The Catholic Historical Review back issues from July 2005:
THE INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS OF POPULAR CATHOLICISM: CATHOLIC MORAL THEOLOGY IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
Jul 01, 2005; ... I. Introduction: Catholic Enlightenment and Popular Catholicism One of the greatest paradoxes of modern Catholic history is that a seemingly moribund Old Regime Church gave way to a broad-based popular Catholic revival in the nineteenth century. How can this reinvigoration be accounted ...
Religion and the Cold War
Jul 01, 2005; ... Religion and the Cold War. Edited by Dianne Kirby. [Cold War History Series.] (New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. Pp. xiii, 245. $95.00.) Dianne Kirby, lecturer in the School of History and International Affairs at the University of Ulster, has edited an interesting volume of thirteen ...
BLACK, WHITE, AND CATHOLIC: SOUTHERN JESUITS CONFRONT THE RACE QUESTION, 1952
Jul 01, 2005; ... In the summer of 1952, the New Orleans Province of the Society of Jesus rejected the practice of racial segregation. Basing their decision on Catholic philosophical and theological precepts, the Jesuits of the New Orleans Province examined the racial practices of post-World War II America and ...
Religion et Sépulture: L'Église, les vivants et les morts dans l'Antiquité tardive
Jul 01, 2005; ... Religion et Sépulture: L'Église, les vivants et les morts dans l'Antiquité tardive. By Eric Rebillard. [Civilisations et sociétés, Vol. 15.] (Paris: Éditions de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales. 2003. Pp. 243. euro22.00.) Since G.-B. de Rossi's La Roma sotterranea cristiana ...
Word, Image and Experience. Dynamics of Miracle and Self-Perception in Sixth-Century Gaul
Jul 01, 2005; ... Word, Image and Experience. Dynamics of Miracle and Self-Perception in Sixth-Century Gaul. By Giselle de Nie. [Variorum Collected Studies Series CS 771.] (Burlington,Vermont: Ashgate. 2003. Pp. xiv, 374. $114.95.) The seventeen published articles by Giselle de Nie reproduced in this ...
Écrire sa mort, décrire sa vie: Testaments de laïcs lausannois (1400-1450)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Écrire sa mort, décrire sa vie: Testaments de laïcs lausannois (1400-1450). By Lisane Lavanchy. [Cahiers lausannois d'histoire médiévale, 32.] (Lausanne: Bureau d'histoire médiévale, Faculté des Lettres, Université de Lausanne. 2003. Pp. 381. CHF 42; euro28 paperback.) A study of 180 ...
The First Crusade.A New History
Jul 01, 2005; ... The First Crusade.A New History. By Thomas Asbridge. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp.xvi, 408. $35.00.) This is essentially a popular history of the First Crusade, intended to provide a synthesis of the great volume of recent writing for a "wider audience" (p. x). It is very ...
The Reformation of the Image
Jul 01, 2005; ... Early Modern European The Reformation of the Image. By Joseph Leo Koerner. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2004. Pp. 493; 216 illustrations.) Koerner was born in the United States, and his early education was in both the English and German languages. He did his advanced work ...
Exorcism and Its Texts: Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain
Jul 01, 2005; ... Exorcism and Its Texts: Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain. By Hilaire Kallendorf. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2003. Pp. xxi, 327. $65.00.) Over the last two decades there has been an explosion of scholarly research and publication on witchcraft, a ...
Temps, Culture, Religions: Autour de Jean-Pierre Massaut
Jul 01, 2005; ... Temps, Culture, Religions: Autour de Jean-Pierre Massaut. Edited by M. É. Henneau, C. Havelange, Ph. Denis, and J.-P. Delville. (Brussels: Editions Nauwelaerts; Louvain-la-Neuve: Collège Érasme. 2004. Pp. 386. Paperback.) Gathered together from his students and colleagues, this ...
Monumenta Borgia, VI (1478-1551). Sanctus Franciscus Borgia, Quartus Gandiae Dux et Societatis Iesu Praepositus Generalis Tertius (1510-1572)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Monumenta Borgia, VI (1478-1551). Sanctus Franciscus Borgia, Quartus Gandiae Dux et Societatis Iesu Praepositus Generalis Tertius (1510-1572). Edited and with an introductory study by Enrique García Hernán. [Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu, Volume 156.] (Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana, and ...
The Politics of Piety: Franciscan Preachers during the Wars of Religion, 1560-1600
Jul 01, 2005; ... The Politics of Piety: Franciscan Preachers during the Wars of Religion, 1560-1600. By Megan C. Armstrong. (Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press. 2004. Pp. vii, 278. $75.00.) When I began my work on the French Wars of Religion decades ago, social tensions and class ...
Ferdinand von Fürstenberg, Fürstbischof von Paderborn und Münster: Friedensfürst und Guter Hirt
Jul 01, 2005; ... Ferdinand von Fürstenberg, Fürstbischof von Paderborn und Münster: Friedensfürst und Guter Hirt. Edited by Nobert Börste and Jörg Ernesti. [Paderborner Theologische Studien, Band 42.] (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh. 2004. Pp. 634. euro29.90.) This work is the result of a collaboration ...
The Catholic Church and Russia: Popes, Patriarchs, Tsars and Commissars
Jul 01, 2005; ... Late Modern European The Catholic Church and Russia: Popes, Patriarchs, Tsars and Commissars. By Dennis J. Dunn. (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2004. Pp. xii, 260. $89.95.) Dunn's emphasis, seven of ten chapters, is on the era since 1917. Like Petr Chaadaev, he ...
Los años de seminario de Josemaría Escriva en Zaragoza (1920-1925). El seminario de San Francisco de Paula
Jul 01, 2005; ... Los años de seminario de Josemaria Escriva en Zaragoza (1920-1925). El seminario de San Francisco de Paula. By Ramon Herrando Prat de la Riba. [Institute Histórico Josemaría Escriva-Roma, Monografias.] (Madrid: Ediciones Rialp, S.A. 2002. Pp. 451. Paperback.) The present work, a ...
Philippe Ariès and the Politics of French Cultural History
Jul 01, 2005; ... Philippe Ariès and the Politics of French Cultural History. By Patrick H. Hutton. [Critical Perspectives on Modern Culture.] (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2004. Pp. xxvii, 304; 20 illustrations. $80.00 clothbound; $24.95 paperback.) Philippe Ariès was a major figure in ...
Unaffected by the Gospel. Osage Resistance to the Christian Invasion, 1673-1906: A Cultural Victory
Jul 01, 2005; ... Unaffected by the Gospel. Osage Resistance to the Christian Invasion, 1673-1906: A Cultural Victory. By Willard Hughes Rollings. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 243. $45.00 hardcover; $22.95 paperback.) What benefits is a religion supposed to provide? The ...
The Irish in New Jersey: Four Centuries of American Life
Jul 01, 2005; ... The Irish in New Jersey: Four Centuries of American Life. By Dermot Quinn. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. 2004. Pp. x, 226. $26.95.) When I first opened The Irish in New Jersey I was a little put off by the first illustration. Depicting New Jersey's first royal ...
Mountain Sisters: From Convent to Community in Appalachia
Jul 01, 2005; ... Mountain Sisters: From Convent to Community in Appalachia. By Helen M. Lewis and Monica Appleby. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2003. Pp.xxiv, 299. $35.00.) Mountain Sisters: From Convent to Community in Appalachia documents the journey of the women who left the Glenmary ...
Missionaries on the Move: A Pastoral History of the Scalabrinians in Australia and Asia 1952-2002
Jul 01, 2005; ... Australian and Asian Missionaries on the Move: A Pastoral History of the Scalabrinians in Australia and Asia 1952-2002. By Desmond Cahill. (New York: Center for Migration Studies. 2004. Pp. xviii, 504. $29.95 paperback.) In 1878 Giovanni Battista Scalabrini was appointed Bishop of ...
L'obituaire de Saint-Michel-sur-Orge
Jul 01, 2005; ... LEMAÎTRE, NICOLE. L'obituaire de Saint-Michel-sur-Orge. Avant-propos by Jean Favier. [Recueil des Historiens de la France, Obituaires, série in-8", volume V] (Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Diffusion de Boccard. 2002. Pp. viii, 95. euro15 paperback.) This is an ...
NOTES AND COMMENTS
Jul 01, 2005; ... Association News The President of the American Catholic Historical Association, Thomas Kselman of the University of Notre Dame, has appointed Maureen C. Miller of the University of California at Berkeley and Charles J. T. Talar of the University of St. Thomas School of Theology at St ....
Obituaries: Raymond H. Schmandt
Jul 01, 2005; ... Raymond H. Schmandt, professor of history in Saint Joseph's University, passed away on February 22,2005, after a prolonged illness. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on September 20, 1925. He received A.B. and A.M. degrees from Saint Louis University in 1947 and 1949 respectively. He also ...
Obituaries: Joseph Henry Dahmus
Jul 01, 2005; ... Joseph Henry Dahmus was born on March 22,1909, in St. Maurice, Indiana, and died at his home in State College, Pennsylvania, on March 7, 2005. As a young man he studied for the priesthood and to that end attended the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio. He received his B.A. degree in ...
THE CULT OF ST. ANIANUS IN THE CAROLINGIAN PERIOD
Jul 01, 2005; ... According to Sidonius Apollinaris, Anianus was the bishop of Orléans and the defender of the city against the attack of the Huns under Attila in 4 51.1 This paper will examine the process of the development of Anianus's cult in the Carolingian period. Who evolved the cult? How did they do so? ...
FIGHTING OVER THE FIGHT IN SPAIN: THE PRO-FRANCO CAMPAIGN OF BISHOP PETER AMIGO OF SOUTHWARK
Jul 01, 2005; ... For several decades historians, literary scholars, and others have investigated a relatively wide spectrum of British responses to and involvement in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. A cross-section of their production illustrates the breadth of that topic. Valentine Cunningham, among others, ...
Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature
Jul 01, 2005; ... Ancient Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature. By Gay L. Byron (New York: Routledge. 2002. Pp. xii, 223. $31.95.) Interest in ancient ethnic, cultural, and religious identities has experienced a dramatic increase in recent years. Whereas earlier ...
Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics, Past and Present
Jul 01, 2005; ... General Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics, Past and Present. By Oliver O'Donovan and Joan Lockwood O'Donovan. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2004. Pp. vi, 324. $35.00 paperback.) The authors of the dozen essays gathered together in this volume ...
A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment
Jul 01, 2005; ... Medieval A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment. By Chris Lowney. (New York: Free Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 320. $26.00.) Lowney's contribution to the post-September 11, 2001, debate on interfaith relations takes the form of a popular history of medieval Iberia ...
Didymus the Blind and his Circle in Late-Antique Alexandria: Virtue and Narrative in Biblical Scholarship
Jul 01, 2005; ... Didymus the Blind and his Circle in Late-Antique Alexandria: Virtue and Narrative in Biblical Scholarship. By Richard A. Layton. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2004. Pp. ix, 217. $44.95.) Although well-known to patristic scholars, Didymus the Blind is not a name ...
L'incontro tra due "invenzioni" medievali: Università e Ordini Mendicanti
Jul 01, 2005; ... L'incontro tra due "invenzioni" medievali: Università e Ordini Mendicanti. By Luigi Pellegrini. [Scienze storiche, Volume 13.] (Naples: Liguori Editore. 2003. Pp. ix, 175. euro14,00 paperback.) This book had its beginning in classroom lectures on the origins and interaction of ...
Sons, couleurs, odeurs dans la Cathédrale de Tournai au 15^sup e^ siècle, Vol. I: Édition du cérémonial et des ordinaires, suivie du commentaire (I): Les acteurs, les lieux et le mobilier liturgique
Jul 01, 2005; ... Sons, couleurs, odeurs dans la Cathédrale de Tournai au 15^sup e^ siècle, Vol. I: Édition du cérémonial et des ordinaires, suivie du commentaire (I): Les acteurs, les lieux et le mobilier liturgique. By Jacques Pycke. [Bibliothèque de la Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique, Fasc. 84.] ...
Közép-Európa harca a török ellen a 16 század elso felében
Jul 01, 2005; ... Közép-Európa harca a török ellen a 16 század elso felében [The Central-Europeans' struggle with the Turks during the former half of the sixteenth century]. Edited by István Zombori. (Budapest: METEM. 2004. Pp. 219.) When the new Ottoman sultan, Mohammed II (the Conqueror, 1451-1481) ...
Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits: Traditional Belief and Folklore in Early Modern Europe
Jul 01, 2005; ... Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits: Traditional Belief and Folklore in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Kathryn A. Edwards. [Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies, Vol. 62.] (Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press. 2002. Pp. xxii, 226. $44.95.) The essays in this ...
The Duke of Alba
Jul 01, 2005; ... The Duke of Alba. By Henry Kamen. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 2004. Pp. viii, 204; maps ix. $30.00.) This book aims not to replace William Maltby's now standard account (Alba: A Biography of Fernando Valvarez de Toledo, 1507-1582,1983), but rather to characterize the actions of ...
The Trail of Martyrdom: Persecution and Resistance in Sixteenth-Century England
Jul 01, 2005; ... The Trail of Martyrdom: Persecution and Resistance in Sixteenth-Century England. By Sarah Covington. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 288. $55.00 clothbound; $28.00 paperback.) This book is an institutional and social history of the judicial processes ...
Le istruzioni generali di Paolo V ai diplomatici pontifici 1605-1621
Jul 01, 2005; ... Le istruzioni generali di Paolo V ai diplomatici pontifici 1605-1621. Edited by Silvano Giordano, O.C.D. 3 vols. [Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma.] (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. 2003. Pp. 1684, numbered consecutively.) Without exaggeration one can say that these three volumes ...
La Paix Clémentine. Défaite et victoire du premier jansénisme français sous le pontificat de Clément IX (1667-1669)
Jul 01, 2005; ... La Paix Clémentine. Défaite et victoire du premier jansénisme français sous le pontificat de Clément IX (1667-1669). By PhOippe Dieudonné. [Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium, 167.] (Leuven: Leuven University Press, Uitgeverij Peeters. 2003. Pp. xxxix, 302 ....
Baroness of the Ripetta: Letters of Augusta von Eichthal to Franz Xaver Kraus
Jul 01, 2005; ... Baroness of the Ripetta: Letters of Augusta von Eichthal to Franz Xaver Kraus. By Robert Curtis Ayers. (Scottsdale, Arizona: Cloudbank Creations, Inc. 2004. Pp. iv, 245. $36.95 hardcover; $24.95 paperback.) Franz Xaver Kraus (1840-1901), professor of Christian archaeology and church ...
Luigi Sturzo a Londra: Carteggi e documenti (1925-1946)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Luigi Sturzo a Londra: Carteggi e documenti (1925-1946). Edited and with an introduction by Giovanna Farrell-Vinay. Translated from the English by Clara De Rosa. [Opera Omnia di Luigi Sturzo, Terza Serie, Scritti Vari, Volume IV-5.] (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino Editore. 2003. Pp. x, 272 ....
Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits
Jul 01, 2005; ... American Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits. By Allan Greer. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 249. $30.00.) Allan Greer is Professor of American Colonial History at the University of Toronto, with several works to his credit. Here he focuses upon the ...
Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions
Jul 01, 2005; ... Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions. By James A. Sandos. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 2004. Pp. xix, 251. $35.00.) James A. Sandos set a formidable task for himself in writing this new treatment of a well-furrowed subject, Franciscan missionization in ...
Catholic Daughters of the Americas: A Century in Review
Jul 01, 2005; ... Catholic Daughters of the Americas: A Century in Review. By Berard L. Marthaler, OFM Conv., and Carol Dorr Clement. (New York: Catholic Daughters of the Americas and Mercury Publishing Services. 2003. Pp. vi, 151. $40.00.) The Catholic Daughters of the Americas, which originated as the ...
The Jesuit and the Incas: The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, S.J.
Jul 01, 2005; ... Latin American The Jesuit and the Incas: The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, S.J. By Sabine Hyland. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 269. $30.00 clothbound; $18.95 paperback.) Hyland's thought-provoking biography of Father Bias Valera, S.J., is the heart ...
The Papacy Confronts the Modern World
Jul 01, 2005; ... COPPA, FRANK J. The Papacy Confronts the Modern World. [The Anvil Series.] (Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company. 2003. Pp. xii, 178. $19.50 paperback.) Dr. Frank J. Coppa, professor of history at St. John's University, has provided this little volume for the Anvil Series of ...
Gerhard Schündelen (1808-1876). Uebersetzer von Werken John Henry Newmans in Deutschland. Ein Beitrag zur Newman-Rezeption
Jul 01, 2005; ... SOBOTTA JOHANNHS. Gerhard Schündelen (1808-1876). Uebersetzer von Werken John Henry Newmans in Deutschland. Ein Beitrag zur Newman-Rezeption. (Leutesdorf Johannes-Verlag. 2004. Pp. 190.) J. H. Newman's writings were especially since his conversion to Catholicism eagerly translated into ...
Obituaries: John D. Root
Jul 01, 2005; ... John D. Root died at Northwestern University Hospital in Chicago on September 24,2004, after surgery. He was born on December 20,1940, in Michigan City, Indiana. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1962, and an MA. in history from Indiana University in Bloomington in ...
Obituaries: Dom Bennett D. Hill
Jul 01, 2005; ... Dom Bennett D. Hill, O.S.B.,died on February 26,2005, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He was 70 years old. Father Bennett Hill was born on September 27, 1934, in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of David and Muriel Clarke Hill. With his family he moved in 1944 to Philadelphia, where he attended public ...