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Complexities of context: Gerson, Bellarmine, Sarpi, Richer, and the Venetian Interdict of 1606-1607

Jul 01, 1996; ... FRANcis OAKLEY* You Papists, though your brawles be endlesse one with another, Canonists against Schoole-men; Franciscans against Dominicks; Nominals against Reals; Thomas against Lumbard; Scotus against Thomas; Occam against Scotus;Alliacensis against Occam; Peter Scot against Catharine; ...

Defending the true faith: Kirk, State, and Catholic missioners in Scotland, 1653-1755

Jul 01, 1996; ... DANIEL SZECHI* In March, 1708, the Scottish Privy Council was meeting daily in emergency session in a frantic attempt to put the kingdom in a defensible state before the Franco-Jacobite invasion poised to strike from Dunkirk could arrive in Scotland. While examining reports from ...

Humanism in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century libraries of New Spain

Jul 01, 1996; ... W. MICHAEL MATHES* The final decades of the fifteenth century witnessed revolutionary changes in the political, cultural, and technological development of western Europe. On the Iberian peninsula the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon were politically unified in 1469 through the marriage of ...

H. A. Reinhold: Liturgical pioneer and anti-fascist

Jul 01, 1996; ... JAY P. CORRIN* His was one of the classical cases of the pioneer unnoticed, the inventor whose rightful rewards are reaped by others, the humble hero who goes through life unknown, unhonored and unsung and whose place is left to history. (Msgr. George W Casey on Father H. A. Reinhold, ...

Matriculation books at medieval universities

Jul 01, 1996; ... Les Matricules Universitaires. By Jacques Paquet. [Typologie des Sources du Moyen Age Occidental, Fasc. 65.] (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. 1992. Pp. 149. Paperback.) The medieval college or university Matricula is the Latin name (Matrikel in German, matricule in French) of an official ...

Ignatius of Loyola and a new direction for the history of the Jesuits

Jul 01, 1996; ... Ignatius of Loyola: The Psychology of a Saint. By W W Meissner, S.J. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 1992. Pp. xxx, 480. $45.00 clothbound; $ 18.00 paperback.) In the period since the 1992 publication of W. W. Meissner's Ignatius of Loyola: The Psychology of a Saint, two significant ...

Pontiffs: Popes Who Shaped History

Jul 01, 1996; ... Pontiffs:Popes Who Shaped History. By John Jay Hughes. (Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division. 1994. Pp. 320. $16.95 paperback.) This book is intended to let the reader know that, while popes may be "infallible," they are not above making mistakes. In one readable ...

The Irish Penitentials and Their Significance for the Sacrament of Penance Today

Jul 01, 1996; ... The Irish Penitentials and Their Significance for the Sacrament of Penance Today. By Hugh Connolly. (Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Four Courts Press. Distributed by International Specialized Book Services, Inc., 5804 N.E. Hassalo Street, Portland, OR 97213-3644. 1995. Pp. xii, 256. $45.00.) In ...

Strategie Missionnaire du Saint-Siege sous Leon XIII (1878-1903). Centralisation romaine et defis culturels

Jul 01, 1996; ... Strategie Missionnaire du Saint-Siege sous Leon XIII (1878-1903). Centralisation romaine et defis culturels. By Claude Prudhomme. [Collection de l'Ecole Francaise de Rome, 186.] (Rome: Ecole Francaise de Rome, Palais Fame se. 1994. Pp. iv, 621. Paperback.) This very long and detailed ...

Il 75th anniversario del Pontificio Istituto Orientale. Atti delle celebrazioni giubilari, 15-17 ottobre 1992

Jul 01, 1996; ... Il anniversario del Pontificio Istituto Orientale. Atti delle celebrazioni giubilari, IS-17 ottobre 1992. Edited by Robert E. Taft, SJ., and James Lee Dugan, SJ. [Orientalia Christiana Analecta, 244.] (Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale.1994. Pp. 320. Paperback.) The Pontifical ...

Vatican Radio: Propagation by the Airwaves

Jul 01, 1996; ... Vatican Radio: Propagation by the Airwaves. By Marilyn J. Matelski. [Media and Society Series.] (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger. 1995. Pp. xx, 199. $55.00.) Radio HVJ, "H" for Holy See, "V" for Vatican, and "J" for Jesus Christ, has for almost three-quarters of a century served the pope ...

Likeness and Prescence: A History of the Image before the Era of Art

Jul 01, 1996; ... Likeness and Presence:A History of the Image before the Era of Art. By Hans Belting. Translated by Edmund Jephcott. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1994. Pp. xxiv,651; 12 color plates. $65.00.) This book undertakes a monumental operation, the description of the visual direction ...

The Immaculate Conception in Spanish Art

Jul 01, 1996; ... The Immaculate Conception in Spanish Art. By Suzanne L. Stratton. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 1994. Pp. xvi, 176; 8 color plates. $55.00.) In recent years a number of books have appeared which explore the relationship between art and theology. When written by scholars with ...

For Matters of Greater Moment: The First Thirty Jesuit General Congregations: A Brief History and a Translation of the Decrees

Jul 01, 1996; ... For Matters of Greater Moment: The First Thirty Jesuit General Congregations:A Brief History and a Translation of the Decrees. Edited by John W Padberg, SJ., Martin D. O'Keefe, SJ., and John L. McCarthy, SJ. [Jesuit Primary Sources in English Translations, Series I, Number 12.] (St. Louis: ...

Katholiken, Kirche und Staat als Problem der Historie: Ausgewahlte Aufsatze 1963-1992

Jul 01, 1996; ... Katholiken, Kirche und Staat als Problem der Historie: Ausgewahlte Aufsatze 1963-1992. By Heinz Hurten. Edited by Hubert Gruber. (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh. 1994. Pp. viii, 342.) This selection of Professor Hurten's articles, compiled by friends and colleagues into a commemorative ...

The Rise and Decline of Catholic Religious Orders: A Social Movement Perspective

Jul 01, 1996; ... The Rise and Decline of Catholic Religious Orders: A Social Movement Perspective. By Patricia Wittberg, S.C. (Albany: The State University of New York Press. 1994. Pp. xii, 423. $19.95 paperback.) Wittberg's is a thought-provoking analysis, from a sociological perspective, of cycles of ...

Intransigeance ou compromis: Sociologie et histoire du catholicisme actuel

Jul 01, 1996; ... Intransigeance ou compromis: Sociologie et histoire du catholicisme actuel. By Paul-Andre Turcotte. [Heritage et Projet, 51.] (Quebec, Canada: Editions Fides. 1994. Pp. 464. $39.95 paperback). The author combines sociological and historical methods to analyze the problems and ...

Martyrdom and Rome

Jul 01, 1996; ... Martyrdom and Rome. By Glen W Bowersock. [The Wiles Lectures Given at the Queen's University of Belfast.] (NewYork: Cambridge University Press. 1995. Pp. xii, 106, $29.95.) This elegant volume, appropriately dedicated to the memory of Louis Robert, is a significant contribution to the ...

A History of Early Roman Liturgy to the Death of Pope Gregory the Great

Jul 01, 1996; ... A History of Early Roman Liturgy to the Death of Pope Gregory the Great. By G. G. Willis. [Henry Bradshaw Society, Subsidia I.] (Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press for the Henry Bradshaw Society. 1994. Pp. xv, 168. $45.00.) The Henry Bradshaw Society, named in honor of a Cambridge ...

Books and Readers in the Early Church: A History of Early Christian Texts

Jul 01, 1996; ... Books and Readers tn the Early Church. A History of Early Christian Texts. By Harry Y Gamble. (New Haven:Yale University Press. 1995. Pp. xiii, 337. $32.50.) My great predecessor Edgar J. Goodspeed would have been delighted with this book. He was convinced that form follows publishing ...

The Synagogues and Churches of Ancient Palestine

Jul 01, 1996; ... The Synagogues and Churches of Ancient Palestine. By Leslie J. Hoppe. (Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, A Michael Glazier Book. 1994. Pp. v, 145; 39 illustrations. $11.95 paperback.) This is a first book in the archaeology of synagogues and churches. As such it is also a ...

Prophecy in Carthage: Perpetua, Tertullian, and Cyprian

Jul 01, 1996; ... Prophecy in Carthage:Perpetua, Tertullian, and Cyprian. By Cecil M. Robeck, Tr. (Cleveland, Ohio: The Pilgrim Press. 1992. PD. xii, 329. $29.95.) The phenomenon of prophecy in the New Testament and early Christian literature has not always received its due. That imbalance is beginning ...

Basil of Caesarea

Jul 01, 1996; ... Basil of Caesarea. By Philip Rousseau. [The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, XX.] (Berkeley: University of California Press. 1995. Pp. xix, 412. $55.00.) As in his previous works on fourth- and fifth-century ascetics, including a monograph on Pachomius, the author offers the ...

Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capital

Jul 01, 1996; ... Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capital. By Neil B. McLynn. [The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, XXII.] (Berkeley: University of California Press. 1994. Pp. xxiv, 406, $45.00.) Norman Baynes observed that in writing a biography of Ambrose one must refuse to ...

Theodosius: The Empire at Bay

Jul 01, 1996; ... Theodosius: The Empire at Bay. By Stephen Williams and Gerard Friell. (New Haven:Yale University Press. 1995. Pp. 238. $28.50.) During the reign of Theodosius the Great (379-395), new relationships were forged between the Roman Empire and the two forces traditionally identified with its ...

Koriwns Biographie des Mesrop Mastoc: Ubersetzung und Kommentar

Jul 01, 1996; ... Koriwns Biographie des Mesrop Mastoc'. Ubersetzung und Kommentar. By Gabriele Winkler. [Orientalia Christiana Analecta, 245.] (Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale. 1994. Pp. 452.) The conversion of Armenia to Christianity was a long process. Of the first stage-the infiltration of ...

Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century. Volume I, Part 1: Political and Military History / Volume I, Part 2: Ecclesiastical History

Jul 01, 1996; ... Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century Volume 1, Part 1: Political and Military History, and Volume I, Part 2: Ecclesiastical History. By Irfan Shahid. (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. 1995. Pp. xxx, 688; x, 689-1034 plus indexes. $75.00.) The ...

Soldiers of Christ: Saints and Saints' Lives from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Jul 01, 1996; ... Soldiers of Christ: Saints and Saints' Lives from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Edited by Thomas E X. Noble and Thomas Head. (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 1995. Pp. xliv, 383. $50.00 clothbound; $18.95 paperback.) One of the most exciting ...

The Past and Future of Medieval Studies

Jul 01, 1996; ... Medieval The Past and Future of Medieval Studies. Edited by John Van Engen. [Notre Dame Conferences in Medieval Studies, Number IV ] (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 1994. Pp. xi, 431. $52.95.) This book is the result of a 1992 conference during which a ...

Jews, Visigoths and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Cooperation and Conflict

Jul 01, 1996; ... Jews, Visigoths and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Cooperation and Conflict. By Norman Roth. [Medieval Iberian Peninsula Texts and Studies, Volume X.] (Leiden: E. J. Brill. 1994. Pp. viii, 367.) Norman Roth has undertaken no small task in this work. He addresses the interaction of the ...

Iberia and the Mediterranean World of the Middle Ages, Studies in Honor of Robert I. Burns, S.J., Volume I: Proceedings from Kalamazoo

Jul 01, 1996; ... Iberia and the Mediterranean World of the Middle Ages, Studies in Honor of Robert L. Burns, SJ, Volume I: Proceedings from Kalamazoo. Edited by Larry J. Simon. [The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400-1453,Volume 4.] (Leiden: E.J. Brill. 1995. Pp. xxvi, 373. $85.75.) ...

Die Inzestgesetzgebung der merowingisch-frankischen Konzilien (511-626/27)

Jul 01, 1996; ... Die Inzestgesetzgebung der merowingisch-frankischen Konzilien (511626/27). By Paul Mikat. [Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Veroffentlichungen der Gorres-Gesellschaft, Neue Folge, Band 74.] (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh. 1994. Pp. 149. DM 36,-.) Expanding on his earlier work on ...

Armagh and the Royal Centres in Early Medieval Ireland: Monuments, Cosmology, and the Past

Jul 01, 1996; ... Armagh and the Royal Centres in Early Medieval Ireland:Monuments, Cosmology, and the Past. By N. B. Aitchison. (Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer for Cruithne Press. 1994. Pp. x, 356. $71.00.) In Armagh and the Royal Centres, N. B. Aitchison manages to blend an archaeologist's ...

Archbishop Theodore: Commemorative Studies on His Life and Influence

Jul 01, 1996; ... Archbishop Theodore: Commemorative Studies on His Life and Influence. Edited by Michael Lapidge [Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 11.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 1995. Pp. xiii, 349.) Theodore of Tarsus, archbishop of Canterbury (668-690) was commemorated by a ...

Bede and His World Volume I: The Jarrow Lectures, 1958-1978; Volume II: The Jarrow Lectures, 1979-1993

Jul 01, 1996; ... Bede and His World. With a preface by Michael Lapidge. Volume I: The Jarrow Lectures,1958-1978; Volume II: The Jarrow Lectures,1979-1993. (Brookfield, Vermont:Variorum, Ashgate Publishing Company. 1994. Pp. xvi, 999. $245.00.) A reviewer might wonder how to encompass the diversity of ...

Ordines Coronationis Franciae. Texts and Ordines for the Coronation of Frankish and French Kings and Queens in the Middle Ages, Volume I

Jul 01, 1996; ... Ordines Coronationis Franciae. Texts and Ordines for the Coronation of Frankish and French Kings and Queens in the Middle Ages, Volume I. Edited by Richard A. Jackson. [Middle Ages Series.] (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1995. Pp. xiv, 283. $49.95.) A number of modern ...

Eriugena: East and West: Papers of the Eighth International Colloquium of the Society for the Promotion of Eriugenian Studies, Chicago and Notre Dame, 18-20 October, 1991

Jul 01, 1996; ... Eriugena: East and West: Papers of the Eighth International Colloquium of the Society for the Promotion of Eriugenian Studies, Chicago and Notre Dame, 18-20 October, 1991. Edited by Bernard McGinn and Willemien Otten. [Notre Dame Conferences in Medieval Studies, Number V] (Notre Dame, Indiana: ...

Liturgy and the Ecclesiastical History of Late Anglo-Saxon England: Four Studies

Jul 01, 1996; ... Liturgy and the Ecclesiastical History of Late Anglo-Saxon England: Four Studies. By David N. Dumville. [Studies in Anglo-Saxon (Rochester,NewYork: The Boydell Press. 1992. Pp. x, 193. $59.00.) David N. Dumville's important collection of previously unpublished essays on matters related to the ...

La Pologne dans l'Eglise medievale

Jul 01, 1996; ... La Pologne dans l'Eglise mediEvale. By Jerzy Kloczowski. [Collected Studies Series, CS 417.] (Brookfield, Vermont: Variorum, Ashgate Publishing Co. 1993. Pp. x, 321. $94.95.) The author of these collected studies is well known to readers of this journal and to students of ecclesiastical ...

The Medieval Cult of Saints: Formations and Transformations

Jul 01, 1996; ... The Medieval Cult of Saints: Formations and Transformations. By Barbara Abou-EI-Haj. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xviii, 456. $90.00.) The title overpromises. This book is less about the cult of the saints than about the thirty or so surviving series of hagiographic ...

From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature

Jul 01, 1996; ... From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature. By Barbara Newman. [Middle Ages Series.] (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1995. Pp. vi, 355. $39.95 cloth; $18.95 paper.) Barbara Newman has written an erudite and wonderful book. Drawing on ...

Lanfranco di Pavia e l'Europa del secolo XI (nel IX centenario della morte [1089-1989])

Jul 01, 1996; ... Lanfranco di Pavia e l Europa del secolo XI (nel IX centenario della morte [1089-1989]. Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi (Pavia, Almo Collegio Borromeo, 21-24 settembre 1989). Edited by Giulio D'Onofrio. [Italia Sacra: Studi e documenti di storia ecclesiastica, Vol. 51.] (Rome: Herder ...

Apocalypticism in the Western Tradition

Jul 01, 1996; ... Apocalypticism in the Western Tradition. By Bernard McGinn. [Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS 430.] (Brookfield,Vermont:Variorum,Ashgate Publishing Co. 1994. Pp. x, 324. $89.95.) Bernard McGinn is a master in the field of early and medieval apocalypticism. This volume of his ...

Schottenkloster: Irische Benediktinerkonvente im hochmittelalterlichen Deutschland

Jul 01, 1996; ... Schottenkloster: Irische Benediktinerkonvente im hochmittelalterlichen Deutschland. By Helmut Flachenecker. [Quellen und Forschungen aus dem Gebiet der Geschichte, Neue Folge, Volume 18.] (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh. 1995. Pp. 402. DM 48,- paperbound.) Anyone who has spent some time ...

Le diocese d'Arras de 1093 au milieu du XIV siecle. Recherches sur la vie religieuse dans le nord de la France au Moyen Age

Jul 01, 1996; ... Le diocese d'Arras de 1093 au milieu du XIV si&cle. Recherches sur la vie religieuse dans le nord de la France au Moyen Age. By Bernard Delmaire. 2 vols. [Memoires de la Commission departementale d'Histoire et d'Archeologie du Pas-de-Calais, tome XXI.] (Arras, 1994. Pp. 408; 409-640. 350E) ...

Parishes, Tithes and Society in Earlier Medieval Poland, c. 1100-c. 1250

Jul 01, 1996; ... Parishes, Tithes and Society in Earlier Medieval Poland, c.1100-c. 1250. By Piotr Gorecki. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society,Volume 83, Part 2.] (Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society. 1993. Pp. x, 146. $15.00 paperbound.) This brief study, derived from ...

Noble Bondsmen: Ministerial Marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg, 1100-1343

Jul 01, 1996; ... Noble Bondsmen: Ministerial Marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg, 1100-1343. By John B. Freed. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 1995. Pp. xvi, 304.) For more than twenty years John B. Freed has devoted most of his scholarly energy to an intensive investigation of the ...

Crusaders and Heretics, 12th-14th Centuries

Jul 01, 1996; ... Crusaders and Heretics, 12th-14th Centuries. By Malcolm Barber. [Variorum Collected Studies Series, 498.] (Brookfield, Vermont: Variorum, Ashgate Publishing Company. 1995. Pp. x, 289. $77.50.) These essays were written over a period of more than twenty years, and they have stood the ...

Military Orders and Crusades

Jul 01, 1996; ... Military Orders and Crusades. By Alan Forey [Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS432.] Brookfield,Vermont:Variorum, Ashgate Publishing Company. 1994. Pp. viii, 318. $91.95 approx.) Few scholars have contributed as much to our knowledge of the military religious orders in the twelfth ...

The Perfection of Solitude. Hermits and Monks in the Crusader States

Jul 01, 1996; ... The Perfection of Solitude. Hermits and Monks in the Crusader States. By Andrew Jotischky. (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 1995. Pp. xviii, 198. $35.00.) Despite the problems caused by the large gaps in the documentation, the uneven progress of archaeology, ...

Recueil des actes de Louis VI, roi de France (1108-1137)

Jul 01, 1996; ... Recueil des actes de Louis VI, roi de France (1108-1137). Publie sous la direction de Robert-Henri Bautier par Jean Dufour. 4 vols. [Chartes et diplomes relatifs a l'histoire de France.] (Paris: Academie des Inscriptions et BellesLettres. Distributed by Boccard. 1992-1994. Pp. xvii, 497; 233, ...

Fortress-Churches of Languedoc: Architecture, Religion, and Conflict in the High Middle Ages

Jul 01, 1996; ... Fortress-Churches of Languedoc:Architecture, Religion, and Conflict in the High Middle Ages. By Sheila Bonde. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 1994. Pp. xv, 270. $85.00.) Sheila Bonde's gracefully written study of the development of the fortresschurch will certainly be of great ...

The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen, Volume I

Jul 01, 1996; ... The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen. Volume 1. Translated by Joseph L. Baird and Radd K. Ehrman. (New York: Oxford University Press. 1994. Pp. xiii, 227. $39.95.) To adapt a saying of Dr. Johnson's, the question posed by this book is not whether it has been done well, but rather whether ...

Huguccio: The Life, Works, and Thought of a Twelfth-Century Jurist

Jul 01, 1996; ... Huguccio: The Life, Works, and Thought of a Twelfth-Century Jurist. By Wolfgang P Muller. [Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law,Volume 3.] (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 1994. Pp. ix, 220. $59.95.) Wolfgang Muller's study of Huguccio (d. 1210), ...

The German Episcopacy and the Implementation of the Decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council, 1216-1245: Watchmen on the Tower

Jul 01, 1996; ... The German Episcopacy and the Implementation of the Decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council, 1216-1245: Watchmen on the Tower By Paul B. Pixton. [Studies in the History of Christian Thought, Volume LXIV] (Leiden: E. J. Brill. 1995. Pp. xv, 543. $135.00.) The Fourth Lateranum was the most ...

Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence

Jul 01, 1996; ... Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence. By John Henderson. (New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press. 1994. Pp. xviii, 533. $85.00.) John Henderson's book is a long-awaited contribution to the history of confraternities and charity in Renaissance Florence. Many scholars ...

Eye Priory Cartulary and Charters, Part Two

Jul 01, 1996; ... Eye Priory Cartulary and Charters, Part Two. Edited by Vivien Brown. [Suffolk Records Society: Suffolk Charters,Volume XIII.] (Rochester, New York: Boydell Press. 1994. Pp. xviii, 194. $35.00.) Volume II of Eye Priory Cartulary and Charters adds seventy-three documents to the 357 of ...

Popular Piety in Late Medieval England: The Diocese of Salisbury, 1250-1550

Jul 01, 1996; ... Popular Piety in Late Medieval England: The Diocese of Salisbury, 1250-1550. By Andrew D. Brown. [Oxford Historical Monographs.] (New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press. 1995. Pp. x, 297. $58.00.) Despite the immense difficulties always inherent in assessing what popular ...

Aquinas and the Jews

Jul 01, 1996; ... Aquinas and the Jews. By John Y B. Hood. [Middle Ages Series.] (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1995. Pp. xiv, 145. Paperback.) In the narrow compass of 159 pages Hood has provided a surprisingly full study of all the essential documentation left by Brother Thomas on his ...

Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg and Marguerite Porete / Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls

Jul 01, 1996; ... Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics:Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete. Edited by Bernard McGinn. (New York: Continuum. 1994. Pp. x, 166. $19.95.) Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls. Translated and introduced by Ellen L. Babinsky. (New ...

The Art of Devotion in the Late Middle Ages in Europe, 1300 to 1500

Jul 01, 1996; ... The Art of Devotion in the Late Middle Ages in Europe, 1300 to 1500. By Henk van Os, with Hans Nieuwdorp, Bernhard Ridderbos, Eugene Honee. Translated from the Dutch by Michael Doyle. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1994. Pp. 192; 85 color illustrations; 110 black and white ...

L'Abbaye Premontre du Lac de Joux des origines au XIV siecle

Jul 01, 1996; ... L'Abbaye Premontre du Lac de Joux des origines au XIV^sup e^ siecle. By Claire Martinet. Avec une etude de Jean-Luc Rouiller,"Les Sepultures des Seigneurs de La Sarraz." [Cahiers Lausannois d'Histoire Medievale, 12.] (Lausanne: Section d'histoire, Faculte des Lettres, Universite de Lausanne ....

History, Prophecy, and the Stars: The Christian Astrology of Pierre d'Ailly, 1350-1420

Jul 01, 1996; ... History, Prophecy, and the Stars: The Christian Astrology of Pierre d'Ailly, 1350-1420. By Laura Ackerman Smoller. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1994. Pp. xii, 233. $35.00.) With the contributions of such scholars as Ouy, Courtenay, Bernstein, Pascoe, Guenee, Kazmarek, Pluta, ...

The Reforms of the Council of Constance (1414-1418)

Jul 01, 1996; ... The Reforms of the Council of Constance (1414-1418). By Phillip H. Stump. [Studies in the History of Christian Thought, Volume LIII.] (Leiden: E. J. Brill. 1994. Pp. xv, 463. $151.50.) Following an eruption of interest in the Council of Constance prompted by Vatican Council II, the flow ...

La visite des eglises du diocese de Lausanne en 1453

Jul 01, 1996; ... La visite des eglises du diocese de Lausanne en 1453. Edited by Ansgar Wildermann and Veronique Pasche. 2 vols. [Memoires et documents publics par la Societe d'histoire de la Suisse romande, 3rd series, tomes XIX and XX.] (Lausanne: Universite de Lausanne, Faculte des Lettres, Histoire ...