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General

  • Bassett, Sarah (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Constantinople. Pp. xx + 414 incl. 31 ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. £26.99 (paper). 978 1 108 70557 8

Ancient world

  • Brown, Philip J., Friendship as ecclesial binding. A reading of St Augustine's theology of friendship from his In Iohannis Evangelium Tractatus. (Studia Traditionis Theologiae. Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology, 48.) Pp. 201. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. €65 (paper). 978 2 503 59924 3

  • Dingluaia, Lal, ‘The letter killeth’. Redeeming time in Augustine's understanding of the authority of Scripture. (Studia Traditionis Theologiae. Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology.) Pp. 217. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. €65 (paper). 978 2 503 60116 8

  • Gryson, Roger, Césaire D'Arles. Commentaire de l'Apocalypse de Jean. (Sources Chrétiennes, 636.) Pp. 311. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2023. €59 (paper). 978 2 204 15489 5; 0750 1978

  • Lied, Severre Elgvin, Participation in heavenly worship. From apocalyptic mysticism to the Eurcharistic Sanctus. (Studia Traditionis Theologiae. Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology, 50.) Pp. 238. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. €65 (paper). 978 2 503 59928 1

  • Méndez, Hugo, The cult of Stephen in Jerusalem. Inventing a patron martyr. (Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xiv + 175 incl. 2 maps. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. £70. 978 0 19 284699 0

  • Menze, Volker L., Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria. The last Pharaoh and ecclesiastical politics in the later Roman Empire. (Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xii + 226. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £70. 978 0 19 287133 6

  • Michelson, David A., The library of paradise. A history of contemplative reading in the monasteries of the Church of the East. (Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xxviii + 329 incl. 1 ill. and 1 map. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 978 0 19 883624 7

  • O'Brien, Jennifer, Heralds of hope. The three advent hymns of the Roman office. (Studia Traditionis Theologiae. Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology, 47.) Pp. 243. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. €65 (paper). 978 2 503 59642 6

  • Pietri, Luce and Krusch, B., Grégoire de Tours. Les miracles de Saint Martin. (Sources Chrétiennes, 635.) Pp. 479. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2023. €69 (paper). 978 2 204 15488 8; 0750 1978

  • Scafoglio, Giampiero and Wendling, Fabrice (eds), Romaniser la foi chrétienne? La poésie latine de l'antiquité tardive entre tradition classique et inspiration chrétienne. (Collection d'études médiévales de Nice, 20, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Cultures et Environnements. Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen Âge.) Pp. 255. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. €60 (paper). 978 2 503 60087 1; 2294 852X

  • Schliesser, Benjamin, Zweifel. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 500.) Pp. xx + 511. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022. €169. 978 3 16 161927 4

  • Toom, Tarmo (ed.), Augustine in context. Pp. xiv + 265. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023 (first publ. 2017). £22.99 (paper). 978 1 316 50228 0

  • Zager, Raphael, Das Geschichtsdenken Augustins. Zur Rezeption des Alten Testaments in De ciuitate dei XV–XVIII. (Beiträge zur historischen Theologie, 204.) Pp. xvi + 601. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023. €144. 978 3 16 162485 8

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

  • Beihammer, Alexander D. and Nicolaou-Konnari, Angel (eds), Crusading, society,and politics in the Eastern Mediterranean in the age of King Peter I of Cyprus. (Mediterranean Nexus, 1100–1700. Conflict, Influence and Inspiration in the Mediterranean Area, 10.) Pp. 630 incl. 39 colour figs and 2 maps. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. €115. 978 2 503 59856 7; 2565 8549

  • Boillet, Élise and Johnson, Ian, Religious transformations in new communities of interpretation in Europe (1350–1570). Bridging the historiographical divides. (New Communities of Interpretation, 3.) Pp. 275 incl. 1 ill. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. €85 (paper). 978 2 503 60177 9

  • Boyd, Stephen (intro. and trans.), Ramon de Perellós. Journey to St Patrick's purgatory. Pp. x + 114. Barcelona–Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2022. £60. 978 1 85566 357 2

  • Çelik, Siren, Manuel II Palaiologos (1350–1425). A Byzantine emperor in a time of tumult. Pp. xxvi + 445 incl. 11 ills and 2 maps. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022 (first publ. 2021). £27.99. 978 1 108 81262 7

  • Chatterjee, Paroma, Between the pagan past and Christian present in Byzantine visual culture. Statues in Constantinople, 4th–13th centuries CE. Pp. xiv + 267 incl. 66 colour ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £75. 978 1 108 83358 5

  • Fees, Sabine, Das päpstliche corporate design. Quellen zur äußeren Ausstattung von Papsturkunden im hohen und späten Mittelalter. (Archiv für Diplomatik, Schriftgeschichte Siegel- und Wappenkunde, 21.) Pp. 384 incl. 22 ills and 3 tables. Köln: Böhlau, 2023. €65. 978 3 412 52815 7

  • Foley, W. Trent, Bede and the beginnings of English racism. (Studia Traditionis Theologiae. Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology, 49.) Pp. 221 incl. 2 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. €65 (paper). 978 2 503 59926 7

  • Franses, Rico, Donor portraits in Byzantine art. The vicissitudes of contact between human and divine. Pp. xiv + 247 incl. 64 ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023 (first publ. 2018). £25.99 (paper). 978 1 108 40758 8

  • Hess, Cordelia, The absent Jews. Kir Forstreuter and the historiography of medieval Prussia. Pp. x + 323 incl. 2 maps and 1 table. New York–Oxford: Berghahn, 2017. £105. 978 1 78533 492 4

  • Hotchin, Julie and Thibaut, Jirki (eds), Women and monastic reform in the medieval West, c.1000–1500. Debating identities, creating communities. (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion.) Pp. xviii + 278 incl. 19 figs, 2 maps and 3 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2023. £60. 978 1 83765 049 1

  • Irving, Andrew J. M. and Buchinger, Harald (eds), On the typology of liturgical books from the western Middle Ages. (Liturgiewissenschaftliche Quellen und Forschungen, 115.) Pp. 658 incl. 9 tables, 16 colour ills and 5 colour plates. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2023. €88 (paper). 978 3 402 11292 2; 0076 0048

  • Kalas, Laura, Margery Kempe's spiritual medicine. Suffering, transformation and the life-course. Pp. xvi + 252 incl. 9 figs. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2023. £24.99 (paper). 978 1 84384 684 0

  • Kriza, Ágnes, Depicting Orthodoxy in the Russian Middle Ages. The Novgorod icon of Sophia, the divine wisdom. (Studies in Byzantium.) Pp. xxii + 384 incl. 105 colour ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. £90. 978 0 19 885430 2

  • López González, Luis F., The aesthetics of melancholia. Medical and spiritual diseases in medieval Iberia. (Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture.) Pp. xii + 259 incl. 20 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. £65. 978 0 19 285922 8

  • Panzram, Sabine and Arias, Pablo Poveda (eds), Bishops under threat. Contexts and episcopal strategies in the late antique and early medieval West. (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 150.) Pp. x + 339. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2023. €112. 978 3 11 076953 1; 1861 5996

  • Perchuk, Alison Locke, The medieval monastery of Saint Elijah. A history in paint and stone. (Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages, 17.) Pp. 432 incl. 161 colour and black and white ills, 2 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. €175. 978 2 503 58943 5

  • Pohl, Walter, Wieser, Veronika and Borri, Francesco (eds), The emergence of new peoples and polities in Europe, 1000–1300. (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 31. Historiography and Identity, 5.) Pp. xiv + 505 incl. 2 figs and 9 maps. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. €125. 978 2 503 58849 0

  • Rassi, Salam, Christian thought in the medieval Islamicate world. ‘Abdīshō’ of Nisibis and the apologetic tradition. (Oriental Monographs.) Pp. xvi + 296 incl. 3 figs and 2 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. £90. 978 0 19 284676 1

  • Rucquoi, Adeline, Dominicus hispanus. Saint Dominique avant la foundation de l'Ordre des Prêcheurs. (Collection d'histoire religieuse du Languedoc au Moyen Âge, 5.) Pp. 214 incl. 6 colour plates and 5 maps.. Fanjeaux: Centre d’Études Historiques, 2023. €26 (paper). 978 2 9568972 4 8

  • Story, Joanna, Charlemagne and Rome. Alcuin and the epitaph of Pope Hadrian I. (Medieval History and Archaeology.) Pp. xxiv + 403 incl. frontispiece and 91 colour and black-and-white ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £100. 978 0 19 920634 6

  • Van ’t Spijker, Ineke, Homo interior and Vita socialis. Patristic patterns and twelfth-century reflections. (Studia Traditionis Theologiae. Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology, 52.) Pp. 209. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. €65 (paper). 978 2 503 60118 2

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

  • Andersen, Peter and Henkel, Nikolaus (eds), Sebastian Brant (1457–1521). Europäisches Wissen in der Hand eines Intellektuellen der Frühen Neuzeit. (Kulturtopographie des alemannischen Raums, 13.) Pp. xiv + 446 incl. 101 colour and black-and-white ills. Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. £91. 978 3 11 102325 0; 1867 8203

  • Crăciun, Maria, Leppin, Volker, Luffy, Katalin and Wien, Ulrich A. (eds), Prayer books and piety in late medieval and early modern Europe. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 94.) Pp. 407 incl. 92 colour ills, 2 colour plates and 3 tables. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023. €150. 978 3 525 57345 7; 2198 3089

  • Dixon, Tom (ed. Gouk, Penelope, Dixon, Chloë and Robichaud, Philippe Sarrasin), Music, nature and divine knowledge in England, 1650–1750. Between the rational and the mystical. (Music in Society and Culture.) Pp. xxii + 343 incl. 3 ills. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2023. £85. 978 1 78327 767 4

  • Dondi, Christina, Raines, Dorit and Sharpe, Richard, How the secularization of religious houses transformed the libraries of Europe, 16th–19th centuries. (Bibliologia, 63.) Pp. 719 incl. colour frontispiece, 20 colour and black-and-white ills and 5 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. €85 (paper). 978 2 503 59392 0

  • Dyck, Cornelius J. (intro. Mary S. Sprunger), Hans de Ries. A study in second generation Dutch Anabaptism. (Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies n.s. 2.) Pp. xxvi + 344 incl. 1 ill. Kitchener, On: Pandora Press, 2023. $39.95 (paper). 978 1 77873 003 0

  • French, Anna (ed.), Reading the reformations. Theologies, cultures and beliefs in an age of change. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xviii + 338 incl. 10 colour figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €135. 978 90 04 52123 0; 2468 4317

  • Gibson, Marion, The witches of St Osyth. Persecution, betrayal and murder in Elizabethan England. Pp. xxiv + 329 incl. 18 ills, 2 maps and 14 colour plates. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. £30. 978 1 108 49467 0

  • Kaufman, Lucy Moffat, A people's reformation. Building the English Church in the Elizabethan parish. (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, 98.) Pp. xxii + 346 incl. 11 ills. Montreal–Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. £37.99 (paper). 978 0 2280 1680 9

  • Kim, Hyun-Ah (ed.), Music and religious education in early modern Europe. The music edification of the Church. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xii + 259 incl. 14 colour and black-and-white figs and 2 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €99. 978 90 04 47038 5; 2468 4317

  • Knight, Alison, The dark Bible. Cultures of interpretation in early modern England. Pp. xii + 324 incl. 7 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. £75. 978 0 19 289632 2

  • Lytvynenko, Viacheslav V. and Shpakovskiy, Mikhail V. (eds), Zinoviy Otenskiy and the Trinitarian controversy in sixteenth-century Russia. Introduction, texts, and translation. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 239; Texts and Sources, 13.) Pp. xviii + 506 incl. 2 colour figs and 4 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €165. 978 90 04 22210 6; 1573 4188

  • Ollerton, Andrew, The crisis of Calvinism in revolutionary England, 1640–1660. Arminian theologies of predestination and grace. (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 47.) Pp. x + 266 incl. 2 figs. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2023. £80. 978 1 78327 773 5

  • Pečar, Andreas (trans. Jozef van der Voort and Jennifer Walcoff Neuheiser), The power of Scripture. Political biblicism in the early Stuart monarchy between representation and subversion. (Studies in British and Imperial History, 8.) Pp. iv + 263. New York–Oxford: Berghahn, 2022. £99. 978 1 80073 320 6

  • Pries, Edmund, Anabaptist oath refusal. Basel, Bern and Strasbourg, 1525–1538. (Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies n.s. 3.) Pp. xvi + 460 incl. 1 ill. Kitchener, On: Pandora Press, 2023. $45.50 (paper). 978 1 926599 76 2

  • Schmitt-Maass, Christoph (ed.), Der Jansenismus im deutschsprachigen Raum, 1670–1789. Bücher, Bilder, Bibliotheken. (Frühe Neuzeit, 250.) Pp. viii + 233 incl. 10 colour ills. Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. £82. 978 3 11 079695 7; 0934 5531

  • Teszelszky, Kees (trans. Adams, Bernard), The holy crown and the Hungarian estates. Constructing early modern identity in the kingdom of Hungary. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 92.) Pp. 396 incl. 17 colour and black-and-white ills and 1 colour map. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023. €140. 978 3 525 57344 0; 2198 3089

  • Tortoriello, Giovanni, Scala Christus est. (Spämittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation, 135.) Pp. xii + 391. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023. €124. 978 3 16 161472 1; 1865 2840

  • Tse, Chun, The marrow of certainty. Thomas Boston's theology of assurance. (Reformed Historical Theology, 77.) Pp. 302 incl. 1 table. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023. €120. 978 3 525 56090 7; 2198 8226

  • Waite, Gary K., Anti-anabaptist polemics. Dutch Anabaptism and the devil in England, 1531–1660. (Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies n.s. 1.) Pp. xxvi + 241 incl. 11 colour and black-and-white ills. Kitchener, On: Pandora Press, 2023. $39.95 (paper). 978 1 926599 99 1

Modern Europe

  • Bergen, Doris L., Between God and Hitler. Military chaplains in Nazi Germany. Pp. xx + 326 incl. 31 ills, 2 maps and 1 table. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. £30. 978 1 108 48770 2

  • Katzer, Carolin, Konflikt – Konsens – Koexistenz. Konfessionskulturen in Worms im 18. Jahrhundert. (Quellen und Abhandlungen zur mittelrheinischen Kirchengeschichte, 146.) Pp. 508 incl. 9 ills. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2022. €62. 978 3 402 26631 1

  • McCalla, Arthur, Religion and the post-revolutionary mind. Idéologues, Catholic traditionalists, and liberals in France. (Studies in the History of Ideas, 88.) Pp. xii + 449. Montreal–Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. £110. 978 0 2280 1658 8

  • McCartney, Caitriona, The Sunday school movement in Britain, 1900–1939. (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 46.) Pp. xvi + 210 incl. 10 graphs and 3 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2023. £80. 978 1 78327 765 0

  • Schatz, Klaus, Kirche der Einheit und der Reform. Gesammelte Aufsätze zum Ersten Vatikanischen Konzil und zum päpstlichem Primat. (Studien zur Geschichte von Konzilien, 1.) Pp. x + 429. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2023. €69. 978 3 402 25670 1

  • Skidmore, Chris and Tiller, Kate (eds), Communities of dissent, 1850–1914. (The Chapels Society Journal, 4.) Pp. 155 incl. 35 colour and black-and-while ills and 5 tables. Sussex: The Chapels Society, 2023. £15 (paper). 978 0 9545061 7 9

  • Snape, Michael and Bell, Stuart (eds), British Christianity and the Second World War. (Studies in Modern British Religious History.) Pp. xiv + 227. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2023. £75. 978 1 83765 019 4

  • Yates, Kelly Diehl (foreword Snyder, Howard A.), The limits of a Catholic spirit. John Wesley, Methodism, and Catholicism. Pp. xiv + 249. Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2023. £22.50 (paper). 978 0 7188 9660 7

Africa, Asia and Australasia

  • Mallampalli, Chandra, South Asia's Christians. Between Hindu and Muslim. (Studies in World Christianity.) Pp. xvi + 351 incl. 21 ills and 2 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £19.99 (paper). 978 0 19 060891 0

  • Morden, Peter (ed.), The complete works of Andrew Fuller. An apology for the late Christian missions to India. (Complete Works of Andrew Fuller, 11.) Pp. xii + 189. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2023. £103.50. 978 3 11 041405 9

  • Zurlo, Gina A., From Nairobi to the world. David B. Barrett and the re-imagining of world Christianity. (Theology and Mission in World Christianity, 26.) Pp. xii + 155 incl. 20 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €54 (paper). 978 90 04 54103 0; 2452 2953

The Americas

  • Edwards, Mark Thomas, Walter Lippmann. American skeptic, American pastor. (Spiritual Lives.) Pp. xii + 227. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £40. 978 0 19 289516 5

  • Johnson, Janiece, Convicting the Mormons. The Mountain Meadows massacre in American culture. Pp. xviii + 216 incl. 27 ills. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. $29.95 (paper). 978 1 4696 7353 0

General : Modern world

  • Chatelan, Olivier, Des Allers sans retours? Les prêtres français en Amérique latine, 1961–1984, I: L'appel et la conversion; II: Le tragique et la conscience. (Chrétiens et Sociétés. Documents et Mémoires, 48, 49.) Pp. 298 incl. 5 ills; pp. 378 incl. 1 ill., 3 maps and 3 tables. Lyon: LARHRA, 2023. €35 (paper); £35 (paper). 979 10 91592 34 5; 979 10 91592 35 2

  • Corrigan, John, McAlister, Melani and Schäfer, Axel R. (eds), Global faith, worldly power. Evangelical internationalism and U.S. empire. Pp. 398 incl. 3 ills. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. $29.95 (paper). 978 1 4696 7059 1

  • Frei, Elisa and Rai, Eleonora (eds), Profiling saints. Images of modern sanctity in a global world. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 97.) Pp. 380 incl. 27 colour and black-and-white ills and 18 tables. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023. €120. 978 3 525 57356 3; 2198 3089