D'Alton, and Youssef, Youhanna (eds), Severus of Antioch. His life and times. (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, 7.) Pp. xiv + 201 incl. 2 ills and 6 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2016. €99. 978 90 04 29801 9;

Doerfler, Maria, Fiano, Emmanuel and Smith, Kyle (eds), Syriac encounters. Papers from the Sixth North American Syriac Symposium, Duke University, 26–29 June 2011. (Eastern Christian Studies, 20.) Pp. xix + 498 incl. 20 figs, 13 plates and 2 tables. Leuven–Bristol, Ct: Peeters, 2015. €85. 97 90 429 3046 9

Frenschkowski, Marco, Magie im antiken Christentum. Eine Studie zur Alten Kirche und inhrem Umfeld. (Standorte in Antike und Christentum, 7.) Pp. xiv + 338. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 2016. €69 (paper). 978 3 7772 1602 7

Garani, Myroto and Konstan, David (eds), The philosophizing muse. The influence of Greek philosophy on Roman poetry. (Pierides. Studies in Greek and Latin Literature, III.) Pp. xxvii + 354. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. £49.99. 978 1 4438 5975 2

Litfin, Bryan M., Getting to know the Church Fathers. An evangelical introduction. 2nd edn. (First publ. 2007). Pp. viii + 280 incl. 1 map. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2016. $24.99 (paper). 978 0 8010 9724 9

Murphy, Andrew R., Liberty, conscience and toleration. The political thought of William Penn. Pp. xv + 301. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £47.99. 978 0 19 027119 0

Peppard, Michael, The world's oldest Church. Bible, art and ritual at Dura-Europos, Syria. (Synkrisis – Comparative Approaches to Early Christianity in Greco-Roman Culture.) Pp. xiv + 320 incl. 44 figs and 9 black-and-white and colour plates. New Haven, Ct–London: Yale University Press, 2016. $50. 978 0 300 21399 7

Scott Manor, T., Epiphanius’ Alogi and the Johannine controversy. A reassessment of early ecclesial opposition to the Johannine Corpus. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae. 135.) Pp. xi + 253. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2016. €104. 978 90 04 30938 8;

Báguena, Elena Barlés, Arquitectura Cartujana en Aragón (siglos XVII y XVIII) en el context de la provincial de Cataluña. (Analecta Cartusiana, 235.) Pp. 684 incl. 213 black-and-white and colour figs. Salzburg: Universität Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2014. €72 (paper). 978 84 9911 318 0

Baronas, Darius and Rowell, S. C., The conversion of Lithuania. From pagan barbarians to late medieval Christians. Pp. xi + 627 incl. 9 colour maps and 26 black-and-white and colour ills. Vilnius: Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, 2015. 978 609 425 152 8

Bequette, John P., A companion to medieval Christian humanism. Essays on principal thinkers. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 69.) Pp. viii + 354 incl. 1 ill. and 1 table. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2016. €199. 978 90 04 24845 8;

Bobichon, Philippe, Controverse Judéo-Chrétienne en Ashkenaz (XIIIe siécle). Floriléges polémiques : Hébreu, Latin, Ancien Français. Paris, BnF, Hébreu 712, fol. 56v-57v et 66v-68v. Édition, traduction, commentaires. (Bibliothèque de L’École Des Hautes Études Sciences Religieuses, 173.) Pp. 314 incl. 9 ills and 54 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. €70. 978 2 503 56747 1

Buc, Phillippe, Keil, Martha and Tolan, John, Jews and Christians in medieval Europe. The historiographical legacy of Bernard Blumenkranz. (Religion and Law in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies, 7.) Pp. 379 incl. 61 figs and 1 table. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. €75 (paper). 978 2 503 56516 3

Callahan, Daniel F., Jerusalem and the cross in the life and writings of Ademar of Chabannes. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 181.) Pp. xi + 207 incl. 3 ills and 4 colour maps. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2016. €129. 978 9004 29810 1;

Conti, Fabrizio, Witchcraft, superstition, and observant Franciscan preachers. Pastoral approach and intellectual debate in renaissance Milan. (Europa Sacra, 18.) Pp. xviii + 382 incl. 5 figs. Turnhout, 2015. €100. 978 2 503 54919 4

Disenberger, Maximilian, Meens, Rob and Rose, Els, The Prague sacramentary. Culture, religion, and politics in late eighth-century Bavaria. (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 21.) Pp. xii + 264 incl. 18 figs, 2 colour plates and 5 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. €80. 978 2 503 54920 0

Edgington, Susan B. and García-Guijarro, Luis, Jerusalem the golden. The origins and impact of the First Crusade. (Outremer, 3.) Pp. xiii + 384 incl. 9 figs, 2 tables and 5 maps. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. €89. 978 2 503 55172 2

Fraenkel, Avraham, Gross, Abraham, Lehnardt, Peter Sh., Hebräische liturgische Poesien zu den Judenverfolgungen während des Ersten Kreuzzugs. (Monumenta Germaiae Historica. Hebräische texte aus dem mittelalterlichen Deutschland, 3.) Pp. xxxiii + 486. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016. €130. 978 3 447 10159 2

Genet, Jean-Philippe (ed.), La Vérité. Vérité et crédibilité: construire la vérité dans le système de communication de l'Occident (XIIIe-XVIIe siècle). Actes de la conference organisée à Rome en 2012 par SAS en collaboration avec l’École française de Rome. (Histoire ancienne et médiévale, 128/2. Collection de l’École française de Rome, 485/2; Le Pouvoir symbolique en occident (1300–1640 – II.) Pp. 612 incl 27 ills and 4 tables. Paris–Rome: Publications de la Sorbonne, École française de Rome, 2016. €28 (paper). 978 2 7283 1177 4

Hogg, James (ed.), Statuta de Reformatione Ordinis Cartusiensis D. Bernardus de Turre 1248. The Statuta Jancelini,1222, I/2: Manuscript Grande Chartreuse I Stat. 23. (Analecta Cartusiana, 65.) Pp. 139 incl. 8 colour ills and 1 colour frontispiece. Salzburg: Universität Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2015. (paper). 978 3 902895 70 7

Hornbeck, ii, Patrick, J. (with Mishtooni Bose and Fiona Somerset), A companion to Lollardy. (Companions to the Christian Tradition, 67.) Pp. x + 251. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2016. €149. 978 90 04 30979 1;

Kneupper, Frances Courtney, The empire at the end of time. Identity and reform in late medieval German prophecy. Pp. xiii + 259. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £47.99. 978 0 19 027936 3

LaVere, Suzanne, Out of the cloister. Scholastic exegesis of the Song of Songs, 1100–1250. (Commentaria, 6.) Pp. viii + 194 incl. 1 table. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2016. €104. 978 90 04 31198 5;

Pansters, Krijn and Plunkett-Latimer, Abraham (eds), Shaping stability. The normation and formation of religious life in the Middle Ages. (Disciplina Monastica, 11.) Pp. 285 incl. 3 colour ills and 5 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. €110 (paper). 978 2 503 56695 5

Poleg, Eyal, Approaching the Bible in medieval England. (Manchester Medieval Studies.) Pp. xxi + 263 incl. 7 plates, 9 figs, 2 tables and 2 music examples. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016 (first publ. 2013). £13.99 (paper). 978 1 7849 9374 0

Reed, Peter, Church architecture in early medieval Spain c.700–c.1100. Pp. lxiv + 448 incl. colour frontispiece, 26 colour plates and 335 ills. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2016. £49.50. 978 1 907730 55 9

Rode, Christian (ed.), A companion to responses to Ockham. (Companions to the Christian Tradition, 65.) Pp. xi + 400. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2016. €199. 978 90 04 30833 6;

Ryan, Michael A. (ed.), A companion to the premodern apocalypse. (Companions to the Christian Tradition, 64.) Pp. xiv + 448 incl. 8 black-and-white and colour ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2016. €199. 978 90 04 24309 5;

Sánchez-Pardo, José and Shapland, Michael G., Churches and social power in early medieval Europe. Integrating archaeological and historical approaches. (Studies in Early Middle Ages, 42.) Pp. xvi + 553 incl. 76 figs, 39 maps and 6 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. €125. 978 2 503 54555 4

Sisson, Keith and Larson, Atria A. (eds), A companion to the medieval papacy. Growth of an ideology and institution. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 70.) Pp. xiv + 410 incl. 17 colour and black-and-white figs and 5 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2016. €169. 978 90 04 29985 6;

Stone, Rachel and West, Charles (trans.), The divorce of King Lothar and Queen Theutberga. Hinchmar of Rheims's De divortio. (Manchester Medieval Sources Series.) Pp. xvi + 351 incl. 3 figs. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. £19.99 (paper). 978 0 7190 8295 5

Sweetinburgh, Sheila, Early medieval Kent, 800–1220. Pp. xiii + 333 incl. 10 colour plates and 14 maps. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2016 (for Kent County Council; Kent History Project.) £50. 978 0 85115 583 8

Thomson, R. M., A descriptive catalogue of the medieval manuscripts in the library of Peterhouse, Cambridge. Pp. xli + 293 incl. colour frontispiece and 139 colour and black-and-white ills. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer (for Peterhouse, Cambridge), 2016. £95. 978 1 84384 441 9

Adair, Patrick and Stewart, Andrew (ed. Armstrong, Robert, Holmes, Andrew R., Spurlock, R. Scott and Walsh, Patrick), Presbyterian history in Ireland. Two seventeenth-century narratives. Pp. xvi + 381. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 2016. £19.99. 978 1 909556 50 8

Backus, Irena, Leibniz. Protestant theologian. Pp. ix + 322. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £47.99. 978 0 19 989184 9

Dodd, Elizabeth S. and Gorman, Cassandra (eds), Thomas Traherne and seventeenth-century thought. (Studies in Renaissance Literature, 33.) Pp. xx + 223. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2016. £60. 978 1 84384 424 2

Elmer, Peter, Witchcraft, witch-hunting, and politics in early modern England. Pp. x + 369. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £65. 978 0 19 871772 0

Glei, Reinhold F. and Tottoli, Roberto, Ludovico Marracci at work. The evolution of his Latin translation of the Qur’ān in the light of his newly discovered manuscripts. With an edition and a comparative linguistic analysis of Sura 18. (Corpus Islamo-Christianum, Arabica-Latina, 1.) Pp. 188 incl. 16 colour figs and 1 table. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016. €48. 978 3 447 10551 4;

Hunt, John M., The vacant See in early modern Rome. A social history of the papal interregnum. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 200.) Pp. xii + 299 incl. 5 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2016. €154. 978 90 04 31377 4;

Labarthe, Oliver and Bodenmann, Reinhard (eds), Pro G. Farello et collegis ejus, adversus Petri Caroli theologastri calumnias, defensio Nicolai Gallasii / Refutatio blasphemiae Farellistarum in sacrosanctam Trinitatem (Ioannis Calvini. Opera Omnia, IV. Scripta Didactica et Polemica, VI.) Pp. xxix + 282 incl. 1 ill. Geneva: Librarie Droz, 2016. €64.45. 978 2 600 04723 4

Locke, John (ed. Goldie, Mark), Second treatise of government and a letter concerning toleration. (Oxford World's Classics.) Pp. xlvi + 210. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £8.99 (paper). 978 0 19 873759 9

Mentzer, Raymond A. and van Ruymbeke, Bertrand (eds), A companion to the Huguenots. (Companions to the Christian Tradition, 68.) Pp. xv + 481 incl. 26 black-and-white and colour ills and 3 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2016. €229. 978 90 04 31035 3;

Müller, Johannes, Exile memories and the Dutch revolt. The narrated diaspora, 1550–1750. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 199.) Pp. x + 243 incl. 7 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2016. €139. 978 90 04 31166 4;

Roper, Lyndal, Martin Luther. Renegade and prophet. Pp. xiii + 577 incl. 75 ills and 12 colour plates. London: The Bodley Head, 2016. £30. 978 1 847920 04 1

Shagan, Ethan H. and Shuger, Debora (ed.), Religion in Tudor England. An anthology of primary sources. (Documents of Anglophone Christianity.) Pp. xxxiv + 638 incl. 2 plates. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2016. $89.95. 978 1 6025 297 2

Toenjes, Christopher, Islam, the Turks and the making of the English Reformation. The history of the Ottoman Empire in John Foxe's Acts and monuments. Pp. xvi + 447 incl. 9 figs and 3 tables. Frankfurt–New York: Peter Lang, 2015. £60. 978 3 631 66931 0

Young, Francis (ed.), Rookwood family papers, 1606–1761. (Suffolk Records Society, LIX.) Pp. xlix + 118 incl. 6 colour plates, 6 black-and-white plates and 1 table. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2016. £25. 978 1 78327 080 4

Zwierlein, Cornel, The political thought of the French league and Rome (1585–1589). De justa populi gallici ab Henrico tertio defectione and De justa Henrici tertii abdicatione (Jean Boucher, 1589). Pp. 274 incl 4 ills. Genève: Librairie Droz, S. A., 2016. €36.97. 978 2 600 01927 9

Argent, Alan (ed.), The angel's voice. A magazine for young men in Brixton, London, 1910–1913. (London Record Society Publications, LI.) Pp. xi + 331 incl. 17 ills. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2016 (for London Record Society). £35. 978 0 9000952 57 9

Blaufuss, Dietrich and Corzine, Jacob (eds), Wilhelm Löhe und Bildung. Wilhelm Loehe and Christian Formation. Loehe Theological Conference IV Neuendettelsau 23. Bis 27. Juli 2014 of the International Loehe Society. (Arbeiten zur Kirschengeschichte Bayerns, 95. Wilhelm Löhe Gesammelte Werke, Ergänzungsreihe, 5.) Pp. xxiii + 296 incl. 2 ills. Nürnberg: Verein für bayerische/Neuendettelsau: Freimund-Verlag (for International Loehe Society), 2016. €34.31. 978 3 940803 10 8; 978 3 946083 03 0

Bruce, Steve, Scottish Gods. Religion in modern Scotland, 1900–2012. Pp. xi + 244 incl. 16 tables. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016 (first publ. 2014). £19.99. 978 1 4744 0840 0

Coffey, John (ed.), Heart religion. Evangelical piety in England and Ireland, 1690–1850. Pp. xiii + 232. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £65. 978 0 19 872415 5

Farrell, Elaine, ‘A most diabolical deed’. Infanticide and Irish society, 1850–1900. Pp. xi + 292 incl. 8 figs. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. £14.99 (paper). 978 1 7849 9360 3

Herring, George, The Oxford Movement in practice. The Tractarian parochial world from the 1830s to the 1870s. Pp. xv + 368 incl. 4 figs, 1 map and 6 tables. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £75. 978 0 19 876933 0

Jonson, Jonas (trans. Hjelm, Norman A.), Nathan Söderblom. Called to serve. Pp. xi + 449 incl. 14 ills. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans, 2016. £29.99 (paper). 978 0 8028 7308 8

Picker, Christoph, Gabriele Stüber, Klaus Bümlein and Hofmann, Frank-Matthias (eds), Protestanten ohne Protest. Die evangelische Kirche der Pfalz im Nationalsozialismus, I: Sachbeiträge; II: Kurzbiographien Anhang. Pp. 911 incl. 276 ills, 2 tables and 1 map. Leipzig: Evangelische, 2016. €59.60. 978 3 374 04412 2

Prosperi, Adriano, Infanticide, secular justice, and religious debate in early modern Europe. (Europa Sacra, 10.) Pp. vii + 410. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. €110. 978 2 503 53174 8

Hammond, Geordan, John Wesley in America. Restoring primitive Christianity. Pp. xvii + 237 incl. frontispiece. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016 (first publ. 2014). £17.99 (paper). 978 0 19 875730 6

Lara, Jaime, Birdman of Assisi. Art and the apocalyptic in the colonial Andes. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 476. Medieval and Renaissance Latin America, 1.) Pp. xiii + 353 incl. 220 black-and-white and colour figs and 2 maps. Az: ACMRS, Bilingual Press, 2015. £55.95. 978 0 8669 8529 1

López-Menéndez, Marisol, Miguel Pro. Martyrdom, politics, and society in twentieth-century Mexico. Pp. xxxi + 187 incl. 15 figs and 1 table. Lanham, Md–London: Lexington Books, 2016. £54.95. 978 1 498 50425 6

Atkins, Gareth (ed.), Making and remaking saints in nineteenth-century Britain. Pp. xii + 283 incl. 10 figs. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. £75. 978 9 7190 9686 0

Besier, Gerhard, ‘Intimately associated for many years.’ George K. A. Bell's and Willem A. Visser't Hooft's common life-work in the service of the Church universal – mirrored in their correspondence. Part One 1938–1949; Part Two 1950–1958. Pp. xviii + 575, xvi + 577-1158. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. £136.98. 978 1 4438 8273 6

Daniel, Wallace L., Russia's uncommon prophet. Father Aleksandr Men and his times. Pp. xvii + 422 incl. 20 ills. DeKalb, Il: Northern Illinois University Press, 2016. $39 (paper). 978 0 87580 733 1

E. B. E.(Anonymous), Opus Dei as divine revelation. (Analysis of its theology and the consequences in its history and people.) Pp. 576 incl. 106 ills and 2 tables. Self-published, 2016. (First published in Spanish, 2012). $19.40. 978 1 523318 88 9

Hammond, Geordan and Jones, David Ceri (eds), George Whitefield. Life, context and legacy. Pp. xiii + 329 incl. 12 figs. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £65. 978 0 19 874707 9

Webster, Robert (ed.), Perfecting perfection. Essays in honour of Henry D. Rack. Pp. xii + 299. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2016. £24 (paper). 978 9 227 17588 0