Abstract: Around 1122, Bernard of Clairvaux addressed a treatise to his Cluniac friend William of Saint-Thierry, in which he asserted his great respect for the Cluniacs. "And so' I am a Cistercian. Do I therefore condemn the Cluniacs' Far from it. Rather I love them, I praise them, I extol them." Bernard allegorizes that Cluniacs, Cistercians, canons regular, and faithful laypeople together form the robe of the Church. "Not only our Order or only yours belongs to that one robe, but ours and yours at the same time, unless perhaps—may it never happen—mutually envious and provoking, we gnaw at each other in turn and in turn we are devoured."1While Bernard of Clairvaux acknowledged the great similarity between Cistercians and ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: The emergence of late-colonial mission complexes in the northern reaches of New Spain in the late seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries was largely the work of a new type of Franciscan friar, the collegiate friars who were members of colegios apostólicos de Propaganda Fide, apostolic college-seminaries chartered by Spanish churchmen under the aegis of the Roman curia's missionary commission. The colleges were founded beginning in 1683 in New Spain and other parts of the Spanish American colonial empire, and were based on similar institutions in the Spanish kingdoms founded just before those in the Americas. From Texas and Nuevo Santander in the northeast to Sonora and Alta California in the ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: On Easter Sunday, 1822, a riot erupted at St. Mary's Church, Philadelphia's most affluent Roman Catholic congregation. Ignoring pleas from Mathew Carey, early America's most prominent publisher, who urged his fellow congregants to "suspend discord and angry passion," two evenly divided groups of parishioners began to bicker and press against a six-foot, cast-iron railing so that it soon swayed like "a reed shaken by the wind." The fierce brawl which followed, however, did not spontaneously ignite; for tensions within the church had been simmering for more than a decade. Over the years successive bishops had asserted a variety of strict policies, based upon ecclesiastical prerogative, which angered many parishioners ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Transparency has become an operative word in the landscape of twenty-first-century American life. Politicians especially, but others as well, are called upon to be more transparent with respect to policies, decisions, and even their private lives. The lack of transparency has been problematic on many fronts. Political scandals such as Watergate and the Iran-Contra Affair, as two examples, called into question the moral sense of individuals and the integrity of the system. The Church sex-abuse crisis, coming to light in 2003, terrible in its original actions, was greatly exacerbated by the failure of bishops and other significant officials to be more transparent.Efforts to advance transparency in the Church made a ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: This review continues a series of presentations of scholarly publications on Vatican II.1 I present here, first, the third volume of the office diary (covering September 29, 1963, to September 13, 1964) of Sebastian Tromp, secretary of the council's Doctrinal Commission; and, second, an archive-based account of the itinerary through developments to the final formulation of the council's Marian teaching in Lumen gentium, Chapter VIII, nos. 52–69.An earlier article of this series reported on the 2011 publication of the office diary kept by Tromp during Vatican II's first period and intersession of 1962–63.2 Now we present his record of the Commission's ongoing work during Period II in autumn 1963 and continuing in ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: This is the third volume of a trilogy entitled "The Emergence of Western Political Thought in the Latin Middle Ages." Oakley, who began publishing very nearly sixty years ago, has long been one of the most distinguished historians of ecclesiological and political thought in the long period, from Augustine to the English Civil War, covered by this series. This present book stands alongside Brian Tierney's Religion, Law, and the Growth of Constitutional Thought (1982) in demonstrating the growth of modern constitutionalism, and even democratic radicalism, out of the conciliarist theories of the Councils of Constance and Basel.As a general account of political thought in this three-hundred-year period the book is ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: What kind of education would best prepare girls and young women to care for hearth and home, to raise God-fearing and moral children' Do women teachers provide the best instruction for girls and young women' How should girls' education differ from boys' education' In 1808 as part of these debates and discussions, Dr. Friedrich Reinhard Ricklefs, the Protestant director of the Oldenburg Secondary School, argued Das Weib soll nicht gelehrt seyn [No learned women! directly: the woman should not be learned]. Anna Maria Zumbolz takes this phrase as the title of her book, and it also reflects the book's focus on drawing together commentary on girls' and women's education from the Reformation period to the present.A ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Few biblical commentaries in the Middle Ages were as influential as the sixth-century Explanation of the Psalms by Cassiodorus. Its author lived in an age in which educational and political institutions were being challenged at a rapid pace. Descended of an ancient noble Roman family, Cassiodorus served as statesman under the Gothic kings of Italy, who had taken over from the last of the Roman emperors in the Western part of the empire. It is not clear what eventually prompted him to become a monk and transform his family estate, Vivarium, into a flourishing center of monastic learning. Unlike the asceticism of his contemporary, Benedict of Nursia, Cassiodorus' monastic vocation was found in the preservation of ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: In Bede's Temple, Conor O'Brien presents an "extensive tour of Bede's thinking on the temple" (p. 5). He tackles the entirety of Bede's exegesis on that iconic structure, not only his main trilogy—On the Tabernacle, On the Temple, and On Ezra and Nehemiah—but also all other Bedan works referencing the temple. Moreover, O'Brien engages with contemporary, comparative representations of the temple image, namely, those in the Codex Amiatinus, adding visual components to his largely textual study. This monograph is well written and easy to read, engaging as subtly with complex primary texts as with the broad historiographical field. It offers a much-needed and successful exploration of Bede's interpretation of the ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Despite millions of visitors in recent decades, Toledo Cathedral has a marginal profile in histories of architecture, art, and spirituality. Publishers may release piecemeal studies of a chapel, a painting, or an ecclesiastic, yet the historian and layman alike usually cannot verbalize a cohesive narrative of the institution that arose after Christians conquered the city in 1085. The formidable publication by Tom Nickson, however, recognizes the primatial cathedral of Spain for its heroic stature within Peninsular and European frameworks. While synthesizing a wide range of scholarship, he also conducted on-site research to advance a perceptive account of the late medieval building.Lucid prose and a tripartite ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: This book is an edition, with introduction, of a composite Dalmatian manuscript of the twelfth century almost certainly originating in Kotor. But to say that is almost to misrepresent the depth and richness of this comprehensive volume. Richard Gyug has mastered all the disciplines required to provide expertise in paleography, diplomatics, musicology, liturgical scholarship, and political history, and he deftly brings this volume alive as a piece of living history in a way that few scholars can.The book itself, written in a series of nine Beneventan hands, consists, as Gyug makes clear, of several parts:Palimpsest pages of eleventh-century liturgical materials;Guard-leaves containing brief sermons for use in ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: In 1144 a twelve-year old skinner's apprentice named William, a younger son in a clerical dynasty of some local note, was lured from his residence in Norwich and murdered by person or persons unknown. William's uncle, a married English priest named Godwin Sturt, accused the small, recently-established Jewish community of Norwich of the murder, but little seems to have come from this initial accusation. William's body was buried in the churchyard of Norwich Cathedral Priory, to which his family had some connections; but there it lay, largely ignored, until 1149, when the claim of Jewish culpability for William's murder was revived by William Turbe, the newly-elected Cathedral Prior, who used the charge to defend ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: The medieval military orders have been subjected to extensive scholarly scrutiny in recent years. In the Anglosphere, thanks to the sterling work of such luminaries as Malcolm Barber, Alan Forey, Anthony Luttrell, Helen Nicholson, Jonathan Riley-Smith, and William Urban, to name just a few, we are now far better informed about the origins, organization, and activities of the orders. In an Iberian context, too, much important research on the chief orders of Calatrava, Santiago, and Alcántara has been carried out, but studies in English, particularly since the pioneering efforts of Derek Lomax and Joseph O'Callaghan, remain relatively limited. In Ecclesiastical Knights, Sam Zeno Conedera rejects the widely-used term ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: "It has been the intent of this book to rehabilitate for the English-speaking reader the Avignon papacy from its 'black legend'" (p. 289). Thus Joëlle Rollo-Koster summarizes her new study, one rooted in the author's thorough knowledge of the relevant sources and perceptive readings of modern scholarship. The "black legend" in question refers to the notion, already articulated in the fourteenth century and repeated thereafter, that the Avignon papacy was a venal, nepotistic, spiritually barren plaything of the French monarchy. To a very large extent, Rollo-Koster's rehabilitation succeeds.Avignon and Its Papacy consists of six chapters. The first three provide a brisk yet thorough narrative of the Avignon papacy ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: The theme taken for this collection is one which has been central to the honorand's work over the years, broadly defined here as the interface between the state and the upper levels of society: primarily, but not quite exclusively, taken to mean the landed nobility and gentry. This, as the introduction by John Watts spells out, locates her within what has been regarded by late medievalists as the apostolic succession from K. B. McFarlane to Gerald Harriss, to her, and now to her students. It is a theme which, especially if interpreted more generally as the relationship of center to locality (or of private to public), can embrace a wide range of manifestations, and the eleven essays, with a couple of exceptions ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: This collection of essays originated in a day-conference at the University of Liverpool in 2011 entitled, "Bibles: Reading Scriptures from Medieval to Early Modern," at which, as the editors note in their introduction, "[s]peakers conveyed impressions on Bible reading/hearing in particular times and places" (p. 1). More specifically, the eight contributors—who hail from England, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States—treat a wide range of themes related to scriptural reading throughout western Christendom in the sixth through twelfth centuries. From Gerda Heydemann's consideration of Cassiodorus as a reader of the Psalms and Jinty Nelson's study of lay readers of the Bible in the Carolingian era ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: This volume brings together thirteen essays originating in a conference held at the University of Michigan in 2011. The contributions range from the tenth century to the sixteenth and from Baghdad to Paris. The common goal is to examine how Jews, Christians, and Muslims used exegesis—learned interpretation of their own scriptures and of the scriptures of the rival monotheistic religions—as vehicles for apologetics (defining and justifying their own religious communities) and polemics (attempting to undermine the legitimacy of those outside their communities).It is common to class the three faiths as "Abrahamic," emphasizing common ground symbolized by the patriarch revealed in all three traditions. Yet ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: The German translation of this 1455 text by John Soreth, Prior General of the Carmelites, is based on the critical edition of the Latin original by Bryan Deschamp (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016). The publication of this new translation is an important contribution to the history of religious life in the fifteenth century, because it is a significant example of a much-needed reformation of the order more than a century before Teresa of Jesus and John of the Cross in Spain. The original text was published for the first time in 1625 by Léon de Saint Jean in Paris, within the context of the reform of Touraine, France, at the beginning of the seventeenth century.John Soreth was born in 1394 in Caen, France, and entered the ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: A rich and carefully made volume, L'umiltà e le rose is dedicated to the Compagnia femminile dell'Umiltà of Turin, founded around the 1570s, active till 1934. The miscellany collects twelve essays organized in four parts. The research on that important female organisation of charity has been made possible thanks to the Fondazione 1563 (Fondazione dell'Istituto bancario San Paolo di Torino per la cultura, la scienza e l'arte), and thanks to the work of N. Calapà, for the construction of the data base that records the 1,700 women active in the Company from 1590 to 1901. These research papers put value on the rich archival sources of the Umiliate, found in the Archivio di stato and in the Archivio Arcivescovile of ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: The Peace of Westphalia not only ensured the consolidation of the state order, but also proved to be strong and sustainable for the future, strengthening the religious-political principles of state sovereignty and territorial integrity in early-modern Europe. In this context, the prince-bishopric of Osnabrück in northwest Germany has played a remarkable role, also apart from the fact that it was the capital and seat of residence and became one of the two venues (besides Münster) for this peacemaking negotiation process in 1648. Since the Reformation era and in the long eighteenth century, the population of Osnabrück consisted of Catholics and Lutherans and was, already for that reason alone, a bi-denominational ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: As reactions to the recent Notre-Dame-de-Paris fire brought once more the question of France's catholicity to the fore, Martin Dumont's timely book revisits the checkered history of the relations between the Hexagon and the Holy See. Unlike current publications about French Catholicism, the author shifts the focus back to Rome. The book adopts the standpoint of the papacy: what did the popes know and think about France' How did they address French political regimes, social transformations, and international influence'The baptism of Clovis in 496 created a special bond between the kingdom of France and the Catholic Church abruptly interrupted by the French Revolution. Dumont's book examines how the popes related to ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: In her collection of essays, John Henry Newman: A Man of Letters, Mary Katherine Tillman seeks to do justice to the particularity of Newman's "thought in the manifold variety of its written expressions" while drawing attention to his understanding of the kind of philosophical habit of mind that shapes the process of acquiring an "enlarged vision of the bearings and relations of things to one another and to the whole" (pp. 11, 317). Accordingly, she argues that the "key methodological principle, across the entire spectrum" of Newman's thought, is "his understanding and 'realization'-in-use of his own notion of 'view'" (p. 17). The employment of this principle can be seen in Newman's engagement with various fields of ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: In The Canny Scot, Peter Ludlow presents a multidimensional characterization of James Morrison (1861–1950), Bishop and Archbishop of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, describing the nature of the man, his life, and his time in history. Ludlow details Morrison's many contributions to the Catholic Church in general and the Diocese of Antigonish in particular, his role as Chancellor of St. Francis Xavier University (StFXU) in strengthening the institution, and his contribution to the establishment of the University's Extension Department and the promotion of the Antigonish Movement.Ludlow portrays Morrison as an exceptional man in exceptional circumstances, intensely private, austere and committed to his faith, but also ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century is a collection of fifteen essays by Wayne Flynt, distinguished university professor emeritus at Auburn University. Flynt, one of the most important southern historians of the last half of the twentieth century, can boast an impressive collection of honors, including authorship or co-authorship of thirteen books, two nominations for the Pulitzer Prize, and serving as founding editor-in-chief of the online Encyclopedia of Alabama, to mention only a few.Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century is the fruit of a lifetime of research and thought. Although Flynt asserts that the "thesis" is that "southern religion is more ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: The annual meeting of the American Catholic historical Association will be held in New York City from Friday, January 3, to Monday, January 6, 2020. The headquarters and sessions will be in the Sheraton Hotel, 811 7th Avenue, with the Mass at St. Francis Xavier Church, 30 West 16th Street, between 5th Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue), and a reception at the nearby Old Town Bar. Registration opens on the new ACHA website www.achahistory.org. in late September. The American Society of Church History will be headquartered in the Parker New York Hotel, 64 West 39th Street. The over-arching theme of its conference will be "Whose America: New Perspectives, Contours, and Connections in Church Histories." ... Read More Keywords: Newman, John Henry; Morrison, James PubDate: 2019-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
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