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Book SynopsisEl Credo Niceno. Una introduccion de Phillip Cary es un analisis esencial del Credo Niceno y su relevancia en la fe cristiana. El autor ofrece un enfoque claro y accesible, explorando las afirmaciones del credo y su contexto historico.

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Book SynopsisIn The Making of Christian Moravia Maddalena Betti examines the creation of the Moravian archdiocese, of which St Methodius was the first incumbent, in the context of ninth-century papal policy in central and south-eastern Europe. In the nineteenth and twentieth century religious and nationalistic concerns widely influenced the reconstruction of the history of the archdiocese of Methodius. Offering a new reading of already widely-used sources, both Slavonic and Latin, Maddalena Betti turns attention upon the jurisdictional conflict between Rome, the Bavarian churches and Byzantium, in order to uncover the strategies and the languages adopted by the Apostolic See to gain jurisdiction over the new territories in central and south-eastern Europe.Trade Review"In her book, Maddalena Betti attempts to chart the fate of the Methodian mission in Great Moravia and the establishment of Sancta ecclesia Marabensis in Moravian territory in the second half of the ninth century. While this topic has been treated previously, she has chosen to look at the formation of ecclesiastical hierarchies in Great Moravia from the perspective of papal policies. For this reason, Betti has studied in detail papal correspondence pertinent to matters of the Moravian mission, especially the letters of John VIII, whose correspondence is particularly concerned with the Moravian mission. Her study is an extremely valuable addition to previous research into Great Moravian Christian culture, as it provides a well-rounded and erudite picture of the papal position on the Methodian mission in Great Moravia. Besides, Betti’s study also contributes to other scholarly inquiries connected with the Moravian state, such as its geographical location..." Evina Steinova, Network and Neighbours, Volume 2, Number 1 (2014)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... ix Foreword ... xi by Thomas F. X. Noble Introduction ... 1 I. The Archdiocese of Methodius in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Historiography ... 9 1. The Use of the Cyrillic-Methodian Heritage in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Romantic Slavophilism, the “Reawakening of the Slavs,” and Roman Ecumenism ... 10 2. Great Moravia and the Archdiocese of Methodius in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Czechoslovakia ... 14 3. Revisionist Analyses of the Methodian Archdiocese ... 27 4. The Archdiocese of Methodius in František Dvornik: “La lutte autour de l’Illyricum” ... 34 5. Conclusion ... 39 II. The Origins of the Methodian Diocese during the Pontificates of Nicholas I (858–867) and Hadrian II (867–872). A Comparison of the Roman and Slavonic Sources ... 41 1. The Silence of the Roman Sources: The Possible Censure by Pope Stephen V (885–890) ... 43 2. Nicholas I (858–867): The First Contact ... 54 3. Hadrian II (867–872): The Constitution of a New Church ... 65 4. Introduction to the Slavonic Sources: The “Life of Constantine,” the “Life of Methodius,” and the “Encomium to Constantine and Methodius” ... 72 5. Nicholas I and Hadrian II in the Slavonic Sources: the “Life of Constantine,” the “Life of Methodius,” and the “Encomium to Cyril and Methodius” ... 83 6. Anastasius the Librarian and Constantine the Philosopher ... 90 7. A Roman source: The “Vita Constantini-Cyrilli cum translatione S. Clementis” ... 96 8. Conclusion ... 104 III. The Pannonian-Moravian Diocese in the Letters of Pope John VIII (872–882): Papal Strategies and Languages ... 109 1. Papal Missionary Involvement: Sixth to Ninth Century ... 111 2. John VIII’s Diplomatic Network: Letters and Legates ... 121 3. Geographical Sources for the Methodian Archdiocese ... 138 4. Pannonian Diocese—Moravian Diocese ... 154 5. The Ecclesiastical Career of a Roman Missionary: Methodius, Augustine, and Boniface ... 168 6. Svatopluk’s Role in Shaping the “Sancta Ecclesia Marabensis” ... 7. The Sirmian Issue ... 192 8. Conclusion ... 203 Conclusion: The Question of the Sancta Ecclesia Marabensis Revisited ... 207 Maps ... 217 Bibliography ... 223 Index

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Book SynopsisThe canon law literature of the period after the Decretals of pope Gregory IX (1234) has not been investigated systematically since vol. II of the renowned manual by J. F. von Schulte (1877). The 18 papers collected in this book, originally published between 1971 and 2005, scattered in many specialized periodicals, cover a wide range of canon law texts, including prominent authors as Innocent IV, Hostiensis, Duranti. They are all drawing from a fresh assessment of the manuscript tradition and a critical review of relevant scholarship. The reprinted articles are supplemented by substantial additions and completed by a series of new Exkursus. The presentation of abundant manuscript materials makes up for a sort of reference book, which will be indispensable for any further research in the canon law tradition of the 13th and 14th centuries.Table of ContentsVorbemerkungen ... xi Nachweise der Erstverö_fentlichungen ... xv Abkürzungen, Literatur, Zitierweise ... xvii I.Aus kanonistischen Handschriften der Periode 1234 bis 1298 ... 1 II.Kanonistische Quaestionensammlungen von Bartholomaeus Brixiensis bis Johannes Andreae ... 19 III.Casus legum sive su_fragia monachorum. Legistische Hilfsmittel für Kanonisten im späteren Mittelalter (unter Mitarbeit von Marguerite Duynstee) ... 37 IV.Clementinenkommentare des 14.Jahrhunderts ... 91 V.Kanonistische Handschriften im mittelalterlichen Schweden... 109 VI.Der Dekretalenapparat des Go_fredus Tranensis ... 157 VII.Nochmals zum Dekretalenapparat des Go_fredus Tranensis ... 163 VIII.Gallecia unde duxi originem. Johannes Hispanus Compostellanus (de Petesella) und seine Dekretalensumme (ca.1235/36) ... 183 IX.Der Liber quaestionum des Johannes de Deo (1248) ... 213 X.Angebliche Originale des Dekretalenapparats Innozenz’ IV... 263 XI.Zwei vorläu_ge Textstufen des Dekretalenapparats Papst Innozenz’ IV... 271 XII.Handschriften und Drucke des Dekretalenkommentars (sog.Lectura) des Hostiensis ... 319 XIII.Pierre de Sampson et Bernard de Montmirat. Deux canonistes français du XIIIe siècle ... 343 XIV.Johannes de Ancona. Ein Jurist des 13.Jahrhunderts in den Kreuzfahrerstaaten ... 375 XV.Zur wissenschaftlichen Bearbeitung der Konstitutionen Gregors X... 393 XVI.Le commentaire de Guillaume Durand sur les constitutions du deuxième concile de Lyon ... 401 XVII.Kirchenrechtliche Vorlesungen aus Orléans (1285/7) ... 413 XVIII.Matheus Angeli Johannis Cinthii. Un commentatore romano delle Clementine e lo Studium Urbis nel 1320 (zusammen mit Andreas Rehberg) ... 435 Nachtrage und Berichtigungen I–XVIII ... 467 Exkurse ... 515 1.Zum Frontispizbild und zum Motto, S.517.– 2.Massenhaft überlieferte kanonistische Texte aus der Periode 1234–1298, S.520.– 3.Überlieferung der Novellen Papst Innozenz’ IV.bis zur Collectio I, S.521.– 4.Zur Entwicklung der Glossa Ordinaria des Bernardus Parmensis, S.525.– 5.Zur Entstehung, Verbreitung und Benutzung des Dekretalenapparats Papst Innozenz’IV., S.528: 5.1.Eine dritte vorläufige Textstufe des Apparats, 5.2.Die Familie Fieschi als Besitzer und Vermittler des originale Innocentii, 5.3.Das originale, 5.4.Additiones, 5.5.Hilfsmittel zur Benutzung des Apparats.– 6.Zur Quaestionensammlung des Bartholomaeus Brixiensis, S.547.– 7.Johannes de Deo, Summula super electione, S.549.– 8.Manfredus de Arzago, S.550.– 9.Johannes de Ancona, De summaria cognitione, S.552.– 10.Petrus de Salinis, S.556.– 11.Princivallis Mediolanensis, S.558.– 12.Gerardus de Cutriaco und die Pariser Dekretistik zwischen 1219 und 1300, S.559.– 13.Konstitutionen Gregors X.mit Abweichungen von der kurialen Sammlung, S.561.– 14.Kommentatoren der Konstitutionen Gregors X., S.563 Summaries ... 567 Register 1.Handschriften und Frühdrucke ... 579 1.1.Datierte Handschriften ... 597 1.2.Handschriften des Liber Extra ... 597 1.3.Frühdrucke ... 598 2.Initia ... 601 2.1.Quaestionen(sammlungen) ... 612 3.Dekretalen, Konstitutionen, Sammlungen ... 616 4.Autoren und Texte ... 619 4.1.Anonyme Texte ... 627 4.2.Quaestionen ... 629 4.3.Additiones ... 631 4.4.Nichtjuristische Autoren ... 633 5.Sonstige Personen ... 634 5.1.Magister, Doktoren, Professoren ... 638 5.2.Schreiber ... 641 inhaltsverzeichnis ix 5.3.Herausgeber, Verleger, Drucker ... 641 5.4.Mittelalterliche Besitzer von Handschriften ... 641 6.Orte ... 644 7.Sachen, Begri_fe, Glossar ... 650 7.1.Vermischtes ... 653

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Book SynopsisIn Jesuit Survival and Restoration leading scholars from around the world discuss the most dramatic event in the Society of Jesus's history. The order was suppressed by papal command in 1773 and for the next forty-one years ex-Jesuits endeavoured to keep the Ignatian spirit alive and worked towards the order's restoration. When this goal was achieved in 1814 the Society entered one of its most dynamic but troubled eras. The contributions in the volume trace this story in a global perspective, looking at developments in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.Trade Review“Both scholarly and accessible, this attractive book features illustrations to complement the text, including numerous architectural drawings. The source material and reference works offer a direct and vivid link to the order’s history. While exploring many regional variations, the book consistently takes account of the broader picture befitting the Society and regularly puts forwards questions for further study.” Benjamin Hazard, University College Dublin. In: Irish Theological Quarterly, Vol. 81, No. 4 (2016), pp. 434-436. “The days when such studies as these were exclusively in the hands of Jesuits are fortunately long past, and several very distinguished contributions to this volume come from lay scholars, men and women, prepared to investigate archives and ask questions that may not have occurred to the Jesuits involved. The overall result is a volume with a very high standard of scholarship and remarkably few misprints. […] at present the book is an indispensable pointer in the right direction.” Joseph A. Munitiz, Campion Hall, Oxford. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 67, No. 1 (2016), pp. 212-213. “The editors are to be commended for ambitiously attempting nothing less than a renewed historiography.” Stephen Schloesser, Loyola University, Chicago. In: The Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2016), pp. 118-120. A “uniformly impressive book.” Oliver P. Rafferty, SJ, Boston College. In: Theological Studies, Vol. 77, No. 4 (2016), pp. 1004-1005. “the volume under review here advances our knowledge of Jesuit Survival and Restoration in myriad ways. […] This rich collection provides much needed global coverage of the sup¬pressed and restored Society.” Robert E.Scully, SJ, Le Moyne College. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 47, No. 3 (Fall 2016), pp. 714-717.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Robert A. Maryks & Jonathan Wright Part I: THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT 1. A Restored Society or a New Society of Jesus? Thomas Worcester, S.J. (Holy Cross) 2. Some Remarks on Jesuit Historiography 1773-1814, Robert Danieluk, S.J. (ARSI) Part II: THE COMMONWEALTH OF POLAND-LITHUANIA AND THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE 3. Before and After Suppression: Jesuits and Former Jesuits in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, c.1750-1795, Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski (University College London) 4. The Society of Jesus in the Russian Empire (1772-1820) and the Restoration of the Order, Marek Inglot, S.J. (Pontifical Gregorian University) 5. Sebastian Sierakowski and the Language of Architecture: a Jesuit Life during the Era of Suppression and Restoration, Carolyn C. Guile (Colgate University) Part III: CENTRAL AND WESTERN EUROPE 6. The Jesuits Artistic Diaspora in Germany after 1773, Jeffrey Chipps Smith (University of Texas at Austin) 7. Enduring the Deluge: Hungarian Jesuit Astronomers from Suppression to Restoration, Paul Shore (St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba) 8. “Est et Non Est”: Jesuit Corporate Survival in England after the Suppression, Thomas M. McCoog, S.J. (Fordham University) 9. The Exiled Spanish Jesuits and the Restoration of the Society of Jesus, Inmaculada Fernández Arrillage Niccolò Guasti (Università degli Studi di Foggia) 10. The Society of Jesus Under Another Name: The Paccanarists in the Restored Society of Jesus, Eva Fontana Castelli (Rome, independent scholar) 11. Jesuit at Heart: Luigi Mozzi de’ Capitani (1746-1813) Between Suppression and Restoration, Emanuele Colombo (DePaul University) 12. The Romantic Historian under Charles X: Evaluating Jesuit Restoration in Charles Laumier’s Résumé de l’Histoire des Jésuites, Frédéric Conrod (Florida Atlantic University) Panel IV: CHINA AND BEYOND 13. Jesuit Survival and Restoration in China, Ronnie Po-chia Hsia (Pennsylvania University State) 14. Restoration or Re-creation? The Return of the Society of Jesus to China, Paul Rule (La Trobe University) 15. Rising from the Ashes: the Gothic Revival and the Architecture of the New Society of Jesus in China and Macao, César Guillen-Nuñez (Macau Ricci Institute) 16. The Phoenix Rises from its Ashes: The Restoration of the Jesuit Shanghai Mission, Paul Mariani, S.J. (Santa Clara University) 17. The Chinese Rites Controversy’s Long Shadow over the Restored Society of Jesus, Jeremy Clarke, S.J. (Boston College) 18. The Province of Madurai Between the Old and New Society of Jesus, Sabina Pavone (University of Macerata) Part V: THE AMERICAS 19. The “Russian” Society and the American Jesuits: Giovanni Grassi’s Crucial Role, Daniel Schlafly (St. Louis University) 20. The Restoration in Canada: An Enduring Patrimony, John Meehan, S.J. (Campion College) and Jacques Monet, S.J. (Regis College) 21. Jesuit Tradition and the Rise of South-American Nationalism, Andrés I. Prieto (University of Colorado at Boulder) 22. The First Return of the Jesuits to Paraguay, Ignacio Telesca (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires) 23. Jesuit Restoration in Mexico, Perla Chinchilla Pawling (Universidad Iberoamericana) Part VI: AFRICA 24. Early Departure, Late Return: An Overview of the Jesuits in Africa during the Suppression and after the Restoration, Festo Mkenda, S.J. (Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa) 25. Hoping Against all Hope: The Survival of the Jesuits in Southern Africa (1875-1900), Aquinata N. Agonga (Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa) 26. The Jesuits in Fernando Po (1858-1872): An Incomplete Mission, Jean-Luc Enyeque, S.J. (Boston University) Index

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Book SynopsisThe contributions to Discovering the Riches of the Word. Religious Reading in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe offer an innovative approach to the study of religious reading from a long term and geographically broad perspective, covering the period from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century and with a specific focus on the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. Challenging traditional research paradigms, the contributions argue that religious reading in this “long fifteenth century” should be described in terms of continuity. They make clear that in spite of confessional divides, numerous reading practices continued to exist among medieval and early modern readers, as well as among Catholics and Protestants, and that the two groups in certain cases even shared the same religious texts. Contributors include: Elise Boillet, Sabrina Corbellini, Suzan Folkerts, Éléonore Fournié, Wim François, Margriet Hoogvliet, Ian Johnson, Hubert Meeus, Matti Peikola, Bart Ramakers, Elisabeth Salter, Lucy Wooding, and Federico Zuliani.Table of ContentsSabrina Corbellini, Margriet Hoogvliet and Bart Ramakers, Discovering the Riches of the Word. Introduction Suzan Folkerts, Approaching Lay Readership of Middle Dutch Bibles. On the Uses of Archival Sources and Bible Manuscripts Matti Peikola, Manuscript Paratexts in the Making. British Library MS Harley 6333 as Liturgical Compilation Sabrina Corbellini, Uncovering the Presence. Religious Literacies in Late Medieval Italy Elisabeth Salter: Evidence for Religious Reading Practice and Experience in Times of Change. Some Models Provided by Late Medieval Texts of Ten Commandments Margriet Hoogvliet, ‘Car Dieu vault ester serui de tous estaz’. Encouraging and Instructing Laypeople in French from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Sixteenth Century Bart Ramakers, Books, Beads and Bitterness. Making Sense of Gifts in Two Table Plays by Cornelis Everaert Éléonore Fournié, Some Aspects of Male and Female Readers of the Printed Bible Historiale in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Ian Johnson, From Nicholas Love’s Mirror to John Heigham’s Life. Paratextual Displacements and Displaced Readers Elise Boillet, Vernacular Biblical Literature in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Universal Reading and Specific Readers Wim François, The Catholic Church and the Vernacular Bible in the Low Countries. A Paradigm Shift in the 1550s? Lucy Wooding, Reading the Crucifixion in Tudor England Federico Zuliani, The Other Nicodemus. Nicodemus in Italian Religious Writings previous and contemporary to Calvin’s Excuse à Messieurs les Nicodémites (1544) Hubert Meeus, “What’s learnt in the Cradle Lasts till the Tomb”. Counter-Reformation Strategies in the Southern Low Countries to Entice the Youth into Religious Reading Index

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Book SynopsisThe Companion to Music in the Age of the Catholic Monarchs, edited by Tess Knighton, offers a major new study that deepens and enriches our understanding of the forms and functions of music that flourished in late medieval Spanish society. The fifteen essays, written by leading authorities in the field, present a synthesis based on recently discovered material that throws new light on different aspects of musical life during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabel (1474-1516): sacred and secular music-making in royal and aristocratic circles; the cathedral music environment; liturgy and power; musical connections with Rome, Portugal and the New World; theoretical and unwritten musical practices; women as patrons and performers; and the legacy of Jewish musical tradition. Contributors are Mercedes Castillo Ferreira, Giuseppe Fiorentino, Roberta Freund Schwartz, Eleazar Gutwirth, Tess Knighton, Kenneth Kreitner, Javier Marín López, Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita, Bernadette Nelson, Pilar Ramos López, Emilio Ros-Fábregas, Juan Ruiz Jiménez, Richard Sherr, Ronald Surtz, and Jane Whetnall.Trade Review'A milestone of state-of-the-art research by nearly all of the most active scholars in the field. The scholarship is rigorous and wide-ranging, and clearly the product of recent and ongoing colloquy between the authors and the editor… a deeply satisfying mosaic of current knowledge that richly serves both specialists and the informed general reader and that will set the research agenda for further decades.' Michael Noone in: Renaissance Quarterly LXXI (2018). "Sin duda indispensable y modélico para cualquier estudioso de la historia de la música y de sus períodos." Juan Carlos Asensio, in Anuario de Estudios Medievales 49 (2019).Table of ContentsContents List of Figures vii List of Music Examples x List of Tables xii List of Contributors xvi Introduction 1 Tess Knighton 1 Music for the Royal Chapels 21 Kenneth Kreitner 2 Secular Song in Fifteenth-Century Spain 60 Jane Whetnall 3 Instruments, Instrumental Music and Instrumentalists: Traditions and Transitions 97 Tess Knighton 4 Music and Spectacle 145 Ronald E. Surtz 5 Love and Liberality? Music in the Courts of the Spanish Nobility 173 Roberta Freund Schwartz 6 Music and Musicians at the Portuguese Royal Court and Chapel, c. 1470–c. 1500 205 Bernadette Nelson 7 Cathedral Soundscapes: Some New Perspectives 242 Juan Ruiz Jiménez 8 Chant, Liturgy and Reform 282 Mercedes Castillo-Ferreira 9 Musical Cultures in the Reinos de Indias at the Time of Isabel and Ferdinand 323 Javier Marín López 10 The Roman Connection: The Spanish Nation in the Papal Chapel, 1492–1521 364 Richard Sherr 11 Manuscripts of Polyphony from the Time of Isabel and Ferdinand 404 Emilio Ros-Fábregas 12 Spanish Treatises on Musica Practica c. 1480–1525: Reflections from a Cultural Perspective 469 Pilar Ramos López 13 Unwritten Music and Oral Traditions at the Time of Ferdinand and Isabel 504 Giuseppe Fiorentino 14 Lost Voices: Women and Music at the Time of the Catholic Monarchs 549 Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita 15 Musical Lives: Late medieval Hispano-Jewish Communities 579 Eleazar Gutwirth Works Cited 617 Index 702

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Book SynopsisThe Ethiopian Orthodox Church’s Tradition on the Holy Cross is a volume that combines both ancient and derived Ethiopic literature on the Cross. The work brings together all the major sources from manuscripts preserved in different monasteries and edited and translated into English. The sources include homilies by Minas bishop of Aksum, John Chrysostom, James of Sarug, as well as a number of anonymous authors, all translated from Greek during the Aksumite era. The derived literature includes works by the famous men of the pen, including the fifteenth-century Abba Giyorgis of Sägla and Emperor Zär’a Ya‘ǝqob. Poetic hymns to the Cross constitute a part of the collection, one of these being glorification of the Cross by Abba Baḥrǝy, author of several important works.Trade ReviewThe author’s intimate familiarity with al aspects of Ethiopian Christianity as well as with the scholarly field of Ethiopian studies distinctly enhances the quality of the volume…. We should be grateful to the author for this impressive source book, which gives insight into a great number of Ethiopian beliefs and devotions related to the cross. The author shows his unique skills in conveying so much of his personal engagement with the texts to a wider readership, thus making the texts available for future scholarship. In addition to giving students and scholars a wealth of new texts, this volume also stands out as an open invitation and as a strong encouragement for further study and exploration of the religious literature and traditions of Ethiopian Christians.. Lucas van Rompay, Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, 2018 The volume adds to our knowledge and understanding of these ideas. It will be welcomed and valued not only by students of Ethiopic but as a contribution more generally to our understanding of the life of the wider Church. John Binns, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2019

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Book SynopsisThe growth of the megachurch (generally defined as a regular attendance of over 2,000 people) is undoubtedly one of the most exceptional religious trends of recent times, certainly within the Christian sphere. Spreading from the USA, megachurches have now become common globally - reaching different national and cultural contexts. The edited volume Handbook of Megachurches offers a comprehensive account of the subject from various academic perspectives: sociology, religious studies, religious history and religious studies among them. Topics covered include: the historical developments and growth, typologies, theology, popular culture, revivalism, social engagement, and the manifestation of megachurches in such countries as Canada, Russia, India and Africa.Table of ContentsForeword  David G. Bromley Notes on Contributors  Introduction: The Megachurch Phenomenon  Stephen Hunt Part 1: Megachurches in Perspective  1 Seeking Souls, Selling Salvation: A History of the Modern Megachurch  Charity Rakestraw  2 The Growth of the Megachurch  David E. Eagle  3 Toward a Typology of the Megachurch  J. Gordon Melton  4 Megachurches and Popular Culture: On Enclaving and Encroaching  Simon Coleman and Saliha Chattoo  5 “Your Church Can Grow!” – A Contextual Theological Critique of Megachurches  Martyn Percy Part 2: Dynamics and Trajectories  6 Megachurches in the Religious Marketplace  Marc von der Ruhr  7 Megachurches as Total Environments  James K. Wellman Jr., Katie E. Corcoran and Kate J. Stockly  8 Megachurches as Educational Institutions  Mark J. Cartledge  9 Horse and Carriage? Megachurches and Revivalism  Stephen Hunt  10 ‘The Evangelisation of the Nation, the Revitalisation of the Church and the Transformation of Society’: Megachurches and Social Engagement  Andrew Davies Part 3: Global Contexts  11 Megachurches and ‘Reverse Mission’  Richard Burgess  12 Megachurches in Canada  Michael Wilkinson and Peter Schuurman  13 Megachurches in Russia and Other parts of the former Soviet Union  Torsten Löfstedt  14 Global, ‘Glocal’ and Local Dynamics in Calvary Temple: India’s Fastest Growing Megachurch  Jonathan D. James  15 Sacred Surplus and Pentecostal Too-Muchness: The Salvation Economy of African Mega-Churches  Asonzeh Ukah  Index

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Book SynopsisIn Between Popes, Inquisitors and Princes Jessica Dalton uses extensive, original archival research to provide the first history of a unique and controversial papal privilege that allowed the first Jesuits to absolve heretics in sixteenth-century Italy without involving bishops or inquisitors. Dalton uses the story of this remarkable privilege to reconsider two central aspects of Jesuit history: their role in the Counter-Reformation and their relationship with the papacy. She convincingly argues that, in the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation, the Jesuits were valued collaborators of popes, inquisitors and princes not for their obedience and subservience but rather because they worked with an autonomy and flexibility that allowed them to convert heretics where political barriers and popular hostility hindered inquisitors and prelates.Trade Review“In summary, this book provides some good and original scholarship. […] Dalton is to be congratulated for […] mining numerous archival sources, some not previously used.” Paul F. Grendler, Emeritus, University of Toronto. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3 (2021), pp. 501–503.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Conventions Introduction 1 Historiography: the Story So Far 2 Sources 3 Overview 1 The Confident Society: Mission Building 1540–1555  1 Finding Supporters in Tridentine Italy  2 The Council of Bologna, 1547  3 Beyond Papal Obedience  4 Privileges and Pragmatism in the Mission Field  5 Conclusion 2 Collaboration, Competition and Conflict: the Jesuits and the Roman Inquisition  1 Competitors and Collaborators with the Holy Office  2 Popes, Empires and the Politics of Conversion  3 Good Cop/Bad Cop: Conversion Strategies in the 1560s  4 Conclusion 3 Between the Prince and the Pope: Pius v and the Rise of the Roman Inquisition  1 Pius v and the Rise of the Roman Inquisition  2 A Jesuit Spy in the Papal States  3 ‘A Firm Garrison to Resist Heresy’ in Savoy-Piedmont  4 Conclusion 4 Bargaining for Autonomy: Challenges and Change at the Close of the Sixteenth Century  1 Internal Conflicts and External Controversies  2 Troubles Abroad: Controversies in France and Spain  3 Defending the Privilege in the Late 1580s  4 Conclusion 5 All Roads Lead to Rome: Jesuit Agents and Rebels at the Close of the Sixteenth Century (1587–1605)  1 The Politics of Conversion at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century  2 Jesuit Disobedience  3 Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe forty-one years between the Society of Jesus’s papal suppression in 1773 and its eventual restoration in 1814 remain controversial, with new research and interpretations continually appearing. Shore’s narrative approaches these years, and the period preceding the suppression, from a new perspective that covers individuals not usually discussed in works dealing with this topic. As well as examining the contributions of former Jesuits to fields as diverse as ethnology—a term and concept pioneered by an ex-Jesuit—and library science, where Jesuits and ex-Jesuits laid the groundwork for the great advances of the nineteenth century, the essay also explores the period the exiled Society spent in the Russian Empire. It concludes with a discussion of the Society’s restoration in the broader context of world history.

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Book SynopsisIn An Overview of the Pre-suppression Society of Jesus in Spain, Patricia W. Manning offers a survey of the Society of Jesus in Spain from its origins in Ignatius of Loyola’s early preaching to the aftereffects of its expulsion. Rather than nurture the nascent order, Loyola’s homeland was often ambivalent. His pre-Jesuit freelance sermonizing prompted investigations. The young Society confronted indifference and interference from the Spanish monarchy and outright opposition from other religious orders. This essay outlines the order’s ministerial and pedagogical activities, its relationship with women and with royal institutions, including the Spanish Inquisition, and Spanish members’ roles in theological debates concerning casuistry, free will, and the immaculate conception. It also considers the impact of Jesuits’ non-religious writings.Trade Review“Manning’s work merits attention from scholars at all levels of study interested in the Society of Jesus in Spain. For those new to the field, it includes a glossary of commonly used terms and applicable English equivalents, as well as a comprehensive bibliography. Her panoramic view of Jesuit activity across multiple social sectors is sure to appeal to experts in the discipline as well since she attends to major events and personages while illuminating the Jesuits’ presence in the popular imagination throughout the essay.” Brandan Grayson, Anderson University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Spring 2023), pp. 295–297.Table of ContentsContents An Overview of the Pre-Suppression Society of Jesus in Spain  Patricia W. Manning  Abstract  Keywords  Glossary of Frequently Used Terms  1 Introduction  2 Ignatius of Loyola  3 The Early Years of the Society of Jesus in Spain  4 Borja and Mercurian’s Generalates  5 Encounters with the Inquisition  6 Admission Redux: Excluding Conversos from the Society  7 Aiding Catholics under Siege  8 The Question of Religiously Minded Women  9 Theological Debates  10 Jesuits’ Roles in the Inquisition in the Seventeenth Century  11 Jesuit Aprobación Writers  12 Pedagogy  13 Preaching  14 Publications by Jesuits  15 Jesuit Celebrations  16 Domestic Life in the Society  17 Seventeenth-Century Crises  18 Controlling Chocolate and Tobacco Usage in the Society  19 The Immaculate Conception, Part 2: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries  20 Publications Unfavorable to the Order  21 The Expulsion  22 The Aftermath  23 Conclusion  Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn this ground-breaking work on the Ottoman town of Manastir (Bitola), Robert Mihajlovski, provides a detailed account of the development of Islamic, Christian and Sephardic religious architecture and culture as it manifested in the town and precincts. Originally a town on the edge of the Via Egnatia, this small provincial town gradually developed into a significant administrative, military, religious, cultural and intellectual centre for the Balkans; a vibrant place, nurturing progressive multi-cultural and multi-confessional values with considerable influence on the formation of modern Balkan identities. The present work is the culmination of thirty years of research using primary source material from archives and chronicles and the monuments themselves for the purpose of both preserving and extending the boundaries of current knowledge. It offers a comprehensive biography of a great cultural knot in the Balkans and offers a rich source for further use by scholars, students and non-technical readership alike.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Note on Pronunciation Introduction A Geographical Note An Overview of Pre-Ottoman Christian Cultural History  1 The Conquering Church  2 Days and Deeds of Heraclean Bishops  3 Peripheral Ecclesiastical Centres  4 Evangelization of the Slavs  5 Sectarians and Separatists  6 The “Bitola Inscription”  7 The Byzantine Reconquista  8 Crushed between the East and the West  9 Filling the Vacuum 1 Pax Ottomana in Toli Manastır (1385–1808)  1 The Ottoman Conquest  2 The Development of Toli Manastır  3 From a Provincial Town to an Administrative Centre  4 Survey of the Mosques of Toli Manastır  5 The Other Benefitiaries 2 Christianity in Ottoman Manastır (1385–1767)  1 Continuity Unchallenged  2 The Cult of the God-Bearer Pelagonitissa  3 The Revitalization of Christianity in Manastır  4 Regional Church Heritage  5 Literacy and Diplomacy  6 The Early Church of St. Demetrios  7 Further Regional Church Heritage  8 The Prelates on Record  9 Vindication and Revival  10 In the Middle of Controlled Demolition  11 Some Welcome Immigrants 3 The Sephardic Jews of Manastır (1497–1808)  1 Early Judaism in the Balkans  2 Medieval Jewry  3 The Sephardic Exodus  4 The Sephardim in Manastır  5 The Shabbatai Tsvi Controversy and Beyond  6 The Dawn of a New Era 4 The Ottoman Capital of Turquie D’europe  1 The Historical Background: From the Time of Ali Paşa until the First Balkan War in 1912  2 The Urban Development and Topography of the Town  3 The Religious and Cultural Traditions of the Ottoman Muslim Population in Manastır during the 19th Century  4 The Ottoman Christians of Bitola/Manastır during the 19th Century  5 The Sephardic Jewish Community of Bitola/Manastır between 1800 and 1943 Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index of Personal and Place Names

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Book SynopsisThis book is available in Open Access thanks to the generous support of the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Defining the Identity of the Younger Europe launches an eye-opening journey into emerging cultures and civilizations of the “Younger Europe” — Byzantine-Slavic and Scandinavian territories — from the fall of Constantinople (1453) to the dawn of the Industrial Age. Defining the Identity of the Younger Europe gathers studies that shed new light on the rich tapestry of early modern “Younger Europe” — Byzantine-Slavic and Scandinavian territories. It unearths the multi-dimensional aspects of the period, revealing the formation and transformation of nations that shared common threads, the establishment of political systems, and the enduring legacies of religious movements. Immersive, enlightening, and thought-provoking, the book promises to be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the complexities of early modern Europe. This collection does not just retell history; it provokes readers to rethink it. Contributors include: Giovanna Brogi, Piotr Chmiel,Karin Friedrich, Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Mirosława Hanusiewicz-Lavallee, Robert Aleksander Maryks, Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, Maciej Ptaszyński, Paul Shore, and Frank E. Sysyn.Table of ContentsContents Notes on Editors and Contributors Introduction  Mirosława Hanusiewicz-Lavallee and Robert A. Maryks The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Birth of Modern Ukraine: a Reappraisal of the Khmelnytsky “Revolution”  Frank E. Sysyn Abstract Keywords  1 National Traditions  2 Periodization  3 The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century and Early Modern Revolts  4 The Religious Factor  5 New Research Agendas  6 Conclusion The Younger Europe—or the Older? Visions of Politics in the Early Modern Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth  Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz Abstract Keywords  1 On the Main Route: the Republican Tradition  2 The Side Path: Disregard of New Concepts  3 New Propositions: New Roads The “Common Good” and Urban Crisis Management in Early Modern East-Central Europe: the Examples of Danzig and Slutsk  Karin Friedrich Abstract Keywords  1 Self-Interest versus “Common Good” in the “Younger Europe”  2 The “Common Good,” Natural Law, and Hugo Grotius  3 Danzig’s Conflict with Stefan Báthory  4 The “Well-Ordered Government” of the City of Slutsk  5 Conclusion Good Editions of Unpublished Texts: the Case of Stefan Iavorskii  Giovanna Brogi Abstract Keywords  1 Historical and Cultural Context  2 Stefan Iavorskii’s Heretige  3 Documentary and Cultural Significance  4 Stefan Iavorskii and Lazar Baranovych  5 Conclusion Words Spoken and Unspoken: Preachers and the Baltic Reformation in the Younger Europe  Maciej Ptaszyński Abstract Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Early Reformation in the North  3 Stralsund on the Eve of Iconoclasm  4 Conclusion The Younger Europe from a Papal Perspective, 1580–1640  Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin Abstract Keywords  1 Introduction: Catholic Geography of Europe  2 Perceptions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth  3 Conclusion The Battle of Mohács, Re-remembered History, and Hungary’s “Christian” Identity  Paul Shore† Abstract Keywords  Conclusion  Acknowledgements Younger, but How? Heterochrony of Premodern European Divisions in the Discourse on Central/East-Central Europe  Piotr Chmiel Abstract Keywords  1 Introduction  2 East–West Divide  3 From Spatial to Temporal Divisions  4 Views on Europe: Time and Space  5 Reflections on Early Modern Times  6 Toward a Conclusion: Heterochrony, History, and the East–West Divide Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTempting the Tempter considers how far fifteenth-century Italian mystics would go to imitate Christ, even in his encounters with the Devil in the desert. Elena of Udine, Caterina of Bologna, and Colomba of Rieti created their own desert experience through their austere devotional practices, and they suffered and overcame temptations from the Devil. This work explores how these women actively pursued encounters with the Devil, and how these private temptations prepared them for a public ministry of miracles, contributed to their perception as living saints, and allowed their biographers to promote them as true imitators of Christ, worthy of sainthood.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Maps and Figures Introduction 1 The Emergence of the Quattrocento Santa viva  1 The Influence of the Observants  2 The Influence of a Thriving Print Culture  3 Attributes of the Living Saint  4 The Prototype: St. Catherine of Siena  5 The Hagiographic Tradition  6 Conditions on the Italian Peninsula 2 Beata Elena Valentini da Udine, Augustinian Tertiary  1 From Widow to Bride of Christ  2 “Of the Temptations and Beatings Given to Her by the Devil” 3 Santa Caterina Vigri da Bologna, Franciscan Nun  1 From Afflicted Novice to Beloved Abbess  2 Spiritual Weapons against the Devil’s Tricks 4 Beata Colomba Guadagnoli da Rieti, Dominican Penitent  1 From Spiritual Prodigy to Miracle-Working Prophet  2 The Holy Virgin vs. the Enemy of Virtue 5 Imitatio Christi in Its Feminine Form  1 The Tradition of Imitatio Christi  2 A Culture of Imitation  3 Woman’s Body and Christ’s Suffering  4 Woman and Redemptive Suffering  5 Temptation as Imitation  6 Temptation in the Hagiographic Tradition 6 The Provocative Holy Woman  1 Divine Deception in the Desert  2 Solitude and the Creation of the Desert  3 Fasting and Eucharistic Piety  4 Praying without Ceasing  5 Punishment of the Flesh  6 Heroic Asceticism and Diabolical Attraction 7 The Holy Woman as Discerner of Spirits  1 The Power of Discretio Spirituum  2 Of Heretics and Demons  3 Jean Gerson and the Need for Discernment  4 Johannes Nider and the Makings of a Witch Stereotype  5 Heinrich Kramer and the Witch Defined  6 Of Discerners and their Detractors 8 The Santa viva in Society  1 Service to the Roman Church at Large  2 Service to the Observant Reform Movement  3 Service to the Local Community 9 Postmortem Veneration and the Making of a Saint  1 Virtus and the Vox Populi  2 The Living Saint: Transgressor or Talisman?  3 Holy Conjuring or Righteous Provocation?  4 Who Made the Saint?  5 Self-Fashioning through Imitation Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Paraclete was founded in 1129. Out of necessity to find a new place to shelter a group of nuns, this female community was created by Peter Abelard (1079–1142) for Heloise of Argenteuil (1090–1164). Varieties of the Self shows how this community was dependent on a network of monasteries, while also representing a formative driving force in the twelfth-century reform, the period of flourishing to which it clearly belonged. The anthropological approach connects different works written by Peter Abelard (hymns, life-rules, letters, biblical commentaries) to views on the female self. What is the perspective on identity, sacrifice, and intentionality within these sources, and how do views on pollution, purity, and sacredness reflect on ethics of body and soul?Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 Anthropology and the Idea of the Paraclete  1 About Rules and Individual Life  2 The Foundation of the Paraclete and the Beginning of Faith  3 The Myth of Institutions: About Systems and Collections  4 Exemplum’s Perplexity 3 Diptych I: Bringing Abelard Home  1 Living Together, or the Creation of the Monastic Myth  2 When Earth and Heaven Meet  3 Is Contempt for the World Possible?  4 Peter the Venerable’s Compassion  5 The Anthropology of Grace  6 Abelard’s Last Years  7 The Illusion of Permanence  8 The Mental Architecture of the Paraclete  9 Is Religion a Category? 4 Diptych II: Architecture of Songs  1 Time, Space, and the Self in the Paraclete  2 God hors jeu  3 Collection and Chaos: The Paraclete Hymns  4 A Changing Light  5 Mary Magdalene’s Stones  6 Jephthah’s Daughter  7 The Child and the Stick, or Mirroring Measures  8 Epilogue 5 Conclusion Appendix  Peter the Venerable, Letter 115  Heloise of Argenteuil, Letter 167  Selected Hymns from the Hymnarius Paraclitensis, Composed by Peter Abelard Bibiliography Index

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Book SynopsisConnections between the Society of Jesus and astrology used to appear as unexpected at best. Astrology was never viewed favourably by the Church, especially in early modern times, and since Jesuits were strong defenders of Catholic orthodoxy, most historians assumed that their religious fervour would be matched by an equally strong rejection of astrology. This groundbreaking and compelling study brings to light new Jesuit scientific texts revealing a much more positive, practical, and nuanced attitude. What emerges forcefully is a totally new perspective into early modern Jesuit culture, science, and education, highlighting the element that has been long overlooked: astrology.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables Abbreviations Transcription and Citation Notes Astrological Symbols Introduction Part 1: Astrology in the Early Modern Era Introduction to Part 1 1 Early Modern Astrology: An Overview  1 The Practice of Astrology  2 A Changing Knowledge  3 Astrology in Print  4 Pico’s Critique 2 The Church and Astrology  1 A Clash of Doctrines  2 An Art Divided  3 The Regulation of Astrology 3 The Mathematization of Astrology 4 The Marginalization of Astrology  1 Astrology as Science  2 A Changed Knowledge Part 2: Jesuits and Astrology Introduction to Part 2 5 Jesuits against Astrology  1 Benito Pereira (1590)  2 Martín Del Rio (1599–1600)  3 Alessandro De Angelis (1615)  4 The Bibliotheca selecta (1593)  5 Later Examples  6 The Anti-astrological Discourse 6 Jesuits Accepting Astrology  1 Francisco Suárez on Astrology  2 Further Examples  3 Standing in Ambiguity 7 Astrology in Jesuit Science  1 The Ratio Studiorum, Mathematics and Astrology  2 Clavius and Astrology  3 Astrology in Jesuit Printed Works  4 Between Print and Manuscript  5 Astrology among Jesuit Scholars 8 Astrology as Cultural Currency: Jesuits in the East  1 China: New Astrology for an Old Empire  2 Notes on Japan and India  3 European Astrology in the East 9 Brave New World: Jesuits and Astrology in the Americas  1 Different Skies, Different Influences  2 Jesuits and Astrology under Southern Skies  3 Catholic Constellations: Astrology in Religious Discourse  4 Under New Skies Part 3: Jesuits Teaching Astrology Introduction to Part 3 10 The Aula da Esfera of Santo Antão  1 The Astrological Manuscripts and Their Authors  2 Other Astrological Texts  3 The Students of the Aula da Esfera  4 Astrology at the Aula da Esfera: A Timeline  5 The Example of the Aula da Esfera 11 Teaching Astrology  1 A Jesuit Astrological Programme?  2 Defending Astrology  3 The Astrological Syllabus  4 Gonzaga’s Baroque Astrology  5 A Jesuit Astrology? Part 4: Jesuit Astrologers Introduction to Part 4 12 Practicing Astrology  1 Judgements on Comets  2 An Astrological Report to the Court  3 The Calendar of Trnava  4 Nativities  5 Other Applications  6 The Practice in Perspective Final Thoughts Appendix 1: Bull Coeli et Terrae Appendix 2: Teachers of the Aula da Esfera Appendix 3: Jesuit Astrological Manuscripts Appendix 4: Documents Bibliography Index

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