The Catholic Historical Review back issues from October 2002:
John Bargrave and the Jesuits
Oct 01, 2002; ... I. An English Exile During the Civil War In May, 1645,John Bargrave (c. 1610-1680), a member of a prominent Protestant family from Kent and a former fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, crossed the Channel to begin, like many other royalist emigres of the period, an extended peregrination ...
For God and France: The military law of 1889 and the soldiers of Saint-Sulpice
Oct 01, 2002; ... On July 15 of that centennial year, the Chamber of Deputies finally passed the Military Law of 1889. Introduced earlier in the decade by the Minister of War, Georges Boulanger, the law in its final form dealt mainly with the issue of conscription and was part of a series of laws intended to ...
Doing "True science": The early history of the Institutum Divi Thomae, 1935-1951
Oct 01, 2002; ...... the Church, which is at home in all times and all places, and adapts itself to all; which blesses and fosters all healthy initiative, and has no fear of the progress, even the most daring progress of science, if only it he true science.1 Science, which consists in true recognition ...
The catholic church, human rights advocacy, and indigenous resistance in Paraguay 1969-1989
Oct 01, 2002; ... Despite the famed seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jesuit missions, by the mid-twentieth century few indigenous people in Paraguay identified themselves as Catholic. Indigenous ethnicities in Eastern Paraguay largely practiced tribal beliefs and those west of the Paraguay River had joined ...
Genealogien zur Papstgeschichte / Genealogien zur Papstgeschichte
Oct 01, 2002; ... Genealogien zur Papstgeschichte. By Christoph Weber, with the collaboration of Michael Becker. [Papste and Papsttum, Bande 29,1,2.] 2 vols. (Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann. 1999. Pp.cxxxii, 438; 439-980 EUR100.00; EUR100.00.) Genealogien zur Papstgeschichte. By Christoph Weber, with the ...
Carteggio di Agostino Morini, O.S.M. (1853-1874): Vita quotidiana, culture e letture nel secondo Ottocento
Oct 01, 2002; ... Carteggio di Agostino Morini, OS.M (1853-1874): Vita quotidiana, cultura e letture nel secondo Ottocento. Edited by Filippo Berlasso, O.S.M. 2 vols. [Monumenta Ordinis Servorum Sanctae Mariae, nova series, I/1-2, published by the Istituto Storico O.S.M.] (Rome: Edizioni Marianum. 2001. Pp. liv, ...
The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire. By Michele Renee Salzman. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2002. Pp. xiv, 354. $49.95.) Michele Salzman's "important and carefully crafted book" is "the most complete ...
The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity. By Georgia Frank. [The Transformations of the Classical Heritage, XXX.] (Berkeley: University of California Press. 2000. Pp. xiii, 219.) Prominent among the many developments which reflected the process of ...
The Celtic West and Europe: Studies in Celtic Literature and the Early Irish Church
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Celtic West and Europe: Studies in Celtic Literature and the Early Irish Church. By Doris Edel. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. Distributed in the U.S.A. by ISBS, Portland, Oregon. 2001. Pp. 320. $65.00.) This book consists of a collection of Doris Edel's papers produced previously over ...
Studies in Irish Hagiography: Saints and Scholars
Oct 01, 2002; ... Studies in Irish Hagiography: Saints and Scholars. Edited by John Carey, Maire Herbert, and Padraig 6 Ruin. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. Distributed in the U.S.A. by ISBS, Portland, Oregon. 2001. Pp. xii, 418. $65.00.) The year 1997 marked the 14001 anniversary of the death of one of the ...
Vitae Episcoporum: Eine Quiellengattung Zwischen Hagiographie und Historiographie, untersucht and lebensbeschreibungen von Bischofen des Regnum Teutonicum im...
Oct 01, 2002; ... Vitae Episcoporum: Fine Quellengattung zwischen Hagiographie and Historiographie, untersucht an Lebensbeschreibungen von Bischofen des Regnum Teutonicum im Zeitalter der Ottonen and Salier. By Stephanie Haarlander. [Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters, Volume 47.] (Stuttgart: Anton ...
The Uta Codex: Art, Philosophy and Reform in Eleventh-Century Germany
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Uta Codex: Art, Philosophy, and Reform in Eleventh-Century Germany. By Adam S. Cohen. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2000. Pp. xv, 276. $65.00.) Nobody who has seen the Uta Codex, a masterpiece of Regensburg book art and book construction from around 1025, is ...
Handbuch der Religionsgeschichte im deutschsprachigen Raum, Volume Two: Hoch- und Spatmittelhalter
Oct 01, 2002; ... Handbuch der Religionsgeschichte im deutschsprachigen Raum, Volume Two: Hoch- and Spatmittelalter. By Peter Dinzelbacher. (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh. 2000. Pp. 555. EUR88.40.) This is the first volume to appear in a planned six-part series on the history of religion in the German ...
The Scriptorium of Margam Abbey and the Scribes of Early Angevin Glamorgen: Secretarial Administration in a Welsh marcher Barony, c. 1150-c. 1225
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Scriptorium of Margam Abbey and the Scribes of Early Angevin Glamorgan: Secretarial Administration in a Welsh Marcher Barony, c. 1150-c. 1225. By Robert B. Patterson. (Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. xxxvi, 147; plates XXXII. $110; L60.) During ...
Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565
Oct 01, 2002; ... Cities of Ladies. Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565. By Walter Simons. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. Pp. xv, 335. $65.00.) One of the most intriguing religious movements of the European Middle Ages was that of the beguines: women who ...
The Spiritual Franciscans. From Protest to Persecution in the Century after Saint Francis
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Spiritual Franciscans. From Protest to Persecution in the Century after Saint Francis. By David Burr. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 427. $45.00.) The traumatic history of post-Francis Franciscanism has not lacked for scholarly attention. To ...
The Holy Blood: King Henry III and the Westminster Blood Relic
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Holy Blood: King Henry III and the Westminster Blood Relic. By Nicholas Vincent. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 254. $50.00.) Relics purported to be from the veritable body of Jesus Christ proliferated in Europe in the later Middle Ages. The response to these ...
Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones, Book II
Oct 01, 2002; ... Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones, Book II. Edited by Carl-Gustaf Undhagen and Birger Bergh. (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International. 2001. Pp. 128. SEK 152 paperback.) The publication of this volume and of H. Aili's edition of Revelaciones, Book VIII, also in 2001, brings to ...
Guilds and the Parish Community in Late Medieval East Anglia, c. 1470-1550
Oct 01, 2002; ... Guilds and the Parish Community in Late Medieval East Anglia, c. 1470-1550. By Ken Farnhill. (Rochester, New York: York Medieval Press in association with The Boydell Press. 2001. Pp. ix, 237. $90.00.) Guilds and their activities have figured prominently in the recent historiography of ...
Preachers and People in the Reformations and Early Modern Period
Oct 01, 2002; ... Early Modern European Preachers and People in the Reformations and Early Modern Period. Edited by Larissa Taylor. [A New History of the Sermon, 2.1 (Leiden: Brill. 2001. Pp. xviii. 397. $127.00.) Following her two excellent studies on preaching in France in the Reformation, Larissa ...
Spanish Rome, 1500-1700
Oct 01, 2002; ... Spanish Rome, 1500-1700. By Thomas James Dandelet. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 2001. Pp. x, 278. $35.00.) Strong in original material if weak in broader context, this remains an important book about a recurring historical topic, the relations between the Spanish empire and Rome, ...
The Last Letters of Thomas More
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Last Letters of Thomas More. Edited and with an introduction by Alvaro De Silva. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2000. Pp. viii, 214. $20.00.) Alvaro De Silva, who teaches theology at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, New Hampshire, has ...
The Conquest of the Soul: Confession, Discipline, and Public Order in Counter-Reformation Milan
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Conquest of the Soul: Confession, Discipline, and Public Order in Counter-Reformation Milan. By Wietse de Boer. [Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought,Volume LXM".] (Leiden: Brill. 2001. Pp. viii, 363. $112.00;EUR91.00.) When Wietse de Boer began digging in diocesan archives ...
Grazer Nuntiatur, 3. Band: Nuntiatur des Girolamo Portia und Korrespondenz des Hans Kobenzl 1592-1595
Oct 01, 2002; ... Grazer Nuntiatur, 3. Band: Nuntiatur des Girolamo Portia and Korrespondenz des Hans Kobenzl 1592-1595. Edited by Johann Rainer. [Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Publikationen des Historischen Institute beim Osterreichischen Kulturinstitut in Rom, II. Abteilung: Quellen, II. Reihe: ...
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
Oct 01, 2002; ... Galileo's Daughter. A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love. By Dava Sobel. (New York: Penguin Books. 2000. Pp. xii, 420. $14.00 paperback.) On a cold December morning in 1613, the young Grand Duke, Cosimo II, hosted a breakfast at the Medici palace in Florence. Among those ...
The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories. By John L. Heilbron. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 1999. Pp. ix, 355; 8 plates. $35.00 clothbound; $18.95 paperback.) A close examination of the relationship between Catholic ecclesiastical patronage and ...
Alfonso M. de Liguori e la civilta letteraria del Settecento.
Oct 01, 2002; ... Alfonso M. de Liguori e la civilta letteraria del Settecento. Atti del Convegno internazionale per il tricentenario della nascita del Santo (1696-1996), Napoli, 20-23 ottobre 1997. Edited by Pompeo Giannantonio. [Biblioteca dell' "Archivum Romanicum, Vol. 286.] (Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore ....
On the Suppression of the Society of Jesus. A Contemporary Account
Oct 01, 2002; ... On the Suppression of the Society of Jesus. A Contemporary Account By Giulio Cesare Cordara, S.J. (1704-1785). Translation and notes by John P. Murphy, S.J. (Chicago: Loyola Press. 1999. Pp. xix, 212. $21.95.) The suppression of the Jesuit order by Pope Clement XIV in the year 1773 is a ...
Osterreich und der Heilige Stuhl im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
Oct 01, 2002; ... Late Modern European Osterreich und der Heilige Stubl im 19. und 20. Jabrbundert. Edited by Hans Paarhammer and Alfred Rinnerthaler. [Veroffentlichungen des internationalen Forschungszentrums fur Grundiagenforschungen der Wissenschaften Salzburg, Neue Folge, Band 78.] (Bern: Peter Lang ....
Konfession, Milieu, Moderne: Konzeptionelle Positionen und Kontroversen zur Geschichte von Katholizismus und Kirche im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
Oct 01, 2002; ... Konfession, Milieu, Moderne: Konzeptionelle Positionen and Kontroversen zur Geschichte von Katholizismus and Kirche im 19. und 20.Jahrhundert. By Johannes Horstmann and Antonius Liedhegener. (Schwerte: Katholische Akademie Schwerte. 2001. Pp. 159.) In 1966 the German sociologist M ....
Francoise Blin de Bourdon, Woman of Influence: The Story of the Cofoundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame / "Tres affectueusement, votre mere en Dieu." Francoise Blin--French Aristocrat,...
Oct 01, 2002; ... Francoise Blin de Bourdon, Woman of Influence: The Story of the Cofoundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame. By Jo Ann M. Recker, S.N.D. de N. (Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press. 2001. Pp. iv, 215. $14.95 paperback.) "Tres affectueusement, votre mere en Dieu." Francoise Blin-French ...
Russkii katolitsizm: Zobytnoe proschloe rossiikogo liberalizma (Russian Catholicism: The Forgotten Past of Russian Liberalism)
Oct 01, 2002; ... Russkii katolitsizm: Zabytnoe proshloe rossiikogo liberalizma (Russian Catholicism: The Forgotten Past of Russian Liberalism). By Ekaterina Nikolaevna Tsimbaeva. (Moscow: Editorial URSS. 1999. Pp. 184. EUR13.80 paperback.) The provocative title reflects Tsimbaeva's desire to rescue ...
Loisy et ses amis
Oct 01, 2002; ... Loisy et ses amis. By Emile Goichot. [Petits Cerf-Histoire.] (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf. 2002. Pp. 197. EUR21.) A biographer of Alfred Loisy (1857-1940) faces a daunting task. There is the sheer quantity of publications. In his bibliography of Loisy's works Emile Poulat lists sixty ...
Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain
Oct 01, 2002; ... Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain. By Peter J. Bowler. [Science and Its Conceptual Foundations.] (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 479. $40.00.) A common perception of the relationship between representatives of natural ...
Kirchenreform mit Hilfe des Nationalsozialismus: Karl Adam als kontextueller Theologe
Oct 01, 2002; ... Kirchenreform mit Hilfe des Nationalsozialismus: Karl Adam als kontextueller Theologe. By Lucia Scherzberg. (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. 2001. Pp. 352. DM 58.48; EUR29.90 paperback.) The Tubingen theologian Karl Adam (1876-1966) won international respect in the 1920's ...
Les Papes, Hitler et la Shoah, 1932-1945
Oct 01, 2002; ... Les Papes, Hitler, et la Shoah, 1932-1945. By Marc-Andre Chargueraud. (Paris: Labor et Fides. 2002. Pp. 167. Paperback.) In the increasingly contentious debate over Pius XII and the Holocaust, the chief issue has come to be where to place the emphasis on the reasons why the Pope did not ...
Caritas in der SBZ/DDR, 1945-1989: Erinnerungen, Berichte, Forschungen
Oct 01, 2002; ... Caritas in der SBZ/DDR, 1945-1989: Erinnerungen, Berichte, Forschungen. Edited by Christoph Kosters. (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh Verlag. 2001. Pp. 257. DM 29.90 paperback.) This volume is the result of a closed meeting sponsored by the German Catholic Kommission fir Zeitgeschichte ...
Paul VI.--Rom und Jerusalem. Konzil, Pilgerfahrt, Dialog der Religionen
Oct 01, 2002; ... Paul VI -Rom and Jerusalem. Konzil, Pilgerfahrt, Dialog der Religionen. By Thomas Brechenmacher and Hardy Ostry. (Trier: Paulinus Verlag. 2000. Pp. 303. EUR18.90.) With Pope John Paul II's journeys outside Italy approaching the one hundred mark, it is difficult to appreciate the ...
A Blessed Company: Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776
Oct 01, 2002; ... American A Blessed Company. Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776 By John K. Nelson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 477. $49.95.) John Nelson has produced the most significant book on Anglicanism in colonial ...
Encyclopedia of California's Catholic Heritage, 1769-1999
Oct 01, 2002; ... Encyclopedia of California's Catholic Heritage, 1769-1999. By Francis J. Weber. (Mission Hills, California, and Spokane, Washington: St. Francis Historical Society and The Arthur H. Clark Company. 2001. Pp. 1148.) The reverend archivist of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has gathered ...
Education and Transformation: Marianist Ministries in America since 1849
Oct 01, 2002; ... Education and Transformation:Marianist Ministries in America since 1849. By Christopher J. Kauffman. (New York: Crossroad Publishing Company. 1999. Pp. xvii, 366. $29.95.) Since the publication of Tamers of Death: The History of the Alexian Brothers (1973), Professor Christopher J ....
American Catholic Lay Groups and Transatlantic Social Reform in the Progressive Era
Oct 01, 2002; ... American Catholic Lay Groups and Transatlantic Social Reform in the Progressive Era. By Deirdre M. Moloney. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. xvii, 267. $49.95 clothbound; $19.95 paperback.) Though hardly catchy, the title exemplifies truth in advertising ....
Psychology and American Catholicism: From Confession to Therapy?
Oct 01, 2002; ... Psychology and American Catholicism: From Confession to Therapy? By C. Kevin Gillespie, SJ. (New York: Crossroad Publishing Company. 2001. Pp. xviii, 214. $24.95 hardback.) In his well-researched and well-written study of the encounter of twentiethcentury American Catholics with modern ...
A Remarkable Legacy: The Story of the Secondary Schools in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles
Oct 01, 2002; ... A Remarkable Legacy: The Story of the Secondary Schools in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. By Francis J. Weber. (Mission Hills, California: Saint Francis Historical Society. 2001. Pp. xx, 154.) This is an informative study of the foundation and development of the individual secondary ...
Saving the Heartland: Catholic missionaries in Rural America, 1920-1960
Oct 01, 2002; ... Saving the Heartland: Catholic Missionaries in Rural America, 1920-1960. By Jeffrey D. Marlett. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 233.$40.00.) Jeffrey Marlett, assistant professor of religious studies at the College of St. Rose in Albany, New York, offers a ...
A Campus Ministry Monsignor Edward J. Duncan and the Newman Foundation at the University of Illinois in the Twentieth Century
Oct 01, 2002; ... A Campus Ministry. Monsignor Edward, j Duncan and the Newman Foundation at the University of Illinois in the Twentieth Century. By Patrick J. Daly, Jr. (Champaign: University of Illinois Services. 2001. Pp. xii, 328; 81 photographs. $29.95.) How does the Catholic historian assess the ...
The Saints in the Lives of Italian-Americans: An Interdisciplinary Investigation
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Saints in the Lives of Italian-Americans:An Interdisciplinary Investigation. Co-edited by Joseph A. Varacalli, Salvatore Primeggia, Salvatore J. LaGumina, and Donald J. D'Elia. [Filibrary Series, No. 14.] (Stony Brook: Forum Italicum, Center for Italian Studies, State University of New York ....
Christianity in Canada: Historical Essays
Oct 01, 2002; ... Canadian Christianity in Canada: Historical Essays. By John S. Moir. Edited by Paul Laverdure. (Yorkton, Saskatchewan: Redeemer's Voice Press. 2002. Pp. xix, 187. $14.95 paperback.) The seminal ideas of well-known Canadian historian John S. Moir are brought together in one ...
The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780
Oct 01, 2002; ... Latin American The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780. By Maria Elena Diaz. (Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2000. Pp. xx, 440. $49.50.) Historical writing on Cuba has been dominated by attention to the ...
History of Christianity in India, Vol. III: Eighteenth Century
Oct 01, 2002; ... History of Christianity in India, Vol. III: Eighteenth Century. By E. R. Hambye, S.J. (Bangalore: The Church History Association of India. 1997. Pp. xxiv, 562.$40.00.) This book is Volume III of a six-volume series on the History of Christianity in India prepared under the guidance of a ...
In the Shadows of the Mahatma: Bishop V.S. Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India
Oct 01, 2002; ... In the Shadow of the Mahatma: Bishop VS.Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India. By Susan Billington Harper. [Studies in the History of Christian Missions.] (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William D. Eerdman's Pubfishing Company; Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press Ltd. 2000. Pp. xxi, 462 ....
Documentary Sources of Maltese History, part IV: Documents at the Vatican, No.: 1: Archivio Secreto Vaticano, Congregazione Vescovi e Regolari Malta: Visita...
Oct 01, 2002; ... BRIEF NOTICES Documentary Sources of Maltese History, partIV: Documents at the Vatican, No. 1 :Archivio Secreto Vaticano, Congregazione Vescovi e Regolari Malta: Visita Apostolica no. 51 Mgr Petrus Dusina, 1575. Edited by George Aquilina, OFM, and Stanley Fiorini. (Msida: Malta ...
The Journey of the Diocese of Amarillo: 75 Years on the Llano Estacado, 1926-2001
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Journey of the Diocese of Amartllo: 75 Years on the Llano Estacado, 19262001. (Amarillo: Diocese of Amarillo. 2001. Pp. xvi, 183.) This diocesan anniversary publication, coordinated by Sister Hildegard Varga, O.S.B., vice-chancellor and archivist, concentrates on the diocesan and ...
Notes and comments
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Spring Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association, March 15-16, 2002 Report of the Planning Committee For the first time in its long history, the Association held its spring meeting on the campus of the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon. The University ...
Obituaries
Oct 01, 2002; ... Christian Ceplecha, O.S.B., of St. Procopius Abbey and Benedictine University,lisle, Illinois, died suddenly on May 29,2002. He was born on July 14,1927, in Berwyn, Illinois, professed vows as a monk of St. Procopius Abbey in 1947, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1953. He then began ...
Correction
Oct 01, 2002; ... The editor offers sincerest apologies to the president, the first and second vice-presidents, and the members of the Excutive Council of the American Catholic Historical Association for the printing of the wrong names of those officers on the inside front cover of the July issue ...