies in Central European Histories, 43.) Pp. xviii+516 incl. 19 figs and 8 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2008. €129. 978 90 04 16405 5; 1547 1217

Tyndale, Wendy R., Protestants in communist East Germany. In the storm of the world. Pp. xxvii+189. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2010. £40. 978 1 4094 0610 5

Van Tongeren, Louis, Marcel Barnard, Paul Post and Gerard Rouwhorst, Patterns and persons. A historiography of liturgical studies in the Netherlands in the twentieth century. (Liturgia Condenda.) Pp. viii+500 incl. 46 ills. Leuven–Paris–Walpole: Peeters, 2010. €59 (paper). 978 0 429 2301 0

Waddy, Helena, Oberammergau in the Nazi era. The fate of a Catholic village in Hitler's Germany. Pp. xiii+335 incl. 20 figs. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. £22.50. 978 0 19 537127 7

Africa, Asia and Australasia

Bautista, Julius and Francis Khek Gee Lim (eds), Christianity and the state in Asia. Complicity and conflict. (Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy, 4.) Pp. xi+219 incl. 4 figs. London–New York: Routledge, 2009. £85. 978 0 415 48069 7

Kirsch, Thomas G., Spirits and letters. Reading, writing and charisma in African Christianity. Pp. xii+274 incl. 7 ills. New York–Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008. £45. 978 1 84545 483 8

Klaits, Frederick, Death in a Church of life. Moral passion during Botswana's time of AIDS. (The Anthropology of Christianity, 8.) Pp. xvi+352 incl. 2 maps, 4 figs and 1 table. Berkeley–Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010. £41.95 (cloth), £16.95 (paper). 978 0 520 25965 2; 978 0 520 25966 9

Legrand, Hervé and Giuseppe Maria Croce (eds), L'Œuvre d'orient. Solidarités anciennes et nouveaux défis. (L'histoire à vif.) Pp. 30. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2010. €28 (paper). 978 2 204 09085 8; 0299 2833

O'Mahony, Anthony and Emma Loosley (eds), Eastern Christianity in the modern Middle East. (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East.) Pp. xiii+191. London–New York: Routledge, 2010. £75. 978 0 415 54803 8

Paramore, Kiri, Ideology and Christianity in Japan. (Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics and History, 4.) Pp. ix+230. London–New York: Routledge, 2009. £23.50 (paper). 978 0 415 44356 3

The Americas

Bailey, Gauvin Alexander, The Andean hybrid baroque. Convergent cultures in the churches of colonial Peru. (History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds.) Pp. xix+642+172 colour plates. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. $75. 978 0 268 02222 8

Campbell, Ted A., Wesleyan beliefs. Formal and popular expressions of the core beliefs of Wesleyan communities. Pp. xiii+318. Nashville, Tn: Kingswood Books, 2010. $49 (paper). 978 1 4267 1136 7

Christie, Nancy and Michael Gauvreau, Christian Churches and their peoples, 1840–1965. A social history of religion in Canada. (Themes in Canadian History, 9.) Pp. x+233. Toronto–Buffalo–London: University of Toronto Press, 2010. £18 (paper). 978 0 8020 8949 6, 978 0 8020 8632 7

Hankins, Barry, Jesus and gin. Evangelicalism, the roaring twenties and today's culture wars. Pp. 252. New York–Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. £16.50. 978 0 230 61419 2

Hanks, William F., Converting words. Maya in the age of the cross. (The Anthropology of Christianity, 6.) Pp. xxiii+441 incl. frontispiece, 2 figs and 17 maps+16 black-and-white plates. Berkeley–Los Angeles–London: University of California Press, 2010. £48.95 (cloth), £20.95 (paper). 978 0 520 25770 2; 978 0 520 25771 9

O'Neill, Kevin Lewis, City of God. Christian citizenship in postwar Guatemala. (The Anthropology of Christianity, 7.) Pp. xxix+278. Berkeley–Los Angeles–London: University of California Press, 2010. £37.95 (cloth), £14.95 (paper). 978 0 520 26062 7; 978 0 520 26063 4

Rice, Daniel F. (ed.), Reinhold Niebuhr revisited. Engagements with an American original. Pp. xxv+377. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2009. £17.99 ($26) (paper). 978 0 8028 6257 0

Sack, Daniel, Moral re-armament. The reinventions of an American religious movement. Pp. xi+230 incl. 2 figs. New York–Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. £52. 978 0 312 29327 7

General: Modern world

Anderson, Allan, Michael Bergunder, André Droogers and Cornelis van der Laan (eds), Studying global Pentecostalism. Theories and methods. Pp. viii+327. Berkeley–Los Angeles–London: University of California Press, 2010. £16.95 (paper). 978 0 420 26661 2; 978 0 520 26662 9

Guasco, Alberto and Raffaella Perin (eds), Pius XI. Keywords. International conference Milan 2009. (Christianity and History, 7.) Pp. iv+432 incl. 22 figs and 2 tables. Zurich: LIT, 2010. €34.90 (paper). 978 3 643 90027 2

Howard, Ken, Paradoxy. Creating Christian community beyond us and them. Pp. xxix+210. Brewster, Ma: Paraclete Press, 2010. £16.99 (paper). 978 1 55725 775 8

Twesigye, Emmanuel K., Religion, politics and cults in East Africa. God's warriors and Mary's saints. (Bible and Theology in Africa, 11.) Pp. xvi+263. New York: Peter Lang, 2010. £23.10. 978 1 4331 0995 9; 978 1 4331 1112 9; 1525 9846