Recently added articles from Church History:
Behold the Man: Jesus and Greco-Roman Masculinity.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000535 Behold the Man: Jesus and Greco-Roman Masculinity. By Colleen M. Conway. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii + 258 pp. $65.00 cloth. In the early twentieth century, churchmen such as Warren Conant sought to virilize ...
Inventing Superstition from the Hippocratics to the Christians.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000547 Inventing Superstition from the Hippocratics to the Christians. By Dale B. Martin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. xii + 307 pp. $18.95 paper. This book has many unique characteristics, from its subject ...
Debate and Dialogue: Christian and Pagan Cultures, c. 360-430.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000559 Debate and Dialogue: Christian and Pagan Cultures, c. 360-430. By Maijastina Kahlos. Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology, and Biblical Studies. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2007. x + 215 pp. $99.95 cloth. Maijastina Kahlos ...
The Eusebians: The Polemic of Athanasius of Alexandria and the Construction of the "Arian Controversy.".(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000560 The Eusebians: The Polemic of Athanasius of Alexandria and the Construction of the "Arian Controversy." By David M. Gwynn. Oxford Theological Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xv + 286 pp. $85.00 cloth. The ...
Lay Intellectuals in the Carolingian World.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000572 Lay Intellectuals in the Carolingian World. Edited by Patrick Wormald and Janet L. Nelson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv + 266 pp. $110.00 cloth. On the face of it, the Carolingian "lay intellectual" would seem an ...
The Latin Church in Norman Italy.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000584 The Latin Church in Norman Italy. By G. A. Loud. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xviii + 581 pp. $140.00 cloth. Being a fruit of many years of research, The Latin Church in Norman Italy is a true gem of scholarship by a ...
Crusading Spirituality in the Holy Land and Iberia, c. 1095-c. 1187.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000596 Crusading Spirituality in the Holy Land and Iberia, c. 1095-c. 1187. By William J. Purkis. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell, 2008. xii + 215 pp. $90.00 cloth. In this lucid and measured monograph, William Purkis seeks to define a distinctive ...
History and the Supernatural in Medieval England.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000602 History and the Supernatural in Medieval England. By Carl S. Watkins. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series 66. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii + 277 pp. $99.00 cloth. This important book is marked ...
The Culture of Medieval English Monasticism.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000614 The Culture of Medieval English Monasticism. Edited by James G. Clark. Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 30. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell, 2007. xvi + 224 pp. $85.00 cloth. This collection of essays appreciative of English medieval ...
Monasteries and Society in the British Isles in the Later Middle Ages.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000626 Monasteries and Society in the British Isles in the Later Middle Ages. Edited by Janet Burton and Karen Stober. Studies in the History of Medieval Religion XXXV. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell, 2008. xiv + 258 pp. $95.00 cloth. The fifteen ...
Art and the Augustinian Order in Early Renaissance Italy.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000638 Art and the Augustinian Order in Early Renaissance Italy. Edited by Louise Bourdua and Anne Dunlop. Church, Faith, and Culture in the Medieval West. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. xvi + 236 pp. $99.95 cloth. Art historians Louise Bourdua and Anne ...
Nuns: A History of Convent Life, 1450-1700.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... doi: 10.1017/S000964070900064X Nuns: A History of Convent Life, 1450-1700. By Silvia Evangelisti. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. x + 303 pp. $21.95 cloth. One of the achievements of Silvia Evangelisti's book on nuns in the early modem era is that readers will come away ...
Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, and Light: The Churches of Northern New Spain, 1530-1821.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000651 Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, and Light: The Churches of Northern New Spain, 1530-1821. By Gloria Fraser Giffords. The Southwest Center Series. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007. xiv + 467 pp. $75.00 cloth. This impressive volume is an ...
Pastoral Quechua: The History of Christian Translation in Colonial Peru, 1550-1650.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000663 Pastoral Quechua: The History of Christian Translation in Colonial Peru, 1550-1650. By Alan Durston. History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. ix + 395 pp. $42.00 paper. ...
Hobbes, Bramhall and the Politics of Liberty and Necessity: A Quarrel of the Civil Wars and Interregnum.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000675 Hobbes, Bramhall and the Politics of Liberty and Necessity: A Quarrel of the Civil Wars and Interregnum. By Nicholas D. Jackson. Cambridge Studies in Early Modem British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvii + 331 pp. $104.00 cloth. ...
Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000687 Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America. Edited by A. G. Roeber. Max Kade German-American Research Institute Series. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. xxiv + 217 pp. $45.00 ...
The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000699 The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America. By John Fea. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 272 pp. $39.95 cloth. Most immediately, John Fea's The Way of ...
A Paradise of Reason: William Bentley and Enlightenment Christianity in the Early Republic.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000705 A Paradise of Reason: William Bentley and Enlightenment Christianity in the Early Republic. By J. Rixey Ruffin. Religion in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. x + 267 pp. $65.00 cloth. Although Reverend William Bentley (1759-1819) of ...
The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000717 The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia. By Charles F. Irons. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xiv + 366. $24.94 paper. In the kind of detailed study ...
Catholic and French Forever: Religious and National Identity in Modern France.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000729 Catholic and French Forever: Religious and National Identity in Modern France. By Joseph F. Byrnes. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. xxiii + 280 pp. $55.00 cloth. Although secular republicanism remains a ...