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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 75 , Issue 4 , October 2024 , pp. 854 - 859
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General

  • Bray, Gerald, A companion to the Book of Common Prayer. Pp. xiv + 505. Cambridge: James Clarke and Co., 2023. £30. 978 0 227 17930 7

  • Fornasari, Giuseppe, Fare storia. Dieci domande e dieci risposte. La fine di una stagione. Pp. 187. Trieste: Editreg di Fabio Penc, 2024. €25 (paper). 978 88 3349 066 3

  • Klug, Florian (foreword Faggioli, Massimo), Beyond the visible Church. The motif of the ecclesia ab Abel from Augustine to James Alison. Pp. xviii + 426. Collegeville, Mi: Liturgical Press Academic, 2024. $79.95 (paper). 979 8 4008 0009 2

Ancient world

  • Aron-Beller, Katherine, Christian images and their Jewish desecrators. The history of an allegation, 400–1700. (Jewish Culture and Contexts.) Pp. xii + 426 incl. 28 ills. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024. £72. 978 1 5128 2410 0

  • Canévet, Mariette, Vinel, Françoise and Langerbeck, Grec de H. (eds), Grégoire de Nysse. Homélies sur le Cantique des cantiques, II: Homélies VI–X. (Sources Chrétiennes, 644.) Pp. 323. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2024. €49 (paper). 978 2 204 15753 7; 0750 1978

  • Fogleman, Alex, Knowledge, faith, and early Christian initiation. Pp. xiv + 256. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. £85. 978 1 009 37739 3

  • Giulea, Dragoş Andrei, Antioch, Nicaea, and the synthesis of Constantinople. Revisiting trajectories in the fourth-century Christological debates. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 200.) Pp. xii + 309. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €132. 978 90 04 68322 8; 1573 5664

  • Hartung, Blake, Imagining the death of Jesus in fourth-century Mesopotamia. A study of Ephrem of Nisibis. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 181.) Pp. xii + 258. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €115. 978 90 04 68025 8; 0920 623X

  • Judic, Bruno, Grégoire le Grand. Registre des Lettres. (Sources Chrétiennes, 642.) Pp. 447. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2024. €59 (paper). 978 2 204 15754 4; 0750 1978

  • Louth, Andrew (ed. Lewis Ayres and John Behr), Selected essays, I: Studies in patristics. Pp. xii + 420. Oxford?New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £100. 978 0 19 288281 3

  • Melloni, A. and Ishac, E. A. (eds), The General Councils of the Eastern Christian Churches. (Corpvs Christianorvm, Conciliorum Oecumenicorum Generaliumque Decreta.) Pp. xviii + 519, xviii + 520–1586. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. €980. 978 2 503 54505 9

  • Moiseeva, Evgenia, La Notion de volonté dans les écrits de saint Augustin entre 388 et 404. (Collection des Études Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité, 214.) Pp. 521. Turnhout: Brepols/Paris: Institut d’Études Augustiniennes, 2024. €72 (paper). 978 2 85121 331 0

  • Ogereau, Julien M., Early Christianity in Macedonia. From Paul to the late sixth century. (Early Christianity in Greece, 2; Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 119.) Pp. xx + 446 incl. 60 colour and black and white figs, 2 tables and 7 maps. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €135. 978 90 04 68119 4; 1871 6636

  • Thomassen, Einar, Before Valentinus. The Gnostics of Irenaeus. (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 106.) Pp. x + 202 incl. 1 ill and 1 table. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €110. 978 90 04 67788 3; 0929 2470

  • Oort, Van, Johannes, Augustine's confessions. Ten studies. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 182.) Pp. xviii + 249. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €121. 978 90 04 68588 8; 0920 623X

  • Walker, Becky, Almsgiving as the essential virtue. A study of the Homilies of John Chrysostom. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 183.) Pp. x + 206. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €110. 978 90 04 68745 5; 0920 623X

  • Young, Robin Darling, Kalvesmaki, Joel, Stewart, Columba, Stang, Charles and Dysinger, Luke (trans. and annotated), Evagrius of Pontus. The Gnostic trilogy. Pp. vi + 520. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. £78. 978 0 19 999767 1

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

  • Bueno, Irene, Lavenia, Vicenzo and Parmeggiani, Riccardo (eds), Current trends in the historiography of inquisitions. Themes and comparisons. (I libri di Viella, 463.) Pp. 411. Rome: Viella, 2023. €42 (paper). 979 12 5469 487 9

  • Falkeid, Unn and Wainwright, Anna (eds), The legacy of Birgitta of Sweden. Women, politics and reform in Renaissance Italy. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 242.) Pp. xiv + 363 incl. 26 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €149. 978 90 04 43178 2; 1573 4188

  • Huesman, Amy R., Tempting the tempter. Imitatio Christi and the encounters of Quattrocento holy women with the devil. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 204.) Pp. viii + 226 incl. 1 map and 3 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €124. 978 90 04 53740 8; 1573 5664

  • Jones, Peter Murray, The medicine of the friars in medieval England. (Health and Healing in the Middle Ages, 5.) Pp. xvi + 309 incl. 9 ills. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press/York Medieval Press, 2024. £60. 978 1 914049 23 1

  • Retucci, Fiorella, Thomae Eboracensis Sapientiale, Liber I, capp. 1–18. (Corpus Philosophorum Medii Aevi. Testi e Studi, 27; Unione Accademica Nazionale.) Pp. xxxii + 320. Firenze: Sismel – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2023. €56 (paper). 978 88 9290 222 0

  • Rider, Jeff, Walter, Archdeacon of Thérouanne. The life of Count Charles of Flanders. The life of Lord John, bishop of Thérouanne and related works. (Corpvs Christianorvm in Translation, 44; Corpvs Christianorvm Continuatio Mediaeualis, 217.) Pp. 276 incl. 1 map and 2 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. €55 (paper). 978 2 503 60507 4

  • Stroth, Fabian, The church of St Polyeuktos at Constantinople. (Cambridge Elements, The History of Constantinople.) Pp. iv + 83 incl. 31 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £49.99. 978 1 009 51706 5

Reformation and Counter–Reformation Europe

  • Altman, Shanyn, Witnessing to the faith. Absolutism and the conscience in John Donne's England. (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain.) Pp. x + 184. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. £85. 978 1 5261 5484 2

  • Apetrei, Sarah, The Reformation of the heart. Gender and radical theology in the English Revolution. Pp. xii + 222 incl. 7 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. £76. 978 0 19 883600 1

  • Campbell, W. Gordon (ed.), Martin Luther's Bible. Perspectives on a rich legacy. Pp. vii + 193 incl. 19 ills. Cambridge: James Clarke and Co., 2024. £25 (paper). 978 0 227 17918 5

  • Carley, James P. and Burnett, Charles (eds), Hebraism in sixteenth century England. Robert and Thomas Wakefield. (Studies and Texts, 231; Judaism in the Medieval and Early Modern World, 3.) Pp. xvi + 332 incl. 42 ills. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2023. €96. 978 0 88844 231 4

  • Carmel, Elad, Anticlerical legacies. The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes, c.1670–1740. (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain.) Pp. x + 211. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. £85. 978 1 5261 6882 5

  • Gallagher, Robert L. and Smither, Edward L. (foreword Robert, Dana L.), Sixteenth-century mission. Explorations in Protestant and Roman Catholic theology and practice. (Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology.) Pp. xx + 371 incl. 1 ill and 1 table. Bellingham, Wa: Lexham Press, 2021. £24.99. 978 1 68359 465 9

  • Goldie, Mark, Contesting the English polity, 1660–1688. Religion, politics and ideas. (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History, 49.) Pp. x + 334. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2023. £95. 978 1 78327 736 0

  • Hamilton, Tom, A widow's vengeance after the wars of religion. Gender and justice in renaissance France. Pp. xxvi + 212 incl. 19 ills and 1 map. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. £76. 978 0 19 287017 9

  • Illert, Martin, Makarios. Ein östlicher Kirchenvater im Spiegel des deutschen Protestantismus. (Eastern Church Identities, 14.) Pp. xvi + 203. Leiden: Brill/Schōningh, 2023. €107. 978 3 506 79138 2

  • Jefferies, Henry A. and Rex, Richard (eds), Reformations compared. Religious transformations across early modern Europe. Pp. x + 292. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £25.99 (paper). 978 1 009 46863 3

  • Martin, Lucinda, Muratori, Cecilia and Brink, Claudia (eds), Jacob Böhme in three worlds. The reception in central-eastern Europe, The Netherlands, and Britain. Pp. xii + 492 incl. 2 tables and 101 colour and black-and-white ills. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2023. £45. 978 3 11 072049 5

  • Molnár, Antal, Die Formelsammlungen der Franziskaner-Observanten in Ungarn (ca. 1451–1554). (Analecta Franciscana, xix; Nova Series. Documenta et Studia, 7.) Pp. xlx + 773. Rome: Frati Editori di Quaracchi, 2022. €110 (paper). 978 88 7013 368 4

  • Raftery, Deirdre, Irish nuns and education in the Anglophone world. A transnational history. (Global Histories of Education.) Pp. xxiv + 221 incl. 11 figs and 3 tables. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. £99. 978 3 031 46200 9; 2731 6408

  • Reid, Steven J. (ed.), Rethinking the Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland. Essays in honour of Roger A. Mason . (St Andrews Studies in Scottish History.) Pp. xiv + 298 incl. frontispiece and 1 fig. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2024. £80. 978 1 83765 161 0

  • Röder, Brendan, Der Körper des Priesters. Gebrechen im Katholizismus der Frühen Neuzeit. (Campus Historische Studien, 80.) Pp. 348 incl. 2 ills. Frankfurt–New York: Campus Verlag, 2021. €50 (paper). 978 3 593 51345 4

  • Rowley, Matthew, Godly violence in the Puritan Atlantic world. A study of military providentialism, 1636–1676. Pp. xvi + 316 incl. 3 figs and 4 maps. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2024. £80. 978 1 83765 014 9

  • Schilling, Johannes, Briefkultur der Reformationszeit. (Schriften der Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsem-Anhalt, Bd 27.) Pp. 332 incl. 27 colour and black-and -white ills and 30 tables. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2023. €98. 978 3 374 07427 3

  • Spohnholz, Jesse and van Veen, Mirjam, Dutch reformed Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1550–1620. A reformation of refugees. (Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe.) Pp. xii + 313 incl. 4 ills and 3 tables. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2024. £26.99 (paper). 978 1 64825 076 7

  • Suitner, Riccarda, Venice and the radical Reformation. Italian Anabaptism and anti-Trinitarianism in European context. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 101.) Pp. 272 incl. 5 ills. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024. €100. 978 3 525 50019 4; 2198 3089

  • Vernon, Elliot, London Presbyterians and the British revolutions, 1638–64. (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain.) Pp. xiv + 328. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023 (first publ. 2021). £25 (paper). 978 1 5261 7461 1

  • Willoughby, James, Reformation cardinal. Reginald Pole in sixteenth-century Italy and England. (New College Library and Archives Publications, 4.) Pp. xviii + 153 incl. 82 colour ills. Oxford: New College Library and Archives Publications, 2023. £16 (paper). 978 1 9160651 3 0

Modern Europe

  • Ganiel, Gladys and Holmes, Andrew R. (eds), The Oxford handbook of religion in modern Ireland. Pp. xxxiv + 589 incl. 14 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. £130. 978–19 886869 9

  • Hartin, Cole William, Anglican biblical interpretation in the nineteenth century. A critical evaluation. (Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History, 11.) Pp. x + 219. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €60 (paper). 978 90 04 69402 6; 2405 7576

  • Houston, Fleur S., Come, let us reason together. A life of John Wood Oman. Pp. xviii + 413. Eugene, Or: Pickwick Productions, 2024. £43 (paper). 978 1 6667 7551 8

  • Schofield, Nicholas, Highways and byways. Discovering Catholic England. Pp. x + 312. Leominster: Gracewing, 2024. £15.99 (paper). 978 0 85244 720 8

  • Sedgwick, Peter H., The development of Anglican moral theology, 1680–1950. (Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History, 10.) Pp. xii + 452. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €82 (paper). 978 90 04 68808 7; 2405 7576

  • Tolhurst, James (intro. and notes), Difficulties of Anglicans, II: John Henry Newman. (Newman Millennium Edition Volume XVIII.) Pp. cxxx + 427. Leominster: Gracewing, 2023. £35. 978 0 85244 413 9

  • Wellenreuther, Hermann, Die Korrespondenz des Herrnhuter Missionars David Zeisberger, 1745–1808. Vol 1. (Specials in Modern History, 8/1.) Pp. xiv + 626 incl. 5 colour ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €165. 978 90 04 43093 8; 2468 578X

  • Wittman, Richard, Rebuilding St Paul's outside the walls. Architecture and the Catholic revival in the nineteenth century. Pp. xx + 421 incl. 105 figs and 20 colour plates. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £100. 978 1 00 941452 4

Africa, Asia and Australasia

  • Choong, Pui Yee, The political mobilization of the Christian community in Malaysia. Pp. 220 incl. 2 tables. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2024. €104. 978 90 872843 74

  • Erlank, Natasha, Convening black intimacy. Christianity, gender, and tradition in early twentieth-century South Africa. (New African Histories.) Pp. xvi + 272 incl. 12 ills and 2 tables. Athens, Oh: Ohio University Press, 2022. £29.99 (paper). 978 0 8214 2499

  • Fudge, Thomas A., Darkness. The conversion of Anglican Armidale, 1960–2019. Pp. xxvi + 837 incl. 91 ills. Vancouver: St John University Press, 2024. $45. 978 8 9859892 2 9

  • Liebst, Michelle, Labour and Christianity in the mission. African workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864–1926. (Religion in Transforming Africa.) Pp. xiv + 225 incl. 1 figs and 7 tables. Woodbridge: James Currey, 2024. £19.99 (paper). 978 1 84701 371 2

The Americas

  • Kalak, Al, Matteo, Eating God. A history of the eucharist. (New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies.) Pp. viii + 244. London–New York: Routledge, 2024. £130. 978 1 03 243496 4

  • Coffman, Elisha J. (foreword Noll, Mark A.), Turning points in American church history. How pivotal events shaped a nation and a faith. Pp. xiv + 290 incl. 50 ills. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2024. $24.99 (paper). 978 0 8010 9749 2

  • Forlani, Filippo, Mas, Silvia and Żak, Łukasz (eds), Between freedom and submission. The role of women in the history of the Church. Pp. 472 incl. 42 colour and black-and-white ills. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2024. €49 (paper). 978 3 402 25027 3

  • Mingo, Annemarie, Have you got good religion? Black women's faith, courage and moral leadership in the civil rights movement. Pp. xvi + 224 incl. 12 ills. Urbana, Il–Chicago, Il: University of Illinois Press, 2024. £21.99 (paper). 978 0 252 08776 9

  • Prieto, Andrés I., The theologian and the empire. A biography of José de Acosta ( 1540–1600). (Jesuit Studies, 42.) Pp. viii + 412. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €162. 978 90 04 46204 5; 2214 3289

General : Modern world

  • Morrison, Hugh, Protestant missionary children's lives, c.1870–1950. Empire, religion and emotion. (Studies in Imperialism.) Pp. xiv + 251 incl. 1 figs and 3 tables. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. £85. 978 1 5278 5