The Historian back issues from January 2004:
Turn your radio on: Brailey Odham's 1952 "talkathon" campaign for Florida governor.
Jan 01, 2004; ... POLITICAL CANDIDATES at the end of the twentieth century began looking for ways to circumvent both conventional media coverage and paid advertising to "get out" their message to voters. The 1992 presidential campaign was a signal moment: Bill Clinton appeared on Phil Donahue's daytime ...
Guns, butter, Leon Keyserling, the AFL-CIO, and the fate of full--employment economics.(Walter Philliop Reuther and George Meany's Conference on Economic Progress)
Jan 01, 2004; ... ON 15 JANUARY 1954, an intriguing proposal landed on the desks of both CIO President Walter Reuther and AFL President George Meany. Its author was Leon Keyserling, a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors and a longtime friend of organized labor. The ebullient, outspoken ...
Southern integration: the Sui-Tang (581-907) reach south.
Jan 01, 2004; ... SOUTH CHINA HAD BEEN independent for roughly four centuries when it was conquered by the Sui dynasty (581-618) in 589. (1) Much of the south, moreover, had scarcely been Chinese in any meaningful sense at all prior to the initial (Qin) imperial unification in the third century BC. Yet ...
"Reported to be distracted": the suicide of Puritan entrepreneur Peter Cole.
Jan 01, 2004; ... ON THE FOURTH OF DECEMBER IN 1665, prominent London bookseller and printer Peter Cole hanged himself from the rafters of his warehouse in Leadenhall Street. Richard Smyth noted in his famous Obituary that Cole was "reported to be distracted," and he surely had cause. (1) Business ...
The rise of the grands ensembles: government, business, and housing in postwar France.
Jan 01, 2004; ... AS FOREIGN VISITORS APPROACH the outskirts of large French cities, they first gain sight of the grands ensembles, massive suburban apartment complexes built in the 1950s and 1960s. Scholars have long argued that the grands ensembles were the product of collaboration between engineers in ...
"On their own and against all odds: women creating the civil rights movement".(Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter)(Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter. By Winson Hudson and Constance Curry. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. xi, 150. $26.95.) Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South. By Catherine Fosl. (New York: ...
Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? By William G. Dever. (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2003. Pp. xii, 268. $25.00.) In this work, the author traces the origins of the ancient Israelites. The first four chapters explain why the author feels that ...
The Nation and Its "New" Women: The Palestinian Women's Movement, 1920-1948.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Nation and Its "New" Women: The Palestinian Women's Movement, 1920-1948. By Ellen Fleischmann. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. 335. $29.95.) This study, documenting the development of a Palestinian women's movement in the period of the ...
Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848-1882.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848-1882. By Najia Aarim-Heriot. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 289. $39.95.) In reexamining the conditions that led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the ...
The First World Series and the Baseball Fanatics of 1903.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The First World Series and the Baseball Fanatics of 1903. By Roger I. Abrams. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 195. $26.95.) In recent years, the serious writing about baseball's role in America's past has produced some first-class scholarly studies; ...
A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. By Lizabeth Cohen. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Pp. 567. $35.00.) Few words bring home more powerfully the argument of this new book than President George W. Bush's post-9/11 exhortation that ...
The Modern American Presidency.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Modern American Presidency. By Lewis L. Gould. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003, Pp. vii, 309. $24.95.) Lewis L. Gould's work stands out like a giant redwood in the vast forest of presidential literature. Measured both stylistically and substantively, his ...
Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad. By Ann Hagedorn. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002. Pp. xvi, 333. $25.00.) Histories of pre-Civil War underground railroad networks that aided slaves escaping from the South to the North and Canada ...
Leadership in the Crucible: The Korean War Battles of Twin Tunnels and Chipyong-ni.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Leadership in the Crucible: The Korean War Battles of Twin Tunnels and Chipyong-ni. By Kenneth E. Hamburger. (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 257. $32.95.) General Douglas MacArthur proposed evacuation of South Korea in January 1951 after ...
Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865. By Stanley Harrold. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 280. $24.95.) This intriguing book on the antislavery community in Washington, D.C., demonstrates both the symbolic and practical ...
Mortal Remains: Death in Early America.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Mortal Remains: Death in Early America. Edited, and with an introduction, by Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burnstein. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 253. $18.95.) "How is the culturally learned fear of finality explained?" (1). The twelve contributors ...
The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America. By Frank Lambert. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 328. $29.95.) The role that eighteenth-century Americans thought religion should play in public life is a question of great historical interest and ...
A Murder in Virginia.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... A Murder in Virginia. By Suzanne Lebsock. (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2003. Pp. 418. $25.95.) In June 1895, Lucy Jane Pollard was murdered in Lunenburg County, Virginia, while her farmer husband, Edward S. Pollard, was working in a nearby field. The murder and ...
The Invention of Party Politics: Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Development in Jacksonian Illinois.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Invention of Party Politics: Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Development in Jacksonian Illinois. By Gerald Leonard. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. x, 328. $45.00.) Well over a quarter century ago, Arthur Bestor ...
Mexican Highland Cultures: Archaeological Researches at Teotihuacan, Calpulalpan, and Chalchicomula in 1934-1935.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Mexican Highland Cultures: Archaeological Researches at Teotihuacan, Calpulalpan, and Chalchicomula in 1934-1935. By Sigvald Linne, with a foreword by Staffan Brunius and an introduction by George L. Cowgill. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 229. $34.95.) ...
Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Republic of Debtors. Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence. By Bruce H. Mann. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 344. $29.95.) Given the impressive performance of the eighteenth-century American economy, it is not surprising that much of the ...
American Creed: Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil Society, 1700-1865.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... American Creed: Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil Society, 1700-1865. By Kathleen D. McCarthy. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 319. $35.00.) Thomas Jefferson formulated the "American Creed" in the Declaration of Independence, and in identifying ...
Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: The Court-Packing Crisis of 1937.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: The Court-Packing Crisis of 1937. By Marian C. McKenna. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 612. $60.00.) Revisionist scholarship of the past quarter century has generally argued that undue emphasis placed on ...
At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763. By Jane T. Merritt. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 338. $39.95.) In this study, the author persuasively argues that the violence of the Seven Years' War in western ...
Independence Hall in American Memory.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Independence Hall in American Memory. By Charlene Mires. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 350.) The author of this volume has written a book that shows us why history matters. As one of a number of books that tracks the unreliability of our ...
Rumors of Indiscretion: The University of Missouri "Sex Questionnaire" Scandal in the Jazz Age.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Rumors of Indiscretion: The University of Missouri "Sex Questionnaire" Scandal in the Jazz Age. By Lawrence J. Nelson. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 323. $39.95.) In the 1920s, scandals over the distribution of sex questionnaires in social ...
Watergate: The Presidential Scandal That Shook America.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Watergate: The Presidential Scandal That Shook America. By Keith W. Olson. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2003. Pp. 248. $35.00.) More than thirty years after the 17 June 1972, break-in at the Democratic Party's National Committee headquarters in Washington, historians ...
A Community Built on Words: The Constitution in History and Politics.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... A Community Built on Words: The Constitution in History and Politics. By H. Jefferson Powell. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. x, 251. $35.00.) This is an unusual book. It is a welcome combination of American constitutional theory, history, and ...
The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama. By John A. Salmond. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 295. $37.50.) In his book, the author narrates the story of the 1934 textile strike that spread quickly in many regions of the eastern ...
Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, and the West.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, and the West. By Virginia Scharff. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 239. $19.95.) "From the indigenous women who encountered European adventurers, to the housewives and workers who span contemporary Western cities, ...
A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances. By Laura Schenone. (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. Pp. xxxvi, 392. $35.00.) In this intriguing and accessible analysis, the author examines the role of ...
Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape. By David M. Scobey. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002. Pp. 340. $40.00.) The author of this study has written a graceful, tightly argued monograph that will appeal to all who are interested in the ...
American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization. By Neil Smith. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 557. $39.95.) This study focuses on the life of Isaiah Bowman, a prominent American geographer in the era of the ...
Peanuts: The Illustrious History of the Goober Pea.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Peanuts: The Illustrious History of the Goober Pea. By Andrew F. Smith. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 234. $29.95.) Numerous food crops first grown in the Western Hemisphere helped to revolutionize global agriculture. Among these, maize and potatoes ...
Federalism.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Federalism. By Robert P. Sutton. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. xxvii, 293. $54.95.) This book is an appropriate source for undergraduates and advanced high school students who want to know more about federalism. The word "federalism" denotes alliances between ...
The Rise of the States: Evolution of American State Government.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Rise of the States: Evolution of American State Government. By Jon C. Teaford. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. 272. $55.00.) In a reprise to his revisionist The Unheralded Triumph, in which he rebutted the "conspicuous failure" of city government during ...
Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records. By Gary Urton. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Pp. 202. $19.95.) Outsiders have long been fascinated by the sets of knotted strings, called quipu or khipu, which the Incas used to convey ...
Walking in the Way of Peace: Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Walking in the Way of Peace: Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century. By Meredith Baldwin Weddle. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 348. $49.95.) This is not simply another book on Quaker pacifism. Meredith Baldwin Weddle makes a persuasive case ...
Lincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Lincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics. By Stewart Winger. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 271. $38.00.) This book is one of a handful of recent studies of Abraham Lincoln focusing on the great president's religious beliefs. According to ...
Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India. By Antoinette Burton. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 202. $21.95.) This study examines the memories of three Indian women of house and home to reflect on "who ...
China's Techno-Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear to the Information Age.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... China's Techno-Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear to the Information Age. By Evan A. Feigenbaum. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. vii, 339. $55.00.) Scholars are often reluctant to view national affairs in terms of grand ...
A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present. By Andrew Gordon. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 384. $35.00.) This volume represents an examination of the last four hundred years of Japanese history by the head of Harvard University's ...
Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History. By Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 411. $20.00. One of the most, or perhaps even the most, intriguing and perplexing ...
Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950. By Odd Arne Westad. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 413. $65.00.) In this book, the author has made a breakthrough by bringing a new interpretation as to why the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) won ...
Queen Victoria.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Queen Victoria. By Walter L. Arnstein. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xi, 254. $29.95.) For readers seeking a compact life of Queen Victoria, this biography is just the thing. However, the life is largely a series of Arnstein's articles on the queen since 1986, ...
Nelson in the Caribbean: The Hero Emerges, 1784-1787.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Nelson in the Caribbean: The Hero Emerges, 1784-1787. By Joseph F. Callo. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 230. $34.95.) How do people become heroes? In this book, Joseph F. Callo endeavors to answer that question by examining just three years in the life ...
"For Freedom Alone": The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... "For Freedom Alone": The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320. By Edward J. Cowan. (East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 2003. Pp. 162. $15.95.) The "Declaration of Arbroath" is probably the best-known piece of writing from medieval Scotland. Beneath a title, which was given the ...
Drake: For God, Queen, and Plunder.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Drake: For God, Queen, and Plunder. By Wade G. Dudley. (Washington, DC: Brassey's, Inc., 2003. Pp. 98. $19.95.) This brief survey of Drake's career, while breaking no new ground, admirably summarizes the themes suggested by the title: Drake's role as Elizabethan naval hero and ...
Splintering the Wooden Wall: The British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Splintering the Wooden Wall: The British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815. By Wade G. Dudley. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 229. $32.95.) The author of this study challenges the longstanding, and widely followed, thesis of Alfred T. Mahan that the ...
All Russia Is Burning!: A Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... All Russia Is Burning!: A Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia. By Cathy A. Frierson. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. Pp. x, 318. $45.00.) More, perhaps, than anywhere else in the modern world, fire has been a major affliction of the ...
The Battle of Leningrad, 1941-1944.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Battle of Leningrad, 1941-1944. By David M. Glantz. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 660. $39.95.) Anyone who visits St. Petersburg and sees the numerous mass graves of the two million people who died there is shocked by the horror of war and moved by ...
The Spanish Republic at War, 1936-1939.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Spanish Republic at War, 1936-1939. By Helen Graham. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 486. $70.00.) This work is essentially a traditional political and diplomatic history of the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. Like other historians ...
Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. 259. $35.00.) Publishers do a disservice to the reading public when they push authors to write books that cross the lines of their expertise. Such ...
Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece. By Debra Hamel. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 200. $24.95.) Around 340 BC, Apollodorus, the son of a wealthy Athenian freedman, brought to trial a courtesan named ...
The Origins of World War I.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Origins of World War I. Edited by Richard F. Hamilton and Holger H. Herwig. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 537. $60.00.) The editors of this volume have had distinguished careers and are noted for their prolific scholarship. In this new book, Holger ...
The IRA, 1926-1936.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The IRA, 1926-1936. By Brian Hanley. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002. Pp. 287. $35.00.) The history of the IRA has been examined during the past quarter century in a number of important books, most of which devote only a chapter to the important decade between 1926 and 1936 ....
The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany: A Social History, 1890-1930.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany: A Social History, 1890-1930. By Michael Hau. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. x, 286. $22.00.) Today's readers--inundated by promotions for bodybuilding equipment, beauty products, vitality elixirs, and ...
Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style, 1720-1780.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style, 1720-1780. By Daniel Heartz. (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 2003. Pp. xxii, 1040. $100.00.) This study offers a vividly recounted tour of music and its social and political contexts between 1720 and 1780. Daniel Heartz, ...
The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern. By Carla Hesse. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 233. $22.95.) In denying women civic and political equality, did the French Revolution also make it more difficult for them to participate in social ...
Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity. By Naomi Janowitz. (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2002. Pp. xxv, 161. $45.00.) This book is a significant contribution to our understanding of late antique religion and ritual, as it considers some of the common ...
The Peloponnesian War.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Peloponnesian War. By Donald Kagan. (New York: Viking, 2003. Pp. xxx, 511. $29.95.) Donald Kagan, author of a well-respected scholarly history of the Peloponnesian War in four volumes, has now written a highly readable one-volume account of the war for a general audience ....
Law, Crime, and English Society 1660-1830.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Law, Crime, and English Society 1660-1830. Edited by Norma Landau. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 264. $60.00.) This is a collection of essays in honor of J.M. Beattie. Fittingly, given Beattie's monumental work on crime and the courts, the essays all ...
The Hitler Kiss: A Memoir of the Czech Resistance.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Hitler Kiss: A Memoir of the Czech Resistance. By Radomir Luza and Christina Vella. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 295. $34.95.) Devotees of World War II and Czechoslovak history will be grateful that Radomir Luza was spared the eponymous ...
The Orphans of Byzantium: Child Welfare in the Christian Empire.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Orphans of Byzantium: Child Welfare in the Christian Empire. By Timothy S. Miller. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 340. $44.95.) Introducing his comprehensive study of child welfare in the Byzantine empire, the author quotes Anna ...
God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages. By Barbara Newman. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 446. $42.50.) Recent decades have witnessed a revolution in our appreciation of the gendered complexities of medieval ...