Ancient world

Alimi, Toni, Slaves of God. Augustine and other Romans on religion and politics. Pp. xx + 307. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2024. £30. 978 0 691 24423 5

Devlin, Rebecca A., Bishops, community and authority in late Roman society. Northwestern Hispania, c.370–470 C.E. (Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia.) Pp. 409 incl. 18 figs. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. £150. 978 94 6372 915 4

Fernández, Samuel and Alfons Fürst (eds), Clavis Origenis. (Adamantiana, 30.) Pp. 303. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2024. €59. 978 3 402 13771 0

Fredriksen, Paula, Ancient Christianities. The first five hundred years. Pp. xxiv + 263 incl. 3 maps. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2024. £25. 978 0 691 15769 6

Frey, Jörg and Tobias Nicklas (eds), Das Johannesevangelium in antic-christlicher Rezeption. (History of Biblical Exegesis, 7.) Pp. viii + 405. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024. €109 (paper). 978 3 16 163928 9

Kinzig, Wolfram and Thomas Brüggemann (eds), Concilium Universale Ephesenum. I: Von den Anfängen der nestorianischen Streitigkeiten bis zur Einberufung des Konzils. (Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum Translationes, 1.) Pp. lvi + 540. Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter, 2024. £136.50. 978 3 11 133993 1

Lieu, Samuel N. C. and Enrico Morano (eds), Varia Manichaica. (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum. Analecta Manichaica, III.) Pp. xii + 288 incl. 71 colour ills, 5 tables and 16 colour plates. Turnhout, Brepols, 2023. €120. 978 2 503 60426 8

Szada, Marta, Conversion and the contest of creeds in early medieval Christianity. Pp. xiv + 360. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £105. 978 1 009 42644 2

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

Arnold, John H., The making of lay religion in southern France, c.1000–1350. (Studies in Medieval European History.) Pp. xx + 524 incl. 13 ills and 3 maps. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. £130. 978 0 19 287176 3

Berend, Nora, Stephen I. The first Christian king of Hungary. From medieval myth to modern legend. (Studies in Medieval European History.) Pp. xii + 254 incl. 5 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. £90. 978 0 19 888934 2

Bériou, Nicole and Christoph T. Maier (ed. and trans.), Philip the chancellor and Eudes of Châteauroux. Nine sermons on crusade and heresy, 1226–1231. (Medieval Texts.) Pp. lxxxv + 201. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. £130. 978 0 19 892139 4

Hamm, Berndt, Religiöse Dynamik zwischen 1380 und 1520. (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation, 140.) Pp. xxii + 593 incl. 47 colour and black-and-white ills. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024. €119. 978 3 16 163734 6

Massetti, Francesco, Leo IX. und die papstgeschichtliche Wende (1049–1054). (Papsttum im mittelalterlichen Europa, 13.) Pp. 759. Wien: Böhlau, 2025. €120. 978 3 412 53040 2

Roche, Maurice F., The Latin lives of St Laurence of Dublin. Pp. xviii + 430 incl. 22 colour and black-and-white ills. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2024. €50. 978 1 80151 123 0

Roosien, Mark, Ritual and earthquakes in Constantinople. Pp. xi + 204 incl. 1 colour ill. and 1 map. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £85. 978 1 009 42728 9

Sulovsky, Vedran, Making the Holy Roman Empire holy. Frederick Barbarossa, Saint Charlemagne and the sacrum imperium. (Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, Fourth Series.) Pp. xiv + 383 incl. 52 ills and 1 table. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £100. 978 1 009 20348 7

Sykes, Katharine, Symbolic reproduction in early medieval England. Secular and monastic households. (Past and Present Book Series.) Pp. x + 229. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. £76. 978 0 19 284475 0

Williams, Bernadette (ed.), The Dublin annals of Prior John de Pembridge OP and his Dominican continuator. An account of Irish affairs, 1162–1370. (Trinity Medieval Ireland Series, 6.) Pp. xiv + 301 incl. 5 ills. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2024. €55. 978 1 84682 965 9

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

Balserak, Jon, Geneva’s use of lies, deceit, and subterfuge, 1536–1563. Telling the old, old story in Reformation France. (Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. x + 326 incl. 2 ills and 1 table. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. £86. 978 0 19 767230 3

Corbellini, Sabrina, Wim François and Renske Hoff (eds), In readers’ hands. New perspectives on premodern Bibles in Europe. (Studies on Art, Art History and Intellectual History, 78.) Pp. xvi + 416 incl. 67 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2025. €119. 978 90 04 71411 3; 1878 9018

Hanusiewicz-Lavallee, Mirosława, The call of Albion. Protestants, Jesuits, and British literature in Poland-Lithuania, 1567–1775. (Jesuit Studies, 45.) Pp. x + 468. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €143. 978 90 04 46026 3; 2214 3289

Hoff, Renske A., Involving readers. Practices of reading, use, and interaction in early modern Dutch Bibles (1522–1546). (Library of the Written Word, 129; Handpress World, 106.) Pp. xviii + 331 incl. 60 colour and black-and-white ills and 1 table. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2025. €128. 978 90 04 69651 8; 1874 4834

McNutt, Jennifer Powell and Herman J. Selderhuis, The Oxford handbook of the Bible and the Reformation. Pp. xxvi + 748 incl. 18 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. £146. 978 0 19 875318 6

Pastore, Stefania (trans. Consuelo López-Morillas), An invisible thread. Heresy, mass conversions, and the inquisition in the Kingdom of Castile (1449–1559). (Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 85.) Pp. x + 337. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €109. 978 90 04 70755 9; 1569 1934

Twining, Timothy, The limits of erudition. The Old Testament in post-Reformation Europe. (Ideas in Context.) Pp. xiv + 340. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £105. 978 1 009 46095 8

Wubs, Jacolien, To proclaim, to instruct and to discipline. The visuality of texts in Calvinist churches in the Dutch Republic. (Arts and Confession in the Early Modern Period, 8.) Pp. 455 incl. 238 colour and black-and-white figs. Regensburg: Schnell and Steiner, 2024. €50. 978 3 7954 3829 6

Modern Europe

Alonso, Gregorio and Claudio Hernàndez Burgos (eds), The soul of the nation. Catholicism and nationalization in modern Spain. (Studies in Latin American and Spanish History, 11.) Pp. viii + 235 incl. 1 table. New York–Oxford: Berghahn, 2024. £99. 978 1 80539 597 3

Bebbington, David and David Ceri Jones (eds), Evangelicalism and dissent in modern England and Wales. (Studies in Evangelicalism.) Pp. xii + 218. New York–London: Routledge, 2021. £31.99 (paper). 978 0 367 54961 9

Blaschke, Olaf., Guido Hitze, Manfred Körber, Markus Köster, Georg Mölich and Julia Paulus (eds), Gefährdete Demokratie. Rechtskatholizismus in der Weimarer Republik. (Forschungen zur Regionalgeschichte, 90.) Pp. viii + 379 incl. 10 graphs. Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2024. €64. 978 3 506 79483 3; 2629 7221

Böntert, Stefan, Christopher Tschorn and Stefan Winter (eds), Grenzgänge. Beiträge für eine Liturgiewissenschaft zwischen akademischem Diskurs, pluraler Kultur und kirchlichem Leben. Pp. 312 incl. 6 colour ills. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2025. €58. 978 3 402 25095 5

Denoël, Yvonnick (trans. Alan McKay), Vatican spies from the Second World War to Pope Francis. Pp. vi + 488. London: Hurst & Company, 2024. £25. 978 1 911723 40 0

Künster, Maximilian, Das Mainzer Priesterseminar, 1933–1945. Priesterausbildung, Kriegsterfahrung und Kriegsdeutung. (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Zeitgeschichte.) Pp. xiv + 391 incl. 11 ills and 4 tables. Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2025. €89. 978 3 506 796882; 2629 7396

Printy, Michael, Enlightenment’s Reformation. Religion and philosophy in Germany, 1750–1830. (Ideas in Context.) Pp. x + 275. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £85. 978 1 009 49406 9

Short, Edward, Newman and his critics. Pp. xvi + 594. Leominster: Gracewing, 2024. £35. 978 0 85244 722 2

Slavkova, Magdalena, Conversion, leadership and identity of the evangelical Roma in Bulgaria. (Roma History and Culture, 5.) Pp. xxvi + 226 incl. 29 colour and black-and-white figs. Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2025. €79. 978 3 506 79142 9; 2702 5020

Wertheimer, Douglas, Philip Henry Gosse. A biography. (Studies in Brethren History Subsidia.) Pp. xxvi + 717 incl. 16 colour and black-and-white ills. Glasgow: BAHN, 2024. £30 (paper). 978 1 73912 832 6

Africa, Asia and Australasia

De Jong, Klaas-Willem and Wim Moehn (eds), De Nederlandse gereformeerde Liturgie, 1566–1639. De teksten en hun dynamiek. Ceremonien ende Ghebeden. Pp. 665 incl. 26 colour and black-and-white ills and 8 tables. Hilversum, Uitgeverij Verloren, 2024. €45. 978 946455 126 6

Kong, Wong Man and George Kam Wah Mak (eds), Christianity and education in modern China. Pp. viii + 313 incl. 2 figs and 3 tables. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2025. £65. 978 988 8842 99 5

The Americas

Betancourt, Juan F. Cobo, The coming of the kingdom. The Muisca, Catholic reform, and Spanish colonialism in the new kingdom of Granada. (Latin American Studies, 2024.) Pp. xx + 350 incl. 8 ills and 3 maps. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £105. 978 1 009 31405 3

General : Modern world

Koschorke, Klaus, A short history of Christianity beyond the West. Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450–2000. (Theology and Mission in World Christianity, 31.) Pp. xxvi + 374 incl. 57 colour and black-and-white ills and 19 maps. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2025. €40. 978 90 04 69982 3; 2452 2953