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General

  • Biggar, Nigel, Colonialism. A moral reckoning. Pp. xvi + 480 incl. 1 map. London–Dublin: William Collins, 2023. £25. 978 0 00 851163 0

  • D'Avray, D. L., The power of protocol. Diplomatics and the dynamics of papal government, c. 400–c. 1600. Pp. xii + 266 incl. 6 plates. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. £85. 978 1 009 36111 8

  • Finn, Richard, The Dominicans in the British Isles and beyond. A new history of the English province of the Friars Preachers. Pp. xx + 404 incl. 20 plates. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. £90. 978 1 009 16433 7

  • Gabriel, Frédéric, Prat, Dominique Iogna- and Rauwel, Alain (eds), Dictionnaire critique de l’Église. Pp. xlii + 1425. Paris: Universitaires de France, 2023. €38. 978 2 13 073345 4

Ancient World

  • Behr, John (ed. and trans.), Gregory of Nyssa. On the human image of God. (Early Christian Texts.) Pp. xiv + 367. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £160. 978 0 19 284397 5

  • Bitton-Ashkelony, Brouria and Goodman, Martin (eds), Essays on Jews and Christians in late antiquity in honour of Oded Irshai. (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 40.) Pp. 307 incl. 9 figs. Turnhout: Brepols 2023. €90. 978 2 503 60245 5

  • Cooper, Kate, Queens of a fallen world. The lost women of Augustine's confessions. Pp. x + 290 incl. 5 ills and 4 maps. London: Basic Books UK, 2023. £20. 978 1 399 80796 8

  • Harkins, Angela Kim, An embodied reading of the Shepherd of Hermas. The book of Visions and its role in moral formation. (Studies in Ancient Religion and Culture.) Pp. x + 228. Sheffield–Bristol, Ct: Equinox, 2023. £26.95 (paper). 978 1 80050 328 1

  • Longenecker, Bruce W. and Wilhite, David E. (eds), The Cambridge history of ancient Christianity. Pp. xvi + 698 incl. 5 ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £140. 978 1 108 42739 5

  • Mikkelsen, Gunner B. and Parry, Ken (eds), Byzantium to China. Religion, history and culture on the Silk Roads. Studies in honour of Samuel N. C. Lieu. (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, 25.) Pp. xliv + 650 incl. frontispiece, 33 colour and black-and- white ills and 2 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2022. €227. 978 90 04 43460 8; 2213 0039

  • Pouderon, Bernard, Clément D'Alexandrie. Les Stromates. Stromate I. (Sources Chrétiennes, 633.) Pp. 561. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2023. €53 (paper). 978 2 204 15487 1; 0750 1978

  • Pourkier, Aline, Épiphane de Salamine. Panarion. Tome I. Livre I (Hérésies 1 à 25). (Sources Chrétiennes, 631.) Pp. 673. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2023. €59 (paper). 978 2 204 14958 7; 0750 1978

  • Stewart, Alistair C., Breaking bread. The emergence of eucharist and agape in early Christian communities. Pp. xxiv + 404. Grand Rapids, Mi: William B. Eerdmans, 2023. $49.99. 978 0 8028 8302 5

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

  • Agrigoroaei, Vladimir, The culture of Latin Greece. Seven tales from the 13th and 14th centuries. (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450, 86.) Pp. xxii + 741 incl. 63 colour figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €194. 978 90 04 52421 7; 1872 8103

  • Balcárek, Petr, Byzantium in the Czech Lands (4th–16th centuries). Historical and art historical perspectives. (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450, 87.) Pp. xxx + 501 incl. 207 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €163. 978 90 04 18552 4; 1872 8103

  • Bayer, John, The unity of the Proslogion. Reason and desire in the monastic theology of Anselm of Canterbury. (Anselm Studies and Texts, 4.) Pp. xiv + 369. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €130. 978 90 04 47049 1; 2468 4333

  • Bériou, Nicole, En Quête d'une parole vive. Traces écrites de la prédication (Xe–XIIIe siècle). (Bibliothèque d'histoire des textes.) Pp. 456 incl. 3 ills and 6 tables. Paris–Orléans: Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes, 2022. €31.50 (paper). 978 2 493209 02 3

  • Bino, Carla M. and Ricasoli, Corinna (eds), Performing the sacred. Christian representation and the arts. (Studies in Religion and the Arts, 20.) Pp. xiv + 239 incl. 60 colour ills and 1 table. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €124. 978 90 04 51746 2; 1877 3192

  • Blough, Karen (ed.), A companion to the Abbey of Quedlinburg in the Middle Ages. (Companions to European History, 29.) Pp. xx + 477 incl. 144 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €228. 978 90 04 30557 1; 2212 7410

  • Bork, Robert (ed.), The analysis of Gothic architecture. Studies in memory of Robert Mark and Andrew Tallon. (Studies in Medieval Technology, Science and Art, 14.) Pp. xiv + 297 incl. 115 colour and black-and- white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill 2023. €115. 978 90 04 529113; 2634 4750

  • Brady, Lindy and Wadden, Patrick (eds), Origin legends in early medieval Western Europe. (Reading Medieval Sources, 6.) Pp. xii + 474 incl. 19 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €198. 978 90 04 40036 8; 2589 2509

  • Brooks, George and Hutterer, Maile S. (eds), The worlds of Villard de Honnecourt. The portfolio, medieval technology, and gothic monuments. (Studies in Medieval Technology, Science and Art, 15.) Pp. xxviii + 588 incl. 237 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill 2023. €155. 978 90 04 52909 0; 2634 4750

  • Browne, Martin, Collins, Tracy, McShane, Bronagh Ann and Clabaigh, Colmán Ó (eds), Brides of Christ. Women and monasticism in medieval and early modern Ireland. Pp. xvi + 215 incl. 25 ills and 14 colour plates. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2023. £45. 978 1 80151 022 6

  • Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce, The invention of power. Popes, kings, and the birth of the West. Pp. viii + 339 incl. 49 ills. New York: Public Affairs, 2022. £25. 978 1 5417 6875 8

  • Chase, Nathan P., The anaphoral tradition in the ‘Barcelona Papyrus’. (Studia Traditionis Theologiae.) Pp. 384 incl. 6 colour and black-and-white figs and 86 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. £90. 978 2 503 60554 8

  • Fischer, Robert-Tarek, Die Kreuzzüge der Deutschen. Die Staufer und der Glaubenskrieg 1124–1250. Pp. 272 incl. 20 colour ills. Vienna: Böhlau, 2023. €35. 978 3 205 21817 3

  • Fleck, Cathleen A., Reimagining Jerusalem's architectural identities in the later Middle Ages. (Visualising the Middle Ages.) Pp. xviii + 402 incl. 113 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €143. 978 90 04 52308 1; 1874 0448

  • Garnett, George, The Norman Conquest in English history, I: A broken chain? Pp. xx + 470 incl. frontispiece and 13 colour plates. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £84. 978 0 19 872616 6

  • Hiatt, Aldred (ed.), Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic world, 1100–1500. Divergent traditions. (Maps, Spaces, Cultures, 3.) Pp. xiv + 235 incl. 45 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €94. 978 90 04 44491 1; 2352 7900

  • Ivanovici, Valadimir and Sullivan, Alice Isabella, Natural light in medieval Churches. (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450.) Pp. xiv + 365 incl. 108 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €145. 978 90 04 52795 9; 1872 8103

  • Lee, Alexandra R. A., The Bianchi of 1399 in central Italy. Making devotion local. (The Medieval Mediterranean, 129.) Pp. xvi + 284 incl. 28 colour and black-and-white ills, 7 maps and 12 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €108. 978 90 04 46598 5; 0928 5520

  • Leja, Meg, Embodying the soul. Medicine and religion in Carolingian Europe. (The Middle Ages.) Pp. x + 378 incl. 18 figs. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. £81. 978 0 8122 5389 4

  • Linehan, Peter, España Pontificia. Papal letters to Spain, 1198–1303. (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law, 19.) Pp. xviii + 681. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2023. $75. 978 08 132343 73

  • Long, Micol, Learning as shared practice in monastic communities, 1070–1180. (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 58.) Pp. x + 268. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2022. €129. 978 90 04 46041 6; 0926 6070

  • McAlister, Victoria L. and Shine, Linda (eds), Rethinking medieval Ireland and beyond. Lifecycles, landscapes, and settlements. Essays in honor of T. B. Barry. (Explorations in Medieval Culture, 23.) Pp. xxii + 344, incl. frontispiece, 68 ills and 2 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €140. 978 90 04 42545 3; 2352 0299

  • Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith, Learning Hebrew in medieval England. (Studies and Texts, 230; Judaism in the Medieval and Early Modern World, 2.) Pp. x + 193 incl. 12 tables and 24 colour plates. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2023. €98. 978 0 88844 230 7

  • Ottewill-Soulsby, Sam, The emperor and the elephant. Christians and Muslims in the age of Charlemagne. Pp. xx + 364 incl. 4 ills and 5 maps. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2023. £35. 978 0 691 22796 2

  • Powrie, Sarah and Zak, Gur (eds), Textual communities, textual selves. Essays in dialogue with Brian Stock. (Papers in Medieval Studies, 37.) Pp. xii + 271 incl. 9 colour plates. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2023. £95. 978 0 88844 837 8

  • Ramakers, Bart and Wouk, Edward H. (eds), Art and death in The Netherlands, 1400–1800. (Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art 2022, 72.) Pp. 368 incl. 191 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2022. €149. 978 90 04 533374 5; 0169 6726

  • Tannous, Jack, The making of the medieval Middle East. Religion, society, and simple believers. Pp. xvi + 647 incl. 2 maps. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. £28 (paper). 978 0 691 20315 7

  • Thornton, Ryan, Franciscan poverty and Franciscan economic thought (1209–1348). (The Medieval Franciscans, 21.) Pp. xii + 344. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €128. 978 90 04 53532 9; 1572 6991

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

  • David, De Boer, The early modern Dutch press in an age of religious persecution. The making of humanitarianism. Pp. xii + 212 incl. 8 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £70. 978 0 19 887680 9

  • Dipple, Geoffrey and Hill, Kat (eds), New directions in the radical Reformation. ‘Thinking outside the cages’. (Studies in Central European Histories, 74.) Pp. x + 300 incl. 13 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €119. 978 90 04 54621 9; 1547 1217

  • Flowers, Thomas, The reform of Christian doctrine in the catechisms of Peter Canisius. (Jesuit Studies, 39.) Pp. x + 272. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €115. 978 90 04 53550 3; 2214 3289

  • Harris, A. Katie, The stolen bones of St John of Matha. Forgery, theft, and sainthood in the seventeenth century. (Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755, 10.) Pp. xii + 229 incl. 6 ills. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. $119.95. 978 0 271 09535 6

  • Hunter, Michael, Atheists and atheism before the Enlightenment. The English and Scottish experience. Pp. viii + 223. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. £30. 978 1 00 926877 6

  • Kaufmann, Thomas (trans. Tony Crawford), The saved and the damned. A history of the Reformation. Pp. xvi + 358 incl. 25 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £35. 978 0 19 884104 3

  • Kennerley, Sam, Rome and the Maronites in the Renaissance and Reformation. The formation of religious identity in the early modern Mediterranean. (Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge.) Pp. xii + 140. London–New York: Routledge, 2022. £38.99 (paper). 978 0 367 76080 9

  • de Rolley, Maus, Thiebaut, Moi, Louis Gaufridy, ayant soufflé plus de mille femmes. Une confession de sorcier au XVIIe siècle. Pp. 380. Paris: Les Belles Letres, 2023. €23.90 (paper). 978 2 251 45454 2

  • Palacios, Joy, Ceremonial splendor. Performing priesthood in early modern France. Pp. x + 271 incl. 11 ills. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022, £54.95. 978 1 5128 2278 6

  • Peacey, Jason, The madman and the churchrobber. Law and conflict in early modern England. Pp. xxii + 307 incl. 13 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. £40.90. 978 0 19 289713 8

  • Rittgers, Ronald K., A widower's lament. The pious meditations of Johann Christoph Oelhafen. Pp. xviii + 318 incl. 9 ills. Minneapolis, Mn: Fortress Press, 2021. $22.99. 978 1 5064 2480 4

  • Sammut, Adam, Rubens and the Dominican Church in Antwerp. Art and political economy in an age of religious conflict. (Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 67.) Pp. xxvii + 526 incl. 29 ills and 3 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. 978 90 04 27637 6; 1878 9048

  • Santangeli, Ronald, Mary Queen of Scots. The first biography. With the life and times of its author, George Con. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 240; Texts and Sources, 14.) Pp. xviii + 442 incl. frontispiece and 10 colour figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €129. 978 90 04 52940 3; 1573 4188

  • Schendel, Joshua D., The necessity of Christ's satisfaction. A study of the reformed scholastic theologians William Twisse (1578–1646) and John Owen (1616–1683). (Studies in Reformed Theology, 45.) Pp. xiv + 210 incl. 2 figs and 1 table. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2022. €54 (paper). 978 90 04 52085 1; 1571 4799

  • Smith, Frederick E., Transnational Catholicism in Tudor England. Mobility, exile and Counter-Reformation, 1530–1580. Pp. xvi + 280 incl. 2 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. £98. 978 0 19 286599 1

  • Smuts, R. Malcolm, Political culture, the state and the problem of religious war in Britain and Ireland, 1578–1625. Pp. xiv + 754. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £120. 978 0 19 286313 3

  • Strohm, Christoph, Luther, Melanchthon, Bucer und die reformierte Reformation. (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation, 137.) Pp. xx + 627 incl. 12 ills. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023. €150. 978 3 16 162510 7

  • Van Dixhoorn, Chad, John Lightfoot's journals of the Westminster Assembly. Pp. xiv + 592 incl. colour frontispiece, 2 colour plates and 2 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £160. 978 0 19 883551 6

  • Walsham, Alexandra, Generations. Age, ancestry, and memory in the English Reformations. The Ford Lectures 2018. Pp. xx + 545 incl. 79 colour and black-and-white ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £35. 978 0 19 885403 6

Modern Europe

  • Alkier, Stefan, Keßler, Martin and Rhein, Stefan (eds), Evangelische Kirchen und Politik in Deutschland. Konstellationen im 20. Jahrhundert. (Christentum in der modernen Welt, 5.) Pp. 498 incl. 4 ills. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023. €84. 978 3 16 161488 0

  • Benedetti, Lorenzo, I mercanti e l'arcivescovo. L'affermazione dei greci ortodossi a Livorno durante l'episcopato di Francesco Guidi (1734–1778). (L'arca 2. Collana di studi e testi di storia moderna.) Pp. 186. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2023. €17 (paper). 978 884676590 1

  • Davis, Owen, Troubled by faith. Insanity and the supernatural in the age of the asylum. Pp. xiv + 350 incl. 6 figs. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £25. 978 0 19 887300 6

  • Eglinton, James and Harinck, George (eds), Neo-Calvinism and Roman Catholicism. (Studies in Reformed Theology, 47.) Pp. xii + 294 incl. frontispiece. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €54 (paper). 978 90 04 54606 6; 1571 4799

  • Johnson, Simon P., The English College at Lisbon, 1622–1972. Pp. xxiv + 269 incl. 8 black-and-white plates and 32 colour plates. Leominster: Gracewing, 2023. £25. 978 085244 701 7

  • Mulsow, Martin (trans. H. C. Erik Midelfort), The hidden origins of the German Enlightenment. (Ideas in Context.) Pp. viii + 403 incl. 7 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. £100. 978 1 009 24115 1

  • Sierszyn, Armin, Frommes Zürich. Pietismus in der Zürcher Kirche vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Evangelischen Gesellschaft und der Evangelisch-kirchlichen Vereinigung. Pp. 344 incl. 45 colour and black-and-white ills and 1 table. Zürich: Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2023. CHF 39 (paper). 978 3 290 18543 5

  • Wellings, Martin (ed.), Methodism in Victorian Oxford. The Oxford Wesleyan local preachers’ books, 1830–1902. (Oxfordshire Records Society, 76.) Pp. xviii + 343 incl. 1 fig. and 2 maps. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer (for the Oxfordshire Record Society), 2023. £35. 978 0 902509 79 5

Africa, Asia and Australasia

  • Chéry, Tshepo Masango, Kingdom come. The politics of faith and freedom in segregationist South Africa and beyond. (Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People.) Pp. xiv + 247. Durham, NC–London: Duke University Press, 2023. £23.99 (paper). 978 14 780199 30

  • Feodorov, Ioana, Arabic printing for the Christians in Ottoman lands. The East-European connection. (Early Arabic Printing in the East, 1.) Pp. xxiv + 441 incl. 64 colour and black-and- white figs and 2 maps. Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. £80. 978 3 11 078684 2

  • Frei, Elisa, Early modern litterae indipetae for the East Indies. (Jesuit Studies, 40.) Pp. x + 162. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €99. 978 90 53800 9; 2214 3289

The Americas

  • Ross, Aaron A. M., The Holy Spirit and the eagle feather. The struggle for indigenous Pentecostalism in Canada. (Advancing Studies in Religion.) Pp. xii + 365 incl. 12 ills. Montreal–London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. £33.99. 978 0 2280 1766 0

  • Smith, Eric C., Oliver Hart and the rise of Baptist America. Pp. x + 337. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £82. 978 0 19 750632 5

General : Modern world

  • Bouwers, Eveline G., Catholics and violence in the nineteenth-century global world. (Studies in Modern History.) Pp. xvi + 358 incl. 6 figs. New York–London: Routledge, 2024. £130. 978 0 367 650

  • Shattuck, Gardiner H., Jr, Christian homeland. Episcopalians and the Middle East, 1820–1958. Pp. xx + 280 incl. 18 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £82. 978 0 19 766503 9

  • Troughton, Geoffrey, Pacifying missions. Christianity, violence, and empire in the nineteenth century. (Studies in Christian Mission.) Pp. xiv + 209. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €110. 978 90 04 53678 4; 0924 9389

  • Valeri, Mark, The opening of the Protestant mind. How Anglo-American Protestants embraced religious liberty. Pp. xiv + 292 incl. 24 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £19.99. 978 0 19 766367 7