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Volume 92 - December 2023

Book Reviews and Notes

Performing the Gospels in Byzantium: Sight, Sound, and Space in the Divine Liturgy. By Roland Betancourt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xxii + 330 pp. $130.00 cloth.

Door of the Wilderness: The Greek, Coptic, and Copto-Arabic Sayings of St. Antony of Egypt. By Tim Vivian and Elizabeth Agaiby. An English Translation, with Introductions and Notes. Leiden, Brill, 2021. 262 pp. $155.00 hardback.

From Idols to Icons: The Rise of the Devotional Image in Early Christianity. By Robin M. Jensen. Christianity in Late Antiquity 12. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. xx + 244 pp. $65 cloth.

Illness and Authority: Disability in the Life and Lives of Francis of Assisi. By Donna Trembinski. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. xii + 255 pp. $68 hardcover; $68 epub.

Authority and Power in the Medieval Church, c. 1000 – c. 1500. Edited by Thomas W. Smith. Europa Sacra, 24. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2020. 412 pp. $132.00 hardcover.

Embodying the Soul: Medicine and Religion in Carolingian Europe. By Meg Leja. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. viii + 378 pp. $89.95 cloth.

Cult of the Dead: A Brief History of Christianity. By Kyle Smith. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022. xxii + 333 pp. + 16 plates. $29.95 hardcover, $34.95 eBook.

Apocryphal and Esoteric Sources in the Development of Christianity and Judaism: The Eastern Mediterranean, the Near East, and Beyond. Edited by Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev. Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity XXI. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021. xix + 632 pp.

Other Monasticisms: Studies in the History and Architecture of Religious Communities Outside the Canon, 11th–15th Centuries. Edited by Sheila Bonde and Clark Maines. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2022. iv + 370 pp., 20 b/w 76 color illustrations, 8 tables, 10 maps. €160.00 hardcover.

Mapping Atonement: The Doctrine of Reconciliation in Christian History and Theology. By William Witt and Joel Scandrett. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2022. 256 pp. $27.99 paperback.

Cities, Saints, and Communities in Early Medieval Europe: Essays in Honour of Alan Thacker. Edited by Scott DeGregorio and Paul Kershaw. Studies in the Early Middle Ages 46. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2020. 408 pp. €105 hardback and ebook.

Christians, the State, and War: An Ancient Tradition for the Modern World. By Gordon L. Heath. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2022. x + 261 pp. $110 cloth; $35 eBook.

The Social World of the Abbey of Cava c. 1020-1300 By Graham Loud. Studies in the History of Medieval Religion LI. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2021. xxxiii + 417 pp. $115.00 hardcover; $29.95 e-book.

The Monasteries and Monks of Nubia. By Artur Obłuski. Leuven: Peeters, 2022. xxii + 414 pp. € 90.00, hardback.

Hearing the Scriptures: Liturgical Exegesis of the Old Testament in Byzantine Orthodox Hymnography. By Eugen J. Pentiuc. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xx + 450 pp. $37.99 paperback.

A Constellation of Authority: Castilian Bishops and the Secular Church during the Reign of Alfonso VIII. By Kyle C. Lincoln. Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755 8. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. ix + 219 pp. $114.95 cloth.

The Slaves of the Churches: A History. By Mary E. Sommar. Oxford University Press. Oxford, 2020. xi + 268 pp. $38.95 hardcover.

A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy: The Life of Clare of Rimini. Edited by Jacques Dalarun, Sean L. Field, and Valerio Cappozzo. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 192 pp. $99.95 hardcover; $29.95 paperback.

Divine Inspiration in Byzantium: Notions of Authenticity in Art and Theology. By Karin Krause. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xviii + 443 pp.; many black-and-white figures. $120.00, hardcover

A Companion to the English Dominican Province from Its Beginnings to the Reformation. Edited by Eleanor J. Giraud and J. Cornelia Linde. Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 97. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2021. xii + 431 pp. $195.00 cloth.

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