General
Cusimano, Richard and Whitmore, Eric (trans.), Selected works of Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis. Pp. xiv + 293 incl. 8 ills. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2018. $65. 978 0813 22997 3
Fontes, João Luís Inglês (with Gouvia, António Camões, Andrade, Maria Filomena and Farelo, Mário), Bispos e Arcebispos de Lisboa. (Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa da Universidade Católica Portuguesa.) Pp. 919 incl. 167 colour ills and 6 colour maps. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 2018. €46. 978 972 24 1868 3
Orme, Nicholas, The history of England's cathedrals. Pp. xii + 304 incl. 91 colour and black-and-white ills. Exeter: Impress Books, 2017. £30. 978 1 907605 98 7
Ryan, Salvador and Tracey, Liam M. oms (eds), The cultural reception of the Bible. Explorations in theology, literature and the arts. Essays in honour of Fr Brendan McConversy CSsR. Pp. 316 incl. frontispiece, 16 colour ills and 2 tables. Dublin–Chicago: Four Courts Press, 2018. £45. 978 1 84682 725 9
Ancient world
Antonova, Stamenka E., Barbarian or Greek? The charge of barbarism and early Christian apologetics. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 187.) Pp. xii + 336. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €119. 978 90 04 30625 7;
Baron, Lori, Hicks-Keeton, Jill and Thiessen, Matthew (eds), The ways that often parted. Essays in honor of Joel Marcus. (Early Christianity and its Literature, 24.) Pp. xxvi + 432 incl. 4 tables. Atlanta, Ga: SBL Press, 2018. $61.95 (paper). 978 1 62837 216 8
Bauckham, Richard, Magdala of Galilee. A Jewish city in the Hellenistic and Roman period. Pp. xx + 435 incl. 39 figs, 5 maps and 6 colour plates. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2018. $79.95. 978 1 4813 0293 7
Bonner, Ali, The myth of Pelagianism. (A British Academy Monograph.) Pp. xviii + 342. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press (for The British Academy), 2018. £80. 978 0 19 726639 7
Brugarolas, Miguel (ed.), Gregory of Nyssa. Contra Eunomium I. An English translation with supporting studies. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 148.) Pp. xiv + 638. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €198. 978 90 04 37708 0;
Corke-Webster, James, Eusebius and empire. Constructing Church and Rome in ecclesiastical history. Pp. xviii + 346. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £90. 978 1 108 47407 8
Gafni, Isaiah, Jews and Judaism in the Rabbinic era. (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, 173.) Pp. x + 549 incl. 4 ills, 2 maps and 1 table. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. €169. 978 3 16 152731 9
Luijendijk, Annemarie and Klingshirn, William E. (eds), My lots are in thy hands. Sortilege and its practitioners in late antiquity. (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 188.) Pp. xxviii + 392 incl. 10 black-and-white and colour figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €129. 978 90 04 38410 1;
Ritter, Adolf Martin, Dionys vom Areopag. Beiträge zu Werk und Wirkung eines philosophierenden Christen der Spätantike. (Tria Corda, 10.) Pp. xii + 199. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. €29 (paper). 978 3 16 155625 8
Teubner, Jonathan D., Prayer after Augustine. A study in the development of the Latin tradition. (Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology.) Pp. viii + 257. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £65. 978 0 19 876717 6
Medieval Europe and Byzantium
Agaiby, Elizabeth, The Arabic life of Antony attributed to Serapion of Thmuis. Cultural memory reinterpreted. (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, 14.) Pp. xvi + 279 incl. 17 colour ills and 5 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €155. 978 90 04 38326 5;
Allen, David, The cartulary and charters of the Priory of Saints Peter and Paul, Ipswich, I: The cartulary. (Suffolk Charters, XX.) Pp. xx + 292 incl. 4 ills, 2 maps and 8 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press (for the Suffolk Records Society), 2018. £60. 978 1 78327 354 6
Austin, Amy M. and Johnston, Mark D., A companion to Ramon Llull and Lullism. (Brill's Companions to Christian Tradition, 82.) Pp. xxvi + 557 incl. 23 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €249. 978 90 04 22622 7;
Bailey, Michael D. and Field, Sean L. (eds), Late medieval heresy. New perspectives. Studies in honor of Robert E. Lerner. (Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages, 5.) Pp. xiv + 268. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press (in association with York Medieval Press), 2018. £60. 978 1 903153 82 6
Cunningham, Bernadette, Medieval Irish pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela. Pp. 207 incl. 16 ills and 1 table. Dublin–Chicago: Four Courts Press, 2018. €19.95 (paper). 978 1 84682 729 7
Eichbauer, Melodie H. and Summerlin, Danica (eds), The use of canon law in ecclesiastical administration, 1000–1234. (Medieval Law and Its Practice, 26.) Pp. xii + 279 incl. 1 table. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €121. 978 90 04 36433 2;
García-Arenal, Mercedes and Wiegers, Gerard (eds), Polemical encounters. Christians, Jews and Muslims in Iberia and beyond. (Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755, 2.) Pp. x + 430 incl. 6 ills. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. $149.95. 978 0 271 08121 2
Hernández, Francisco J., Ameijeiras, Rocío Sánchez and Falque, Emma (eds), Medieval studies in honour of Peter Linehan. (Millennio Medievale, 115; Strumenti e studi n.s. 44.) Pp. x + 934 incl. frontispiece, 32 colour and black-and-white ills and 18 tables. Firenze: Sismel, 2018. €130. 978 88 8450 858 4
Kemp, Brian (ed.), Reading abbey records. A new miscellany. (Berkshire Record Society, 25.) Pp. xii + 142 incl. 1 ill. Hastings: Berforts South West Ltd, 2018. £12.50 (paper). 978 0 9573937 6 9
Knell, Matthew, Sin, grace and free will. A historical survey of Christian thought, II: From Anselm to the Reformation. Pp. viii + 287. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2018. £75. 978 0 227 17607 8
Lapidge, Michael, The Roman martyrs. Introduction, translations, and commentary. (Oxford Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xvi + 733 incl. 2 maps. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £140. 978 0 19 881136 7
O'Hara, Alexander, Jonas of Bobbio and the legacy of Columbanus. (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity.) Pp. xvi + 322 incl. 2 figs, 10 tables and 2 maps. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £55. 978 0 19 085800 1
Peters, Greg, The monkhood of all believers. The monastic foundation of Christian spirituality. Pp. xiv + 210. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2018. $24.99 (paper). 978 0 8010 9805 5
Reilly, Diane J., The Cistercian reform and the art of the book in twelfth-century France. (Knowledge Communities.) Pp. 229 incl. 20 figs and 16 colour plates. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. £85. 978 94 6298 594 0
Robson, Michael and Zutshi, Patrick (eds), The Franciscan order in the medieval English province and beyond. (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West.) Pp. 296 incl. 17 figs. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. €105. 978 94 6298 647 3
Rubenstein, Jay, Nebuchadnezzar's dream. The crusades, apocalyptic prophecy, and the end of history. Pp. xxii + 280 incl. 16 colour figs, 3 maps and 10 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £19.99. 978 0 19 027420 7
Shopkow, Leah (trans.), The Chronicle of Andres. William of Andres. Pp. xii + 459. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2017. $75. 978 0 8132 2999
Smith, Thomas W. and Killock, Helen (eds), Petitions and strategies of persuasion in the Middle Ages. The English crown and the Church, c. 1200–c. 1550. Pp. xiv + 220 incl. 2 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press (in association with York Medieval Press), 2018. £60. 978 1 903153 83 3
Spataro, Alberto, Velud Fulgor Meridianus. La ‘Vita’ di Papa Gregorio IX. Edizione, traduzione e commento. (Ordines Studi su istituzioni e società nel medioevo europeo, 8.) Pp. xii + 226. Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2018. €25 (paper). 978 88 343 3148 4
Stöber, Karen, Kerr, Julie and Emilia Jamroziak (eds), Monastic life in the medieval British Isles. Essays in honour of Janet Burton. Pp. xxxvi + 236 incl. frontispiece and 11 figs. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2018. £24.99 (paper). 978 1 78683 318 1
Tamminen, Miikka, Crusade preaching and the ideal crusader. (Sermo. Studies on Patristic, Medieval and Reformation Sermons and Preaching, 14.) Pp. x + 334. Turnhout: Brepols, 2018. €90. 978 2 503 57725 8
Twomey, Lesley K., The sacred space of the Virgin Mary in medieval Hispanic literature. From Gonzalo de Berceo to Ambrosio Montesino. (Colección Tàmesis, Serie A: Monografías, 381.) Pp. xii + 484 incl. 19 ills. Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2019. £70. 978 1 85566 323 7
Wahlgren-Smith, Lena (ed. and trans.), The letters collections of Nicholas of Clairvaux. (Oxford Medieval Texts.) Pp. xcviii + 325. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £95. 978 0 19 967151 9
Webster, Harriett R. (ed.) (trans. Preest, David), The annals of Dunstable Priory. Pp. xlviii + 304 incl. 1 map. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2018. £75. 978 1 84383 813 5
Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe
Allen, Richard C. and Moore, Rosemary, The Quakers, 1656–1723. The evolution of an alternative community. (The New History of Quakerism.) Pp. x + 345. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. $39.95. 978 0 271 08120 5
Braddick, Michael J. and Innes, Joanna (eds), Suffering and happiness in England, 1550–1850. Narratives and representations. A collection to honour Paul Slack. (The Past and Present Book Series.) Pp. xii + 260 incl. frontispiece, 13 figs and 2 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. £65. 978 0 19 8744826
Gay, Jean-Pascal, Le Dernier Théophile Raynaud (v. 1583–1663). Histoire d'une obsolescence. (Théologie Historique, 127.) Pp. 487 incl. 4 tables. Paris: Beauchesne, 2018. €41 (paper). 978 2 7010 2267 3
Hamilton, Alastair, Johann Michael Wansleben's travels in the Levant, 1671–1674. An annotated edition of his Italian report. (The History of Oriental Studies, 4.) Pp. xiv + 512 incl. 17 ills and 2 maps. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €114. 978 90 04 36214 7;
Jas, Eric, Piety and polyphony in sixteenth-century Holland. The choirbooks of St Peter's Church, Leiden. (Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music.) Pp. xvi + 416 incl. 43 plates, 17 tables and examples. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2018. £60. 978 1 78327 326 3
Luszczynska, Magdalena, Politics of polemics. Marcin Czechowic on the Jews. Pp. x + 180. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2018. €68.95. 978 3 11 058378 6
Lutz, Samuel, Ulrich Zwinglis Spiritualität. Ein Beispiel reformierter Frömmigkeit. Pp. 159. Zürich: Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2018. €23.90 (paper). 978 3 290 18170 3
Macquarrie, Alan (ed.), Calendar of entries in the papal registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland, XXIII/1: 1523–1534. Clement VII. (Calendar of Papal Registers. Papal Letters.) Pp. xxviii + 658 incl. 2 tables. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2018. €65. 978 1 906865 68 9
Montesano, Marina, Classical culture and witchcraft in medieval and renaissance Italy. (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic.) Pp. x + 278 incl. 2 colour figs. London–New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. £60. 978 3 319 92077 1
Mühling, Christian, Die europäische Debatte über den Religionskrieg (1679–1714). Konfessionelle Memoria und internationale Politik im Zeitalter Ludwigs XIV. (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, 250.) Pp. 587. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018. €85. 978 3 525 31054 0;
Niedersen, Uwe, Reformation in Kirche und Staat. Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Pp. 405 incl. 135 colour and black-and-white ills. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2018. €90. 978 3 428 15529 3
Overell, M. Anne, Nicodemites. Faith and concealment between Italy and Tudor England. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xiv + 280. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €125. 978 90 04 33166 2;
Pietrzak-Thébault, Joanna (ed.), Word of God, words of men. Translations, inspirations, transmissions of the Bible in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth in the Renaissance. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 43.) Pp. 384 incl. 38 figs. 7 tables and 3 charts. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019. €110. 978 3 525 55277 3;
Ranson, Angela, Gazal, André A. and Bastow, Sarah (eds), Defending the faith. John Jewel and the Elizabethan Church. (Early Modern Studies Series.) Pp. viii + 342. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. $129.95. 978 0 271 98208 0
Simpson, James, Permanent revolution. The Reformation and the illiberal roots of liberalism. Pp. xviii + 444 incl. 1 table. Cambridge, Ma–London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. £25.95. 978 0 674 98713 5
Stevens, Ralph, Protestant pluralism. The reception of the Toleration Act, 1689–1720. (Studies in Modern British Religious History.) Pp. xiv + 206. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2018. £65. 978 1 78327 329 4
Stievermann, Jan and Zachman, Randall C. (eds), Multiple Reformations? The many faces and legacies of the Reformation. (Colloquia historica et theologica.) Pp. xvi + 403. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. €109. 978 3 16 155652 4
Tol, Jonas van, Germany and the French wars of religion, 1560–1572. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xii + 274 incl. 6 colour and black-and-white figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €121. 978 90 04 33067 2;
Vélez, Karin, The miraculous flying house of Loreto. Spreading Catholicism in the early modern world. Pp. xvi + 293 incl. 7 ills and 1 table. Princeton, NJ–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. £30. 978 0 691 17400 6
Wood, Jon D., Reforming priesthood in reformation Zurich. Heinrich Bullinger's end-times agenda. (Reformed Historical Theology, 54.) Pp. 150. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019. €50. 978 3 525 57092 0;
Modern Europe
Bellis, Stephen, Faith of our fathers. Catholic chaplains on the western front, 1916–1919. Pp. 265 incl. 71 ills and 4 maps. Warwick: Helion & Company, 2018. £35. 978 1 912390 91 5
Brodie, Thomas, German Catholicism at war, 1939–1945. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) Pp. xii + 275 incl. 4 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £65. 978 0 19 882702 3
Chandler, Andrew, Anglicanism, Methodism and ecumenism. A history of the Queen's and Handsworth colleges. Pp. xii + 223 incl. 7 figs and 6 plates. London–New York: I. B. Tauris, 2018. £72. 978 1 78831 279 0
Dunstan, Petà, Campaigning for life. A biography of Dorothy Frances Buxton. Pp. xiv + 269 incl. 30 ills. Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2018. £22.50 (paper). 978 0 7188 9539 6
Heyder, Regina and Muschiol, Gisela (eds), Katholikinnen und das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil. Petitionen, Berichte, Fotografien. Pp. 698 incl 46 colour and black-and-white ills. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2018. €29.80. 978 3 402 13138 1
Jordan, Richard Lawrence, Paisleyism and civil rights. An ambassador unchained. Pp. vi + 291. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. £61.99. 978 5275 1643 4
Kitromilides, Paschalis M., Religion and politics in the Orthodox world. The ecumenical patriarchate and the challenges of modernity. (Religion, Society and Government in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet States.) Pp. xiv + 130 incl. frontispiece and 9 ills. London–New York: Routledge, 2019. £115. 978 0 8153 9464 8
Kurtz, Paul Michael, Kaiser, Christ and Canaan. The religion of Israel in Protestant Germany, 1871–1918. (Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 122.) Pp. xiv + 371. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. €129. 978 3 16 155496 4
Leaver, Robin A. (ed.), Bach and the counterpoint of religion. (Bach Perspectives, 12.) Pp. x + 164 incl. 3 tables and 4 music examples. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2018. £41. 978 0 252 04198 3
Mein, Andrew, MacDonald, Nathan and Collins, Matthew A. (eds), The First World War and the mobilization of biblical scholarship. (Scriptural Traces: Critical Perspectives on the Reception and Influence of the Bible, 15; Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 676.) Pp. x + 307. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2019. £85. 978 0 5676 8078 5
Turner, Michael J. (ed.), Religion and politics in nineteenth-century Britain. Secularism, conservatism, and anti-semitism. Pp. viii + 176. Lewiston–Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2018. $159.95. 978 1495507052
Zalar, Jeffrey T., Reading and rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770–1914. (Publications of the German Historical Institute.) Pp. xiv + 386. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £75. 978 1 108 47290 6
Africa, Asia and Australasia
Woodbridge, David, Missionary primitivism and Chinese modernity. The Brethren in twentieth-century China. (Studies in Christian Mission, 54.) Pp. xii + 173 incl. 2 figs, 4 tables and 1 map. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €99. 978 90 04 33675 9;
Zink, Jesse A., Christianity and catastrophe in south Sudan. Civil war, migration, and the rise of Dinka Anglicanism. (Studies in World Christianity.) Pp. xvi + 259 incl. 20 figs and 4 maps. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2018. $49.95. 978 1 4813 0822 9
The Americas
Brennan, Sean, The priest who put Europe back together. The life of Father Fabian Flynn, cp. Pp xxii + 290 incl. 10 ills. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2018. $34.95 (paper). 978 0 8132 3017 7
Gordon, Scott Paul (ed.), The letters of Mary Penry. A single Moravian woman in early America. (Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies.) Pp. xx + 295 incl. 7 ills. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. $84.95. 978 0 271 08108 3
Murray, Damien, Irish nationalists in Boston. Catholicism and conflict, 1900–1928. Pp. xviii + 284 incl. 8 ills. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2018. $75. 978 0813 2300 16
O'Donnell, Mary Ellen, Ingrained habits. Growing up Catholic in mid twentieth century America. Pp. xx + 164. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2018. £80.95. 978 0813 230375
Padgett, Timothy D., Swords and plowshares. American Evangelicals on war, 1937–1973. (Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology.) Pp. xiv + 426. Bellingham, Wa: Lexham Press, 2018. $24.99 (paper). 978 1 68359 106 1
Portier, William L., Every Catholic an apostle. A life of Thomas A. Judget, cm, 1868–1933. Pp. xvii + 555 incl. 12 figs. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2017. £34.95 (paper). 978 0 8132 2981 2
General : Modern world
Bever, Edward and Styers, Randall (eds), Magic in the modern world. Strategies of repression and legitimization. (The Magic in History Series.) Pp. vi + 208. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017. $74.95. 978 0 271 07777 2
Power, Ann, The Brigidine sisters in Ireland, America, Australia and New Zealand, 1807–1922. Pp. 462 incl. 51 ills. Dublin–Chicago, Il: Four Courts Press, 2018. £55. 978 1 84682 739 6