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General

  • Teter, Magda, Christian supremacy. Reckoning with the roots of antisemitism and racism. Pp. xviii + 389 incl. 30 ills. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2023. £30. 978 0 691 24258 3

Ancient world

  • Ayres, Lewis, Champion, Michael W. and Crawford, Matthew R. (eds), The intellectual world of late antique Christianity. Reshaping classical traditions. Pp. xxii + 912 incl. 8 colour plates. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. £120. 978 1 108 83529 9

  • Henze, Matthias and Lincicum, David, Israel's scriptures in early Christian writings. The use of the Old Testament in the New. Pp. xxvi + 1140. Grand Rapids, Mi: William B. Eerdmans, 2023. £63.99. 978 0 8028 7444 3

  • Letteney, Mark, The Christianization of knowledge in late antiquity. Intellectual and material transformations. Pp. xvi + 290 incl. 36 ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. £85. 978 1 00 936338 9

  • Maspero, Giulio (foreword Coakley, Sarah), Rethinking the Filioque with the Greek Fathers. Pp. xii + 314. Grand Rapids, Mi: William B. Eerdmans, 2023. $49.99. 978 0 8028 8305 6

  • Paoli, Ugo and Poli, Paola (eds), Le Bolle di Celestino V. (Corpus Coelestinianum, 2.) Pp. xii + 444 incl. 8 colour ills. Florence: Sismel, 2023. €85. 97888 9290 232 9

  • Podolak, Pietro (ed.) and Siniscalco, Paolo (intro.), Tertullien. La Résurrection de la chair. (Sources Chrétiennes, 638.) Pp. 675. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2023. €69 (paper). 978 2 204 15332 4

  • Simons, Jonatán, Divine simplicity in the theology of Irenaeus. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 180.) Pp. xii + 223. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €109. 978 90 04 67762 3; 0920 623X

  • Tealdi, Elena (ed.) and Deloffre, Marie-Hélène (intro.), Gertrude d'Helfta. Œuvres spirituelles, VI: Le Manuscrit de Leipzig. Florilège – Mémorial de l'abondance de la suavité divine. Ie partie. (Sources Chrétiennes, 634.) Pp. 398. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2023. €36 (paper). 978 2 204 15331 7; 0750 1978

  • Young, Frances M. (foreword Ford, David F.), Scripture. The genesis of doctrine. (Doctrine and Scripture in Early Christianity, 1.) Pp. xxviii + 280. Grand Rapids, Mi: William B. Eerdmans, 2023. $40.99. 978 0 8028 8298 1

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

  • Anderson, Benjamin and Ivanova, Mirela (eds), Is Byzantine studies a colonialist discipline? Toward a critical historiography. (ICMA Books Viewpoints.) Pp. xvi + 200 incl. 18 ills. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. £20.95 (paper). 978 0 271 09526 4

  • Dunning, Robert and Butcher, Andrew (eds), Records of agriculture, justice, religion and trade. A centenary collection. (Somerset Records Society, 100.) Pp. x + 414 incl. colour frontispiece and 12 colour ills. Taunton: Somerset Records Society, 2023. £39. 978 0 901732 48 4

  • Freeman, Philip (ed. and trans.), Two lives of Saint Brigid. Pp. 188. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2024. £17.50 (paper). 978 1 80151 116 2

  • Hunyadi, Zsolt and Ribi, András (eds), The knights hospitaller in medieval Hungary. (Arpadiana XIII.) Pp. 309 incl. 8 figs and 11 tables. Budapest: Research Centre for the Humanities, 2023. Ft 2560. 978 963 416 388 6; 2677 0881

  • James, Liz, Nicholson, Oliver and Scott, Roger, After the text. Byzantine enquiries in honour of Margaret Mullett. (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies, 32.) Pp. xxx + 374 incl. 43 ills. Oxford–New York: Routledge, 2022. £38.99 (paper). 978 1 03 206545 8

  • McAleavy, Tony, Malmesbury Abbey, 670–1539. Patronage, scholarship and scandal. Pp. xxxii + 265 incl. 25 ills. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2023. £60. 978 1 78327 714 8

  • Mazour-Matusevich, Yelena, Le Pére du siècle. The early modern reception of Jean Gerson (1363–1429). Theological authority between the Middle Ages and early modern era. (Lectio, 14.) Pp. 521 incl. 1 ills. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. €110. 978 2 503 60225 7

  • Osborne, John, Rome in the ninth century. A history in art. (British School at Rome Studies.) Pp. xii + 326 incl. 50 colour ills and 1 map. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 978 1 00 941537 8

  • Suitner, Franco, Iacopone da Todi. Poesia, mistica, rivolta nell'Italia del medioevo. (Le Vie Della Storia, 36 Serie Le Vite.) Pp. 278. Florence: Le Lettere, 2023. €19 (paper). 978 88 9366 4004

  • Vanderputten, Steven (ed.), Rethinking reform in the Latin West, 10th to early 12th century. Pp. xiv + 340 incl. 10 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €190. 978 90 04 54642 4

  • Wijnendaelie, Jeroen W. P. (ed.), Late Roman Italy. Imperium to regnum. Pp. xvi + 504 incl. 27 ills, 1 map and 5 tables. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. £150. 978 1 3995 1802 4

Reformation and Counter–Reformation Europe

  • Appold, Kenneth G. and Minnich, Nelson H. (eds), The Cambridge history of Reformation-era theology. Pp. xiv + 792 incl. 10 colour figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £125. 978 1 107 04404 3

  • Arnold, Claus, Belz, Martin and Schnettger, Matthias (eds), Reichstag – Reichsstadt –Konfession. Worms 1521. (Quellen und Abhandlungen zur mittelrheinischen Kirchengeschichte, 148.) Pp. 214. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2023. €39. 978 3 402 26640 3

  • Coello del la Rosa, Alexandre and Melo, João Vincente, The Jesuit encounters with Islam in the Asia-Pacific. (Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies.) Pp. viii + 108 incl. 2 colour ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €84. 978 90 04 46278 6; 2589 7446

  • Dieleman, Kyle J., Navigating reformed identity in the rural Dutch republic. Communities, belief, and piety. Pp. 263. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. €117. 978 94 6372 762 4

  • Gray, Emily Fisher, Wrestling with the Reformation in Augsburg, 1530. (Reacting to the Past.) Pp. xii + 86 incl. 11 ills and 2 maps. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. $30 (paper). 978 14696 7630 2

  • Kelly, James E. and McCafferty, John (eds), The Oxford history of British and Irish Catholicism, I: Endings and new beginnings, 1530–1640. (History of British and Irish Catholicism.) Pp. xxvi + 325 incl. 10 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £125. 978 0 19 884380 1

  • Koefoed, Nina J. and Holm, Bo Kristian (eds), Reformation and everyday life. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 100.) Pp. 342 incl. 14 colour and black-and-white ills and 1 table. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2024. €120. 978 3 525 57355 6; 2198 3089

  • Lake, Peter, On Laudianism. Piety, polemic and politics during the personal rule of Charles I. (Studies in Early Modern British History.) Pp. xx + 611. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. £39.99. 978 1 00 930681 2

  • McKim, Donald K. and West, Jim, Theodore Beza. An introduction to his life and theology. (Companions.) Pp. xii + 172 incl. 2 ills. Eugene, Or: Cascade Books, 2023. £20 (paper). 978 1 6667 7164 0

  • Moosbrugger, Mathias (ed.), Petrus Canisius zwischen alten Traditionen und neuen Zieten. Innesbrucker Petrus-Canisius-Tagung 2021. (Reformationsgeschichtliche Studien und Texte, 179.) Pp. 282. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2023. €39. 978 3 02 11619 7

  • Morrill, John and Temple, Liam (ed.), The Oxford history of British and Irish Catholicism, II: Uncertainty and change, 1641–1745. (History of British and Irish Catholicism.) Pp. xxvi + 324 incl. 3 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £125. 978 0 19 884343 6

  • Purdy, Jessica G., Reading between the lines. Parish libraries and their readers in early modern England, 1558–1709. (Library of the Written Word, 120; The Handpress World, 98.) Pp. xiv + 334 incl. 33 figs and 1 table. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €139. 978 90 04 36369 4; 1874 4834

  • Rex, Richard, A short history of the Tudors. (A short history of …) Pp. 213. London–New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. £14.99 (paper). 978 1 350 17042 1

  • Ribeiro, Luís Campos, Jesuit astrology. Prognostication and science in early modern culture. (Time, Astronomy, and Calendars. Texts and Studies, 13.) Pp. xx + 682 incl. 39 colour and black-and-white ills and 44 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €174. 978 90 04 54895 4; 2211 632X

  • White, William, The Lord's battle. Preaching, print and royalism during the English Revolution. (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain.) Pp. xii + 257. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. £85. 978 1 5261 6470 4

Modern Europe

  • Bock, Florian, Pastorale Strategien zwischen Konfessionalisierung und Aufklärung. Katholische Predigten und ihre implizite Hörer/Leserschaft (circa 1670 bis 1800). Pp. 411 incl. 15 ills. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2023. €64. 978 3 402 24828 7

  • Chambers, Liam (ed.), The Oxford history of British and Irish Catholicism, III: Relief, revolution, and revival, 1746–1829. (History of British and Irish Catholicism.) Pp. xxvi + 336 incl. 7 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £125. 978 0 19 884344 3

  • Goldhill, Simon and Ravenscroft, Ruth Jackson (eds), Victorian engagements with the Bible and antiquity. The shock of the old. Pp. xii + 458 incl. 36 colour and black-and-white ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. £115. 978 1 009 30645 4

  • Gwynn, Robin, The Huguenots in later Stuart Britain, III: The Huguenots and the defeat of Louis XIV's France. (The Huguenots in Later Stuart Britain.) Pp. xxvi + 449 incl. 9 figs and 1 map. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023. £115. 978 1 84519 620 2

  • Harris, Alana (ed.), The Oxford history of British and Irish Catholicism, V: Recapturing the apostolate of the laity, 1914–2021. (History of British and Irish Catholicism.) Pp. xxiv + 392 incl. 15 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £125. 978 0 19 884431 0

  • Herbert, Christopher, Building Jerusalem. The life and times of Charles Sumner, bishop of Winchester, 1790–1874. (Farnham and District Museum Society.) Pp. xii + 234 incl. 10 colour plates. Farnham: Farnham and District Museum Society, 2023. £18.99 (paper). 978 0 901638 37 3

  • Jensz, Felicity, Missionaries and modernity. Education in the British Empire, 1830–1910. (Studies in Imperialism.) Pp. viii + 278. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. £25 (paper). 978 1 5261 7443 7

  • Ljungberg, Johannes and Sidenvall, Erik (eds), Religious enlightenment in the eighteenth-century Nordic countries. Reasons and orthodoxy. Pp. xviii + 430 incl. 17 ills and 1 map. Lund: Lund University Press, 2023. £25. 978 91 987404 0 0

  • Mangion, Carmen and O'Brien, Susan (eds), The Oxford history of British and Irish Catholicism, IV: Building identity, 1830–1913. (History of British and Irish Catholicism.) Pp. xxvi + 329 incl. 13 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £125. 978 0 19 884819 6

  • Power, Thomas P., The apocalypse in Ireland. Prophecy and politics in the 1820s. Pp. xx + 494 incl. 13 figs. Oxford–New York: Peter Lang, 2023. £60. 978 1 80079 902 8 0750 1978

  • Renghart, Martin, Zwischen Bischof und NS-Staat. Das Breslauer “Katholische Sonntagsblatt” im Dritten Reich (1933–1941). (Beiträge zur Kirchen- und kulturgeschichte der Deutschen in Ostmittel-und Südosteuropa, 30.) Pp. 726 incl. 4 ills. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2023. €69. 978 3 402 10188 9

  • Tozer, Malcolm (ed.), Bright the vision. Public school missions from the Victorian age. Pp. xii + 572 incl. 196 ills and 2 maps. Truro: Sunnyrest Books, 2023. £35. 978 1 80352 578 5

  • Turinski, Jan, Leichenpredigten und Trauerzeremoniell der geistlichen Kurfürsten. Studien zum Bischofsideal und zur Sepulkralkultur in der Germania Sacra zwischen Westfälischem Frieden und Säkularisation. (Quellen und Abhandlungen zur mittelrheinischen Kirchengeschichte, 147.) Pp. 560. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2023. €79. 978 3 402 15952 1

  • Weir, Todd H., Red secularism. Socialism and secularist culture in Germany, 1890 to 1933. Pp. xiv + 367 incl. 21 ills and 6 tables. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £100. 978 1 107 13203 0

  • Zager, Werner, Rudolf Bultmann. Briefe an Hans von Soden, Briefwechsel mit Philipp Vielhauer und Hans Conzelmann. Pp. lxvi + 332 incl. 7 ills. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023. €129. 978 3 16 162570 1

Africa, Asia and Australasia

  • Casanova, José and Phan, Peter C. (eds), Asian Pacific Catholicism and globalization. Historical perspectives and contemporary challenges. Pp. viii + 319 incl. 7 ills and 12 tables. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2023. $49.95. 978 1 64712 379 6

  • Jones, Pamela M., Celebrating Teresa of Avila. The discalced Carmelites in Italy and their mission to Persia and the East Indies. (Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700). Pp. xvi + 257 incl. 59 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €129. 978 90 04 54890 9; 2468 4279

  • Leonard, Zak, Ethical empire? India reformism and the critique of colonial misgovernment. Pp. x + 292 incl. 10 ills and 1 table. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £85. 978 1 009 32106 8

The Americas

  • Collins, David J., The Jesuits in the United States. A concise history. Pp. xiv + 195 incl. 25 ills. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2023. £23. 978 1 64712 348 2

  • Gerber, Scott Douglas, Law and religion in colonial America. The dissenting colonies. Pp. xvi + 346 incl. 1 table. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £47.99. 978 1 009 28905 4

  • Gollar, C. Walker, ‘Let us go free’. Slavery and Jesuit universities in America. Pp. xvi + 399 incl. 32 ills, 3 tables and 11 maps. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2024. $29.95. 978 1 64712 386 4

  • Snow, Jennifer C., Mission, race, and empire. The Episcopal Church in global context. Pp. viii + 360. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. £25.99. 978 0 19 759894 8

General : Modern world

  • Bassimir, Anja-Maria and Gelfgren, Stefan (eds), Protestant periodicals in transition. From the twentieth century to the digital age. (Studies in Periodical Cultures, 4.) Pp. xii + 264. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €99. 978 90 04 54835 0; 2589 9899

  • Bruno-Jofré, Rosa, Attridge, Michael and Zaldívar, Jon Igelmo (eds), Rethinking Freire and Illich. Historical, philosophical, and theological perspectives. Pp. xii + 340 incl. 13 ills. Toronto–London: University of Toronto Press, 2023. $75. 978 1 4875 5043 1

  • Marmion, Declan and Ryan, Salvador (epilogue Kristin Colberg), Reforming the Church. Global perspectives. Pp. xviii + 189. Collegeville, Mn: Liturgical Press Academic, 2023. $34.95 (paper). 978 0 8146 6864 1

  • Ossa-Richardson, Anthony and Oosterhoff, Richard J. (ed. and trans.), Johannes Leo Africanus (Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad Al-Wazzan). The cosmography and geography of Africa. (Penguin Classics.) Pp. xiii + 511 incl. 7 ills and 5 maps. London: Penguin, 2023. $22.00. 978 0 24 15 4393 1