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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History publishes material on all aspects of the history of the Christian Church. It deals with the Church both as an institution and in its relations with other religions and society at large. Each volume includes about twenty articles and roughly three hundred notices of recently published books relevant to the interests of the journal’s readers.

Jewish Converts in the Early Church and Latin Christian Exegetes of Isaiah, c . 400–1150

Research Articles
ELISABETH MÉGIER,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 1-28

Abstract
This article examines the role, in patristic and medieval commentaries on Isaiah in the west up until 1150, of the theme of the (Isaiah i.9; x.22), which is related to Jewish Christians by St Paul. Assumed to signify the small number of Jewish converts in Apostolic times, it could also be used on the one hand to minimise the Jewish contribution to the early Church (St Jerome and Rupert of Deutz) and on the other hand to emphasise it (Haimo of Auxerre, Bruno of Segni and Herveus of Bourg-Dieu). Some authors, however, simply ignore the question (Arnold of Bonneval and Rainald of St Eloi).

The Boswell thesis. Essays on Christianity, social tolerance, and homosexuality . Edited by Mathew Kuefler. Pp. viii+348. Chicago–London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. £47.50 (cloth), £17.50 (paper). 0 226 45740 0; 0 226 45741 9

Book Reviews
Andy Hyde,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 101-102

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Theodoret of Cyrrhus Histoire ecclésiastique. Tome I (Livres I–II). Edited by L. Parmentier, G. C. Hansen, J. Bouffartigue, Annick Martin and Pierre Canivet. (Sources Chrétiennes, 501.) Pp. 539 incl. 2 maps. Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 2006. €45 (paper). 2 204 08023 3; 0750 1978

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Andrew Louth,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 101-101

Abstract

Holy fools in Byzantium and beyond . By Sergey A. Ivanov (trans. Simon Franklin). (Oxford Studies in Byzantium.) Pp. xii+479 incl. 1 ill. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. £55. 0 19 927251 4; 978 0 19 927251 8

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Averil Cameron,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 103-103

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Reorientations of western thought from antiquity to the Renaissance . By F. Edward Cranz (ed. Nancy Struever). (Collected Studies, 840.) Pp. xxiv+374. Aldershot–Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. £62.50. 10 0 86078 983 7; 13 978 0 86078 983 3

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Andrew Louth,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 104-104

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Literacy in Lombard Italy, c. 568–774 . By Nicholas Everett. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th Ser., 53.) Pp. xiv+386. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. £50. 0 521 81905 9; 0 521 79639 3

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Roger Wright,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 104-105

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Making a Christian landscape. The countryside in early medieval Cornwall, Devon and Wessex . By Sam Turner. Pp. xviii+218 incl. 55 figs and 10 tables+16 colour plates. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2006. £55 (cloth), £20 (paper). 0 85989 774 5; 0 85989 785 0

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O. J. Padel,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 106-107

Abstract

St Nynia. With a translation of the Miracula Nynie episcopi and the Vita Niniani . By John MacQueen and Winifred MacQueen. Pp. viii+183+8 plates. Edinburgh: Birlinn (John Donald), 2005 (first publ. 1990 by Polygon Books). £9.99 (paper). 10: 0 85976 596 2; 13: 978 0 85976 596 1

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Damian Bracken,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 107-108

Abstract

Viking pirates and Christian princes. Dynasty, religion, and empire in the north Atlantic . By Benjamin Hudson. Pp. xiv+278 incl. 4 figs and 9 maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. £22.50. 13 978 0 19 516237 0; 0 19 516237 4

Book Reviews
Jonathan Shepard,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 108-110

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Die Lebensbeschreibungen Bishof Burchards von Würzburg. Vita antiquior – Vita posterior – Vita metrica . Edited by Desirée Barlava. (Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum in usum Scholarum Separatim Editi, 76.) Pp. viii+277. Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2005. €30. 3 7752 5476 5; 0343 0820 Die Viten Gottfrieds von Cappenberg . Edited by Gerlinde Niemeyer and Ingrid Ehlers-Kisseler (with Veronika Lukas). (Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum in usum Scholarum Separatim Editi, 74.) Pp. viii+265. Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2005. €30. 3 7752 5474 9; 0343 0820

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Kathleen G. Cushing,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 110-111

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St Wulfsige and Sherborne. Essays to celebrate the millennium of the Benedictine abbey, 998–1998 . Edited by Katherine Barker, David A. Hinton and Alan Hunt. (Bournemouth University School of Conservation Sciences. Occasional Paper, 8.) Pp. xxii+248 incl. frontispiece, 1 table and 28 figs. Oxford: Oxbow, 2005. £28 (paper). 1 84217 175 5

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Antonia Gransden,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 112-114

Abstract

The art of reform in eleventh-century Flanders. Gerard of Cambrai, Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Saint-Vaast Bible . By Diane J. Reilly. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 128.) Pp. xvii+363+46 black-and-white and colour plates. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2006. €125. 13 978 90 04 15097 3; 10 90 04 15097 8; 1573 5664

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Kathleen G. Cushing,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 114-115

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Defecit ecclesia. Studien zur Verfallsidee in der Kirchengeschichtsanschauung des Mittelalters . By Wolf-Friedrich Schäufele. (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz. Abteilung für Abendländische Religionsgeschichte, 213.) Pp. ix+412. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 2006. €51. 10 3 8053 3647 0; 13 978 8053 3647 5

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D. J. A. Matthew,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 115-116

Abstract

Envisaging heaven in the Middle Ages . Edited by Carolyn Muessig and Ad Putter (with Gareth Griffith and Judith Jefferson). (Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture, 6.) Pp. xiii+258 incl. 2 plates. London–New York: Routledge, 2007. £65. 10 0 415 38383 8; 13 978 0 415 38383 7

Book Reviews
Peter Dinzelbacher,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 116-117

Abstract

Des Contestataires aux cathares. Discours de réforme et propagande antihérétique dans les pays du Rhin et de la Meuse avant l'inquisition . By Uwe Brunn. (Collection des Études Augustiniennes. Série Moyen Âge et Temps Modernes, 41.) Pp. 633. Paris: Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, 2006. €45.50 (paper). 10 2 85121 207 9; 13 978 2 85121 207 8; 1159 4888

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Giles Constable,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 117-118

Abstract

Discerning spirits. Divine and demonic possession in the Middle Ages . By Nancy Caciola. (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past.) Pp. xvi+327 incl 23 ills. Cornell University Press 2006 (first publ. 2003). $22.50 (paper). 13 978 0 8014 4084 7; 13 978 0 8014 7334 0

Book Reviews
Nicholas Vincent,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 118-119

Abstract

Virtue and ethics in the twelfth century . Edited by István P. Bejczy and Richard G. Newhauser. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 130.) Pp. vi+393. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2005. €135. 90 04 14327 0; 0920 8607

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David Luscombe,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 119-120

Abstract

Livre des miracles de saint Gilles. Liber miraculorum sancti Egidii. La vie d'un sanctuaire de pèlerinage au XIIe siècle . Edited by Marcel Girault and Pierre-Gilles Girault (preface André Vauchez). (Medievalia, 60.) Pp. 368 incl. 5 ills. Orléans: Paradigme, 2007. €28 (paper). 978 2 86878 263 2; 1251 571X

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David Rollason,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 120-121

Abstract

Collectaneum exemplorum ac visionum Clarevallense e codice Trecensi 946 . By Olivier Legendre. (Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis, 208.) Pp. cxiv+470. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005. €250. 2 503 05089 1

Book Reviews
Alexander Murray,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 121-122

Abstract

Per visibilia ad invisibilia. Theological method in Richard of St Victor (d. 1173) . By Dale M. Coulter. (Bibliotheca Victorina, 19.) Pp. 293. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006. €60. 2 503 52386 2

Book Reviews
Ineke van't Spijker,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 122-123

Abstract

Pseudo-Dionysius and the metaphysics of Aquinas . By Fran O'Rourke. Pp. xviii+300. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005 (first publ. Leiden: Brill, 1992). $28 (paper). 0 268 03724 8

Book Reviews
Wayne J. Hankey,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 123-124

Abstract

Recueil des actes de Philippe-Auguste, roi de France, V: Supplément d'actes, actes perdus, additions et corrections aux précedénts volumes . Edited by Michel Nortier. (Chartes et Diplômes relatifs à l'Histoire de France.) Pp. ix+589. Paris: de Boccard, 2004. €100 (paper). 2 87754 153 3 Recueil des actes de Philippe Auguste, roi de France, VI: Lettres mises sous le nom de Philippe Auguste dans les Recueils de formulaires d'école ou pouvant être considérées, quoique anonymes, comme lui ayant été attribuées . Edited by Michel Nortier. (Chartes et Diplômes relatifs à l'histoire de France publiés par les soins de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.) Pp. vii+216. Paris: de Boccard, 2005. €45 (paper). 2 87754 173 8

Book Reviews
Nicholas Vincent,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 124-126

Abstract

Sibilla erithea babilonica. Papsttum und Prophetie im 13. Jahrhundert . By Christian Jostmann. (Monumenta Germaniae Historica Schriften, 54.) Pp. xvii+549. Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2006. €60. 3 7752 5754 3; 0080 6951

Book Reviews
Laura A. Smoller,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 126-127

Abstract

Isabelle of France. Capetian sanctity and Franciscan identity in the thirteenth century . By Sean L. Field. Pp. xii+289. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. $35 (paper). 13 978 0 268 02880 0; 10 0 268 02880 X

Book Reviews
Nora Berend,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 127-128

Abstract

The other friars. Carmelite, Augustinian, Sack and Pied friars in the Middle Ages . By Frances Andrews. (Monastic Orders, 2.) Pp. ix+261. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006. £25. 1 84383 258 5 The letters of Adam Marsh . Vol. 1. Edited and translated by C. H. Lawrence. (Oxford Medieval Texts.) Pp. l+290. Oxford: Clarendon, 2006. £75. 0 19 928179 3; 978 0 19 928179 4

Book Reviews
Andrew Jotischky,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 128-130

Abstract

Wege zur Pfründe. Die Besetzung der Magdeburger Domkanonikate zwischen ordentlicher Kollatur und päpstlicher Provision, 1295–1464 . By Thomas Willich. (Bibliothek des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom, 102.) Pp. xii+683. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2005. €98. 3 484 82102 7; 0070 4156

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Kenneth Pennington,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 130-131

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Love, friendship and faith in Europe, 1300–1800 . Edited by Laura Gowing, Michael Hunter and Miri Rubin. Pp. ix+230. Basingstoke–New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. £45. 13 978 1 4039 9147 8; 10 1 4039 9147 2

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Tom Betteridge,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 131-132

Abstract

The trial of the Templars . 2nd edn. By Malcolm Barber. Pp. x+398. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. £40 (cloth), £14.99 (paper). 13 978 0 521 85639 3; 10 0 521 85639 6; 13 978 0 521 67236 8; 010 0 521 67236 8

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Michael Jones,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 132-133

Abstract

Die Wilsnackfahrt. Ein Wallfahrts- und Kommunikationszentrum Nord- und Mitteleuropas im Spätmittelalter . Edited by Felix Escher and Hartmut Kühne. (Europäische Wallfahrtsstudien, 2.) Pp. 275 incl. 29 ills. Frankfurt-am-Main: Peter Lang, 2006. £26 (paper). 3 631 54501 0; 1862 149X

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Marie-Luise Ehrenschwendtner,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 133-134

Abstract

Lay religious life in late medieval Durham . By Margaret Harvey. (Regions and Regionalism in History.) Pp. xiv+232 incl. 2 frontispieces. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006. £50. 1 84383 277 1

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Lynda Rollason,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 134-134

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Sacred and secular in medieval and early modern cultures. New essays . Edited by Lawrence Besserman. (The New Middle Ages.) Pp. xviii+238. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. £37.99. 1 4039 6732 6 Scripture and pluralism. Reading the Bible in the religiously plural worlds of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Papers presented at the first annual symposium of the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, February 21–22, 2002 . Edited by Thomas J. Heffernan. and Thomas E. Burman. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 123.) Pp. vii+246. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2005. €114. 90 04 14415 3; 1573 5664

Book Reviews
Gary Dickson,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 135-136

Abstract

L'Europe de l'exégèse au XVI siècle. Interprétations de la parabole des ouvriers à la vigne (Matthieu 20, 1–16) . By Jean-Pierre Delville. (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 174.) Pp. xli+785 incl. 5 ills. Louvain: Leuven University Press/Peeters, 2004. €70 (paper). 90 429 1441 6; 2 87723 981 8

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Edwin Woodruff Tait,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 136-138

Abstract

The register of a convent controversy (1517–1518). Pope Leo X, Cardinal Bakócz, the Augustinians, and the Observant Franciscans in contest . By Gabriella Erdélyi. (Collectanea Vaticana Hungariae, Classis II, 1.) Pp. lxxxvii+228+2 plates. Budapest–Rome: P. Pázmány Catholic University, 2006. 963 9206 08 3; 1787 2758; 1787 1816

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R. J. W. Evans,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 138-139

Abstract

The pontificate of Clement VII. History, politics, culture . Edited by Kenneth Gouwens and Sheryl E. Reiss. (Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700.) Pp. xxvi+437+57 plates. Aldershot–Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. £55. 0 7546 0680 5

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Peter Partner,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 139-140

Abstract

The canons. Cathedral close encounters . By Trevor Beeson. Pp. vii+248. London: SCM Press, 2006. £19.99. 0 334 04041 8; 978 0 334 04041 5

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Elizabeth Macfarlane,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 140-140

Abstract

Religious politics in post-Reformation England. Essays in honour of Nicholas Tyacke . Edited by Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake. (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 13.) Pp. xiv+253 incl. frontispiece. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2006. £55. 1 84383 253 4

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Alan Ford,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 141-143

Abstract

The use of history in early modern England . Edited by Paulina Kewes. Pp. ix+449. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 2006. £26.95. 13 978 0 87328 219 2; 10: 0 87328 219 1

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J. G. A. Pocock,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 141-141

Abstract

Prophecy, politics and the people in early modern England . By Tim Thornton. Pp. x+269. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006. £50. 1 84383 259 3

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Peter Marshall,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 143-145

Abstract

The king's reformation. Henry VIII and the making of the English Church . By G. W Bernard. Pp. xii+736 incl. 1 map+12 plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2005. £29.95. 0 300 10908 3 Writing under tyranny. English literature and the Henrician Reformation . By Greg Walker. Pp. xi+556. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. £65. 0 19 928333 8

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J. P. D. Cooper,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 145-147

Abstract

Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575). Leben, Werk und Wirkung. Vols 1 and 2 . By Fritz Büsser. Pp. xiii+305; xi+371. Zurich: TVZ, 2004; 2005. €30 each. 3 290 17296 1; 3 290 17297 X

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Carrie Euler,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 147-149

Abstract

Enforcing reformation in Ireland and Scotland, 1550–1700 . Edited by Elizabethanne Boran and Crawford Gribben. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xi+264. Aldershot–Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. £55. 0 7546 5582 2

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Jane E. A. Dawson,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 149-150

Abstract

Politics or religion? The Reformation in Perth, 1540–1570 . By Mary Verschuur. Pp. xviii+163 incl. map and genealogical table. Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press, 2006. £25. 1 903765 35 8; 13 978 1 903765 35 7

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Crawford Gribben,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 149-149

Abstract

Authority and society in Nantes during the French wars of religion, 1559–98 . By Elizabeth C. Tingle. (Studies in Early Modern European History.) Pp. x+230 incl. 4 figs and 2 tables. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. £55. 0 7190 6726 X; 978 0 7190 6726 6

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Mack P. Holt,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 150-151

Abstract

Antonio Possevino S.I. bibliografo della Controriforma e diffusione della sua opera in area Anglicana . By Luigi Balsamo. (Biblioteca di Bibliografia Italiana, 186.) Pp. 232 incl. colour frontispiece and 6 figs+25 plates. Firenze: Olschki, 2006. €24 (paper). 88 222 55690

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Dermot Fenlon,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 151-152

Abstract

Mary Ward. Under the shadow of the inquisition, 1630–1637 . By M. Immolata Wetter (trans. M. Bernadette Ganne and M. Patricia Harriss, intro. M. Gregory Kirkus). Pp. 222 incl. 8 ills. Oxford: Way Books, 2006. £12 (paper). 0 904717 28 3

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Lisa Mcclain,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 152-153

Abstract

James VI and I. Ideas, authority, and government . Edited by Ralph Houlbrooke. Pp. xiii+198. Aldershot–Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. £55. 10: 0 7546 5410 9; 13: 978 0 7546 5410 0

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Pauline Croft,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 153-154

Abstract

The evolving reputation of Richard Hooker. An examination of responses, 1600–1714 . By Michael Brydon. Pp. viii+232. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. £45. 0 19 920481 0; 978 0 19 920481 6

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Nigel Voak,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 154-155

Abstract

New England's crises and cultural memory. Literature, politics, history, religion, 1620–1860 . By John McWilliams. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 142.) Pp. xii+366. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. £45. 0 521 82683 7

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Francis J. Bremer,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 155-156

Abstract

The spiritual conversion of the Americas . Edited by James Muldoon. Pp. viii+273. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2004. $65. 0 8130 2771 3 Plagues, priests, demons. Sacred narratives and the rise of Christianity in the old world and the new . By Daniel T. Reff. Pp. xiii+290. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. £40 (cloth), £15.99 (paper). 0 521 84078 3; 0 521 60050 2

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Sarah Barber,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 156-158

Abstract

The religious culture of the Huguenots, 1660–1750 . Edited by Anne Duncan-Page. Pp. xvi+218 incl. 7 tables. Aldershot–Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. £55. 10 0 7546 5495 8; 13 978 0 7546 5495 7

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Geert H. Janssen,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 158-159

Abstract

Early New England. A covenanted society . By David A. Weir. (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion.) Pp. xviii+460. Grand Rapids, MI-Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2005. £22.99 ($34) (paper). 0 8028 1352 6

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Francis J. Bremer,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 158-158

Abstract

Spinoza and the rise of historical criticism of the Bible . By Travis L. Frampton. Pp. x+262. New York–London: T&T Clark, 2006. £65. 13 978 0 567 02493 7; 10 0 567 02593 4

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Nicholas Keene,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 159-160

Abstract

Guadalupe and her faithful. Latino Catholics in San Antonio, from colonial origins to the present . By Timothy Matovina. (Lived Religions.) Pp. xv+232 incl. 28 ills. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. £40 (cloth), £15.50 (paper). 0 8018 7959 0; 0 8018 8229 X

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Matthew Butler,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 160-161

Abstract

Protestant Nonconformist texts, II: The eighteenth century . Edited by Alan P. F. Sell (with David J. Hall and Ian Sellers). Pp. xvii+459. Aldershot–Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. £75. 13 978 0 7546 3853 7; 10 0 7546 3853 7

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Nigel Aston,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 161-162

Abstract

The Princeton companion to Jonathan Edwards . Edited by Sang Hyun Lee. Pp. xxviii+331. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. £29.95. 0 691 12108 7

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Mark Valeri,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 162-163

Abstract

Voices of the turtledoves. The sacred world of Ephrata . By Jeff Bach. (Pennsylvania German History and Culture, 3. Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, 36.) Pp. xix+282 incl. 29 ills. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press/Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003. $35. 0 271 02250 7; 3 525 55827 9

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Tanya Kevorkian,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 163-164

Abstract

Quaker women. Personal life, memory and radicalism in the lives of women Friends, 1780–1930 . By Sandra Stanley Holton. (Women's and Gender History.) Pp. xiii+290 incl. 15 ills. London–New York: Routledge, 2007. £24.99 (paper). 978 0 415 28143 0; 978 0 415 28144 7

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Doreen Rosman,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 164-165

Abstract

Evangelical Anglicans in a revolutionary age, 1789–1901 . By Nigel Scotland. Pp. xiii+457. Carlisle: Paternoster, 2004. £19.99 (paper). 1 84227 231 4

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Grayson Carter,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 165-166

Abstract

Freedom's distant shores. American Protestants and post-colonial alliances with Africa . Edited by R. Drew Smith. Pp. viii+284. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2006. $29.95 (paper). 13 978 1 932792 37 9

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Paul Gifford,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 166-167

Abstract

The talking book. African Americans and the Bible . By Allen Dwight Callahan. Pp. xiv+286. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2006. £18.50. 13 978 0 300 10936 8; 10 0 300 10936 9

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Mark Newman,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 167-168

Abstract

Gathering to his name. The story of Open Brethren in Britain and Ireland . By Tim Grass. Pp. xx+589 incl. 67 ills and 11 tables. Milton Keynes–Waynesboro, GA: Paternoster, 2006. £29.95 (paper). 1 84227 220 9

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Todd Thompson,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 168-169

Abstract

Faith in their own color. Black Episcopalians in antebellum New York City . By Craig D. Townsend. (Religion and American Culture.) Pp. ix+242 incl. 2 frontispieces. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. £29.50 ($45). 0 231 13468 1; 0 231 50888 3

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David Brown,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 168-168

Abstract

Crisis of doubt. Honest faith in nineteenth-century England . By Timothy Larsen. Pp. xi+317. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. £60. 13 978 0 19 928787 1; 10 0 19 928787 2

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Arthur Burns,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 169-170

Abstract

New faith in ancient lands. Western missions in the Middle East in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . Edited by Heleen Muree-van Den Berg. (Studies in Christian Mission, 32.) Pp. xi+339. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2006. €99. 13 978 90 04 15471 1; 10 90 04 15471 X; 0924 9389

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John Binns,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 170-171

Abstract

Nonconformist theology in the twentieth century . By Alan P. F. Sell. (The Didsbury Lectures 2006.) Pp. xi+239. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2006. £18.99 (paper). 13 978 1 84227 471 2; 10 1 84227 471 6

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D. W. Bebbington,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 171-172

Abstract

The Cambridge companion to Karl Rahner. Edited by Declan Marmion and Mary E. Hines. (Cambridge Companions to Religion.) Pp. xvi+318. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. £40 (cloth), £16.99 (paper). 13 978 0 521 83288 5; 13 978 0 521 54045 2; 10 0 521 83288 8; 10 0 521 54045 3

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Stephan van Erp,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 172-173

Abstract

Die Kunst Gottes verstehen. Hans Urs von Balthasars theologische Provokationen . Edited by Magnus Striet and Jan-Heiner Tück. Pp. vi+456. Freiburg-im-Breisgau: Herder, 2005. £19.90. 3 451 28774 9

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Stephan van Erp,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 173-174

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Faith on the home front. Aspects of church life and popular religion in Birmingham, 1939–1945 . By Stephen Parker. Pp. 249. Oxford–Bern: Peter Lang, 2005. $29 (paper). 3 03910 252 4; 0 8204 7181 X

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Gerald Parsons,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 174-174

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Communing with the enemy. Covert operations, Christianity and Cold War politics in Britain and the GDR . By Merrilyn Thomas. Pp. 293. Oxford–Bern: Peter Lang, 2005. £34 (€52) (paper). 3 03910 192 7; 0 8204 7177 1

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Philip M. Coupland,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 175-175

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Des Chrétiens entre athéisme et islam. Regards sur la question religieuse en Asie centrale soviétique et post-soviétique . By Sébastien Peyrouse (preface Patrick Michel). (Bibliothèque d'Asie Centrale.) Pp. 408. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose/IFEAC, 2003. €30. 2 7068 1733 X

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Xenia Dennen,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 176-176

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The Branch Davidians of Waco. The history and beliefs of an apocalyptic sect . By Kenneth G. C. Newport. Pp. xvi+379 incl. 13 plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. £30. 13 978 0 19 924575 1; 10 0 19 924574 6

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Jeffrey W. Barbeau,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 177-178

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L'Europe des religions. Eléments d'analyse des champs religieux européens . Edited by Richard Friedli and Mallory Schnewly Purdie. (Studia Religiosa Helvetica Jahrbuch, 8/9.) Pp. viii+257. Bern: Peter Lang, 2004. £33 (paper). 3 03910 091 2; 1424 7607

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Hugh McLeod,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 178-179

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 180-190

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Schism within the Curia: The Twin Papal Elections of 1378

Research Articles
DANIEL WILLIMAN,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 29-47

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The Great Western Schism divided Latin Christendom along national lines, but it began in 1378 not as a conflict between two national factions of cardinals in the conclave, but in two successive elections by the same college of cardinals, none dissenting. Each of the two new popes had the same usual claim to canonical legitimacy, but since each election was flawed in its circumstances and procedure, each pope could and did condemn and excommunicate his rival. Investigating the activities of the two leading bureaucrats of the Roman Curia, the archbishops who headed its two most powerful ministries, the Chancery and Camera, this paper explores an alternative interpretation of the two elections. According to this narrative, there were two extraordinary interventions in the succession to Pope Gregory xi: the disorderly papal election of 9 April 1378 was captured by one papal minister, the deputy director of the papal Chancery, Bartolomeo Prignano, archbishop of Bari; the second election, of 20 September, which began the Great Western Schism, was a counter-coup managed by the minister in charge of the Camera Apostolica, the chamberlain Pierre de Cros, archbishop of Arles.

English Deism and Germany: The Thomas Morgan controversy

Research Articles
JAN van den BERG,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 48-61

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The work of the English Deist Thomas Morgan (d. 1743), a Marcion in his time, received much negative criticism in England and abroad, especially in Germany. His views aroused comments in books, dissertations and journals. Only in the first half of the twentieth century was he to be praised by theologians such as Adolf von Harnack and Emanuel Hirsch, who likewise disparaged the Old Testament.

‘A Peril to the Bench of Bishops’: Sisterhoods and Episcopal Authority in the Church of England, 1845–1908

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SUSAN MUMM,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 62-78

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This paper reflects on the uncomfortable relationship between gender, religion, authority and influence in the Victorian Church of England, using the example of the ecclesiastical response to the rise of Anglican religious communities for women in the second half of the nineteenth century. Anglican sisterhoods occupied equivocal and disputed space within the Victorian Church of England, proclaiming their loyalty to the Church but unfettered by any ecclesiastical legislation or tradition that would have compelled them to obey the bishops. In a society that assumed that obedience to lawful authority was a natural attribute of godly women, their ambiguous and improvised relationship with the church hierarchy created enormous tension as well as considerable hostility.

Elite and popular religion. Papers read at the 2004 summer meeting and the 2005 winter meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society . Edited by Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory. (Studies in Church History, 42.) Pp. xiii+441 incl. 9 ills and 2 tables. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Ecclesiastical History Society), 2006. £45. 0 95468 0928; 0424 2084

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Christopher Marsh,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 79-82

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Jesus and the eyewitnesses. The Gospels as eyewitness testimony . By Richard Bauckham. Pp. xiii+538. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2006. £18.99 ($32). 10 0 8028 3162 1; 13 978 0 8028 3162 0

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James Carleton Paget,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 83-84

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Christian persecution, martyrdom, and orthodoxy . By G. W. M. de Ste Croix (ed. Michael Whitby and Joseph Streeter). Pp. xii+394. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. £60. 13 978 0 19 927812 1; 10 0 19 927812 1

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Lucy Grig,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 84-85

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Prayer and spirituality in the early Church, IV: The spiritual life . Edited by Wendy Mayer, Pauline Allen and Lawrence Cross. Pp. xi+367. Strathfield, NSW: St Pauls/Virginia, QLD: Centre for Early Christian Studies, 2006. A$44 (paper). 0 9752138 3 0

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Andrew Louth,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 85-86

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Ignatius of Antioch and the Second Sophistic. A study of an early Christian transformation of pagan culture . By Allen Brent. (Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity, 36.) Pp. xvi+380 incl. 26 plates. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006. €84 (paper). 3 16 148794 X; 13 978 3 16 148794 1; 1436 3003

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M. J. Edwards,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 86-87

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Julius Africanus und die christliche Weltchronik. Julius Africanus und die christliche Weltchronistik . Edited by Martin Wallraff. (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur. Archiv für die Ausgabe der Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte, 157.) Pp. viii+346 incl. 23 figs. Berlin–New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006. €98. 13 978 3 11 019105 9; 10 3 11 019105 9

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M. J. Edwards,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 87-88

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The earliest Christian artifacts. Manuscripts and Christian origins . By Larry W. Hurtado. Pp. xiv+248 incl. 9 ills. Grand Rapids, MI–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2006. £11.99 ($20) (paper). 10 0 8028 2895 7; 13 978 0 8028 2895 8

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D. C. Parker,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 88-89

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Clement of Alexandria and the beginnings of Christian apophaticism . By Henny Fiskå Hägg. (Oxford Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xii+314. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. £45. 13 978 0 19 928808 3; 10 0 19 928808 9

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M. J. Edwards,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 89-90

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Das Testament Salomos. Die älteste christliche Dämonologie, kommentiert und in deutscher Erstübersetzung . By Peter Busch. (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur. Archiv für die Ausgabe der Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte, 153.) Pp. xii+324. Berlin–New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006. €88. 13 978 3 11 018528 7; 10 3 11 018528 8; 0082 3589

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Todd Klutz,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 90-91

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Cyprian of Carthage, L'Unité de l’église. (De ecclesiae catholicae unitate .) Edited by Paolo Siniscalco, Paul Mattei and Michel Poirier. (Sources Chrétiennes, 500.) Pp. xviii+345. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2006. €34 (paper). 2 204 08132 9; 0750 1978

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Allen Brent,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 91-92

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The encroaching desert. Egyptian hagiography and the medieval west . Edited by Jitse Dijkstra and Mathilde van Dijk. Pp. viii+288 incl. 5 plates and 1 fig. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2006. €150. 13 978 90 04 15530 5; 10 90 04 15530 9

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Graham Gould,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 92-93

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Demons and the making of the monk. Spiritual combat in early Christianity . By David Brakke. Pp. xiii+308. Cambridge, MA–London: Harvard University Press, 2006. £32.95 ($49.95). 0 674 01875 3

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Augustine Casiday,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 93-94

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Almsgiving in the later Roman empire. Christian promotion and practice, 313–450 . By Richard Finn. (Oxford Classical Monographs.) Pp. ix+302. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. £55. 0 19 928360 5; 978 0 19 928360 6

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Sara Parvis,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 94-95

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Gewalt und religiöser Konflikt. Studien zu den Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Christen, Heiden und Juden im Osten des Römischen Reiches (von Konstantin bis Theodosius II) . By Johannes Hahn. (Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Beihefte. Neue Folge, 8.) Pp. 348. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2004. €69.80. 3 05 003760 1; 1438 7689

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Wolfram Kinzig,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 95-96

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Ethnicity and argument in Eusebius' Praeparatio evangelica . By Aaron P. Johnson. (Oxford Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xvii+261. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. £50. 0 19 929613 8; 978 0 19 929613 2

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T. D. Barnes,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 96-97

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The Eusebians. The polemic of Athanasius of Alexandria and the construction of the Arian controversy . By David M. Gwynn. (Oxford Theological Monographs.) Pp. xiii+280. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. £55. 10: 0 19 920555 8; 13: 978 0 19 920555 4

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Mark DelCogliano,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 97-98

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John Chrysostom and the transformation of the city . By Aideen M. Hartney. Pp. ix+222. London: Duckworth, 2004. £45. 0 7156 3193 4

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Thomas Graumann,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 98-99

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The homilies of St John Chrysostom. Provenance. Reshaping the foundations . By Wendy Mayer. (Orientalia Christiana Analecta, 273.) Pp. 570 incl. 16 tables. Rome: Pontificium Institutum Orientalium Studiorum, 2005. €32 (paper). 88 7210 347 9; 1590 7449

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Bella Sandwell,
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 59 Issue 01 , pp 99-100

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