The Catholic Historical Review back issues from January 2003:
This Train is Bound for Glory
Jan 01, 2003; ... Taylor, Wilma Rugh, and Norman Thomas Taylor. This Train is Bound for Glory. (Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Judson Press. 1999. Pp. 382. $45.00.) Subtitled "The story of America's Chapel Cars," this book can be more properly called an archive of local history, America's railroads, and the ...
A History of the Church in Africa
Jan 01, 2003; ... African A History of the Church in Africa. By Bengt Sundkler and Christopher Steed. [Studia Missionalia Upsaliensis LXXIV] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. xix, 1232; 8 maps. $140.00.) Bengt Sundkler made a splendid reputation as a missionary, teacher, and scholar ...
No Cross, No Crown: Black Nuns in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
Jan 01, 2003; ... No Cross, No Crown: Black Nuns in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans. By Sister Mary Bernard Deggs. Edited by Virginia Meacham Gould and Charles E. Nolan. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 2001. Pp. xxxvii, 226. $44.95.) The editors, Virginia Gould and Charles Nolan, ...
Notes and comments
Jan 01, 2003; ... Association News The president of the American Catholic Historical Association, Bernard McGinn, who is also chairman of the Committee on Program for the Association's eighty-fourth annual meeting, which will be held in Washington, D.C., on January 9-11, 2004, has appointed the following ...
Handbook of Christianity in China. Volume One: 635-1800
Jan 01, 2003; ... Asian Handbook of Christianity in China. Volume One: 635-1800, Edited by Nicolas Standaert. [Handbook of Oriental Studies/Handbuch der Orientalistik: Section Four: China, Volume Fifteen (15/1).] (Leiden: Brill. 2001. Pp. xxviii, 964. Dgl. 361.41; euro;164.00; US$201.00.) In a ...
Catholic Women's Colleges in America
Jan 01, 2003; ... Catholic Women's Colleges in America. Edited by Tracy Schier and Cynthia Russett. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 439. $45.00.) The stated aim of this collection of essays is to open up what has been "a closed book"-the history of Catholic colleges founded ...
Between Church and State: Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural America
Jan 01, 2003; ... Between Church and State: Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural America. By James A. Fraser. (New York: St. Martin's Press. 1999. Pp. x, 278. $24.95 clothbound; $14.95 paperback.) The interrelationship among church, state, and school in the United States has been quite ...
Juan Ignacio Molina. The World's Window on Chile
Jan 01, 2003; ... Latin American Juan Ignacio Molina. The World's Window on Chile. By Charles E. Ronan, S.J. [American University Studies, Series IX: History, Vol. 198.] (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. 2002. Pp. xvii, 318. $60.95.) Juan Ignacio Molina was one of the more notable of the ...
Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636-1641
Jan 01, 2003; ... American Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636-1641. By Michael P. Winship. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2002. Pp. xvii, 322. $29.95.) Controversies about the nature of grace and the constraints, if any, on where and how it might ...
Defining Mission: Comboni Missionaries in North America
Jan 01, 2003; ... Defining Mission: Comboni Missionaries in North America. By Patricia Durchholz. (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. 1999. Pp. xiv, 353.) The birth of the nation of Ghana in 1957 marked the beginning of the achievement of independence for the nations of Africa and an end to ...
Fray Angelico Chavez: Poet, Priest, and Artist
Jan 01, 2003; ... Fray Angelico Chavez: Poet, Priest, and Artist. Edited by Ellen McCracken. [Paso por aqui Series on the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage.] (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2000. Pp. xi, 156. $24.95.) With assistance of nine scholars whose specializations are diverse and ...
Consensus and Controversy: Defending Pope Pius XII
Jan 01, 2003; ... Consensus and Controversy: Defending Pope Pius XII. By Margherita Marchione.(Mahwah, New Jersey: The Paulist Press. 2002. Pp. x, 389. $24.95 paperback.) Although Sister Margherita Marchione first won scholarly recognition in the United States by publishing studies on Philip Mazzei ...
The Politics of Modernism: Alfred Loisy and the Scientific Study of Religion
Jan 01, 2003; ... The Politics of Modernism: Alfred Loisy and the Scientific Study of Religion. By Harvey Hill. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 227. $54.95.) One is unlikely to find in any language a clearer, better written introduction to the neuralgic career of ...
The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800
Jan 01, 2003; ... The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800. By David A. Bell. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2001. Pp. xv, 304, $45.00.) In 1792 Jean-Paul Rabaut de Saint-Etienne declared to the National Convention, "We must make of the French a new people" ...
Guadalupe: Our Lady of New Mexico
Jan 01, 2003; ... Guadalupe: Our Lady of New Mexico. By Jacqueline Orsini Dunnington. (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press. 1999. Pp. xviii, 189. 15 color, 32 b&w photographs. $45.00 hardback; $24.95 paperback.) Miracles are said to occur at the beginning of new evangelization in condescension to the ...
Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy
Jan 01, 2003; ... Early Modern European Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy. Edited by Gigliola Fragnito; translated by Adrian Belton. [Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. x, 264. $59.95.) The most important result of ...
John Lingard and the Pursuit of Historical Truth
Jan 01, 2003; ... John Lingard and the Pursuit of Historical Truth. By Edwin Jones. (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press. Distributed in the U.S. by ISBS, Portland, Ore. 2001. Pp. xxv, 308. $69.95.) Lord Macaulay did not like the History of England written by John Lingard in the 1820's. He complained that ...
Le diable chez l'eveque: Chasse aux sorciers dans le diocese de Lausanne (vers 1460)
Jan 01, 2003; ... Le diable chez l'eveque: Chasse aux sorciers dans le diocese de Lausanne (vers 1460). Edited by Georg Modestin. [Cahiers Lausannois d'Histoire Medievale, 25.] (Lausanne: Universite de Lausanne, Faculte des Lettres, Section d'histoire, 1995.) The early witch trials in western Switzerland ...
The Defamation of Pius XII
Jan 01, 2003; ... The Defamation of Pius XII. By Ralph McInerny. (South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine's Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 211. $19.00.) The past few years have seen book after book critical of Pope Pius XII, and behind almost every one of them was a larger attack on the papacy and the Catholic Church ....
The Abbot and the Rule. Religious Life at St Albans, 1290-1349
Jan 01, 2003; ... The Abbot and the Rule. Religious Life at St Albans, 1290-1349. By Michelle Still. [Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. ix, 329. L45; $79.95.) From the historian's viewpoint the sources for the history of St Albans abbey lie more in ...
Monastic Spaces and Their Meanings: Thirteenth-Century English Cistercian Monasteries
Jan 01, 2003; ... Monastic Spaces and Their Meanings: Thirteenth-Century English Cistercian Monasteries. By Megan Cassidy-Welch. (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. 2001. Pp. xv, 293. euro;50.00.) This provocative book explores the monastic culture of seven thirteenth-century Yorkshire Cistercian ...
Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England. Volume III: Accommodations
Jan 01, 2003; ... Late Modern European Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England. Volume III: Accommodations. By Maurice Cowling. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xxiv, 766. $100.00.) For scholars and intellectuals who take religion seriously, perhaps the most important topic ...
Monumenta Proximi-Orientis, V: Egypte (1591-1699)
Jan 01, 2003; ... Monumenta Proximi-Orientis, V: Egypte (1591-1699). By Charles Libois, S.J. [Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu, Vol. 152; Monumenta Missionum Societatis Iesu, Vol. LXV.] (Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu. 2002. Pp. lxii, 593. Paperback.) This book, in keeping with the plan of ...
Kirche und Macht im romischen Trecento: Die Colonna und ihre Klientel auf dem kurialen Pfrundenmarkt (1278-1378)
Jan 01, 2003; ... Kirche und Macht im romischen Trecento: Die Colonna und ihre Klientel auf dem kurialen Pfrundenmarkt (1278-1378). By Andreas Rehberg. [Bibliothek des deutschen historischen Instituts in Rom, Band 88.] (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. 1999. Pp. x, 658.192 DM.) Andreas Rehberg's study of ...
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in Worcester Cathedral Library
Jan 01, 2003; ... A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in Worcester Cathedral Library. Edited by R. M. Thomson with a Contribution on the Bindings by Michael Gullick. (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, Inc. 2001. Pp. xlviii, 256; 50 plates. $170.00.) It is ...
God's Scribe: The Historiographical Art of Galbert of Bruges
Jan 01, 2003; ... God's Scribe: The Historiographical Art of Galbert of Bruges. By Jeff Rider. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2001. Pp. viii, 360. $59.95.) Jeff Rider is perhaps the ideal reader and interpreter of Galbert of Bruges's intriguing account of the murder in the ...
Building Codes: The Aesthetics of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe
Jan 01, 2003; ... Building Codes: The Aesthetics of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe. By Catharine Randall. (Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press. 1999. Pp. xii, 288. $36.50.) Randall's monograph examines the work of Calvinist architects in France from the outbreak of the French Wars of ...
Storia della Chiesa di Bologna
Jan 01, 2003; ... General Storia della Chiesa di Bologna. Edited by Paolo Prodi and Lorenzo Paolini. 2 vols. (Bologna: Istituto per la Storia della Chiesa di Bologna, and Bergamo: Edizioni Bolis. 1997. Pp. xv, 402 and 670.) These two handsome volumes make a splendid contribution to the history of ...
Church Law and Church Order in Rome and Byzantium: A Comparative Study
Jan 01, 2003; ... Church Law and Church Order in Rome and Byzantium: A Comparative Study. By Clarence Gallagher, S.J. [Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs, Volume 8.] (Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2002. Pp. xi, 279. $79.95.) Scholars have seldom been courageous (or some might ...
Women in a Medieval Heretical Sect: Agnes and Huguette the Waldensians
Jan 01, 2003; ... Women in a Medieval Heretical Sect: Agnes and Huguette the Waldensians. By Shulamith Shahar. Translated by Yael Lotan. (Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press. 2001. Pp. xix, 184. $60.00.) On Tuesday, May 1, 1320, Raymond de la Cote and Agnes Franco were, after nine months of ...
Peiresc and censorship: The inquisition and the new science, 1610-1637
Jan 01, 2003; ... Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) worked to transform ideas about natural philosophy by communicating information, patronizing research, and demonstrating the utility of scientific investigations. Although he did not achieve the status of contemporaries like Galileo and Kepler, he made ...
Margery Kempe: An exemplar of late medieval English piety
Jan 01, 2003; ... When the only complete manuscript of The Book of Margery Kempe came to light in the 1930's, it brought both joy and disappointment to students of the religion of late medieval England. On the one hand, The Book opens up medieval daily religious practice to modern scholars in a way few other ...
Catholic Greenwich Village: Ethnic geography and religious identity in New York City, 1880-1930
Jan 01, 2003; ... Introduction Greenwich Village is a neighborhood of diagonal streets and narrow alleys on the lower West Side of Manhattan. Tourists find it an unexpected contrast to Manhattan's rigid grid of north-south avenues and cross-town streets. The area is so different from the rest of the city ...
The Concept of Woman, Volume Two: The Early Humanist Reformation, 1250-1500
Jan 01, 2003; ... The Concept of Woman, Volume Two: The Early Humanist Reformation, 1250-1500. By Sister Prudence Allen, R.S.M. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2002. Pp. xxiv, 1161. $70.00 paperback.) This comprehensive volume comes as close to being an exhaustive ...
Guerre sainte, jihad, croisade: Violence et religion dans le christianisme et l'islam
Jan 01, 2003; ... Guerre sainte, jihad, croisade: Violence et religion dans le christianisme et l'islam. By Jean Flori. (Paris: Editions du Seuil. 2002. Pp. 342. Paperback.) In this timely and useful survey, Professor Flori offers a comparative study of the character and development of the idea of holy ...
After Augustine: The Meditative Reader and the Text
Jan 01, 2003; ... Ancient and Medieval After Augustine: The Meditative Reader and the Text. By Brian Stock. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. Pp. viii, 132. $32.00.) Despite its diminutive size, this recent volume by Professor Brian Stock exhibits enormous learning in its ...
Leo XIII, Loisy, and the "broad school": An early round of the modernist crisis
Jan 01, 2003; ... Many Catholics at the beginning of the twentieth century feared that their Church was becoming increasingly anachronistic, and they therefore sought to update its teachings. Alfred Loisy (1857-1940) was one of the most important people engaged in this task. As the first step in his program of ...