General

Eire, Carlos, They flew. A history of the impossible. Pp. xx + 492 incl. frontispiece and 54 figs. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2023. £16.99. 978 0 300 25980 3

Jotischky, Andrew, The monastic world. A 1,200 year history. Pp. xii + 410 incl. 16 ills. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2024. £25. 978 0 300 20856 6

Ó Riain, Pádraig, A dictionary of Irish saints. Second edition. Pp. 683. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2025 (first publ. 2011). €65. 978 1 80151 162 9

Rollo-Koster, Joëlle, Robert A. Ventresca, Melodie H. Eichbauer and Miles Pattenden (eds), The Cambridge history of the papacy, I: The two swords; II: The governance of the Church; III: Civil society. Pp. x + 827; xii + 730 incl. 3 ills, 2 maps and 2 tables; x + 801 incl. 24 ills and 1 table. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2025. £310. 97. 8 1 108 68095 0

Ancient world

Cielontko, David, Tobias Nicklas and Jan N. Bremmer (eds), The infancy gospel of Thomas. (Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha, 23.) Pp. xiv + 212 incl. 8 tables. Leuven–Bristol, Ct: Peeters, 2025. €65. 978 90 429 5402 1

Daley, Brian E., Biblical interpretation and doctrine in early Christianity. Collected essays. Pp. x + 503 incl. frontispiece. Grand Rapids, Mi: William B. Eerdmans, 2025. £65.99. 978 0 8028 8342 1

Géhin, Paul, Évagre le Pontique. Lettres. Lettre sur la foi, corpus des 62 lettres et grande letter. (Sources Chrétiennes, 652.) Pp. 648. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2025. €59 (paper). 978 2 204 16441 2; 0750 1978

Maas, Michael, The conqueror’s gift. Roman ethnography and the end of antiquity. Pp. xx + 433 incl. 6 figs and 3 maps. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2025. £42. 978 0 691 25902 4

Nauroy, Gérard, Ambroise de Milan. Lettres, V: (70–77). (Sources Chrétiennes, 639.) Pp. 675. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2025. €59 (paper). 978 2 204 15532 8; 0750 1978

Presley, Stephen O., Biblical theology in the life of the Early Church. Recovering an ancient vision. Pp. xii + 204. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2025. $24.99 (paper). 978 1 5409 6641 4

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

Jordan, Alyce A. and Kay Brainerd Slocum (eds), Images of Thomas Becket in the Middle Ages and beyond. The uses of reception of a celebrity saint. Pp. xvi + 378 incl. 100 colour and black-and-white ills. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2025. £115. 978 1 83765 –44 6

Jusupović, A., A. Paroń and A. Vukovich (eds), Christian Rus in the making, I: Politics and culture; II: Textual production. (World of the Slavs, 1.) Pp. xlvi + 237, vi + 239–457 incl. 2 frontispieces, 24 colour figs. Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2025, $164. 978 3 506 79480 2; 2942 044X

Manoukian, Abel H., The deaconesses of the Armenian Church. (Studia Oecumenica Friburgensia, 113.) Pp. 192 incl. 62 colour and black-and-white ills. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2024. €38 (paper). 978 3 402 12276 1

Marx, Alexander, The preaching of the Third Crusade (1187–1192). The early University of Paris, biblical exegesis, and the coming apocalypse. (Commentaria, 16.) Pp. xvi + 597 incl. 11 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €138. 978 90 04 70752 8; 1874 8236

Miller, Andrew G., Patronage, power, and masculinity in medieval England. A microhistory of a bishop’s and knight’s contest over the church of Thame. (Microhistories.) Pp. xxii + 246 incl. 9 ills. London–New York: Routledge, 2023. £38.99 (paper). 978 1 032 29075 1

Radle, Gabriel, Marriage in Byzantium. Christian liturgical rites from betrothal to consummation. Pp. xvi + 452 incl. 36 colour ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £105. 978 1 009 46956 2

Rossi, Maria Alessia, Visualizing Christ’s miracles in late Byzantium. Art, theology, and court culture. Pp. xxviii + 337 incl. 103 colour and black-and-white ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £85. 978 1 009 38762 0

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

Houliston, Victor, Thomas M McGoog, Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Javier Burrieza Sánchez and Ginevra Crosignani (eds), The correspondence and unpublished papers of Robert Persons, SJ, II: 1588–1597. (Studies and Texts, 235; Catholic and Recusant Texts of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods, 6.) Pp. xx + 916 incl. 4 maps. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2024. £150. 978 0 88844 235 2

Hunt, Arnold, Protestant bodies. Gesture in the English Reformation. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) Pp. xii + 359 incl. 13 ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2025. £105. 978 1 108 84171 9

Little, Patrick (ed.), The Church of Ireland under the Stuarts. Pp. 214 incl. 8 ills and 7 tables. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2025. €55. 978 1 80151 088 2

Macfarlane, Kirsten, Lay learning and the Bible in the seventeenth–century Atlantic world. (The Bible and the Humanities.) Pp. xii + 257 incl. 3 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. £99. 978 0 19 893309 0

Minnich, Nelson H., The Renaissance papacy, 1400–1600. (Renaissance Society of America. Texts and Studies Series, 22.) Pp. xvi + 414 incl. 24 colour ills and 4 maps. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2025. €165. 978 90 04 44956 5; 2212 3091

Schlichter, Felix, Mythology, chronology, idolatry. Pagan antiquity and the biblical text in the scholarly world of Guillaume Bonjour (1670–1714). (Studies in Intellectual History, 355.) Pp. xviii + 402. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2025. €135. 978 90 04 68495 9; 0920 8607

Silva, Felipe Boechat Asseruy, Dutch reformed orthodoxy and Islam. Culture, polemic and theology. (Reformed Historical Theology, 79.) Pp. 320 incl. 11 ills. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2025. €120. 978 3 525 56098 3

Smith, Paul, Catholics and the law in restoration Ireland. (Studies in Early Modern Irish History.) Pp. viii + 236. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2025. £85. 978 1 5261 7636 6

Voak, Nigel, Richard Hooker, the rule of faith, and the rise of religious evidentialism. (Reformed Historical Theology, 80.) Pp. 443 incl. frontispiece. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2025. €140. 978 3 525 50207 5

Modern Europe

Davis, Stephen M. (foreword Michael A. G. Haykin), The war of the Camisards (1702–1704). Huguenot insurrection during the reign of Louis XIV. Pp. xviii + 106. Eugene, Or: Wipf and Stock, 2024. £16 (paper). 978 8 3852 2902 4

King, Benjamin J., The Oxford movement and the people of God. Enslavement, education and empire. (Christian Theology in Context.) Pp. xii + 300. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. £99. 978 0 19 873956 2

Kousouris, Dimitris, The island of the pope. Catholics in the Aegean Archipelago between empire and nation-state, 1770–1830. Pp. xiv + 211 incl. 3 ills and 5 maps. New York–Oxford: Berghahn, 2025. £104. 978 1 80539 859 2

Maryks, Robert Aleksander and Jotham Parsons (eds) (trans. Jotham Parson and Patricia M. Ranum), France and the destruction of the Jesuits, 1759–65. (Jesuit Studies, 46; Anti-Jesuit Literature, 2.) Pp. vi + 236. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2025. €100. 978 90 04 46249 6; 2214 3289

Sfendules, Pierre, Modernes Frühchristentum. Christian C. J. Bunsens Hippolytuswerk als Programmschrift des 19. Jahrhunderts. (Beiträge zur historischen Theologie, 208.) Pp. xvi + 296 incl. 7 tables. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024. €119 (paper). 978 3 16 163445 1

Strathern, Alan, Converting rulers. Global patterns, 1450–1850. Pp. xvi + 481 incl. 5 ills, 5 maps and 2 tables. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £37.99 (paper). 978 1 108 70210 2

Yelton, Michael, Anglo-Catholicism and the Church of Ireland. (Occasional Papers by the Anglo-Catholic History Society, 25.) Pp. iv + 229 incl. 32 colour and black-and-white ills. Oxford: Anglo–Catholic History Society, 2025. £17. 978 1 9163276 6 5

Africa, Asia and Australasia

Jackson, Kyle, The Mizo discovery of the British Raj. Empire and religion in northeast India, 1890–1920. Pp. xvi + 270 incl. 60 ills and 2 maps. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. £85. 978 1 009 26734 2

Joby, Christopher, Christian mission in seventeenth-century Taiwan. A reception history of texts, beliefs, and practices. (Taiwan Studies, 3.) Pp. xx + 465 incl. 26 colour figs, 2 maps and 10 tables. Boston: Brill, 2025. €179. 978 90 04 71634 6; 2589 3939

The Americas

Granquist, Mark A., A history of Christianity in America. Pp. xvi + 382 incl. 54 ills. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2025. $44.99. 978 1 5409 6331 4

General: Modern world

Brejon de Lavergnée, Matthieu, Beyond frontiers. History of the Daughters of Charity. 19th–20th centuries. Pp. 651 incl. 35 colour and black-and-white ills and 46 tables. New York: New City Press, 2024. $79. 978 1 56548 627 0

Catto, Michela and Eleonora Rai (eds), From Europe to overseas. Saints, martyrs, heroes, models and soft power in an early modern global perspective. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 105.) Pp. 358 incl. 37 colour and black-and-white ills and 1 table. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2025. €140. 978 3 525 50205 1

Ferracci, Luca (ed.) (directed by Alberto Melloni), A history of the desire for Christian unity. Ecumenism in the Churches, 19th–21st century, II: Paths towards communion. (A History of the Desire for Christian Unity.) Pp xviii + 983. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €199. 978 90 04 44851 3. 2665 900X