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Abstract: Paul F. GrendlerI am an historian of the Italian Renaissance rather than a lifetime church historian. But because it is not possible to study Renaissance Italy without encountering church institutions in various circumstances, the majority of my books deal with the church in Italy in greater or lesser degree. That is the framework for this journey in church history.The journey began on May 24, 1936, in Armstrong, Iowa, population 700, near the Minnesota border. My grandparents on my father’s side came from Silesia, then part of Germany, now part of Poland, while my grandparents on my mother’s side came from Luxembourg. All four emigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1900 and settled in small towns or farms ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Gregory XI was to survive his return to Rome by no longer than a year. The hostilities with which he was met on his return from Avignon to Italy wore him out, and on March 27, 1378, he died of exhaustion. Soon after his death, the cardinals present in Rome went into a conclave to elect a successor. To the surprise of all, the archbishop of Bari, Bartolomeo Prignano,1 came off as the winner of this election. Urban VI, as he would call himself, was not a cardinal, but had spent many years in the papal administration in Avignon. In 1376, Gregory XI had appointed the renowned canonist the leader of the papal chancellery. His unexpected election on April 8, 1378 was carried out under the strong pressure of the Roman ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: For centuries the historians of the Society of Jesus fell into two polemical parties. On the one hand, the apologists, composed primarily of Jesuits themselves, praised the Society’s holiness, rigid orthodoxy, excellence in preaching, teaching, confessing, moving souls from vice to virtue, and missionary zeal. On the other hand, the antagonists, who were both Catholic and non-Catholic alike, accused the Jesuits of introducing novelty into religious life, of laxity in hearing confession, of enriching themselves in mission territories, and of promoting regicide, treason, and pro-papal bias.1 Given the antagonism directed against this new order of clerks regular, it was unsurprising that the first Jesuits expended ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: On May 1, 1887, the feast day of St. Joseph, patron saint of the Sisters of St. Joseph, and the first anniversary of the founding of the Yuma Indian School, the weak and enfeebled chief of the Quechan people, Pasqual, agreed to be baptized into the Catholic Church.1 Too ill to come to the chapel, Fr. John M. Chaucot performed the rite (with the aid of Pasqual’s interpreter) in a small private ceremony in the presence of several representatives of the Quechan people and the superintendent of the Indian School, Mother Ambrosia O’Neil.2 Eight days later, in a large public ceremony, his death was commemorated following the ancient rites of the Quechan people. Pasqual’s dead body was laid out on an elaborate funeral ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In the middle decades of the eighteenth century, Jesuit-educated parish priest Bernardo Alcocer composed a novena in honor of a new advocation of the Virgin Mary, Madre Santísima de la Luz (Most Holy Mother of Light, to be addressed here as Madre). Padre Alcocer served a parish in Pénjamo, then in the diocese of Michoacán in New Spain (as Mexico was known in the colonial era). This essay examines Alcocer’s novena, which is one of several devotional texts celebrating Madre de la Luz that were composed by Jesuits and members of other orders and that were published and reprinted in Mexico into the early nineteenth century. Novenas and texts in other devotional formats sometimes guide the religious practitioner through ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the economy of knowledge exchange is now securely situated in the online medium. As the landscape of academic knowledge sharing continues to shift, scholars now rely upon the online medium in their everyday working lives, even if they do not consider themselves digital scholars. Every time a scholar searches through a database or internet-based catalogue from the library, he or she is entering into a computer-based approach to knowledge acquisition and production. The powers afforded to us by digital tools in turn shape our expectations about how we work; likewise, the more born-digital material we consume, the more likely it is that we will expand upon and ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In April 1576, a deadly plague of hemorrhagic fever began sweeping through colonial Mexico, claiming almost two million victims—most of them Indigenous—until it subsided in 1581. It was not the first such pandemic, nor was it the most deadly: Indigenous communities had already seen multiple waves of epidemic sickness and death since the arrival of the Spanish in 1519, most famously the 1520 smallpox epidemic. Yet the mortandad, as it was called by the Spanish at the time, brought the population of New Spain to its lowest point yet, and seemed to many to herald a watershed event. The resonance of the 1576 plague, and its impact on the Catholic Church in the Americas, is the subject of Jennifer Scheper Hughes’s The ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: John Burkhard taught ecclesiology at the Washington Theological Union from the 1990s until the Union’s closure in 2015, with service as its President in 2006 and 2008–09. Theologians will know Burkhard’s ample bibliographies of post-Vatican Council II studies of the sensus fidei published in Heythrop Journal in 1993, 2005, and 2006. The volume reviewed here is also extensive bibliographically, offering a chronological list of nearly 400 studies of the sensus from 1940 to 2000.The importance of Burkhard’s work rests on the centrality of the sensus fidei in Vatican II’s teaching, as brought out recently in several passages of Ormond Rush’s theological summa of the Council, The Vision of Vatican II (Liturgical Press ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Jesuits and Race is an important and timely book. Catholic thinking about race has become a central concern of historians of the early modern and modern church in recent years. As leaders of the global missionary enterprise, members of the Society of Jesus developed close ties to racial and religious minorities in Europe, the Americas, and Asia from the time of the founding of the order in 1540. In the process, they produced a distinguished body of work on race and the global church.Six of the book’s nine chapters focus on the early modern Society. These include strong contributions by Liam Matthew Brockey, Emanuele Colombo, Susan Deeds, J. Michelle Molina, Andrew Redden, and Erin Kathleen Rowe. A common theme is ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The ample bibliography given by Stuart Squires—the “secondary literature” alone extends to almost 30 pages—is witness to the fact that study of the Pelagian Controversy is flourishing, and also to the need for an introduction such as this to help the reader, whether student or scholar in the field (xxii), to see both the whole picture of the debate and evaluate the many details that contribute to the whole.The account is divided into two parts: part I (3–180) takes us through the history of the controversy. Chapter 1 (3–40) paints in broad strokes the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire before focusing on the more immediate context of the development of the ascetical movements in the fourth century in which ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In this model volume of collaborative scholarship, editors Gregor Kalas and Ann van Dijk have assembled an all-star list of scholars to address, in nine master-class case studies, one gradually emerging central question. As imperial Rome’s circle of influence diminished and other global centers of culture and commerce emerged in Asia and the Islamic worlds, with the Italian peninsula growing ever more insular by the minute, how did life in the city of Rome change over the third through twelfth centuries'Under the editors’ orchestration and jointly-authored introduction, the seemingly parochial theme reveals surprising insights into the legacy of Rome’s capacity for “creativity” (p. 26) in art, poetry, architecture ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This study addresses the Christianization of Constantinople from its foundation by Constantine in 324 to the death of Theodosios II in 450. It examines the growing presence of Christianity within the framework of three intertwined areas of theoretical inquiry, viz., ritual, conflict, and memory, to suggest three phases of Christian development. The first, in the 320s and 330s, saw Christianity as one cult among many. In a second, late-fourth-century phase, Christianity was the dominant religion. By the mid-fifth century, it predominated. The purpose in charting this course is twofold: to analyze public ritual activity in Constantinople and to create a model for addressing Christianization elsewhere (p. 9).Five ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The fifth-century Life of Barsauma is one of the longest and most intriguing Syriac hagiographical texts to survive from Late Antiquity. Until this volume, only excerpts had been published in a modern language, by François Nau in French in 1913/14. With this volume we now have, in addition to seven excellent chapters on the text, an English translation of the full work, made by Andrew Palmer (pp. 187–271), based on his forthcoming critical text of the Life. This book thus represents a fantastic success both in bringing the Life to a larger audience while also exploring some of the nuanced aspects of a largely unknown (or misunderstood) work.Toward the end of this book, Daniel Caner remarks in his chapter ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Charles C. Rozier’s book Writing History in the Community of St Cuthbert, c. 700–1130, offers a new account of historical production and culture in St. Cuthbert’s community. This flourishing of writing from the eighth to twelfth centuries happened not at Lindisfarne, where Cuthbert was thought to have worked many a miracle, but at Durham, where his cult and community made their home. Rozier’s book takes the reader through a detailed analysis of Durham’s medieval tracts and chronicles, its works in progress, its libraries, and the arguments made by its monks. This book would be of interest to anyone working on identities of Christian communities over the long term, the manuscript and writing tradition of Durham ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The tools for teaching the Carolingian age to new generations of students proliferate apace. Paul Dutton’s Carolingian sourcebook (2nd edition, 2004) stands at the head of this class, alongside the four royal biographies translated by Thomas Noble (2009), but these are but the start of the array of high-quality translations of Carolingian sources now available. Given the range of Carolingian material available in recent translation, new students of this essential early medieval moment are positioned to study the period in a depth that was hardly imaginable even a few decades ago. To this formidable arsenal of accessible Carolingiana comes this very welcome and in all respects definitive translation of the Codex ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Confronting Crisis in the Carolingian Empire presents a welcome new translation of one of the ninth century’s more enigmatic literary texts, the “Funeral Oration for Wala” (Epitaphium Arsenii) by Paschasius Radbertus. Until now, Anglophone Carolingianists have appreciatively consulted the venerable, if sometimes eccentric, translation by Allen Cabaniss, Charlemagne’s Cousins (Syracuse, 1967). Mayke de Jong and Justin Lake offer scholars a new alternative to Cabaniss that manages to be at the same time more consistently legible and more stylistically representative of Paschasius’s original Latinity.Abbot Wala of Corbie (d. 836) was a cousin and close confidant of Charlemagne, who served that emperor and his imperial ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Katherine Allen Smith uses the lens of exegesis to uncover a novel twelfth-century practice of biblical hermeneutics that profoundly shaped early narratives of the First Crusade. Many of Allen Smith’s arguments will be familiar to students of medieval history, but The Bible and Crusade Narrative is anything but redundant. Allen Smith’s work offers new insights into the construction of early crusade narratives and the process whereby the First Crusade passed from memory to written record.Chapter 1, “History and Biblical Exegesis in the Latin West,” argues that medieval narrators saw the First Crusade as a miraculous text that was meant to be glossed. First Crusade writers used their exegetical training to create a ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The field of crusade studies remains one of the most prolific, and at times also one of the most vibrant, fields of modern medieval historiography. Perhaps one of its most important developments of late, pioneered most obviously by Marcus Bull, is the adoption of analytical techniques related to the “literary turn” and, in particular, narrative theory. Through this, scholars have built on the foundations of theorists like Hayden White—with varying degrees of religious observance—to better treat the textual sources for the crusades as cultural artefacts: as windows onto the authors and audiences by, and for whom, they were created. It is in the context of this that we should view the book under consideration here ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Originally published in 2005, this edition offers an updated re-issue of one of the most important recent contributions to the history of the military orders and the Crusades. While Dr. Carraz’s work centers on the lower Rhône region, the implications of his detailed study show how Templar activity in the region rippled through the medieval world. As an area that provided both rural economic opportunities, access to Mediterranean trade routes, a legacy of Carolingian culture, and persisting Roman urban centers, the Rhône valley offers an ideal case study for Templar activity outside of the Holy Land.Carraz brings together a comprehensive study of the documentary records (1,600 documents) of the Knights Templar ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In the year 1211, according to various Hebrew sources, several hundred French-speaking Jews, mostly from France and England, landed in Acre, principal port of the kingdom of Jerusalem and de facto capital since Saladin captured the Holy City in 1187. They had come to live in the Holy Land; some of them settled in Jerusalem, although when the Ayyubid sultan al-Mu‘azzam dismantled the defensive walls of the city to prevent crusaders from taking and holding it, many of these Jews resettled in Acre. Various writers from this community of immigrants presented their aliya (return to the Holy Land) as what Uri Shachar calls a “Jewish Crusade.” The return to the Holy Land of these pious Jews would play a key role in ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This short biography of Philip of Cahors, bishop of Évreux (c. 1220–81), examines the character and career of an important—if hitherto only regionally recognised—figure in both French royal administration and the Norman Church. With his characteristically admirable archival scrutiny and attention to illustrative detail, William Chester Jordan has produced a succinct but illuminating account of a member of the reformist circle surrounding King Louis IX of France and an exemplary shepherd of his diocese. As with all good biography, this concentration on Philip of Cahors also brings more fully to light the wider field of northern France in the latter half of the thirteenth century.The book is divided into four ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: A product of one of several conferences celebrating the eight hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Order of Friars Preachers, this collection “. . . examines the material, liturgical, and cultural (in music and art) aspects of Dominican life which rarely come to the fore in studies of the Dominican Order” (p. 15). These thirteen essays expand current scholarly views of Dominican cultural influence, both internal and external, by including fresh investigations into topics where new evidence augments or alters established perspectives alongside studies of subjects that had not been fully fleshed out by previous scholars. These authors rely on theological reflection and devotional practice as they seek to ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Beginning with the first stories, writers have guided readers through the built environment. The author of The Epic of Gilgamesh transports us to the third millennium BC and the Mesopotamian city of Uruk urging us to, “Look at its wall which gleams like copper, inspect its inner wall, the like of which no one can equal! (Tablet 1)” Some, like Abbot Suger in his “little books” (libelli), or Frank Lloyd Wright in the Autobiography, take center stage to explain the political and spiritual motivations or the creative processes that informed their active roles in building projects. Others offer a shared experience emulating Pliny the Younger, who wrote of his Tuscan villa to his friend Domitius Apollinaris: “I . . . ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy, Guy Geltner challenges the received wisdom regarding public health in the pre-modern world that suggests early urban governments were, at worst, self-interested and indifferent to the health of their citizens or, at best, simply unable to understand the correlation between health and public policy, at least until the Industrial Revolution or possibly at the earliest as a reaction to the Black Death.Geltner encourages the reader to reexamine these assumptions and their theoretical models as well as the selective evidence on which they are based. Using urban statutes and court and fiscal records from north and central Italy between 1250 ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics uses thirteenth- and fourteenth-century disputes over local saints’ cults as a means of examining the conflicts that arose between an imperial papacy and the independently minded communes of northern and central Italy. Janine Larmon Peterson thus engages with several historiographies, including the late medieval cult of the saints, heresy and inquisition, the centralization and bureaucratization of papal administration, and the Guelf-Ghibelline conflicts that wracked the region throughout this period. By taking a comparative approach which examines several saints’ cults and by remaining focused on points of conflict, Peterson expands our appreciation for the extent to which the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Obviously, recent Anglophone publishers successfully continue to produce expensive collective volumes on many different subjects. Most outstanding is Brill’s extensive series of Companions which includes the present impressive volume on early modern cardinals. The several thousand cardinals of the Roman church have always fascinated historians because of their many different activities and social roles. This big handbook presents some thirty different important aspects of the cardinals’ typology. But does it integrate these details successfully' (1) The first of the eight parts of the book concerns the concept and functions of the cardinal. It starts with a chapter on medieval legal history. In the early modern ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: With implications in the New World, the Carvajal-Santa María family of early modern Spain ranks as one of the most resilient and in many ways emblematic of the period. The book begins in the early sixteenth century as the family is on the verge of grasping the papacy, in spite of their deep converso roots, with partial origins in the person of Solomon ha-Levi, a leading rabbi in Burgos who became the bishop of that city as Pablo de Santa María in 1415. Martínez-Dávila traces the emergence of a converso family and its dispersal throughout Castille, notably to the western city of Plasencia. There the conversos began a series of marriages and alliances with the Old Christian family of the Carvajals to emerge as ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This collection of conference lectures provides valuable stimulation for further consideration of ecumenical issues from historical and systematic points of view. Particularly helpful are the historical studies of the medieval theological setting of Martin Luther’s deconstruction of certain elements of the theology he had learned at the university and in the cloister and his construction of the evangelical way of thinking that formed the center of his preaching and teaching. Several studies effectively present Luther’s own way of formulating the doctrines of justification, the Eucharist, and the Church; others offer insights into the ecumenical discussions and their implications for the life of the Church today. ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This volume of proceedings from a 2017 conference brings together research on the multifaceted nature of Catholic resistance to the Reformation. Attempts in the first half of the sixteenth century to respond to evangelical challenges sought to emphasize a unity and coherence in a tradition that beneath the surface was varie-gated and contentious. The papers in this volume are the products of close reading in little-known sources, guided by an awareness that “believing is a communicative process” (p. 7).In an introductory essay, Peter Waller describes the evolution of the medieval disputatio from its beginnings in early Scholasticism to its expansion, beyond the academic form, to a mode of engagement with Judaism ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: A volume in the series Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies, edited by Robert Maryks, this book offers a review and overview of recent work on the history of Jesuit art and to some extent more broadly on Jesuit topics, especially Jesuit culture, from papal approval of the Society of Jesus in 1540 to its suppression in 1773.The author does a good job of showing how even if scholars continue to associate Jesuit art with the Baroque period, they also agree more and more that there is no single Jesuit style: in artistic production as in many other areas, Jesuits responded to varied circumstances and needs. There was no typical kind of Jesuit art. Jesuit art did appeal very frequently to the emotions and to the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: A small statue of the Christ Child with a darkened face towers above the blurred images of devotees’ hands holding the divine image aloft. The main title (Saints of Resistance) in large white font against an orange background anchors the eyes as they travel below to the secondary title and author’s name. The evocative title and book jacket design entice the reader to explore the contents within. The book is organized in six chapters including the introduction (chapter 1) and conclusion (chapter 6). Each of the four main chapters focuses on a particular Philippine devotion: Santo Niño de Cebu (chapter 2), Our Lady of Caysasay (chapter 3), Our Lady of the Rosary (chapter 4), and Our Lady of Antipolo (chapter 5). The ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The recusants—those early modern British Catholics who kept the faith despite the best efforts of Tudor and Stuart regimes to dislodge them—are familiar figures in the study of the Reformation. But what of those who chose exile' Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez’s thoughtful study centers the experiences, ideas, and especially books of these Catholics, specifically those who operated out of Habsburg Spain.Radicals in Exile homes in on the polemical battles waged in the heady years between 1585, when the Armada began to take shape, and 1598, when Philip II died, taking English Catholicism’s most immediate hopes with him. This decade and a half constituted a period in which “the most radical efforts to re-Catholicize ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This detailed and densely argued study examines images depicting Purgatory in Catholic churches in the early modern Czech lands (Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia). The analysis of these images is placed in the context of the evolving theology of Purgatory, as well as the religious practices and popular beliefs that were linked to Purgatory. The authors show how Purgatory provides an excellent window into the nature and evolution of baroque piety in Early Modern Catholicism.The book is structured as a kind of top-down analysis of Purgatory. Chapter One discusses doctrine, Chapter Two the images, and Chapter Three pious practices around Purgatory. Chapter Four examines “popular culture,” that is unofficial beliefs and ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Thanksgiving days were undoubtedly significant occasions in Britain and its colonies, which celebrated national occasions with church services, bonfires, and processions. Thanksgiving and fast days have received increasing attention, particularly with the publication of National Prayer: Special Worship since the Reformation, edited by Natalie Mears, Stephen Taylor, Philip Williamson and others (3 vols., Woodbridge, 2013–2020), which compile and analyze the royal orders and special prayers for these occasions. However, Johnston’s book is the first full-length study of the eighteenth-century British thanksgiving-day sermons.Johnston draws on 587 thanksgiving sermons printed in the British Isles and the British ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Francesco Bianchini (1662–1729) was Superman. “Was there nothing Monsignor Bianchini could not do better than anyone else'” (p. 227) Apparently not. He did archaeology, history, diplomacy, spy craft, engineering, astronomy, and more. J. L. Heilbron has brought us church history through books on Galileo (2010) and on cathedrals as solar observatories (1999)—the latter provided many a Catholic apologist with a cherished quotation in its bold opening statement about the Church’s long support of science. The Incomparable is a readable, illustrated, informative addition to those books.Particularly appealing are The Incomparable’s sections about the meridian line (meridiana) that Bianchini built at Santa Maria degli ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The title requires some explanation, which the author immediately initiates in the epigraph to the book’s Introduction. “A law should be written not for private profit, but for the common benefit of the citizens” (Isidore of Seville, writing about the year 600). For “confiscate,” the common dictionary definitions will presumably do: “to seize as forfeited to the public treasury” or “to seize by or as if by authority.” The book, then, is a study of who was confiscating what in France during the early revolutionary years: local authorities in the small towns contending for the revenues of churches and monasteries by closing, seizing, or consolidating them; and national authorities ordering the closings, seizing, and ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In this deeply researched and engaging study, Scott Berg demonstrates conclusively that Austria before and during the Metternich years may have been an international symbol of conservatism but, in terms of the Empire’s confessional policy, it had all the hallmarks of a continuing Enlightened regime. Francis I was not his uncle Joseph’s nephew for nothing. Despite intensive pressure from Catholic activists clerical and lay, the Josephist inheritance founded on the 1781 Edict of Toleration was upheld by the bureaucrats driving policy even to the Revolutions of 1848. A multinational and multi-confessional empire had to function efficiently and that required a qualified throne and altar alliance and respect for the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Writing a transnational historical monograph about Polish and French intellectuals, lay activists, and ecclesiastical figures alike, who formed the twentieth-century “Catholic avant-garde,” the personalist current, is not an easy task. First, the collective biography of these figures is likely to appeal to highly specialised audiences; secondly, the current climate around the Roman Catholic Church, with its internal conflicts, sexual-abuse cases, and the Vatican’s inconsistent approach toward international and social affairs may diminish some readers’ appetite for the story of Catholic revolutionaries who sought a just society, engaged in dialogue with Marxism and its Stalinist branch, and paved the way for the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: French-Israeli historian Limore Yagil is well-equipped to write about how Catholic Christians under the Occupation helped Jews living in France. The author of at least eight books about World War II, she has examined Christian resistance to Nazism, both Catholic and Protestant, in numerous venues. The present volume concentrates specifically on Catholic efforts undertaken in France. Examinations by other authors have highlighted Protestant endeavors, so Yagil’s focus on Catholic interventions is a welcome addition to the literature about righteous gentiles—those non-Jews who came to the aid of Jews during World War II.Yagil begins by noting the paradox of Jewish survival in France compared to other European ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Suzanne Stamatov’s instructive, well documented Colonial New Mexican Families: Community, Church, and State, 1692–1800, offers readers an even-handed view into the pragmatic interactions among New Mexicans during the second half of the Spanish colonial period. The text centers on family and community interactions—marriage, inheritance, domestic conflict—as recorded in civil and religious records. Stamatov consulted the archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and the New Mexico State Archives, centering her work on U.S.-based collections pertaining to colonial New Mexico. Since this documentation arises from exchanges between individuals and institutions, the negotiations it relates pertain to processes, rules, and ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: When we encounter Protestantism in the US immigration debates of the early to mid-20th century, it is usually backing up Nordic supremacy and anti-Catholicism. In this context, Protestantism equates with nativism and restriction. This book argues that as well as fuelling anti-immigrant sentiments, over the 40 years between the harsh quotas of 1924 and their overturning in 1965, moderate, mainline, Protestant activists played a leading role in promoting religious and racial tolerance and multi-culturalism.When Pruitt calls his subjects “mainline”, he’s referring to “a collective label applied to numerically predominant, largely white denominations driven by ecumenism.” Their Protestantism was driven by “home ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This is a well-researched and nicely written account of a compelling and largely overlooked figure. It was in the 1930s, not long after Dorothy Day entered the Catholic Church, that Grace Holmes Carlson, then about thirty years old, found her way out the door. Where Day discerned a path from radical politics to the Catholic Church, Carlson did the opposite. Still, each continued to labor mightily to reconcile spiritual and political convictions which seemed, at times, to conflict. Ultimately, Carlson’s sojourn from Catholicism, which began before she became a founding member and national leader of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in 1938, concluded upon her return to the Church in 1952. Part of what makes Carlson ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Awarded the John Gilmary Shea Award by the American Catholic Historical Association in 2021, Reagan’s Gun-Toting Nuns is an important work. It richly illuminates multiple dimensions of post-conciliar divides in the Catholic community in the United States: the movement away from the Cold War alliances with conservative political structures in Latin America; the emergence in the 1960s of a leftward critique of U.S. foreign policy; the importance of missionary experiences and international exchanges as shaping internal divisions within the American Catholic community; the mirroring in the United States of polarized views on the presence of the Church in society, and different implementations of the Council in the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Frederick Marks is an accomplished historian who has explored the nuances of the foreign policy of selected American presidents. Here in Pro-Life Champion Marks travels a different path, describing the inspiring life of pro-life activist, Monsignor Philip Reilly. Part biography, part apology, Marks’s 2017 book is a welcome addition to the growing list of memoirs of leaders published in recent years.Marks’s book contains a few blemishes. The first third is somewhat disjointed with the author jumping from topics. It is not as chronologically arranged as expected. Because Reilly’s ministry is sidewalk counseling, Marks draws inspiration from activist groups like Pro-Life Action League and American Life League while ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Writing amid our current apocalypse, the global COVID-19 pandemic, historian Mark Z. Christensen has offered a complete reimagining of the fundamental role the idea of “Doomsday” played in the Christianization of the Indigenous populations of the American continents in the early modern period. The author—an ethnohistorian who is renowned for his translation abilities in both colonial Nahuatl (the Aztec language) and Yucatec Mayan (the Mayan dialect spoken in most of the Yucatan Peninsula)—clearly outlines in his Introduction three goals for his tome. His overarching goal is to translate and analyze relatively obscure eschatological texts, composed in these two Indigenous languages, to convey their creative ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Volume CVIII (2022) consisted of 912 pages. It published sixteen articles, one essay in the series “Journeys in Church History,” one ACHA Presidential Address, two miscellanies, one Forum Review Essay, two review essays, eighty-seven book reviews, and five obituary notices.The sixteen articles were distributed as follows: one general, two medieval, five early modern, three late modern, one American, three Latin American, and one African. Of the sixteen articles, nine came from authors outside the United States (one from Chile, one from the Czech Republic, one joint authorship from Croatia, one from Israel, four from Poland, and one from Tanzania). An author from England provided the “Journeys in Church History” ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The American Catholic Historical Association held its 103rd annual meeting from January 4–6, 2023, in Philadelphia. The program committee consisted of Catherine Osborne, chair; Thomas Rzeznik, chair for the 2024 annual meeting (San Francisco); and Monica Mercado, chair for the 2025 Annual Meeting (New York). In total, 136 people registered for the conference, and there were many additional guests from the American Historical Association (AHA) and the American Society for Church History (ASCH).The program featured ninety-seven speakers organized into thirty-three daytime panels, with one additional off-site evening panel sponsored jointly with the ASCH. While the program consisted primarily of traditional panels ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Sister Margaret Gannon, I.H.M. (Sister Mary Anina), died October 24, 2022, at Our Lady of Peace Residence, Scranton, Pennsylvania. Until her retirement in 2014, she had been a faculty member in the Department of Social Sciences at Marywood University in Scranton. She is survived by two brothers, several nieces and nephews, and members of her religious congregation.Margaret Philomena Gannon was born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 2, 1937, to John and Josephine Gannon. In 1956, during her freshman year at what was then Marywood College, she entered the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Scranton), and professed her final vows on August 15, 1963. Sister Margaret received a B.A. in history and English ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Reverend Monsignor Thomas J. Shelley, priest of the Archdiocese of New York, historian of American Catholicism, popular professor, and prolific author, died on November 14 at Nassau University Medical Center. The cause of his death was stated to be cardiac arrest.Thomas Shelley was born in the Bronx on May 4, 1937. He attended St. Angela Merici School in that borough and then Cathedral College. He studied for the priesthood at St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie, Yonkers, New York, from which he received the B.A. (1958) and M.A. (1962) degrees. He was ordained a priest on June 2, 1962. After his ordination he taught at Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains from 1964 to 1969 and at Cardinal Spellman High ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-14T00:00:00-05:00
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