The Catholic Historical Review back issues from April 2002:
Political atheism: Dred Scott, Roger Brooke Taney, and Orestes A Brownson
Apr 01, 2002; ... The Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision in early March of 1857 inflamed the national debate over slavery and deepened the divide that led ultimately to the Civil War. The decision has been analyzed repeatedly by historians and legal scholars, and has created divergent opinions on what was ...
A thousand and more women: The register of women for the Confraternity of Misericordia Maggiore in Bergamo, 1265-1339
Apr 01, 2002; ... In the last forty years, interest in the social composition of confraternities, their welfare activities, and their place in politics and religious life has produced numerous books and articles dealing with confraternities throughout northern and central Italy.1 One important body of sources is ...
"Cut off this rotten member": The rhetoric of heresy, sin, and disease in the ideology of the French Catholic League
Apr 01, 2002; ... "If your brother, your friend, and your wife all of whom you hold dear wish to strip you of your faith, kill them, cut their throats and sacrifice them to God."1 So proclaimed a League polemicist, Louis D'Orleans, whose fierce devotion to the Church and condemnation of heresy epitomized the ...
The problem of the middle class in German Catholic history: The nineteenth-century rhineland revisited
Apr 01, 2002; ... In March of 1857, Matthias Aulike, Director of the Catholic Division in the Prussian Ministry for Church Affairs, wrote to the Catholic parliamentarian August Reichensperger: Most of our bishops maintain that they want everything handled exclusively by the clergy and push the ...
The Catholic church in Estonia, 1918-2001
Apr 01, 2002; ... In the Middle Ages, Estonia was Catholic for roughly four centuries (1227-1626). Under Swedish rule (1561-1710) the Catholic faith was forbidden and, after the expulsion of the last faithful in 1626, the Catholic tradition in Estonia was totally wiped out.1 Under the Russian Emperors ...
The Eighty-second Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association
Apr 01, 2002; ... Report of the Committee on Program Steven M. Avella, Patrick W Carey, and Michael Phayer, all of Marquette University, and Barbara Misner, S.C.S.C., of Merrill, Wisconsin, constituted the Committee on Program for the 2002 meeting. The committee sent out calls for papers through the ...
Renewing Christianity: A History of Church Reform from Day One to Vatican II
Apr 01, 2002; ... Renewing Christianity.'A History of Church Reform from Day One to Vatican II. By Christopher M. Bellitto. (Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 233. $18.95 paperback.) Composing a one-volume history of the Western Church is a daunting task. Although his intended audience is ...
Die Erforschung der Kirchengeschichte: Leben, Werk und Bedeutung von Hubert Jedin (1900-1980)
Apr 01, 2002; ... Die Erforschung der Kirchengescbichte: Leben, Werk and Bedeutung von Hubert Jedin (1900-1980). Edited by Heribert Smolinsky. [Katholisches Leben and Kirchenreform im Zeitalter der Glaubensspaltung, 61.] (Minster: Aschendorff Verlag. 2001. Pp. vii, 116. DM 34,-.) Hubert Jedin was ...
Das Katholische Domkapitel zu Hamburg von den Anfangen bis zur Reformation und seine Wiedererrichtung 1996: Eine kanonistische Untersuchung
Apr 01, 2002; ... Das katholische Domkapitel zu Hamburg von den Anfangen bis zur Reformation and seine Wiedererrichtung 1996. Eine kanonistische Untersucbung. By Jfirgen Witjer. [Adnotationes in lus Canonicum, Band 19.] (Bern: Peter Lang: Europaischer Verlag der Wissenschaften. 2001. Pp. 283. $45.95 paperback.) ...
Militia Sancti Sepulcri: Idea e isituzioni. Atti del Colloquio Internazionale tenuto presso la Pontificia Universita del Laterano, 10-12 aprile 1996
Apr 01, 2002; ... Militia Sancti Sepulcri: Idea e istituzioni. Atti del Colloquio Internazionale tenuto presso la Pontificia Universita del Laterano, 10-12 aprile 1996. Edited by Kaspar Elm and Cosimo Damiano Fonseca. [Hierosolimitana: Acta et Monumenta.] (Vatican City: Grand Magisterium of the Equestrian Order ...
Exaltation of the Cross: Toward the Origins of the Feast of the Cross and the Meaning of the Cross in Early Medieval Liturgy
Apr 01, 2002; ... Ancient and Medieval Exaltation of the Cross: Toward the Origins of the Feast of the Cross and the Meaning of the Cross in Early Medieval Liturgy. By Louis van Tongeren. [Liturgia Condenda, 11.] (Leuven: Peeters. 2000. Pp. x, 342. C 45.00.) The Dutch school of liturgical ...
Medieval Hagiography: An Anthology
Apr 01, 2002; ... Medieval Hagiography.' An Anthology. Edited by Thomas Head. (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. 2000. Pp. xlix, 834. $105.00.) Part of the wide-spread attempt to separate the present of the Church from its past following on Vatican Council 11 was deprecation of the cult of the saints ....
Gregory of Tours: History and Society in the Sixth Century
Apr 01, 2002; ... Gregory of Tours: History and Society in the Sixth Century. By Martin Heinzelmann. Translated by Christopher Carroll. (NewYork: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 235. $59.95.) This far-reaching study was originally published at Darmstadt in 1994 as Gregor von Tours (538-594) ...
Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents: A Complete Translation of the Surviving Founders' Typika and Testaments
Apr 01, 2002; ... Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents: A Complete Translation of the Surviving Founders' Typika and Testaments. Edited by John Thomas and Angela Constantinides Hero with the assistance of Giles Constable. 5 vols. [Dumbarton Oaks Studies, XXXV] (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library ...
Veiled Women. Volume I: The Disappearance of Nuns from Anglo-Saxon England; Volume II: Female Religious Communities in England, 871-1066
Apr 01, 2002; ... Veiled Women. Volume I: The Disappearance of Nuns from Anglo-Saxon England; Volume II: Female Religious Communities in England, 871-1066. By Sarah Foot. [Studies in Early Medieval Britain, 1. (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. 2000. Pp. xvii, 228; xii, 274. $79.95 each volume.) Sarah Foot's ...
The Cartulary of St-Marcel-les-Chalon, 779-1126
Apr 01, 2002; ... The Cartulary of St-Marcel-1s-Chalon, 779-1126. Edited by Constance Brittain Bouchard. Medieval Academy Books, No. 102.] (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America. 1998. Pp. x, 179. $24.00.) Created in the early twelfth century, the cartulary of St-Marcel-les-Chalon, ...
The Myth of Pope Joan
Apr 01, 2002; ... The Myth of Pope Joan. By Alain Boureau. Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2001. Pp. x, 385. $60.00 clothbound; $22.50 paperback.) Joan refuses to go away. If she had lived-and Boureau states early and often that this is highly unlikely-she was, ...
The Practice of Penance, 900-1050
Apr 01, 2002; ... The Practice of Penance, 900-1050. By Sarah Hamilton. [Royal Historical Society, Studies in History, New series, Volume 20.1 (Rochester, New York: The Royal Historical Society; The Boydell Press. 2001. Pp. xiv, 275. $75.00.) The author's intent is expressed in this manner: "This study ...
The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought
Apr 01, 2002; ... The Measure of Multitude. Population in Medieval Thought. By Peter Biller. (NewYork: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. xxi, 476. $55.00.) How did medieval people, and the intellectual elite in particular, think about world population and the bundle of topics that we nowadays call ...
Le cartulaire de l'abbaye cistercienne de Hautcret (fin (XII(e) siecle)
Apr 01, 2002; ... Le cartulaire de l'abbaye cistercienne de Hautcr& (fin (XII siecle). Edited by Alexandre Pahud, Bernadette Perreaud, and Jean-Luc Rouiller. [Cahiers lausannois d'histoire medievale, 29.] (Lausanne: Universite de Lausanne. 2001. Pp. 228. FrS. 35.-.) When documents for HautcrEt were ...
The Cathars
Apr 01, 2002; ... The Cathars, By Malcolm lambert. (Maiden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers. 1998. Pp. viii, 334. $29.95 paperback.) The "Cathars" are the most famous heretics of the Middle Ages, the vivid paradigms of religious dissent to the Catholic Church by which all other medieval heretics are ...
Clare's Letters to Agnes: Texts and Sources / Light Shining Through a Veil: On Saint Clare's Letters to Saint Agnes of Prague
Apr 01, 2002; ... Clare's Letters to Agnes: Texts and Sources. By Joan Mueller. (St. Bonaventure, New York: The Franciscan Institute. 2001. Pp. ix, 269. $21.95 paperback.) Light Shining Through a Veil: On Saint Clare's Letters to Saint Agnes of Prague. By Edith A. Van den Goorbergh, O.S.C., and Theodore H ....
Dal pulpito alla cattedra. I vescovi degli ordini mendicanti nel '200 e nel primo '300
Apr 01, 2002; ... Dal pulpito alla cattedra. I vescovi degli ordini mendicanti nel '200 e nel primo '300. Atti del XXVII Convegno internazionale, Assisi, 14-16 ottobre 1999. [Atti dei Convegni della Society internazionale di studi francescani e del Centro interuniversitario di studi francescani. Nuova serie, 10.] ...
Diplomatarium of the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia: The Registered Charters of its Conqueror, Jaume I, 1257-1276, Volume III (Documents 501-1000): Transition...
Apr 01, 2002; ... Diplomatarium of the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia: The Registered Charters of its Conqueror Jaume 1, 1257-1276, Volume III (Documents 501-1000): Transition in Crusader Valencia: Years of Triumph, Years of War, 1264-1270. Edited by Robert I. Burns, SJ. (Princeton: Princeton University Press ....
Spiritual Economies: Female Monasticism in Later Medieval England
Apr 01, 2002; ... Spiritual Economies: Female Monasticism in Later Medieval England. By Nancy Bradley Warren. [The Middle Ages Series.] (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. Po. xi. 276. $55.00.) Medieval religious women-nuns, anchoresses, vowesses, and lay women like Margery Kemp-have ...
La citta dei crucci: Fazioni e clientele in uno stato repubblicano del '400
Apr 01, 2002; ... La citta dei crucci: fazioni e clientele in uno stato repubblicano del '400. By William J. Connell. (Florence: Nuova Toscana Editrice. 2000. Pp. x, 318. Lire 30,000.) In this excellent book, William Connell traces the experience of the city of Pistoia as part of the Florentine dominion ...
From Sacred Body to Angelic Soul: Understanding Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Apr 01, 2002; ... From Sacred Body to Angelic Soul: Understanding Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. By Donna Spivey Ellington. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 284. $59.95.) It is generally acknowledged that the cult of the Virgin Mary came to full ...
The Confessionalization of Humanism in Reformation Germany
Apr 01, 2002; ... The Confessionalization of Humanism in Reformation Germany. By Erika Rummel. [Oxford Studies in Historical Theology.] (New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. vii, 211. $45.00.) This book explores what happened to humanist scholars in the Germanspeaking lands of the Holy Roman ...
Reginald Pole: Prince and Prophet / Cardinal Pole in European Context: A via media in the Reformation / A Reluctant Author: Cardinal Pole and His Manuscripts
Apr 01, 2002; ... Reginald Pole: Prince and Prophet. By Thomas F Mayer. (NewYork: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. xv, 468. $74.95.) Cardinal Pole in European Context: A via media in the Reformation. By Thomas E Mayer. [Variorum Collected Studies Series: CS6-86.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate ...
Straightening the Altars: The Ecclesiastical Vision and Pastoral Achievements of the Progressive Bishops under Elizabeth I, 1559-1579
Apr 01, 2002; ... Straightening the Altars: The Ecclesiastical Vision and Pastoral Achievements of the Progressive Bishops under Elizabeth I, 1559-1579. By Scott A. Wenig. [Studies in Church History, Volume 10.] (Bern and NewYork: Peter Lang Publishing. 2000. Pp. xiv, 290. $61.95.) This ought to be an ...
Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story
Apr 01, 2002; ... Under the Molehill:An Elizabethan Spy Story. By John Bossy. (New Haven:Yale University Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 189. $25.00 hardback.) "In 1956, he [Leo Hicks, SJ.1 found a student looking for a research topic, who proved willing to investigate the larger subject [relations between France ...
Parish Communities and Religious Conflict in the vale of Gloucester, 1590-1690
Apr 01, 2002; ... Parish Communities and Religious Conflict in the Vale of Gloucester, 1590-1690. By Daniel C. Beaver. [Harvard Historical Studies, Vol. 129.] (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 1998. Pp. xiii, 462. $49.50.) In the controversies surrounding the historical debate about ...
The Boxmaker's Revenge: "Orthodoxy," "Heterodoxy" and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London
Apr 01, 2002; ... The Boxmaker's Revenge: "Orthodoxy," "Heterodoxy" and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London. By Peter Lake. (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 2001. Pp. x, 422. $65.00 cloth; $24.95 paperback.) Peter Lake's latest excursion into the world of late ...
Fear and Polemic in Seventeenth-Century England: Richard Baxter and Antinomianism
Apr 01, 2002; ... Fear and Polemic in Seventeenth-Century England: Richard Baxter and Antinomianism. By Tim Cooper. (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2001. Pp. ix, 238. $79.95.) One can learn a great deal about the complex religious and political issues that convulsed seventeenth-century ...
The World of Geoffrey Keating: History, Myth and Religion in seventeenth-Century Ireland
Apr 01, 2002; ... The World of Geoffrey Keating: History, Myth and Religion in Seventeenth-- Century Ireland. By Bernadette Cunningham. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. Distributed in the United States by ISBS, Portland, Oregon. 2000. Pp. xv, 263. $55.00.) In his Hibernia Anglicana, a riposte to Geoffrey ...
Historia de la Inquisicion en Espana y America, Volume III: Temas y problemas / Crypto-Judaism and the Spanish Inquisition
Apr 01, 2002; ... Historia de la Inquisicion en Espana y America, Volume III: Temas y problemas. Edited by Joaquin Perez Villanueva and Bartolome Escandell Bonet. (Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos. 2000. Pp. xlii, 1256. 10096 pesetas.) Crypto-Judaism and the Spanish Inquisition. By Michael ...
Christian Missions and the Enlightenment
Apr 01, 2002; ... Christian Missions and the Enlightenment. Edited by Brian Stanley [Studies in the History of Christian Missions.] (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2001. Pp. xi, 246. $45.00.) Christian Missions and the Enlightenment addresses an issue of central ...
The Idea of France
Apr 01, 2002; ... The Idea of France. By Pierre Birnbaum. Translated by M. B. DeBevoise. (New York: Hill and Wang. 2001. Pp. xiii, 370. $32.00.) In his introduction to The Idea of France (originally La France imagin6e), Pierre Birnbaum writes,"On the one hand, [France] has seen its soul as residing in a ...
A German Life in the Age of Revolution: Joseph Gorres, 1776-1848
Apr 01, 2002; ... A German Life in the Age of Revolution: Joseph Gorres, 1776-1848. By Jon Vanden Heuvel. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2001. Pp. xxvii, 408. $69.95.) A biography of Joseph Gorres has been long needed; to write one, however, is a risky undertaking. As a ...
Churches and Social Issues in Twentieth-Century Britain
Apr 01, 2002; ... Churches and Social Issues in Twentieth-Century Britain. By G. I. T Machin. (New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press. 1998. Pp. xii, 269. $65.00.) G. I. T Machin's previous distinguished work on politics and the churches in nineteenth-century Britain is an invaluable resource ...
Katholizismus und Eugenik in der Weimarer Republik und im Dritten Reich: Zwischen Sittlichkeitsreform und Rassenhygiene
Apr 01, 2002; ... Katholizismus and Eugenik in der Weimarer Republik and im Dritten Reich: Zwischen Stlicbkeitsreform and Rassenhygiene. By Ingrid Richter. [Veroffentlichungen der Kommission fur Zeitgeschichte, Reihe B: Forschungen, Band 88.] (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh. 2001. Pp. 572. DM 98.) This ...
Schweizer Katholizismus, 1933-1945. Eine Konfessionskultur zwischen Abkapselung und Solidaritat
Apr 01, 2002; ... Schweizer Katholizismus, 1933-1945. Eine Konfessionskultur zwischen Abkapselung and Solidaritat. Edited by Victor Conzemius. (Zurich: Verlag Neue Zurcher Zeitung. 2001. Pp. 696. Fr. 78.-; Euros 52.-.) In the late 1990's, the Swiss began to analyze how they and their institutions had ...
Bede Griffiths. A Life in Dialogue
Apr 01, 2002; ... Bede Griffiths. A Life in Dialogue. By Judson B. Trapnell. (Albany: State University of NewYork Press. 2001. Pp. xvii, 279. $16.95 paperback.) Interreligious dialogue has for some time been the subject of scholars and academics. Interested individuals have undertaken the study of ...
Inventing the "Great Awakening."
Apr 01, 2002; ... American Inventing the "Great Awakening." By Frank Lambert. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1999; paperback, 2001. Pp. xiii, 300. $47.50 clothbound, $18.95 paperback.) Historians in recent decades have disagreed sharply over the significance of the "Great Awakening, the ...
Commonwealth Catholicism: A History of the Catholic Church in Virginia
Apr 01, 2002; ... Commonwealth Catholicism:A History of the Catholic Church in Virginia. By Gerald P Fogarty, S.J. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2001. Pp. xxix, 687. $34.95.) In this authoritative narrative the author has left no stone unturned in his effort to describe a ...
The Catholic Church in Mississippi, 1911-1984: A History
Apr 01, 2002; ... The Catholic Church in Mississippi, 1911-1984.- A History. By Michael V Namorato. (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. 1998. Pp. xxiii, 313. $59.95 cloth.) The Catholic Church in Mississippi seems like an anomaly in what some might think of as the heart of the Southern Bible Belt ....
Robert E Speer: Prophet of the American Church
Apr 01, 2002; ... Robert E Speer: Prophet of the American Church. By John E Piper, Jr. (Louisville, Kentucky: Geneva Press. 2000. Pp. xxii, 538. $34.95.) Some historical figures are worthy of study because they continue to speak meaningfully to a later time and so demand an explanation for their ...
America's Bishop: The Life and Times of Fulton J Sheen
Apr 01, 2002; ... America's Bishop: The Life and Times of Fulton, j Sheen. By Thomas C. Reeves. (San Francisco, California: Encounter Books. 2001. Pp. vii, 479. $25.95.) When Bishop Sheen spoke at the dedication of the Fulton Sheen Archives in Rochester, New York, in 1976, he warned those gathered there ...
Memories of an Old Country Priest
Apr 01, 2002; ... Memories of an Old Country Priest. By Francis J. Weber. (Mission Hills, California: Saint Francis Historical Society. 2000. Pp. viii, 691.$35.00.) The only thing that is confusing about Monsignor Francis Weber's interesting memoir is the title, Old Country Priest. In fact, by his own ...
Storia del Canada: Dalle origini ai giorni nostri
Apr 01, 2002; ... Canadian Storia del Canada: Dalle origini at giorni nostri. By Luca Codignola and Luigi Bruti Liberati. (Milan: Bompiani. 1999. Pp. 815. C 12.39 paperback.) This book is a remarkable achievement by two Italian academics who have dedicated most of their professional lives to the study of ...
China and Christianity: Burdened Past, Hopeful Future
Apr 01, 2002; ... China and Christianity Burdened Past, Hopeful Future. Edited by Stephen Uhalley, Jr., and Xioaxin Wu. (Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe. 2001. Pp. xiii, 499. $79.95.) This collection of essays is from a conference, by the same name, held at the University of San Francisco in honor of ...
Correction
Apr 01, 2002; ... Correction In the review of The Frontiers and Catholic Identities, edited by Anne M. Butter, Michael E. Engh, S.J., and Thomas W Spalding, C.F.X., which was published ante, LXXXVII (October, 2001),764-765, the sections of the book prepared by Father Engh and ...
Obituary
Apr 01, 2002; ... Obituary Harry Corcoran Koenig, who was a member of the American Catholic Historical Association since 1937, a life member since 1986, and treasurer from 1968 to 1982, died in his sleep at St. Joseph's Home, Niles, Illinois, on January 21, 2002. He was born in Chicago on November 6, ...