History of religion Books

Book SynopsisThe volume demonstrates the cultural centrality of the oral tradition for Iranian studies. It contains contributions from scholars from various areas of Iranian and comparative studies, among which are the pre-Islamic Zoroastrian tradition with its wide network of influences in late antique Mesopotamia, notably among the Jewish milieu; classical Persian literature in its manifold genres; medieval Persian history; oral history; folklore and more. The essays in this collection embrace both the pre-Islamic and Islamic periods, both verbal and visual media, as well as various language communities (Middle Persian, Persian, Tajik, Dari) and geographical spaces (Greater Iran in pre-Islamic and Islamic medieval periods; Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan of modern times). Taken as a whole, the essays reveal the unique blending of oral and literate poetics in the texts or visual artefacts each author focuses upon, conceptualizing their interrelationship and function.

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Book SynopsisIn An Arena for Higher Powers Olof Sundqvist investigates ceremonial buildings and religious ruler strategies in Late Iron Age Scandinavia (i.e. AD 550-1050/1100). The author offers here an account of the role played by religion in political undertakings among the pre-Christian ruling elites at halls and cultic buildings. Sundqvist applies a regional approach, so as to be able to account for the specific historical, cultural and social contexts. The focus is mainly on three regions, the Lake Mälaren area in Sweden, Trøndelag in Norway, and Iceland. Since the political structure and other contextual aspects partly differed in the three regions, the religious strategies for gaining legitimacy and authorization at the sanctuaries also varied to some extent in these areas.

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Book SynopsisIn Ethnography from the Mission Field: The Hoffmann Collection of Cultural Knowledge Joubert et al. offer a translated and annotated edition of the 24 ethnographic articles by missionary Carl Hoffmann and his local interlocutors published between the years 1913 and 1958. The edition is introduced by a historic contextualisation using a cultural historical approach to analyse the contexts in which Hoffmann’s ethnographic texts were produced. Making use of historical material and Hoffmann’s own words from personal diaries and letters, the authors convincingly draw the attention to the discursive context in which the texts annotated in this book had been compiled. In a concluding chapter the book traces the captivating developments of the orthography of Northern Sotho through Hoffmann’s texts over almost half a century. Brill has made the documentary film “A Journey into the Life of a Mission-Ethnographer” which is interlinked with this book available online via its online channels. To access it please click here. The digital database of the “Hoffmann Collection of Cultural Knowledge” (HC-CK) can be accessed by clicking here. It is an amalgamation of digital scans, images and video footage relating to missionary Carl Hoffmann’s work and life on various mission stations, made available by the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.Trade ReviewThe ambitious publication project under review here has the potential of creating a novel genre of presenting transcultural perspectives in mission studies, documenting fragmented archive resources and optimizing interdisciplinary research perspectives. (...) this project represent an exemplary elaboration of a multi-faceted concept to access, explore, and distribute archive sources. The project establishes links between oral and published history, and interests of present day users of the archive sources. Andreas Heuser, in Interkulturell Theologie 4/2016. Occasionally, missionary writers have transcended the limitations of their focused calling and written deeply sympathetic, evocative treatises that permit people to speak for themselves, thus valorizing perspectives that may differ from those of the expatriates, however well intentioned most missionaries were and are. As editor Joubert (Humboldt Univ. of Berlin) and her collaborators make clear, Carl Hoffmann (1868–1962) was one such missionary. In over 1,000 pages and an accompanying film, Sotho people of the Transvaal, South Africa, present nuances of their intellect and daily lives in great detail. This trove offers introductory essays and matches Sotho texts with English translations. It will attract a few scholars but, more important, it should serve Sotho interests as the wisdom of elders contributes to contemporary heritage politics.(...) Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, faculty, specialists. - A. F. Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles, in Choice 2016. Taken as a whole, the project is a remarkable effort to preserve and make accessible important archival materials from an understudied place and time. Thoughtfully contextualized and assembled, the book and database will no doubt serve as a valuable scholarly resource for years to come. - Oliver Charbonneau, Western University, in Itinerario 39.3 (2015). For its part, the Hoffman book does not just present a body of inert texts waiting to be plundered for “facts” by the researcher; it is a book which requires the researcher to work with it, to engage with it intellectually. It opens up numbers of different avenues for active scholarly discussion. - Professor John Wright, University of Cape Town, published on the web site of Archive & Public Culture Research Initiative 2015.Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgements Summarised Preview Introduction In and from the Field: A Journey into the Life of a ‘Mission-Ethnographer’ and his Co-Producers Annekie Joubert 1. Introduction 2. Visual systems as an integral part of research and presentation 3. Biographical filmmaking 4. Databank Part 1 Historic Contextualisation Lize Kriel 1. Introduction 2. Knowledge production in a Christian missionary context 3. Becoming a missionary: Hoffmann’s inspiration and motivation 4. Missionising and Afrikanistik 5. Hoffmann in the field: government agent, ethnographer, proselytiser, guest 6. Hoffmann and anthropology: his position and his reception 7. The particular case of the missionary anthropologist 8. Hoffmann’s interlocutors 9. Genealogy of the ethnological publications 9.1. The folktales 9.2. The Woodbush articles (Articles 1–2 and 7–18) 9.3. The “Northen Transvaal” articles (Articles 19–24) 10. Conclusion Part 2 Corpus of Hoffmann’s Ethnographic Articles Inge Kosch, Gerrie Grobler, Annekie Joubert 1. Introduction 2. The phenomenon of co-production in Hoffmann’s corpus of ethnographic writings 3. Translating from German into English 4. Annotating the ethnographic corpus Rites of Passage Article 1 Engagement and Marriage among the Sotho People in the Woodbush Mountains of the Transvaal – Peeletšo le lenyalo Basothong ba Lebowa ba Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala (1913) Article 2 The Initiation School of the Sotho People in the Woodbush Mountains of the Transvaal – Koma ya banna ya Basotho ba Lebowa ba Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala (1915) Folklore: Stories from the Transvaal Article 3 Folktales and Stories of the Natives in Northern Transvaal – Dinonwane le dikanegelo tša Basotho ba Lebowa (1915) Article 4 Folktales and Stories of the Natives in Northern Transvaal – Dinonwane le dikanegelo tša Basotho ba Lebowa (1916) Article 5 Folktales and Stories of the Natives in Northern Transvaal – Dinonwane le dikanegelo tša Basotho ba Lebowa (1916) Article 6 Folktales and Stories of the Natives in Northern Transvaal – Dinonwane le dikanegelo tša Basotho ba Lebowa (1916) Mother and Child Article 7 Sotho Texts from the Woodbush Mountains in the Transvaal – Dingwalwa tša Sesotho tše di tšwago Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala (1928) Witchcraft, Gods, Prophets, Spirits and Totems Article 8 Sotho Texts from the Woodbush Mountains in the Transvaal – Dingwalwa tša Sesotho tše di tšwago Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala (1928/29) Article 9 Sotho Texts from the Woodbush Mountains in the Transvaal: Totems and Prohibitions – Dingwalwa tša Sesotho tše di tšwago Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala: Meano le Dikganetšo (1920/31) Article 10 Sotho Texts from the Woodbush Mountains in the Transvaal: Spirits That Are with Some Stones and Other Things and Witchcraft – Dingwalwa tša Sesotho tše di tšwago Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala: Moya wo o nago le maswika a mangwe le ge e le dilo tše dingwe le boloi (1931/32) Article 11 Sotho Texts from the Woodbush Mountains in the Transvaal: The Soul in Death and after Death – Dingwalwa tša Sesotho tše di tšwago Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala: Moya wa motho mohlang wa lehu le ka morago ga lehu (1932) Land, Laws and Punishment Article 12 Sotho Texts from the Woodbush Mountains in the Transvaal: Legal Practices of the Northern Sotho People – Dingwalwa tša Sesotho tše di tšwago Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala: Tirišo ya melao ya Basotho ba Lebowa (1933/34) Article 13 Sotho Texts from the Woodbush Mountains in the Transvaal: Legal Practices of the Northern Sotho People – Dingwalwa tša Sesotho tše di tšwago Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala: Tirišo ya melao ya Basotho ba Lebowa (1933/34) Article 14 Sotho Texts from the Woodbush Mountains in the Transvaal: Legal Practices of the Northern Sotho People – Dingwalwa tša Sesotho tše di tšwago Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala: Tirišo ya melao ya Basotho ba Lebowa (1933/34) Article 15 Sotho Texts from the Woodbush Mountains in the Transvaal: Legal Practices of the Northern Sotho People – Dingwalwa tša Sesotho tše di tšwago Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala: Tirišo ya melao ya Basotho ba Lebowa (1933/34) People, Politics and Government Article 16 Sotho Texts from the Woodbush Mountains in the Transvaal: Political Organisation – Dingwalwa tša Sesotho tše di tšwago Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala: Peakanyo ya borerapušo (1937/38) Article 17 Sotho Texts from the Woodbush Mountains in the Transvaal: Political Organisation – Dingwalwa tša Sesotho tše di tšwago Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala: Peakanyo ya borerapušo (1937/38) Article 18 Sotho Texts from the Woodbush Mountains in the Transvaal: Political Organisation – Dingwalwa tša Sesotho tše di tšwago Dithabeng tša Woodbush go la Transfala: Peakanyo ya borerapušo (1937/38) Home, Habits and Conduct Article 19 Customs and Traditions of the Sotho People in Northern Transvaal – Mekgwa le botlwaelo bja Basotho ba Transfala-Lebowa (1956) Article 20 Customs and Traditions of the Sotho People in Northern Transvaal – Mekgwa le botlwaelo bja Basotho ba Transfala-Lebowa (1956) Article 21 Customs and Traditions of the Sotho People in Northern Transvaal – Mekgwa le botlwaelo bja Basotho ba Transfala-Lebowa (1957) Article 22 Customs and Traditions of the Sotho People in Northern Transvaal – Mekgwa le botlwaelo bja Basotho ba Transfala-Lebowa (1957) Article 23 Customs and Traditions of the Sotho People in Northern Transvaal – Mekgwa le botlwaelo bja Basotho ba Transfala-Lebowa (1958) Article 24 Customs and Traditions of the Sotho People in Northern Transvaal – Mekgwa le botlwaelo bja Basotho ba Transfala-Lebowa (1958) Obituary E. Kähler-Meyer, In Remembrance of Missionary C. Hoffmann (1963) Part 3 Orthographic Developments and Grammatical Observations Inge Kosch 1. Notes on orthography and spelling conventions 1.1. Background to the orthographical development of Northern Sotho 1.2. Active participation at decision-making level 1.3. Phases in the development of the orthography 1.3.1. Phase I (Articles 1–6): 1913–1916 1.3.2. Phase II (Articles 7–10): 1928–1932 1.3.3. Phase III (Articles 11–18): 1932–1938 1.3.4. Phase IV (Articles 19–24): 1956–1958 1.4. Observations regarding spelling conventions 1.4.1. Spacing 1.4.2. Capitalisation 1.4.3. Vowels 1.4.4. Hyphens 1.4.5. Diacritics 1.4.6. Rendering of Northern Sotho words for German readership 1.5. Phonological processes 2. Grammatical observations 2.1. Pronouns 2.1.1. Absolute pronouns 2.1.2. Demonstrative pronouns 2.2. Adjectival and verbal relative constructions 2.3. Verbal forms 2.3.1. Participial form 2.3.2. Consecutive form 2.3.3. Indicative form 2.4. Reflexive prefix 2.5. Locative suffix 3. Syntactic devices 4. Notes on lexical peculiarities 4.1. Non-standard spelling 4.2. Dialectical forms 4.3. Semantic bleaching List of Contributors References Index Appendix (Maps, Drawings and Photos)

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Book SynopsisThe Apostles in Early Christian Art and Poetry presents the first in-depth analysis of the origins of the representation of the apostles (the twelve disciples and Paul) in verse and image in the late antique Greco-Roman world (250-400). Especially in the West, the apostles are omnipresent, in particular on sarcophagi and in Biblical and martyr poetry. They primarily function as witnesses of Christ’s stay on earth, but Peter and Paul are also popular saints of their own. Occasionally, the other apostles come to the fore as individual figures. Direct influence from art on poetry or vice versa appears to be difficult to trace, but principal developments of late antique society are reflected in the representation of the apostles in both media.Trade Review'This work has much to commend it. It is both ambitious and, as regards a study of early Christian poetry, admirably thorough. It is accompanied by an extensive bibliography, appendices, and 50 illustrations, most in color.' Robin M. Jensen, University of Notre Dame, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.02.55 'This wonderful, learned book [...] provides a feast for anyone who takes an interest in early Christian literary and material culture, or in the development of apostolic tradition before 400.' Jane Heath, Durham University, Expository Times 128, 2017.08.407Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Early Christian Poets and the Apostles 1.1 Commodianus 1.2 Juvencus 1.3 Proba 1.4 The Hymnum dicat turba fratrum or Hymnus de Christo 1.5 Damasus 1.6 Ambrose 1.7 Claudian 1.8 Amphilochius of Iconium 1.9 Gregory of Nazianzus 1.10 Prudentius 1.11 Paulinus of Nola 1.12 The Oratio consulis Ausonii versibus rhopalicis 1.13 Synthesis: The Apostles in Early Christian Poetry 270 2 Art, Poetry and the Apostles 2.1 The Apostles and the Canon 2.2 The Apostles and Non-Canonical Traditions 2.3 Concluding Remarks General Conclusion Appendix 1: Overview of Canonical References to the Apostles in Art and Poetry Appendix 2: Overview of Non-Canonical References to the Apostles in Art and Poetry Appendix 3: Figures

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Book SynopsisThe history of the relation between religion and Enlightenment has been virtually rewritten In recent decades. The idea of a fairly unidirectional ‘rise of paganism’, or ‘secularisation’, has been replaced by a much more variegated panorama of interlocking changes—not least in the nature of both religion and rationalism. This volume explores developments in various cultural fields—from lexicology to geographical exploration, and from philosophy and history to theology, media and the arts—involved in the transformation of worldviews in the decades around 1700. The main focus is on the Dutch Republic, where discussion culture was more inclusive than in most other countries, and where people from very different walks of life joined the conversation. Contributors include: Wiep van Bunge, Frank Daudeij, Martin Gierl, Albert Gootjes, Trudelien van ‘t Hof, Jonathan Israel, Henri Krop, Fred van Lieburg, Jaap Nieuwstraten, Joke Spaans, Jetze Touber, and Arthur Weststeijn.Trade Review“The volume focuses on developments in the Dutch Republic at the turn of the eighteenth century, a society unique for its tolerance both of a wide variety of confessions and of radical philosophical ideas [...] these trends helped contribute to a new kind of Protestantism in the Enlightenment, where Protestant believers of all kinds were redefining how their beliefs could coexist in a time and place of growing possibility and knowledge. These essays will be valuable reading for scholars interested in the continuing evolution of the various Protestant Christianities in the post-Reformation era.” Christine Kooi, Louisiana State University. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 71, No. 1 (2020), p. 197. “[The editors] have taken an important step forward to a new understanding of that complex period called the Enlightenment; their volume […] will no doubt prompt further studies in these fields.” Francesco Quatrini, Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale. In: Renaissance and Reformation, Vol. 44, No. 2 (2021), pp. 273–275. “Der Band vereint eine Mixtur von mitunter sehr speziellen, meistenteils aber interessante und große Linien ziehenden Beiträgen. Diese eröffnen zwar nicht eine völlig neue Perspektive auf den religiösen Wandel in den Niederlanden am Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts, doch regen sie sehr wohl dazu an, sich der Gestalt des Protestantismus in Holland etwas differenzierter und auch mit einem frischem Blick zuzuwenden, gerade auch unter Einbeziehung von bislang übersehenen schriftlichen und visuellen Quellen.” Jürgen Overhoff, Münster, in: Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert [“The volume combines a mixture of sometimes highly specialized, but mostly interesting and broad-based contributions. These do not open up a completely new perspective on the religious change in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 18th century, but they do stimulate studying the shaping of Protestantism in Holland in a more differentiated way, with a fresh look, especially with the inclusion of previously overlooked written and visual sources.”]Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations About the Authors Introduction: Enlightened Religion: From Confessional Churches to Polite Piety in the Dutch Republic  Joke Spaans and Jetze Touber PART 1: Trends 1 From Religion in the Singular to Religions in the Plural: 1700, a Faultline in the Conceptual History of Religion  Henri Krop 2 Tracing the Human Past: The Art of Writing Between Human Ingenuity and Divine Agency in Early Modern World History  Jetze Touber 3 Colonies of Concord: Religious Escapism and Experimentation in Dutch Overseas Expansion, ca. 1650–1700  Arthur Weststeijn 4 Negotiating Ideas: The Communicative Constitution of Pietist Theology within the Lutheran Church  Martin Gierl 5 The Collegie der Sçavanten: A Seventeenth-Century Cartesian Scholarly Society in Utrecht  Albert Gootjes part 2: Individuals 6 “Let no citizen be treated as lesser, because of his confession”: Religious Tolerance and Civility in De Hooghe’s Spiegel van Staat (1706–7)  Frank Daudeij 7 The Power of Custom and the Question of Religious Toleration in the Works of Marcus Zuerius Boxhorn (1612–1653): An Investigation into the Sources of the Transformation of Religion around 1700  Jaap Nieuwstraten 8 Romeyn de Hooghe’s Hieroglyphica: An Ambivalent Lexicographical History of Religion  Trudelien van ’t Hof 9 Popularizing Radical Ideas in the Dutch Art World of the Early Eighteenth Century: Willem Goeree (1635–1711) and Arnold Houbraken (1660–1719)  Jonathan Israel 10 Bayle’s Skepticism Revisited  Wiep van Bunge 11 Between the Catechism and the Microscope: The World of Johannes Duijkerius  Joke Spaans 12 Warning against the Pietists: The World of Wilhelmus à Brakel  Fred van Lieburg Index

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Book SynopsisA Companion to the Swiss Reformation describes the course of the Protestant Reformation in the Swiss Confederation over the course of the sixteenth century. Its essays examine the successes as well as the failures of the reformation movement, considering not only the institutional churches but also the spread of Anabaptism. The volume highlights the different form that the Reformation took among the members of the Confederation and its allied territories, and it describes the political, social and cultural consequences of the Reformation for the Confederation as a whole. Contributors are: Irena Backus, Jan-Andrea Bernhard, Amy Nelson Burnett, Michael W. Bruening, Erich Bryner, Emidio Campi, Bruce Gordon, Kaspar von Greyerz, Sundar Henny, Karin Maag, Thomas Maissen, Regula Schmid-Keeling, Martin Sallmann, and Andrea Strübind.Trade Review“In scope and detail this book has no equal in the English language—or perhaps any language for that matter. […] without doubt the best available in its field.” C. Arnold Snyder, Conrad Grebel University College. In: The Mennonite Quarterly Review, Vol. 91 (July 2017), pp. 428-432. “This Companion can be recommended as a succinct point of orientation for all students and researchers with interest in the Swiss Reformation.” Beat Kümin, University of Warwick. In: Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 68. No. 4 (October 2017), pp. 869-871. “incredibly valuable to scholars […] the essays synthesize and present in English much of the recent research on the Swiss Reformation that has been written in French and German […] it is worth pointing out that in addition to the sophistication and scholarly value of the essays, this collection contains numerous maps and images, many in color, which is a rare treat for academic readers.” Carrie Euler, Central Michigan University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 1 (Spring 2018), pp. 361-362.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors Abbreviations List of Maps List of Illustrations Part One: Background Introduction Amy Nelson Burnett and Emidio Campi Chapter One: The Swiss Confederation Before the Reformation Regula Schmid Part Two: The Reformation Chapter Two: The Reformation in Zurich Emidio Campi Chapter Three: The Reformation in Bern Martin Sallmann Chapter Four: The Reformation in Basel Amy Nelson Burnett Chapter Five: The Reformation in Schaffhausen Eric Bryner Chapter Six: The Reformation in St. Gallen and Appenzell Eric Bryner Chapter Seven: Failed Reformations Sundar Henny Chapter Eight: The Reformation in the Three Leagues Jan-Andrea Bernhard Chapter Nine: Francophone Territories Allied to the Swiss Confederation Michael W. Bruening Chapter Ten: The Swiss Anabaptists Andrea Strübind Part Three: Outcomes Chapter Eleven: Theological Profile Emidio Campi Chapter Twelve: Church Organization, Discipline, and Worship Bruce Gordon Chapter Thirteen: Schools and Education Karin Maag Chapter Fourteen: Swiss Society: Family, Gender, and the Poor Kaspar von Greyerz Chapter Fifteen: Reformation Culture Irena Backus Chapter Sixteen: Religious Stalemate and Confessional Alignments Thomas Maissen Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is the base of religious leadership and how has it changed over the centuries? This volume presents a range of actors, both men and women, who, in a variety of historical contexts, claimed to be the living voices or intermediaries of God. The essays analyse the foundation of their authoritative claims and ask how and how far they succeeded in securing obedience from the Christians to whom they addressed their message. Religious authority is not understood as a monolithic entity but as something derived from many sources and claims. Whatever the national background, whether ordained or supposedly appointed through divine intervention, the histories of the people portrayed underline the long-term manifestations and multifaceted nature of Christian identity.Trade Review"Even so, this is a consistently stimulating collection. Some scholars will appreciate specific chapters offering cogent new studies in their specialist fields. Other historians (...) will find something thought-provoking in every chapter." Philip Lockley, Durham University, in: Journal of Ecclesiastical History Vol. 68.4 (2017).Table of ContentsContributors are: Angela Berlis, Clyde Binfield, Marjet Derks, Peter Elliott, W.M. Jacob, Jan Kuys, Marit Monteiro, Daniela Müller, Peter Raedts, Jens Röhrkasten, R.N. Swanson, Katherine Sykes, David L. Wykes, Nigel Yates †, and Paula Yates.

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Book SynopsisIn The Byzantine Turks, 1204–1461 Rustam Shukurov offers an account of the Turkic minority in Late Byzantium including the Nicaean, Palaiologan, and Grand Komnenian empires. The demography of the Byzantine Turks and the legal and cultural aspects of their entrance into Greek society are discussed in detail. Greek and Turkish bilingualism of Byzantine Turks and Tourkophonia among Greeks were distinctive features of Byzantine society of the time. Basing his arguments upon linguistic, social, and cultural evidence found in a wide range of Greek, Latin, and Oriental sources, Rustam Shukurov convincingly demonstrates how Oriental influences on Byzantine life led to crucial transformations in Byzantine mentality, culture, and political life. The study is supplemented with an etymological lexicon of Oriental names and words in Byzantine Greek.Trade Review"This study offers for the first time a complete guide to interrelations between the Byzantines and the people of (mainly) Turkic origin who penetrated the Byzantine Empire from the eleventh century onwards. Shukurov presents rich historiographical and linguistic material on how the Turks acquired Byzantine identity through language and religion. The author supplements his Greek sources with Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian and Georgian materials, which allows him to analyse the complex and multi-faceted cultural panorama of Asia Minor in the period. This study will clearly constitute a useful tool for those interested oin Byzantine-Turkic relations." Spyros P. Panagopoulos, in: Al-Masaq XXIX (2017).Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements xi List of Figures and Tables xii Introduction 1 1 The Byzantine Classification of the Turks 11 1 On Byzantine Epistemology 11 2 The Locative Criterion and the Theory of Climates 17 3 Two-Part Classification: Genera and Species 26 4 Generic Categories 27 5 The Species 33 6 The Concept Πέρσαι 37 7 The Defects of the Method 42 8 The Linguistic Criterion 44 9 The Languages of the Turks 48 10 Turks and Religious Identity 53 11 Marriages with Non-Christians 55 12 The Validity of Baptism 59 2 Byzantine Onomastics: Problems of Method 65 1 The Onomastic Database 65 2 The West Byzantine Lands in the Database 68 3 The Byzantine Pontos 70 4 On Byzantine Patterns of Naming 72 5 A Linguistic Problem 74 6 The Problem of Generations 77 7 Credibility of Anthroponymical Data 78 8 “Scythian” and “Persian” Names 84 3 The “Persians” and the “Scythians” 86 1 Historical Background 86 2 The “Scythians” 90 3 The “Persians” 94 4 The Byzantine “Persians” in 1204–1262 96 5 The “Persian” Resettlement of 1262–1263 98 6 Kaykāwus’ Family in Byzantium 105 7 Kaykāwus’ People 120 8 “Persian” Immigrations until the Beginning of the Fourteenth Century 131 9 The Turkic Immigrants in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century 134 10 The Last Byzantine Turks? 147 10.1 Text 148 10.2 Translation 150 10.3 Commentary 152 4 The Byzantine Turks in the Balkans 157 1 Byzantine Macedonia 159 2 The Lower Strymon and Serres 161 3 Kalamaria in Western Chalkidike 164 4 Eastern Chalkidike 166 5 Berroia and Lake Giannitsa 168 6 The Vardar Valley, Skopje, the Strumica 170 7 Thessalonike and Other Localities 174 8 Ethnic and Social Structure 174 9 Constantinople and Some Other Regions 177 10 A Note on Chronology 179 11 The Problem of Merchants 181 5 The Noble Lineages 183 1 Constructing a “Family” 184 2 The Gazes Families (I and II) 184 3 The Melik/Melikes/Melek Family 187 4 The Soultanos Family (I) 190 5 The Soultanos Family (II) 194 6 The Apelmene Family 196 7 The Masgidas Families (I and II) 197 8 The Iagoupes Family 200 9 The Anataulas Family 209 6 Assimilation Tools 216 1 The Motivation of the Turks 216 2 An Opposite Example 220 3 Christianization 223 4 More on Inclusion and Exclusion 231 5 Proprietors and Pronoiars 234 6 Imperial Service 239 7 Slaves, Servants, and Hostages 244 8 Cultural Adaptation 249 9 Turkic Minority? 251 7 Asians in the Byzantine Pontos 255 1 Oriental Names of the Pontos 255 2 Nations and Tribes 259 3 Social Standing 268 4 The Pontic Nomads 281 5 Christians and Crypto-Muslims 290 6 Penetration of Asians into Trebizond 297 Appendix I: The Wives of Alexios II Grand Komnenos 303 Appendix II: The Marriages of the Grand Komnenoi with Muslims 305 8 “Turkophonia” in Byzantium 306 1 Byzantine Diglossia 306 2 Oriental Borrowings 308 3 Textiles 312 4 Clothes and Household Items 315 5 Spices, Delicacies, Medications 324 6 Birds and Animals 326 7 Trading Terminology 327 8 Imperial Court and Military Terminology 332 9 The Positive Image of the East 339 10 Expanding the Horizon 343 11 Diglossia and Place-Names 349 12 Diglossia and the Redoubling of the World 354 13 Evidence of Modern Greek 358 14 Byzantine Turkophonia 359 15 Latent Turkification 380 16 Cultural Interchange and a Lethal Outcome 381 9 Etymological Glossary 388 1 Proper Names 388 2 Appellatives 404 Epilogue 413 1 The Turkic Minority 413 2 Regional Features 414 3 Cultural Transformation 418 Bibliography 421 Index of Greek and Slavonic Names and Terms 474 General Index 486

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Book SynopsisNvmen publishes papers representing the most recent scholarship in all areas of the history of religions ranging from antiquity to contemporary history. It covers a diversity of geographical regions and religions of the past as well as of the present. The approach of the journal to the study of religion is strictly non-confessional. While the emphasis lies on empirical, source-based research, typical contributions also address issues that have a wider historical or comparative significance for the advancement of the discipline. Numen also publishes papers that discuss important theoretical innovations in the study of religion and reflective studies on the history of the discipline. Brill is proud to present this special volume of articles compiled to celebrate the occasion of the 60th anniversary of NVMEN: International Review for the History of Religions in 2014. The articles in this volume have been selected under the auspices of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), and reflect critically on the past, present, and future of NVMEN, the IAHR and the study of the History of Religions.

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Book SynopsisConverso and Morisco are the terms applied to those Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity in large numbers and usually under duress in late Medieval Spain. The Converso and Morisco Studies publications will examine the implications of these mass conversions for the converts themselves, for their heirs (also referred to as Conversos and Moriscos) and for Medieval and Modern Spanish culture. As the essays in this collection attest, the study of the Converso and Morisco phenomena is not only important for those scholars focused on Spanish society and culture, but for academics everywhere interested in the issues of identity, Otherness, nationalism, religious intolerance and the challenges of modernity. Contributors include Mercedes Alcalá-Galan, Ruth Fine, Kevin Ingram, Yosef Kaplan, Sara T. Nalle, Juan Ignacio Pulido Serrano, Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço, Ashar Salah, Gretchen Starr-LeBeau, Claude Stuczynski, and Gerard Wiegers.Trade Review“This impeccably edited volume contains tables, images, and an index, and is to be commended for managing to cover the entire temporal and geographical scope of its topic. It is recommended for anybody interested in the history of Moriscos and Conversos, especially since this is a neglected but rich field in need of further research.” Philipp Reisner, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 49, No. 2 (summer 2018), pp. 533-535.Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Series Introduction Introduction to this Volume Kevin Ingram Chapter One A Forgotten Campaign against the Conversos of Sigüenza: Pedro Cortés and the Inquisition of Cuenca Sara T Nalle Chapter Two Iberians before the Venetian Inquisition Gretchen Starr-Le Beau Chapter Three The Psalms of David by Daniel Israel López Laguna, a Wandering Jew Ruth Fine Chapter Four Anti-Rabbinic Texts and Converso Identities: Ferna͂o Ximenes de Araga͂os Catholic Doctrine Claude B Stuczynski Chapter Five Injurious Lexicons: Inquisitorial Testimonies regarding New Christians in Macacu, Manila and Nagasaki in the Late Sixteenth Century Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço Chapter Six Converso Complicities in an Atlantic Monarchy: Political and Social Conflicts behind Inquisitorial Persecution Ignacio Pulido Serrano Chapter Seven Philip II as the New Solomon: The Covert Promotion of Religious Toleration and Synergism in Post-Tridentine Spain Kevin Ingram Chapter Eight The Granada Lead Books Translator Miguel de Luna as a Model for both the Toledan Morisco Translator and the Arab Historian Cidi Hamete Benengeli in Cervantes’ Don Quijote Gerard Wiegers Chapter Nine An Attempted Morisco Settlement in Early Seventeenth Century Tuscany Asher Salah Chapter Ten From Mooresses to Odalisques: Representations of the Mooress in the Discourse of the Expulsion Apologists Mercedes Alcalá-Galan Chapter Eleven This Thing Will Preserve their Nation Forever: Circumcision and Conversion in the EarlyModern Western Sephardic Communities Yosef Kaplan Index

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Book SynopsisThis study examines the history of an Arabic Bible translation of American missionaries in late Ottoman Syria. Comparing the history of this project as recorded by the American missionaries with private correspondence and the manuscripts of the translation, The Contested Origins of the 1865 Arabic Bible provides new evidence for the Bible’s compilation, including the seminal role of Syrian Christians and Muslims. This research also places the project within the wider social-political framework of a transforming Ottoman Empire, where the rise of a literate class in Beirut served as a catalyst for the Arabic literary renaissance (Nahḍa), and within the international field of New Testament textual studies.Table of ContentsForeword List of Illustrations 1 Contested Origins and Contested Contributions American Missions in the Middle East The Arabic Bible Contested Identities within the American Mission Eli Smith Buṭrus al-Bustānī Nāṣīf al-Yāzijī Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck Yūsuf al-Asīr 2 The American Syrian Mission: Evangelism, Schools and the Press Evangelism through Preaching and Bible Distribution Protestant—Catholic Relations Establishing Schools Challenging Arab Syrian Culture 64 The Transformation of Beirut and the Establishment of Printing Presses 3 Debate over the Origins and American Contributions to the Nahḍa The Nahḍa Educational Renaissance Cultural Societies Literary Renaissance The Debate over the Role of the Americans in the Nahḍa George Antonius (1891–1942) Albert Hourani (1915–1993) Abdul Latif al-Tibawi (1910–1981) Yūsuf Nasrallah (1911–1993) and the Oriental Catholic Churches 4 Contributions to Nineteenth Century Biblical Scholarship The Bible Societies and Publishing Houses The British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) and the American Bible Society (ABS) The Search for the Text of the New Testament Eli Smith and Edward Robinson Biblical Scholarship of the 1865 Arabic Bible Translation The textus receptus versus the eclectic text 5 The Text of the 1865 Arabic Bible Translation The Received Tradition (RT) of the Translation Primary and Secondary Sources of the so-called Van Dyck Smith’s Views on Arabic Choosing the Classical Style Smith’s Method of Translation The Death of Smith and the Appointment of Van Dyck Van Dyck’s Method of Translation The Correction of the eclectic text The so-called Van Dyck Manuscripts “Revised” or “Reviewed” 6 Reception of the Translation Publication of the Translation Responses to the so-called Van Dyck A New Translation? The Catholic Response Muslim Responses A Changing Arabic 7 Overstated, Overlooked, and Undervalued Contributions Overstated Overlooked Undervalued The so-called Van Dyck Further Research . . . Appendix Bibliography Index of Subjects and Names 271

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Book SynopsisThe interdisciplinary volume Transfer of Buddhism across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries), edited by Carmen Meinert, offers a new transregional and transcultural vision for religious transfer processes in Central Asian history. It looks at the region as an integrated (religious) whole rather than from the perspective of fragmented sub-disciplines and analyses the spread of Buddhism as a driving force in a societal and cultural change of pan-Asian importance. One particular dimension of this ‘Buddhist globalisation’ was the rise of local forms of Buddhism. This volume explores Buddhist localisations through manuscripts and material culture in the multiethnic oases of the Tarim basin, the Transhimalyan region of Zangskar, Ladakh and Kashmir and the Western Tibetan Kingdom of Purang-Guge.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements General Abbreviations Bibliographical Abbreviations Illustrations Notes on contributors - Introduction: Dynamics of Buddhist Transfer in Central Asia CARMEN MEINERT - Changing political and Religious Contexts in Central Asia on a Micoro-Historical Level Chapter 1: Changing Relations between Administration, Clergy and Lay People in Eastern Central Asia: A Case Study According to the Dunhuang Manuscripts Referring to the Transition from Tibetan to Local Rule in Dunhuang, 8th–11th Centuries GERTRAUD TAENZER - Textual Transfer Chapter 2: Tibetan Buddhism in Central Asia: Geopolitics and Group Dynamics SAM VAN SCHAIK Chapter 3: The Transmission of Sanskrit Manuscripts from India to Tibet: The Case of a Manuscript Collection in the Possession of Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna (980–1054) KAZUO KANO - Visual Transfer Chapter 4: The Tibetan Himalayan Style: Considering the Central Asian Connection LINDA LOJDA/DEBORAH KLIMBURG-SALTER/ MONICA STRINU Chapter 5: Origins of the Kashmiri Style in the Western Himalayas: Sculpture of the 7th–11th Centuries ROB LINROTHE - Transfer Agents Chapter 6: Buddhism in the West Uyghur Kingdom and Beyond JENS WILKENS Chapter 7: Esoteric Buddhism at the Crossroads: Religious Dynamics at Dunhuang, 9th–10th Centuries HENRIK H. SØRENSEN - Bibliography - Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is the fruit of the first ever interdisciplinary international scientific conference on Matthew's story of the Star of Bethlehem and the Magi, held in 2014 at the University of Groningen, and attended by world-leading specialists in all relevant fields: modern astronomy, the ancient near-eastern and Greco-Roman worlds, the history of science, and religion. The scholarly discussions and the exchange of the interdisciplinary views proved to be immensely fruitful and resulted in the present book. Its twenty chapters describe the various aspects of The Star: the history of its interpretation, ancient near-eastern astronomy and astrology and the Magi, astrology in the Greco-Roman and the Jewish worlds, and the early Christian world – at a generally accessible level. An epilogue summarizes the fact-fiction balance of the most famous star which has ever shone.Trade Review“The Star of Bethlehem is known to almost everybody, whatever their personal faith - be it through the Nativity story told in Matthew’s Gospel or through art and material culture where the depiction of the Star has played a hugely important role for centuries. Church Fathers and scholars alike have debated the ‘when’ and ‘what’ for almost as long, resulting in very different interpretations. However, what had been missing so far was a multi-disciplinary approach. The Groningen symposium has done just that, for the first time ever asking experts in very different fields to answer the same four questions about the Star, namely ‘What?’, ‘When?’, ‘How?’ and ‘Why?’ The learned, surprising, thought-provoking answers in this fascinating volume are a must-read for anybody interested in a phenomenon that has influenced our culture like few others.” Silke Ackermann FSA, Director, Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford “When one considers that the source of the material treated in this book consists of only twelve verses of the Bible (Matthew 2: 1-12), this is a remarkable collection of research papers. Throughout the book there appears a wide range of judgments on the nature and historicity of Matthew’s story, from the claim that it is midrash, a rabbinical commentary which tells a beautiful story to interpret events to gentiles by the use of texts from the Old Testament, to the description of an historical happening. Since Matthew is not here to tell us, the reader will have the interesting task of judging among the expert views.” George V. Coyne, S.J., Director Emeritus, Vatican Observatory “The nature of the Star of Bethlehem has fascinated our society for many centuries. ‘The Star’ has attracted the attention of artists, astronomers, historians, science fiction writers, theologians and others. This book summarizes the views of world-experts in a variety of fields presented at a multidisciplinary conference in Groningen in 2014. While there is no clear consensus on the nature of ‘The Star’, the twenty chapters provide an intriguing and eminently readable assessment of an enigmatic event that is directly connected to the advent of one of the major religions in our world.” Tim de Zeeuw, Director General, European Southern Observatory (ESO) "The impressive assembly of specialised knowledge makes the book both a fascinating and a daunting read." Ari Heinze, Waianae, Hawaii, Southeastern Theological Review 8:1Table of ContentsPrologue, Peter Barthel and George van Kooten PART I: FROM KEPLER TO MOLNAR – THE HISTORY OF THE INTERPRETATION OF THE STAR 1. Kepler’s De Vero Anno (1614), Owen Gingerich 2. The Historical Basis for the Star of Bethlehem, Michael R. Molnar 3. A Critical Look at the History of Interpreting the Star of Bethlehem in Scientific Literature and Biblical Studies, Aaron Adair 4. An Astronomical and Historical Evaluation of Molnar’s Solution.Bradley E. Schaefer 5. Astronomical Thoughts on the Star of Bethlehem, David W. Hughes 6. De Ster der Wijzen (1920): A Forgotten Early Publication About the Star of Bethlehem, Teije de Jong PART II: THE STAR – WHAT, WHEN, AND HOW 7. What, If Anything?, Peter Barthel 8. The Astronomical Resources for Ancient Astral Prognostications, Alexander Jones PART III: ANCIENT NEAR-EASTERN ASTRONOMY AND THE MAGI 9. Mesopotamian Astrological Geography, John M. Steele 10. The Story of the Magi in the Light of Alexander the Great's Encounters with Chaldeans, Mathieu Ossendrijver 11. Pre-Islamic Iranian Astral Mythology, Astrology, and the Star of Bethlehem, Antonio Panaino PART IV: ASTROLOGY IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD 12. Matthew’s Magi as Experts on Kingship, Albert de Jong 13. Greco-Roman Astrologers, the Magi, and Mithraism, Roger Beck 14.The Star of Bethlehem and Greco-Roman Astrology, Especially Astrological Geography, Stephan Heilen PART V: ASTROLOGY IN THE JEWISH WORLD 15. The World Leader from the Land of the Jews: Josephus, Jewish War 6.300–315; Tacitus, Histories 5.13; and Suetonius, Vespasian 4.5, Jan Willem van Henten 16. Stars and Powers: Astrological Thinking in Imperial Politics from the Hasmoneans to Bar Kokhba, Kocku von Stuckrad 17. Balaam’s ‘Star Oracle’ (Num 24:15–19) in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Bar Kokhba, Helen R. Jacobus PART VI: THE EARLY CHRISTIAN WORLD 18. The Star of the Magi and the Prophecy of Balaam in Earliest Christianity, with Special Attention to the Lost Books of Balaam, Darrell Hannah 19. Matthew’s Star, Luke’s Census, Bethlehem, and the Quest for the Historical Jesus, Annette Merz 20. Matthew, the Parthians, and the Magi: A Contextualization of Matthew’s Gospel in Roman-Parthian Relations of the First Centuries BCE and CE, George van Kooten Epilogue, Peter Barthel and George van Kooten

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Book SynopsisThis volume deals with the transformative force of Observant reforms during the long fifteenth century, and with the massive literary output by Observant religious, a token of a profound pastoral professionalization that provided religious and lay people alike with encompassing models of religious perfection, as well as with new tools to shape their religious identity. The essays in this work contend that these models and tools had an ongoing effect far into the sixteenth century (on all sides of the emerging confessional divide). At the same time, the controversies surrounding Observant reforms resulted in new sensibilities with regard to religious practices and religious nomenclature, which would fuel many of the early sixteenth-century controversies. Contributors are Michele Camaioni, Anna Campbell, Fabrizio Conti, Anna Dlabačová, Sylvie Duval, Koen Goudriaan, Emily Michelson, Alison More, Bert Roest, Anne Thayer, Johanneke Uphoff, Alessandro Vanoli, Ludovic Viallet, and Martina Wehrli-Johns.Trade Review"[This book] makes a very useful contribution to scholarship of the Church at a crucial time of reform, initially Observant and later Protestant. It marshals textual, historical, and art historical evidence to this end... The book highlights the potential of this area for further study, especially using art historical and architectural evidence to investigate the Observance." - Yvonne McDermott, in: Renaissance Quarterly 70.2 (2017). "[The volume] thus succeeds in one of its primary goals, highlighting the greater need (and possibility) for a deeper understanding of this period of religious identity formation, both for its own sake and with regard to discussion of later issues of religious reform and challenge." - Stefan Visnjevac, in: Journal of Ecclesiastical History 68.4 (2017). "This volume, the thirteenth in the Brill Medieval Franciscans Series, represents one of the outcomes of a large interdisciplinary research project entitled Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation c. 1420–c.1620 based at Radboud University, Nijmegen. It showcases the work of established and emerging scholars, presents much new material, and opens up several exciting lines of further research. [...] This is a very fascinating volume." Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB in The Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies, 7 (2018), 358–361Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors viii 1 Introduction 1 Bert Roest and Johanneke Uphoff 2 The Observance’s Women: New Models of Sanctity and Religious Discipline for the Female Dominican Observant Movement during the Fifteenth Century 13 Sylvie Duval 3 Creating a Colettine Identity in an Observant and Post-Observant World: Narratives of the Colettine Reforms after 1447 32 Anna Campbell 4 Instruction and Construction: Sermons and the Formation of a Clarissan Identity in Nuremberg 48 Johanneke Uphoff 5 Canonical Change and the Orders of ‘Franciscan’ Tertiaries 69 Alison More 6 Transcending the Order: The Pursuit of Observance and Religious Identity Formation in the Low Countries, c. 1450–1500 86 Anna Dlabačova 7 Selections in a World of Multiple Options: The Witness of Thomas Swalwell, osb 110 Anne T. Thayer 8 ‘The Prayer Booklet of Eternal Wisdom’ (Der ewigen wiszheit Betbüchlin, 1518): Catechistic Shaping of Religious Lay Identity 126 Martina Wehrli-Johns 9 The Vineyard of Saint Francis 152 Koen Goudriaan 10 The Name of God, the Name of Saints, the Name of the Order: Reflections on the ‘Franciscan’ Identity during the Observant Period 172 Ludovic Viallet 11 The American Inquisition and the Arabic Language: A Short Note about the Invention of the Moriscos in the Sixteenth Century 191 Alessandro Vanoli 12 Grids for Confessing Sins: Notes on Instruments for Pastoral Care in Late Medieval Milan 201 Fabrizio Conti 13 Capuchin Reform, Religious Dissent and Political Issues in Bernardino Ochino’s Preaching in and towards Italy (1535–1545) 214 Michele Camaioni 14 How to Write a Conversionary Sermon: Rhetorical Influences and Religious Identity 235 Emily Michelson Index of Names 253 Index of Places and Subjects 256 List of Illustrations

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Book SynopsisThe so-called eighth Stromateus (‘liber logicus’) by Clement of Alexandria (d. before 221 C.E.) is an understudied source for ancient philosophy, particularly the tradition of the Aristotelian methodology of science, scepticism, and the theories of causation. A series of capitula dealing with inquiry and demonstration, it bears but few traces of Christian interests. In this volume, Matyáš Havrda provides a new edition, translation, and lemmatic commentary of the text. The vexing question of the origin of this material and its place within Clement’s oeuvre is also addressed. Defending the view of ‘liber logicus’ as a collection of excerpts made or adopted by Clement for his own (apologetic and exegetical) use, Havrda argues that its source could be Galen’s lost treatise On Demonstration.Trade Review“this is a truly excellent monograph, which should bring an obscure text to the greater readership it deserves. Havrda’s important work shows how vital it is for those interested in ancient medicine to examine Christian texts as well, which often contain testimony of philosophical and scientific theory otherwise lost.” - Dawn LaValle Norman, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.09.38 "Havrda's study is a work of consummate erudition, published at an apposite moment for patristics, ancient philosophy, and potentially early imperial literary scholarship---though his own weight of attention and interest is clearly pointed toward the philosophical tradition." - Jane Heath, University of Durham, in: The Expository Times 129(10) "Matyáš Havrda [...] hat ein gehaltvolles Buch vorgelegt, das nicht nur für Studien zu Clemens von Alexandrien wichtig sein wird, sondern darüber hinaus für die Erforschung der Philosophie- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte des 2. und 3. Jh.s insgesamt von Belang ist. [...] Der V[erfasser] hat damit ein sehr wertvolles Arbeitsintrument bereitgestellt, das allen, die mit dieser Materie zu tun haben, hoch willkommen sein wird." - Dietmar Wyrwa, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 145 (2020) 1/2Table of ContentsContents Preface Abbreviations Introduction. The Riddle of the ‘Eighth Stromateus’: Questions and Solutions Ancient and Byzantine Testimonies Composition and Contents Modern Interpretations Liber logicus The So-Called Eighth Stromateus (‘Liber logicus’) by Clement of Alexandria: Greek Text, Translation, and Commentary Prefatory Note to the Greek Text and Translation Greek Text and Translation Commentary (i) 1, 1–2, 5: ‘Seek and You Will Find’ (ii) 3, 1–(iii) 8, 3: Teaching on Demonstration (iii) 8, 4–(v) 15, 1: Method of Discovery (v) 15, 2–16 3: Suspension of Judgement i (vi) 17, 1–21, 6: Division and Definition (vii) 22, 1–4: Suspension of Judgement ii (viii) 23, 1–24, 9: Categories (ix) 25, 1–33, 9: Causes Bibliography Index of Modern Authors Index of Subjects and Names Index of Sources

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Book SynopsisThe Egyptian Nonnus of Panopolis (5th century AD), author of both the ‘pagan’ Dionysiaca, the longest known poem from Antiquity (21,286 lines in 48 books, the same number of books as the Iliad and Odyssey combined), and a ‘Christian’ hexameter Paraphrase of St John’s Gospel (3,660 lines in 21 books), is no doubt the most representative poet of Greek Late Antiquity. Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis provides a collection of 32 essays by a large international group of scholars, experts in the field of archaic, Hellenistic, Imperial, and Christian poetry, as well as scholars of late antique Egypt, Greek mythology and religion, who explore the various aspects of Nonnus’ baroque poetry and its historical, religious and cultural background.Trade Review''In scope, scale and breath, Accorinti and his team deserve plaudits: the project has more than achieved its aim of providing a wide-ranging reference work for scholars of Nonnus and Late Antiquity. The expertise of the collaborators is apparent at every turn of the page; so too is the enthusiasm. Well presented with very few spelling or typographical errors, it will become an undoubtedly useful handbook for all future readers who come to ask the poet their questions.'' Emma Greensmith, Plekos 2018.20 "Nonnos est loin encore d’avoir livre tous ses secrets:grâce à ce Companion, le lecteur s’engagera dans cette voie bien accompagné." Delphine Lauritzen in L’Antiquité Classique 87 (2018).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction: Becoming A Classic Domenico Accorinti Part 1 - Author, Context, and Religion 1 The Poet from Panopolis: An Obscure Biography and a Controversial Figure Domenico Accorinti 2 Nonnus’ Panopolis Peter van Minnen 3 The Religious Background of Nonnus Jitse H.F. Dijkstra Part 2 – The Dionysiaca 4 Nonnus and Dionysiac-Orphic Religion Alberto Bernabe and Rosa Garcia-Gasco 5 The Poet of Dionysus: Birth of the Last among the Gods Pierre Chuvin 6 Major Themes and Motifs in the Dionysiaca Fotini Hadjittofi 7 Minor Characters in the Dionysiaca Berenice Verhelst 8 Narrative and Digression in the Dionysiaca Camille Geisz 9 The Psychology in the Dionysiaca Ronald F. Newbold Part 3 – The Paraphrase of St John’s Gospel 10 Nonnus and Biblical Epic Mary Whitby 11 Approaching the ‘Spiritual Gospel’: Nonnus as Interpreter of John Roberta Franchi 12 Nonnus’ Paraphrastic Technique: A Case Study of Self-Recognition in John 9 Scott Fitzgerald Johnson 13 Nonnus and Christian Literature Christos Simelidis 14 Nonnus’ Christology Fabian Sieber 15 The Mystery Terminology in Nonnus’ Paraphrase Filip Doroszewski Part 4 - Metre, Style, Poetry, and Visual Arts 16 The Nonnian Hexameter Enrico Magnelli 17 Nonnus’ Conventional Formulaic Style Gennaro D’Ippolito 18 Nonnus and the Play of Genres Anna Maria Lasek 19 Nonnus’ Poetics Daria Gigli Piccardi 20 Nonnus and the Poetry of Ekphrasis in the Dionysiaca Riemer A. Faber 21 Nonnus and the Art of Late Antiquity Troels Myrup Kristensen Part 5 - Nonnus and the Classical Tradition 22 Nonnus and the Homeric Poems Herbert Bannert and Nicole Kroll 23 Composing the Masters: An Essay on Nonnus and Hellenistic Poetry Benjamin Acosta-Hughes 24 Nonnus and Imperial Greek Poetry Calum Alasdair Maciver 25 Nonnus and the Novel Laura Miguelez-Cavero Part 6 - An Interpretation of Nonnus’ Work 26 Christian Themes in the Dionysiaca Robert Shorrock 27 Pagan Themes in the Paraphrase Konstantinos Spanoudakis 28 Nonnus and Prophecy: Between ‘Pagan’ and ‘Christian’ Voices Jane L. Lightfoot 29 Nonnus and Late Antique Society Gianfranco Agosti Part 7 - The Transmission and Reception of Nonnus’ Poems 30 Brief Notes on the Manuscript Tradition of Nonnus’ Works Claudio De Stefani 31 The Reception of Nonnus in Late Antiquity, Byzantine, and Renaissance Literature Francesco Tissoni 32 The Influence of Nonnus on Baroque and Modern Literature David Hernandez de la Fuente Bibliography General Index Index of Principal Nonnian Passages

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Book SynopsisThe Huguenots are among the best known of early modern European religious minorities. Their suffering in 16th and 17th-century France is a familiar story. The flight of many Huguenots from the kingdom after 1685 conferred upon them a preeminent place in the accounts of forced religious migrations. Their history has become synonymous with repression and intolerance. At the same time, Huguenot accomplishments in France and the lands to which they fled have long been celebrated. They are distinguished by their theological formulations, political thought, and artistic achievements. This volume offers an encompassing portrait of the Huguenot past, investigates the principal lines of historical development, and suggests the interpretative frameworks that scholars have advanced for appreciating the Huguenot experience.Trade Review“an absorbing and informative read and a very useful addition to my bookshelf.” - Jane McKee, Ulster University, in: Huguenot Society Journal, 2017, pp. 721-722 “a clear overview of the current state of affairs of Huguenot research [….]. The companion offers a wide perspective on Huguenot history for a nonspecialist readership.” - David Onnekink, Utrecht University, in: Renaissance Quarterly 71.2 (Summer 2018), pp. 768-769 “This is an important new collection that should be of great interest to those who study early modern history, not just Huguenot specialists but wider audiences too.” - Nicholas Must, Wilfrid Laurier University, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies 4.1 (2017), pp. 125-127 “Für die wissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit den Hugenotten ebenso wie für die Migrationsforschung der Frühen Neuzeit wird man auf das Buch künftig kaum verzichten können.” - Alexander Schunka, Freie Universität Berlin, in: Historische Zeitschrift, Bd. 307 (2018), pp. 833-834Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Notes on Contributors Abbreviations Introduction: Raymond A. Mentzer and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke Part One: France 1 Organizing the Churches and Reforming Society Philippe Chareyre and Raymond Mentzer 2 Doctrine and Liturgy of the Reformed Churches of France Marianne Carbonnier-Burkard 3 Huguenot Political Thought and Activities Hugues Daussy 4 Pacifying the Kingdom of France at the Beginning of the Wars of Religion: Historiography, Sources, and Examples Jérémie Foa 5 Women in the Huguenot Community Amanda Eurich 6 Pulpit and Pen: Pastors and Professors as Shapers of the Huguenot Tradition Karin Maag 7 The Huguenots and Art, c. 1560–1685 Andrew Spicer 8 The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and the Désert Didier Boisson Part Two: The Diaspora 9 Diasporic Networks and Immigration Policies Susanne Lachenicht 10 Assimilation and Integration Myriam Yardeni 11 Sociolinguistics of the Huguenot Communities in German-Speaking Territories Manuela Böhm 12 Huguenot Memoirs Carolyn Chappell Lougee 13 Histories of Martyrdom and Suffering in the Huguenot Diaspora David van der Linden 14 Huguenot Congregations in Colonial New York and Massachusetts: Reassessing the Paradigm of Anglican Conformity Paula Carlo 15 The Huguenot Refuge and European Imperialism Owen Stanwood 16 Le Refuge: History and Memory from the 1770s to the Present Bertrand Van Ruymbeke Bibliography Index LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Andrew Spicer, The Huguenots and Art, c. 1560-1685 1. Jean Perrissin, The Massacre at Tours, July 1562. (© Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) 2. Jean Perrissin ( ?), Temple of Lyon. [Courtesy of BGE (Bibliothèque de Genève), Centre d'iconographie genevoise] 3. François Dubois, The Massacre of St Bartholomew, (c. 1572–1584). (Courtesy of Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne. Don de la Municipalité de Lausanne, 1862. Inv. 729. Photo: N. Rupp) 4. Jacques le Moyne de Morgues, Laudonnierus et rex athore ante columnam a praefecto prima navigatione locatam quamque venerantur floridenses. (Courtesy of the Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lennox and Tilden Foundations) 5. Jacques le Moyne, Studies of Flowers: A Rose, a Heartsease, a Sweet Pea, a Garden Pea, and a Lax-flowered Orchid. (Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) 6. Sébastien Bourdon, Crucifixion of St Andrew. (Courtesy of the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais / René-Gabriel Ojéda) 7. Sébastien Bourdon, Solomon’s Sacrifices to the Idols. [Courtesy of the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Stéphane Maréchalle] 8. Jacob Bunel, Henry IV. [Courtesy of the Musée du Louvre, Paris. D.A.G. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Michèle Bellot] 9. Jean Morin after Ferdinand Elle, Henry IV. (Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, Accession No.1984.25.20. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) 10. Ferdinand Elle, Louis XIII. (Courtesy Chiswick House, London. © English Heritage) 11. Ferdinand Elle, Anne of Austria. (Courtesy of Chiswick House, London. © English Heritage) 12. Henri Testelin, Louis XIV. [Courtesy of Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Versailles. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Château de Versailles) / Gérard Blot] 13. Louis Du Guernier, Miniature of James II, later King of England, as a Young Man (1656). (© Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) 14. Robert Nanteuil after Sébastien Bourdon, Queen Christina of Sweden. (© Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) 15. Sébastien Bourdon, Queen Christina of Sweden. (Courtesy of Prado Museum, Madrid. Photo © Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Dist. RMN-GP / image du Prado) 16. Louis Ferdinand Elle, Samuel Bernard. [Courtesy of Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Versailles. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Château de Versailles) / Daniel Arnaudet / Jean Schormans] 17. Louise Moillon, Plate of Cherries, Grapes and a Melon. [Courtesy of Musée du Louvre, Paris. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Michel Urtado] 18. Jacques Rousseau, Preliminary sketch for painted decoration probably for a drum or building of circular plan in the Great Greenhouse or the Orangery at the Chateau of St. Cloud in France. (© V&A) 19. Louis Testelin, The Holy Family with St Anne. (Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund2014.37.4. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington) 20. Abraham Bosse, Benediction of the Table. (© Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) 21. Abraham Bosse, The Wise Virgins at their Devotions. (Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund 2003.127.1.1. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington) 22. Abraham Bosse, Vows of the King and Queen to the Virgin. (Courtesy of The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) 23. Abraham Bosse, David with the head of Goliath, (Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917, Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) David van der Linden, Histories of Martyrdom and Suffering in the Huguenot Diaspora 1. Frontispiece of Pierre Jurieu’s Histoire du Calvinisme, depicting the crucifixion of the true Church in the form of a woman. (Courtesy of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, KW 1791 F 101) 2. Frontispiece to the first volume of the Histoire de l’Edit de Nantes, depicting French Protestantism as a woman assailed from all sides. [Courtesy of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, KW 3067 A 1 (1)] 3. Jan Luyken, The whipping of Louis de Neuville in Orange, engraving from Elie Benoist, Historie der Gereformeerde Kerken van Vrankryk (Amsterdam: 1696), vol. 2. (Courtesy of University Library Leiden, BWA 147)  

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Book SynopsisThe seventeenth century was a period of major social change in central sudanic Africa. Islam spread from royal courts to rural communities, leading to new identities, new boundaries and new tasks for experts of the religion. Addressing these issues, the Bornu scholar Muḥammad al-Wālī acquired an exceptional reputation. Dorrit van Dalen’s study places him within his intellectual environment, and portrays him as responding to the concerns of ordinary Muslims. It shows that scholars on the geographical margins of the Muslim world participated in the debates in the centres of Muslim learning of the time, but on their own terms. Al-Wālī’s work also sheds light on a century in the Islamic history of West Africa that has until now received little attention.Trade Review'To conclude, van Dalen’s book is an important contribution, successfully navigating between global and local contexts. Doubt, Scholarship and Society encompasses text edition and translation with a trans-disciplinary analysis combining micro and global history, anthropology, religious studies, and palaeography, which is the best way, in this reviewers opinion, to renovate African history'. Rémi Dewière, European University Institute in Reading Religion http://readingreligion.org/books/doubt-scholarship-and-society-17th-century-central-sudanic-africaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements A note on transliteration Map of western and northern Africa 1. Preface 1. One man in his environment 2. Coordinates 3. Intellectual history and philology 4. Peripheries 5. Sources and structure 2. Dramatis loci 1. A history of Bornu and Baghirmi as Islamic states 2. The spread of Islam 3. Ethnicity, religion, slavery 4. Islam and traditional religions 5. Conclusion 3. Muḥammad al-Wālī 1. Biography 2. Works 3. Reputation 4. Education 5. Conclusion 4. The scholar’s habitat 1. Scholarship 2. Religious leadership 3. Intellectual environment: genres 4. Intellectual environment: themes 5. Conclusion 5. Method and message 1. Al-Sanūsi’s Ṣughra 2. The Kabbe 3. Between oral and scholarly text 4. Tradition with a twist 5. Conclusion 6. Demonising smokers 1. How tobacco conquered the Islamic lands 2. Al-Wālī’s point of view 3. A folktale about the devil’s piss 4. From Abgar to al-Azhar 5. Conclusion 7. On writing 1. Author and authority 2. Why did al-Wālī translate the Fulani commentary? 3. From orality to literacy 4. Knowing and the knower 5. Conclusion 8. Certainties in times of choice Annex I. Al-adilla al-ḥisān fī bayān taḥrīm shurb al-dukhān. An edition of the Arabic text. Annex II. Valid proofs to proclaim smoking forbidden. A translation. Annex III. ʿAwsikum yā maʿshar al-ikhwān. An edition of al-Wālī’s poem. Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn Augustine’s Cyprian Matthew Gaumer retraces how Augustine of Hippo devised the ultimate strategy to suppress Donatist Christianity, an indigenous form of the religion in ancient North Africa. Spanning nearly forty years, Augustine’s entire clerical career was spent combating the Donatists and seeking the dominance of the Catholic Church in North Africa. Through a variety of approaches Augustine evolved a method to successfully outlaw and deconstruct the Donatist Church’s organisation. This hinged on concerted preaching, tract writing, integrating Roman imperial authorities, and critically: by denying the Donatists’ exclusive claim to Cyprian of Carthage. Re-appropriation of Cyprian’s authority required Augustine and his allies to re-write history and pose positions contrary to Cyprian’s. In the end, Cyprian was the Donatists’ no longer.Trade Review"This is a compellingly interesting study, well executed and raising new questions for the Augustine-Cyprian relations." - Allen Brent, King’s College, London, in: Church History and Religious Culture 98:1 (2018), pp. 139-141.Table of ContentsContents Preface List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Timelines Introduction Part 1 Augustine’s Early Years as a Church Leader and Initial Reactions to Donatist Christianity Augustine’s First Years of Ministry, the 390s The Need for an Auctoritas, Why Did Augustine Need Cyprian? The Election of Primian and Its Polemical Consequences, Mid 390s Part 2 The Maturation of the Anti-Donatist Campaign De Baptismo and the Controversy’s Escalation, 400–01 The Process of Appropriation Sustaining Appropriation Part 3 Augustine’s Cyprian in the Pelagian Controversy The Cyprian-Appropriation in the Anti-Pelagian Campaigns General Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA Companion to Ostrogothic Italy is a concise yet comprehensive survey of Italy’s first barbarian kingdom, the Ostrogothic state (ca. 489-554 CE). The volume’s 18 essays cover both traditional topics (such as the Ostrogothic army) and hitherto under-examined subjects (for example Italy’s environmental history), and are designed for new students and specialists.Trade Review"The period of Ostrogothic rule in Italy is a liminal one... Given this chronological uncertainty along with the ongoing debates over what precisely the year 476 meant to whom (and when), the editors have wisely opted for a “long and wide” approach to the topic, encompassing everything from Odoacer through the Lombard invasion, thereby including the full sweep of the Ostrogothic Kingdom both inside and outside of Italy...The current volume is a welcome guide to Ostrogothic Italy... [it] is free from typographical errors and enhanced throughout by high quality maps and images, especially in the chapter on art and architecture. The editors are also to be commended for producing such a consistent and even-handed volume despite several intense disagreements that currently divide the field." Marion Kruse, in: Medioevo Greco 17 (2017), 450-52. "The volume more than succeeds in its stated intention of providing a cutting-edge synthesis of recent scholarship on the Ostrogothic period in Italy that will be of use to students and scholars alike." James Wood, in: Early Medieval Europe 27 (I) (2019), 133-135. ''There is in this work, as one might expect and hope, a lot of valuable detail, but the analysis of this detail is rendered in such a way as to furnish scholars with new answers and avenues of approach for the future. It will remain a fundamental companion for some years to come. [...] this is a vital work for both seasoned scholars and students and will provide a useful impetus for future work and research''. Cristopher Heath, in Al-Masāq, Journal of Medieval Mediterranean , 30/2, (2018).

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Book SynopsisPatricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 3, Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness, places the rise of Islam in the context of the ancient Near East and investigates sceptical and subversive ideas in the Islamic world. Volume 1, The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters, pursues the reconstruction of the religious environment in which Islam arose and develops an intertextual approach to studying the Qurʾānic religious milieu. Volume 2, The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands, examines the reception of pre-Islamic legacies in Islam, above all that of the Iranians. The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist StrandsTable of ContentsEditor’s preface Author’s preface 1. ‘Barefoot and naked’: What did the bedouin of the Arab conquests look like? 2. The ancient Near East and Islam: The case of lot-casting 3. Idrīs, Atraḫasīs and al-Khiḍr 4. Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥaḍrī and the punishment of unbelievers 5. The Dahrīs according to al-Jāḥiẓ 6. Ungodly cosmologies 7. Post-colonialism in tenth-century Islam 8. What are prophets for? The social utility of religion in medieval Islamic thought 9. Oral transmission of subversive ideas from the Islamic world to Europe: The case of the three impostors 10. How the field has changed in my lifetime 11. List of publications Index to volume 3

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Book SynopsisThis volume includes a wide range of papers that explore individual and institutional aspects of religion from a social-science perspective. The special section has articles related to the practice of prayer, and includes studies from the USA, Europe, and the Middle East. The general papers include studies on coping strategies, God representations, spirituality versus religion, self-control in a Muslim context, and faith-based organizations in Cambodia. Together these papers form a valuable collection indicating the depth and vibrancy of research in these fields.

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Book SynopsisThe volume contains critical editions of the extant parts of two hitherto unknown theological works by the Būyid vizier al-Ṣāḥib b. ʿAbbād (d. 385/925), who is well known to have vigorously promoted the teaching of Muʿtazilī theology throughout Būyid territories and beyond. The manuscripts on which the edition is based come from Cairo Geniza store rooms. They consist of two manuscripts for each of the two texts—testimony to the impact of al-Ṣāḥib’s education policy on the contemporaneous Jewish community in Cairo. The longer treatise of al-Ṣāḥib of ca. 350/960, possibly his Kitāb Nahj al-sabīl fī uṣūl al-dīn, appears to be the earliest Muʿtazilī work preserved among the Jewish community. The second, briefer treatise also contains a commentary by ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Hamadānī (d. 415/1025).Trade Review"This is certainly a book of interest for the students of Mutazilite theology as well as for those interested in the cultural context and content of the era of the Buyid Dynasty." - Stavros Nikolaidis, in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies 27 (2018)

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Book SynopsisThis book deals with the religious and ideological consequences of mass conversion in Iberia - where Jews and Muslims were forcibly converted or expelled at the end of the XVth century and beginning of the XVIth- and most specially with the relationship between origins and faith. It also deals with the consequences of coercion on intellectual debates and on the production of knowledge and addresses questions such as dissimulation, dissidence, religious doubt and unbelief.Trade ReviewChapter One, Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish Legions by Adam G. Beaver is the winner of the 2017 Bishko Prize for best article on medieval Iberian history published by a North American scholar. The prize is awarded by the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS).Table of ContentsList of figures Acknowledgements Notes on contributors 0. Introduction Mercedes García-Arenal Part I: Biblical Culture, Jewish Antiquities and New Forms of Sacred History 1. Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish Legions: Sephardic Legends’ Journey from Biblical Polemic to Humanist History Adam G. Beaver 2. Biblical Translations and Literalness in Early Modern Spain Fernando Rodríguez Mediano 3. Language as Archive: Etymologies and the Remote History of Spain Valeria López Fadul 4. The Search for Evidence: The Relics of Martyred Saints and Their Worship in Cordoba after the Council of Trent Cécile Vincent-Cassy Part II: Iberian Polemics, Readings of the Qurʾān and the Rise of European Orientalism 5. Textual Agnogenesis and the Polysemy of the Reader: Early Modern European Readings of Qur’ānic Embryology Pier Mattia Tommasino 6. A Witness of Their Own Nation: On the Influence of Juan Andrés Ryan Szpiech 7. Authority, Philology and Conversion under the Aegis of Martín García Teresa Soto González and Katarzyna K. Starczewska 8. Polemical Transfers: Iberian Muslim Polemics and their Impact in Northern Europe in the Seventeenth Century Gerard A. Wiegers Part III: Conversion and Perplexity 9. Assembling Alumbradismo: The Evolution of a Heretical Construct Jessica J. Fowler 10. Doubt in Fifteenth-Century Iberia Stefania Pastore 11. Mi padre moro, yo moro: The Inheritance of Belief in Early Modern Iberia Mercedes García-Arenal 12. Tropes of Expertise and Converso Unbelief: Huarte de San Juan’s History of Medicine Seth Kimmel 13. True Painting and the Challenge of Hypocrisy Felipe Pereda Bibliography General Index

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Book SynopsisThe Wycliffite Bible: Origin, History and Interpretation brings together contributions by leading scholars on different aspects of the first complete translation of the Bible into English, produced at the end of the 14th century by the followers of the Oxford theologian John Wyclif. Though learned and accurate, the translation was condemned and banned within twenty-five years of its appearance. In spite of this it became the most widely disseminated medieval English work that profoundly influenced the development of vernacular theology, religious writing, contemporary and later literature, and the English language. Its comprehensive study is long overdue and the current collection offers new perspectives and research on this, the most learned and widely evidenced of the European translations of the Vulgate. Contributors are Jeremy Catto‎, Lynda Dennison, Kantik Ghosh, Ralph Hanna, Anne Hudson, Maureen Jurkowski, Michael Kuczynski, Ian Christopher Levy, James Morey, Nigel Morgan, Stephen Morrison, Mark Rankin, Delbert Russell, Michael Sargent, Jakub Sichalek, Elizabeth Solopova, and Annie Sutherland‎.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements ix List of Illustrations x Abbreviations xii Bibliographic Abbreviations xiv Abbreviations for Biblical Books xviii Notes on Contributors xxi Introduction: New Directions in Research on the First English Bible 1 Elizabeth Solopova Part 1 Contexts 1 The Wycliffite Bible: The Historical Context 11 Jeremy Catto 2 The Place of Holy Scripture in John Wyclif’s Theology 27 Ian Christopher Levy 3 The European Background: ‘þe Bible and oþere bookis of deuociun and of exposicioun’ in French 49 Delbert Russell 4 European Background: Czech Translations 66 Jakub Sichalek 5 The Wycliffites: Hosts or Guests, First Finders or Followers? 85 James H. Morey Part 2 Text 6 The Latin Text 107 Anne Hudson and Elizabeth Solopova 7 The Origin and Textual Tradition of the Wycliffite Bible 133 Anne Hudson 8 The Prologues 162 Kantik Ghosh 9 The Wycliffite Psalms 183 Annie Sutherland 10 Dialect 202 Elizabeth Solopova Part 3 Manuscripts 11 The Manuscript Tradition 223 Elizabeth Solopova 12 The Palaeography of the Wycliffite Bibles in Oxford 246 Ralph Hanna 13 The Decoration of Wycliffite Bibles 266 Lynda Dennison and Nigel Morgan 14 Glossing and Glosses 346 Michael P. Kuczynski Part 4 Reception 15 The Selective Censorship of the Wycliffite Bible 371 Maureen Jurkowski 16 Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ 389 Michael G. Sargent 17 The Use of the Wycliffite Translation in Other Middle English Texts 406 Stephen Morrison 18 Reading the Wycliffite Bible in Reformation England 426 Mark Rankin 19 Editing the Wycliffite Bible 450 Anne Hudson Select Bibliography 467 Index of Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible 484 Index of Names, Places, and Texts 493

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Book SynopsisEarly Modern English Catholicism: Identity, Memory and Counter-Reformation brings together leading scholars in the field to explore the interlocking relationship between the key themes of identity, memory and Counter-Reformation and to assess the way the three themes shaped English Catholicism in the early modern period. The collection takes a long-term view of the historical development of English Catholicism and encompasses the English Catholic diaspora to demonstrate the important advances that have been made in the study of English Catholicism c.1570–1800. The interdisciplinary collection brings together scholars from history, literary, and art history backgrounds. Consisting of eleven essays and an afterword by the late John Bossy, the book underlines the significance of early modern English Catholicism as a contributor to national and European Counter-Reformation culture.Trade Review“A rewarding collection of essays.” Peter Marshall, University of Warwick. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 70, No. 1 (January 2019), pp. 188-190. “the collection reflects the growing prominence of early modern Catholic history in the British and European historiography and would be relevant to anyone interested in the social and cultural history of Catholicism.” Eilish Gregory, University College London. In: The English Historical Review, Vol. 134, No. 566 (February 2019), pp. 206-208.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction James E. Kelly and Susan Royal Part I: Identity 1. Situating Early Modern English Catholicism Brad S. Gregory 2. Creating an English Catholic Identity: Relics, Martyrs and English Women Religious in Counter-Reformation Europe James E. Kelly 3. A British Catholic Community? Ethnicity, Identity and Recusant Politics, 1660–1750 Gabriel Glickman 4. ‘Libera nos Domine?’ The Vicars Apostolic and the Suppressed/Restored English Province of the Society of Jesus Thomas M. McCoog, SJ Part II: Memory 5. ‘Attend to Me’: Julian of Norwich, Margaret Gascoigne and Textual Circulation among the Cambrai Benedictines Jaime Goodrich 6. English Catholics and English Heretics: The Lollards and Anti-Heresy Writing in Early Modern England Susan Royal 7. Joseph Reeve, SJ, the Park at Ugbrooke and the Cliffords of Chudleigh Matthew J. Martin Part III: Counter-Reformation 8. Underground Networks, Prisons and the Circulation of Counter-Reformation Books in Elizabethan England Earle Havens and Elizabeth Patton 9. The Gospel, Liturgy and Controversy in the 1590s: Thomas Stapleton’s Promptuaria William J. Sheils 10. Praying the Counter-Reformation Eamon Duffy 11. John Austin’s Devotions: Voicing Lyric, Voicing Prayer Susannah B. Monta Afterword John Bossy Index

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Book SynopsisChristian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History, Volume 11 (CMR 11) covering South and East Asia, Africa and the Americas in the period 1600-1700, is a continuing volume in a history of relations between the two faiths from the 7th to the early 20th century as this is reflected in written works. It comprises introductory essays and the main body of entries which treat all the works, surviving or lost, that are recorded. These entries provide biographical details of the authors, descriptions and assessments of their works, and complete accounts of publications and studies. The result of collaboration between numerous leading scholars, CMR 11, along with the other volumes in this series, is intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. Section Editors: Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabe Pons, Jaco Beyers, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, David D. Grafton, Stanisław Grodź, Alan Guenther, Emma Gaze Loghin, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton, Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Radu Păun, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Mehdi Sajid, Cornelia Soldat, Karel Steenbrink, Davide Tacchini, Ann Thomson, Serge Traore, Carsten WalbinerTrade Review'Apart from analyzing the vast corpus of works on Christian-Muslim relations between 1600 and 1700, this higly informative volume also carries the following four valuable articles: (i) Peter Riddell, ‘Christian Muslim Relations in the 17th Century’, (ii) B.W. Andaya, ‘Islam and Christianity in South-East Asia 1600-1700’, (iii) Martha Frederiks, ‘Enforced Migration: An Indian Ocean Africa Narrative’ and (iv) David D. Grafton, ‘Enforced Migration: An Atlantic Narrative in Christian Relations’. The coverage of the material is amazingly extensive for which the editors deserve every credit'. Abdur Raheem Kidwai, Aligarh Muslim University, India, in The Muslim World Book Review 38-2, 2018, p. 76

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Book SynopsisThis volume of essays contributes to our understanding of the ways in which the Jesuits employed emotions to “change hearts”—that is, convert or reform—both in Europe and in the overseas missions. The early modern Society of Jesus excited and channeled emotion through sacred oratory, Latin poetry, plays, operas, art, and architecture; it inflamed young men with holy desire to die for their faith in foreign lands; its missionaries initiated dialogue with and ‘accommodated’ to non-European cultural and emotional regimes. The early modern Jesuits conducted, in all senses of the word, much of the emotional energy of their times. As such, they provide a compelling focus for research into the links between rhetoric and emotion, performance and devotion, from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.Trade Review“a very interesting volume unified by the examination of the way the emotions were used to make converts or to help Christians make progress in the spiritual life.” John J. LaRocca, Xavier University. In: The Heythrop Journal, Vol. 61, No. 3 (May 2020), p. 527-528. “This book offers for the first time a collection of essays that focus with an innovative perspective on (often overlooked) Jesuit sources. A theoretical overview of the history of emotions in a Jesuit context is followed by multiple case-studies examined by the most important scholars in the field. It efficaciously studies the concrete ways in which emotions were used to “change hearts” of early modern people all over the world (while bringing them under the aegis of this Catholic institution), and it will hopefully encourage further studies on this fascinating topic.” Elisa Frei, Boston College – Università degli Studi di Macerata, in Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu XC.180, pp.676-678Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Editorial Note Preface  Jan Bloemendal Introduction  Yasmin Haskell and Raphaële Garrod 1 Senecan Catharsis in Nicolas Caussin’s Felicitas (1620): A Case Study in Jesuit Reconfiguration of Affects  Raphaële Garrod 2 Performing the Passions: Pierre Brumoy’s De motibus animi between Didactic and Dramatic Poetry  Yasmin Haskell 3 Passions on the Jesuit Stage: Systems of Affects in Eighteenth-Century Jesuit Theater Poetics  Nienke Tjoelker 4 “In what storms of blood from Christ’s flock is Japan swimming?” Gratia Hosokawa and the Performative Representation of Japanese Martyrdom in Mulier Fortis (1698)  Makoto Harris Takao 5 The Angel and Ameri(c)a: Performing the “New World” in José Manuel Peramás’s De invento Novo Orbe inductoque illuc Christi sacrificio (1777)  Maya Feile Tomes 6 Si potes exemplo moveri, non propiore potes: Emotional Reciprocity in Laurent Le Brun’s Nova Gallia Peter O’Brien 7 “I began to teach […]”: Emotion and Performance in Isaac Jogues’s Letter to Father Jean Filleau  John Gallucci 8 Performing Emotions at the Canonization of Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier in the Southern Low Countries  Ralph Dekoninck, Maarten Delbeke, Annick Delfosse and Koen Vermeir 9 Jesuits and Music in Guam and the Marianas, 1668–1769  David R.M. Irving 10 Jesuit Visual Preaching and the Stirring of the Emotions in Iberian Popular Missions  Juan Luis González García 11 “Such fragile jewels”: The Emotional Role of Chinese Porcelain in Early Modern Jesuit Missions  Susan Broomhall Envoi“Don Mancio, Nephew of the King of Hizen”: Echoes of the Japanese Tenshō Mission to Europe in 1585 in the Portrait of Sukemasu Itô by Domenico Tintoretto  Paola Di Rico and Marino Viganò Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the rich diversity of the Franciscan contribution to the life of the order and its ministry throughout England between 1224 and c. 1350. The 21 contributions examine the friars’ impact across the different strata of English society, from the parish churches, the missions, the royal courts and the universities. Friars were ubiquitous in England throughout this period and they participated in various programmes of renewal. Contributors are (in order of appearance) Amanda Power, Philippa M. Hoskin, Jens Röhrkasten, Michael F. Custato, OFM, Michael W. Blastic, OFM, Jean-François Godet-Calogeras, Peter V. Loewen, Lesley Smith, Eleonora Lombardo, Nigel Morgan, Cecilia Panti, Hubert Philipp Weber, Timothy J. Johnson, Mary Beth Ingham, CSJ, Takashi Shogimen, Susan J. Ridyard, Michael J. Haren, Christian Steer, Anna Campbell, and Michael J. P. Robson.Trade Review"This is the fourteenth volume in the Medieval Franciscans series and commemorates the contributions made to Franciscan studies by the late Dr Rosalind B. Brooke. It features multidisciplinary contributions from a range of international scholars, with twenty-one essays grouped around five themes [...] The English Province of the Franciscans is certainly a hefty tome but provides a detailed and significant contribution to the study of the Franciscans in their early years in England and is a worthy addition to the Medieval Franciscans series." Yvonne McDermott, in: The Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies, 7 (2018).

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Book SynopsisIn Nicodemites: Faith and Concealment Between Italy and Tudor England, Anne Overell examines a rarely glimpsed aspect of sixteenth-century religious strife: the thinkers, clerics, and rulers, who concealed their faith. This work goes beyond recent scholarly interest in conformity to probe inward dilemmas and the spiritual and cultural meanings of pretence. Among the dissimulators who appear here are Cardinal Reginald Pole and his circle in Italy and in England, and also John Cheke and William Cecil. Although Protestant and Catholic polemicists condemned all Nicodemites, most of them survived reformation violence, while their habits of silence and secrecy became influential. This study concludes that widespread evasion about religious belief contributed to the erratic development of toleration. "Anne Overell is an accomplished practitioner of history as a sideways glance, revealing subtleties and contours that others have missed. In doing so, she enriches the story of the Reformation and helps us see its humanity and nuance more vividly and completely." - Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church, University of OxfordTrade Review“Anne Overell has masterfully deepened and expanded the meaning of “nicodemite” […]. Overell’s painstaking research, much of which is anchored in manuscript sources, including correspondence, casts new light on Reformation-era nicodemism.” Carlos Eire, Yale University. In: British Catholic History, Vol. 34, No. 4 (October 2019), pp. 662–666. “Overell presents a complex and sympathetic picture of the motives behind religious prevarication that moves beyond a simple fear of physical abuse.” Robert Ingoglia, St. Thomas Aquinas College. In: Choice, March 2019. “Overell's book is an outstanding achievement that will reward its readers.” Susan Wabuda, Fordham University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 659–662.Table of ContentsPrologue 1 Part 1 Lives 1 The Landscape of ‘Holy Cunning’ 2 A Nursery of Nicodemism: The Circle of Reginald Pole in Italy 3 Pole’s Nicodemite Piety? Viterbo to England 4 The Volte-Faces of Pietro Vanni 5 Nicodemite’s Progress: Edward Courtenay Part 2 Texts 6 The Confusions of Il Beneficio di Cristo 7 The Case against Nicodemites 8 Exploiting Francesco Spiera in Italy and in England 9 Counsel for Nicodemite Sinners: Vermigli, Curione and Cheke 10 Radical Texts for the Queen of Nicodemites 11 Mixed Messages in Elizabethan England 12 Echoes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRobin Raybould's The Sibyl Series of the Fifteenth Century examines the startling and sudden change that occurred in the representation of the sibyls throughout Europe during the early Renaissance. Raybould describes how and why during this period the number, names, attributes and prophecies of these archaic prophetesses were selected and stabilized thus providing new witness to the Christian message in sharp contrast to earlier representations where the sibyls had played a minor role in the history of classical and Christian divination and prophecy. The book examines all the fifteenth-century instances of these series, as well as the manuscripts which describe them, identifies the origin of the sibylline prophecies and suggests reasons for the widespread popularity of this new artistic phenomenon.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Greek and Roman Origins 2. The early Christian Era The Sibylline Oracles Lactantius St. Augustine The Influence of Virgil 3. The Middle Ages The Encyclopaedic texts The Apocalyptic texts The Pisano Sibyls 4. The Sibyls at the beginning of the Fifteenth Century 5. The Cortina Sibyls 6. The Orsini Sibyls The Tradition of Wall Painting in the Palaces of Italy The New Canon of Twelve Sibyls The Camera Paramenti 7. The Manuscripts of the Orsini series The Early Manuscripts: Zwölf Sibyllen Weissagung Other early Manuscripts 8. The Theme, Order and Attributes of the Fifteenth Century Sibyl Series 9. The Sibyl Series derived from the Orsini Frescos The Ferrara Sibyls Feo Belcari and the Rappresentazione Baccio Baldini De Barberis The Nuremberg Chronicle Other Series 10. The Oracula Sibyllina of St. Gall 11. The Sibyl Series derived from Lactantius The Tempio Malatestiano Ulm Cathedral Siena Cathedral The Oxford Paintings 12. Conclusion Appendix 1 Text and Origin of the Prophecies of the Orsini Sibyls Appendix 2 Pausanias: Description of Greece Chapter 10.12 Appendix 3 Clement of Alexandria: Stromata Appendix 4 Lactantius: Divine Institutes; references to the sibyls Appendix 5 Table of the Order of the Sibyls Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume, Ordo et Sanctitas: The Franciscan Spiritual Journey in Theology and Hagiography, which celebrates the life and legacy of J. A. Wayne Hellmann, is comprised of articles written by colleagues, former students, and associates. The authors were invited to contribute their own articles within three broad categories corresponding with the areas in which Wayne has made a longstanding scholarly contribution: Franciscan hagiographical texts (especially Thomas of Celano); medieval theology and the Bonaventurian theological tradition; and the retrieval of the Franciscan tradition in a contemporary context. All of the essays in the volume build upon and expand in new directions the contributions of our honoree in these areas. Contributors are Regis J. Armstrong , Joshua C. Benson, Michael Blastic, Joseph Chinnici, Michael F. Cusato, Jacques Dalarun, J. Isaac Goff, Jay M. Hammond, Timothy J. Johnson, John Kruse, Steven J. McMichael, Juliet Mousseau, William Short, Laura Smit, and Katherine Wrisley Shelby.Trade Review"An interesting and insightful read, recommended to anyone wishing to learn more about ‘Franciscan stuff ’ (p. 111), from some of the most distinguished experts in the field." Bridget Riley, University of Reading in The Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies, 7 (2018), 317–319 ''This festschrift for Wayne Hellmann [...] focuses in fifteen essays on four distinct and yet interconnected themes, which can be linked to Hellmann’s lifelong scholarly interests in early Franciscan history and his engagement as a Conventual Franciscan within presentday society. Together, these essays give an inkling of Hellmann’s major intellectual and societal preoccupations and open a window on some cutting-edge developments in current Franciscan scholarship. Bert Roest, in Renaissance Quarterly, 72(1). ''Building upon Hellmann's work, the contributors come up with interesting texts, ideas, and insights, collectively making this festschrift a genuinely enriching addition to Franciscan and Bonaventurian studies''. Krijn Pansters in Speculum 94/3 (2019).

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Book SynopsisThe Problem of Disenchantment offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the intellectual history of science, religion, and “the occult” in the early 20th century. By developing a new approach to Max Weber’s famous idea of a “disenchantment of the world”, and drawing on an impressively diverse set of sources, Egil Asprem opens up a broad field of inquiry that connects the histories of science, religion, philosophy, and Western esotericism. Parapsychology, occultism, and the modern natural sciences are usually viewed as distinct cultural phenomena with highly variable intellectual credentials. In spite of this view, Asprem demonstrates that all three have met with similar intellectual problems related to the intelligibility of nature, the relation of facts to values, and the dynamic of immanence and transcendence, and solved them in comparable terms.Trade ReviewThis is a path-breaking book! It not only opens up an interdisciplinary space in which to analyze a range of responses to disenchantment within and between the history of religion, the history of science, and the history of esotericism, but it articulates a method – Problemgeschichte – for doing so. The method allows Asprem to surface many contending views on the place of mysterious incalculable powers in the modern world, which cut across disciplines in surprising ways, and to demonstrate the value of a critical constructivism build on naturalistic grounds for scholarly work. - Ann Taves, University of California at Santa Barbara. The complex interface between the sciences, religion, and esoteric forms of thought and experience is one of those "elephants in the living room" that many know about but almost no one knows how to talk about. Egil Asprem knows how to talk about it, and very well indeed: through a historical genealogy of the interface, through a careful tracing of the debates around the limits of reason and science, and through an astute rethinking of Weber's seminal notion of disenchantment. The result is extremely satisfying and rich beyond measure. - Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred. Egil Asprem’s study has the potential of causing a Copernican revolution in our understanding of the “disenchantment of the world”. Grounded in meticulous textual analysis of a large sample of representative sources – from the “hard” natural sciences via psychical research to the “soft” domain of religion and esotericism – it combines sensitive historical research with sharp theoretical reflection and should lead us to question some of our most deeply ingrained assumptions about the nature of modernity. - Wouter J. Hanegraaff, University of Amsterdam.

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Book SynopsisIn Power Brokers in Ottoman Egypt, Side Emre documents the biography of Ibrahim-i Gulshani and the history of the Khalwati-Gulshani order of dervishes (c. 1440-1600). Set mainly in Mamluk-Egypt, and in the century following the region’s conquest by the Ottomans, this book analyzes sociopolitical dialogues at the geographic peripheries of an empire through the actions of and official responses to the Gulshaniyya network. Emre argues that the members of this Sufi order exerted social and political leverage and contributed significantly to the political culture of the empire and Egypt. The Gulshanis are uncovered as unexpected figures among the roster of influential players, in contrast with empire-centered historiographies that depict Ottoman ruling and learned elites as the primary shapers and narrators of the fates of conquered provinces and peoples. The Gulshanis’ political and cultural legacy is situated within an analysis of perceptions of Sufism in the early modern Ottoman world.Trade ReviewHonorable Mention award in the 2018 OTSA Köprülü book prize competition “Side Emre’s deeply researched and carefully argued study of one important figure, Ibrāhīm-i Gulshanī (c. 1442–1534), examines the political role of Sufism in the period of transition, and even up to the beginning of the seventeenth century.” Adam Sabra in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, published online 23 Februari 2018. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X18000368Table of ContentsNotes on Transliteration and Dating Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Gülşenī’s Biography in the Hagiographical Imagination (ca. 846–916/1442–1510) Chapter 2: Arrival in a Safe Haven: Gülşenī’s Early Years in Mamluk Egypt (913 or 916–923/1507 or 1510–17) Chapter 3: Gülşenī’s Relationships with the Last Two Mamluk Rulers Chapter 4: After the Ottoman Conquest: A New Life Begins (923–31/1517–25) Chapter 5 :The Establishment of the Gülşeniye Lodge Complex (925–31/1519–25) Chapter 6 :Heresy, Religious Innovation, and Law in Egypt (928–31/1522–25) Chapter 7: Who is an Ideal Sufi? A Reconsideration of the “Heretical” Gülşenīs in the Context of the “Ottoman Way” Chapter 8 :Later Egypt Years (930–31/1524–25) and the conflict between Gülşenī and Aḥmed Pasha Chapter 9: Gülşenī’s Final Years and the Gülşeniye legacy (931–1019/1525–1610) Chapter 10: Gülşenī’s Heirs and the Founder’s Legacy in the Eleventh/Seventeenth Century Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTheology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed prosopographical study of the early phase of the formation of Islam. Originally published in German between 1991 and 1995, Theology and Society is a monument of scholarship and a unique scholarly enterprise which has stood the test of time as an unparalleled reference work.Table of ContentsContents Preface  xii part c : The Unification of Islamic Thought and the Flowering of Theology (continued) 4 Muʿtazilites during and after the miḥna  3  4.1 Basra until the Middle of the Third Century  3  4.2 Baghdad Muʿtazilites  63 5 Theologians on the Periphery of the Muʿtazila  139 5.1 ‘Murjiʾites’  140  5.2 Najjār and His Circle  167  5.3 Ibāḍite Theologians  195 6 The Argument over the Quran  203  6.1 Ibn Kullāb  204  6.2 Muḥāsibī  221  6.3 Karābīsī and the Problem of the lafẓ al-Qurʾān  238 7 The Expansion of the Muʿtazila during the Third Century  258  7.1 Iraq and the Jazira  259  7.2 The Arabian Peninsula  261  7.3 Syria  264  7.4 Armenia  268  7.5 Iran  271  7.6 India  290  7.7 The Maghrib  291  7.8 Summary  311 8 The Crisis  312  8.1 Baghdad Mysticism Goes its Own Way. Junayd and His Contemporaries  313  8.2 The Self-Destruction of the Dialectical Method  325 Part D: Summary of the History of the Subject Matter Introduction. The Topics of Theology  395 1 The Image of God  407  1.1 God as the One  407  1.2 Anthropomorphism  416  1.3 Names and Attributes  476 2 The Image of the Human  535 2.1 Acting  538 2.2 Body and Spirit  572 3 Eschatology  605  3.1 The Earthly and the Heavenly Paradise  613 3.2 The Extent of the Reality of the Otherworld  619 4 Faith  627 4.1 Sin and Penitence  645 4.2 The Prophet  658 4.3 Epistemology  716 5 Theology and Society  673 5.1 Political Theory  771 5.2 The Organisation of Teaching and Studying  798 5.3 Environment and Intellectual Structure  814

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Book SynopsisMost characters in the Bible are men, yet they are hardly analysed as such. Masculinity and the Bible provides the first comprehensive survey of approaches that remedy this situation. These are studies that utilize insights from the field of masculinity studies to further biblical studies. The volume offers a representative overview of both fields and presents a new exegesis of a well-known biblical text (Mark 6) to show how this approach leads to new insights.

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Book SynopsisChristian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 10 (CMR 10), covering the Ottoman and Safavid Empires in the period 1600-1700, is a further volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the seventh century to the early 20th century. It comprises a series of introductory essays and also the main body of detailed entries which treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. These entries provide biographical details of the authors, descriptions and assessments of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between numerous leading scholars, CMR 10, along with the other volumes in this series, is intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. Section Editors: Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabé Pons, Jaco Beyers, Karoline Cook, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, David D. Grafton, Stanisław Grodź, Alan Guenther, Emma Loghin, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton, Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Radu Păun, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Mehdi Sajid, Cornelia Soldat, Karel Steenbrink, Davide Tacchini, Ann Thomson, Carsten WalbinerTable of ContentsForeword List of Illustrations List of Maps Abbreviations Introduction: The Ottoman and Safavid Empires in the 17th century  Claire Norton and Reza Pourjavady Christians in the Safavid Empire  Dariusz Kołodziejczyk Christian communities under the Ottomans in the 17th century  Eugenia Kermeli Ottoman influences on European music  A. Yunus Gencer Works on Christian-Muslim relations 1600-1700 The Ottoman Empire The Safavid Empire Index of Names Index of Titles

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Book SynopsisSince the downfall of the phenomenology of religion as the leading paradigm in the study of religion in the 1960s, theoretical and methodological discussions surrounding the nature and identity of the study of religion as an academic discipline have proliferated. The essays included in this volume approach these debates from a variety of angles. Based on a series of talks held at the University of Hannover over the last few years, the essays are intended to be understood as diagnostic works in progress and thus as working papers, all of which strive to point out important problems and perspectives in the field of theories and methodology and to draw attention to the future of the discipline. Using developments in Hanover as a launch pad, the volume forms the basis for further insights into the direction of the study of religion as a discipline at large.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction: Theory, Method, Hannover, and the Study of Religion Steffen Führding 2 Comparison, Practice, and Meaning: Martin Riesebrodt’s Theory of Religion Alexander van der Haven 3 A Plea for the Study of Religions Peter Antes 4 Study of Religions in the Era of Globalization of Differences: The Concept of Agonistic Context Břetislav Horyna 5 “Man is the Measure of All Things…”: On The Fabrication of Oriental Religions by European History of Religions Russell T. McCutcheon 6 Will the Real Fundamentalist Please Stand?: Scholars and the Category of ‘Fundamentalism’ Leslie Dorrough Smith 7 The Ideology of Religious Studies Revisited: Abolishing Politics Timothy Fitzgerald 8 Christian Origins and the Gospel of Mark Willi Braun 9 God as Hypothesis: Daniel Paul Schreber and the Study of Religion Alexander van der Haven 10 RS-Based RE – Uphill, Uphill, and Uphill! Tim Jensen 11 The Study of Islamic Education, A Litmus Test on State Relations to Muslim Minorities Jenny Berglund 12 Afterword: The Academic Study of Religions Betwixt and between Different Interests Wanda Alberts Index

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Book SynopsisIn this biography of Reformed theologian Francis Turretin (1623-87), Nicholas A. Cumming provides critical context for the life and theology of this important seventeenth-century theologian and his impact on the Reformed tradition as a whole. Turretin has commonly been identified as a strict scholastic theologian; this work places Turretin in his broader context, analyzing his life and theology in terms of the political and religious aspects of post-Reformation Europe and his posthumous influence on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Reformed theology. This work begins with a biography of Turretin, including his education and ministry, then proceeds to the context of Turretin’s theology in the early modern and modern periods, particularly in relation to his major work The Institutes of Elenctic Theology.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Notes on Conventions Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Turretin’s Early Life and Education Chapter 3: Turretin in Geneva Chapter 4: The Institutes of Elenctic Theology Chapter 5: Turretin’s Sermons, Disputations and the Formula Chapter 6: Publication History Chapter 7: Turretin’s Impact: the Eighteenth Century Chapter 8: Turretin’s Impact: the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Chapter 9: Conclusion Appendix Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn The Reformation of Historical Thought, Mark Lotito re-examines the development of Western historiography by concentrating on Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) and his universal history, Carion’s Chronicle (1532). With the Chronicle, Melanchthon overturned the medieval papal view of history, and he offered a distinctly Wittenberg perspective on the foundations of the “modern” European world. Through its immense popularity, the Chronicle assumed extraordinary significance across the divides of language, geography and confession. Indeed, Melanchthon’s intervention would become the point of departure for theologians, historians and jurists to debate the past, present and future of the Holy Roman Empire. Through the Chronicle, the Wittenberg reformation of historical thought became an integral aspect of European intellectual culture for the centuries that followed.Trade Review“Mark Lotito has written an excellent book. Big in more than a physical sense, this book covers in great detail a wide range of historical actors across swathes of time, all with a view to understanding changes in historical thought.” David Gehring, University of Nottingham. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 71, No. 4 (2020), pp. 853–855.Table of ContentsDEDICATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CHAPTERS 1. INTRODUCTION 2. THE FOURTH MONARCHY AND THE TRANSLATIO IMPERII 3. JOHANN CARION OF BIETIGHEIM: THE BERLIN COURT ASTRONOMER 4. CARION’S CHRONICLE: A WITTENBERG VIEW OF THE PAST 5. THE TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF CARION’S CHRONICLE 6. THE LEGACY OF WITTENBERG HISTORIOGRAPHY 7. CONCLUSION APPENDICES APPENDIX A: CARION’S CHRONICLE – TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION APPENDIX B: CARION’S CHRONICLE – MANUSCRIPT NOTES APPENDIX C: CARION’S CHRONICLE – STEMMA OF EDITIONS APPENDIX D: CARION’S CHRONICLE – INDICES TO THE EDITIONS APPENDIX E: CARION’S CHRONICLE – CENSUS OF EDITIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisThe Scottish Reformation is often presumed to have had little economic impact. Traditionally, scholars maintained that Scotland’s late medieval church gradually secularised its estates, and that the religious changes of 1560 barely disrupted an ongoing trend. In Riches and Reform Bess Rhodes challenges this assumption with a study of church finance in Scotland’s religious capital of St Andrews, a place once regarded as the ‘cheif and mother citie of the Realme’. Drawing on largely unpublished charters, rentals, and account books, Riches and Reform argues that in St Andrews the Reformation triggered a rapid, large-scale, and ultimately ruinous redistribution of ecclesiastical wealth. Communal assets built up over generations were suddenly dispersed through a combination of official policies, individual opportunism, and a crisis in local administration, leading the post-Reformation churches and city of St Andrews into ‘poverte and decay’.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Conventions Acknowledgements Plan of St Andrews in the Sixteenth Century  Introduction  1Pre-Reformation St Andrews  2Income and Estates  3Administration  4Donations and Expansion  5Feuing  6The Reformation Crisis  7Settlement of the 1560s  8Conflict and Disintegration  9Legacy  Conclusion  Appendix  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the spatial, material, and affective dimensions of solitude in the late medieval and early modern periods, a hitherto largely neglected topic. Its focus is on the dynamic qualities of “space” and “place”, which are here understood as being shaped, structured, and imbued with meaning through both social and discursive solitary practices such as reading, writing, studying, meditating, and praying. Individual chapters investigate the imageries and imaginaries of outdoor and indoor spaces and places associated with solitude and its practices and examine the ways in which the space of solitude was conceived of, imagined, and represented in the arts and in literature, from about 1300 to about 1800. Contributors include Oskar Bätschmann, Carla Benzan, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Dominic E. Delarue, Karl A.E. Enenkel, Christine Göttler, Agnès Guiderdoni, Christiane J. Hessler, Walter S. Melion, Raphaèle Preisinger, Bernd Roling, Paul Smith, Marie Theres Stauffer, Arnold A. Witte, and Steffen Zierholz.Trade Review“This edited volume is indispensable for anyone pursuing research in the formation of the cultures of modernity. The students of the history of culture, literature, art, and architecture of late medieval and early modern period of the West will equally find this book an important addition to their resources.” Mehran Qureshi, in: Reading Religion, 1 October 2020.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations 1 Realms of Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cultures: An Introduction  Christine Göttler Part 1: Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Foundations, Shifts, and Transformations 2 Petrarch’s Constructions of the Sacred Solitary Place in De vita solitaria and Other Writings  Karl A.E. Enenkel 3 Monastic Solitude as Spiritual Remedy and Firewall against Reformation: Cornelius Musius’s Reappraisal of the Vita Solitaria (1566)  Karl A.E. Enenkel 4 Concepts of Solitude in Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda aurea  Dominic E. Delarue 5 ‘Sacred Woods’: Performing Solitude at the Court of Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria  Christine Göttler Part 2: Solitude in the Pictorial and Emblematic Imagination 6 Anachoretic Ideals in Urban Settings: Meditational Practices and Mural Painting in Trecento Italy  Raphaèle Preisinger 7 Constructing the Imaginary Desert of the Soul in Emblematic Literature  Agnès Guiderdoni 8 Emblemata solitariae Passionis: Jan David, S.J., on the Solitary Passion of Christ  Walter S. Melion Part 3: Landscapes of Solitude 9 Giovanni Bellini’s San Francesco nel deserto  Oskar Bätschmann 10 Landscapes and Visual Exegesis: Solitude in the Chapel of Fra Mariano Fetti in San Silvestro al Quirinale  Steffen Zierholz 11 Alone at the Summit: Solitude and the Ascetic Imagination at the Sacro Monte of Varallo  Carla Benzan Part 4: Architectures of Solitude 12 Dead Men Talking: The Studiolo of Urbino. A Duke in Mourning and the Petrarchan Tradition  Christiane J. Hessler 13 Sociable Solitude: The Early Modern Hermitage as Proto-Museum  Arnold A. Witte 14 A Solitude of Permeable Boundaries: The Abbey of La Trappe between Isolation and Engagement  Mette Birkedal Bruun 15 Mirrors and Memories: The Chinese Mirror Cabinet at the Hermitage near Bayreuth  Marie Theres Stauffer Part 5: Solitude in Antiquarian and Natural History 16 The Prophetess in the Woods: The Early Modern Debate about Veleda, Aurinia, and Vola  Bernd Roling 17 Passer solitarius: Tribulations of a Lonely Bird in Poetry and Natural History, from Petrarch to Buffon  Paul J. Smith Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisIn the present work, the first of its kind in the field of Indian philology, Marc Tiefenauer outlines the history of representations of hell in Indian religious traditions. His study is based on primary sources in Sanskrit, Pali, Ardhamagadhi, Chinese, Braj, Persian and Hindi, extending over three millennia. He identifies the main ideological contributions to Brahmanical representations of the afterlife, particularly those stemming from Buddhism, Jainism, devotional currents (Bhakti) and Islam. He shows the utility of eschatological research to hermeneutics, especially in view of improving the understanding of the literatures of ancient India.Trade Review"Such an in-depth survey of hells has never been attempted before, and the author must be congratulated for the important contribution he has made. The book is a new, easy to read piece of research which deserves careful attention. André Couture, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 115/1 (2020).

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Book SynopsisIn Parish Clergy Wives in Elizabethan England, Anne Thompson shifts the emphasis from the institution of clerical marriage to the people and personalities involved. Women who have hitherto been defined by their supposed obscurity and unsuitability are shown to have anticipated and exhibited the character, virtues, and duties associated with the archetypal clergy wife of later centuries. Through adept use of an extensive and eclectic range of archival material, this book offers insights into the perception and lived experience of ministers’ wives. In challenging accepted views on the social status of clergy wives and their role and reception within the community, new light is thrown on a neglected but crucial aspect of religious, social, and women’s history.Trade Review“Thompson's book will prove of immense value to scholars of the Reformation and of early modern marriage, but its treatment of sixteenth-century gender expectations, interpersonal relationships within and outside of marriage, and charitable giving in a time of profound religious and economic change is deserving of a wider, non-specialist audience.” Jennifer McNabb, University of Northern Iowa. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73 , No 4 (Winter 2020), pp. 1405–1407.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Better to Marry than to Burn? Attitudes to Clerical Marriage among the Elizabethan Clergy 2 The Making of Clerical Marriages 3 ‘As Common as the Cartway’? The Social Status of Clergy Wives 4 ‘A Mirror of Virtue and Integrity’: Expectations of the Elizabethan Clergy Wife 5 Clerical Marriage and Charitable Giving 6 The Reception of the Clergy Wife: Reactions to a Religious and Social Innovation Conclusion Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Dutch Republic was the most religiously diverse land in early modern Europe, gaining an international reputation for toleration. In Reformation and the Practice of Toleration, Benjamin Kaplan explains why the Protestant Reformation had this outcome in the Netherlands and how people of different faiths managed subsequently to live together peacefully. Bringing together fourteen essays by the author, the book examines the opposition of so-called Libertines to the aspirations of Calvinist reformers for uniformity and discipline. It analyzes the practical arrangements by which multiple religious groups were accommodated. It traces the dynamics of religious life in Utrecht and other mixed communities. And it explores the relationships that developed between people of different faiths, especially in ‘mixed’ marriages.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction 1 “Remnants of the Papal Yoke”: Apathy and Opposition in the Dutch Reformation 2 Hubert Duifhuis and the Nature of Dutch Libertinism 3 Dutch Particularism and the Calvinist Quest for “Holy Uniformity” 4 Confessionalism and Its Limits: Religion in Utrecht, 1600–1650 5 A Clash of Values: The Survival of Utrecht’s Confraternities after the Reformation and the Debate over their Dissolution 6 Possessed by the Devil? A Very Public Dispute in Utrecht 7 Fictions of Privacy: House Chapels and the Spatial Accommodation of Religious Dissent in Early Modern Europe 8 “Dutch” Religious Tolerance: Celebration and Revision 9 Muslims in the Dutch Golden Age: Representations and Realities of Religious Toleration 10“In equality and enjoying the same favour”: Biconfessionalism in the Low Countries 11Religious Encounters in the Borderlands of Early Modern Europe: The Case of Vaals 12“For They Will Turn Away Thy Sons”: The Practice and Perils of Mixed Marriage in the Dutch Golden Age 13Integration vs. Segregation: Religiously Mixed Marriage and the “Verzuiling” Model of Dutch Society 14Intimate Negotiations: Husbands and Wives of Opposing Faiths in Eighteenth-Century Holland Index

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Book SynopsisThe eleven essays in Emancipating Calvin: Culture and Confessional Identity in Francophone Reformed Communities demonstrate the vitality and variety of early modern Francophone Reformed communities by examining the ways that local contexts shaped the reception and implementation of reforming ideas emanating especially from John Calvin and the Reformed church of Geneva. The articles address three main themes important for understanding the development of Reformed communities: the roles of consistories in Reformed churches and communities, the development of various Reformed cultures, and the ways in which ritual and worship embodied the theology and cultural foundations of Francophone Reformed churches. This Festschrift honors the pioneering work of Raymond Mentzer and reflects his influence in modern Francophone Reformed studies.Trade Review"Bien présenté, enrichi notamment d’illustrations en couleurs, cet ouvrage montre bien, à travers des cas précis, la complexité des relations entre Calvin et les communautés francophones." In: Istina, Volume LXV (2020/1). "To sum up: this volume is a worthy Festschrift for Raymond Mentzer and advances our insight into the ‘translation’ of the ideas of the Reformers into the local contexts on the congregational level. As such, it will serve to stimulate further research on the registers of consistories, classes, and synods in other geographical regions where the ideas of the leaders of the Reformation were adapted to specific contexts." Jan v.d. Kamp, VU University, Amsterdam, in: NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion, Volume 73.4 (2019). "(...)the articles demonstrate the various directions of research that scholars have taken over the past decade and brings them together in a useful volume supporting the argument in the introduction that the book represents “the most recent steps along this path toward understanding Francophone Reformed congregations--including Geneva--as autonomous communities grappling with particular circumstances” (...) all scholars with an interest in religion during the Reformation will find inspiration in this volume" - Silke Muylaert, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, in: H-France Review Vol. 19 (June 2019), No. 97. "Jeder der insgesamt elf Beiträge nimmt zwar in der einen oder anderen Form Bezug auf den Jubilar und seine Studien, doch bewirkt diese Referenz bzw. Reverenz alles andere als eine inhaltliche Verklammerung. Im Gegenteil: das dadurch abgedeckte Themenfeld ist zeitlich, räumlich und motivisch-methodisch extrem weit gesteckt, der Gegenstand der Artikel überwiegend partikular, häufig anekdotisch, eine sichtende Auswertung am Anfang oder Ende kaum erkennbar." - Volker Reinhardt, Fribourg, Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 4/2018, pp. 851-852.Table of ContentsForeword Homage: Raymond.A.Mentzer@consistories.fr  Bernard Roussel  Translated by Jonathan Reid Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Contributors Map of Consistory Locations Introduction: Emancipating Calvin  Karen E. Spierling Part 1: Consistories 1 Rowdy Refugees and Mischievous Martyrs in Calvin’s Geneva  Jeffrey R. Watt 2 A “Catholic” Consistory? The Bipartisan Consistorial Court of Echallens in the Vaud (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)  Christian Grosse  Translated by Christine Rhone 3 The Dancing Calvinists of Montauban: Testing the Boundaries of a Reformed Community in the 1590s in France  Graeme Murdock 4 On Consistorial Diversity  Philippe Chareyre  Translated by Karin Maag Part 2: Huguenot Culture and History 5 A Debated Office: Deacons in the Huguenot Church, 1560–1660  Karin Maag 6 Lay Leadership in the Reformed Communities during the Huguenot Revolution, 1559–1563  Jonathan A. Reid 7 The Last Wishes of the Orangeois  Françoise Moreil  Translated by Anne-Marie Libério 8 The Practice of Ecclesiastical Discipline in the Huguenot Refugee Church of Amsterdam, 1650–1700  Edwin Bezzina Part 3: Ritual and Worship 9 Reading the Bible in Sixteenth-century France  Mack P. Holt 10 Domesticating God: Reformed Homes and the Relocation of Sacred Space  Ezra Plank 11 The Huguenots and Marks of Honor and Distinction in the Parish Church and Reformed Temple  Andrew Spicer Bibliography of Raymond A. Mentzer’s Published Works to Date Volume Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis companion volume seeks to trace the development of ideas relating to death, burial, and the remembrance of the dead in Europe between ca. 1300 and 1700. Examining attitudes to death from a range of disciplinary perspectives, it synthesises current trends in scholarship, challenging the old view that the Black Death and the Protestant Reformations fundamentally altered ideas about death. Instead, it shows how people prepared for death; how death and dying were imagined in art and literature; and how practices and beliefs appeared, disappeared, changed, or strengthened over time as different regions and communities reacted to the changing world around them. Overall, it serves as an indispensable introduction to the subject of death, burial, and commemoration in thirteenth to eighteenth century Europe. Contributors: Ruth Atherton, Stephen Bates, Philip Booth, Zachary Chitwood, Ralph Dekoninck, Freddy C. Dominguez, Anna M. Duch, Jackie Eales, Madeleine Gray, Polina Ignatova, Robert Marcoux, Christopher Ocker, Gordon D. Raeburn, Ludwig Steindorff, Elizabeth Tingle, and Christina Welch.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how early Christian communities constructed, developed, and asserted their identity and authority in various socio-cultural contexts in Asia Minor and Greece in the first five centuries CE. With the help of the database Inscriptiones Christianae Graecae (ICG), special attention is given to ancient inscriptions which represent a rich and valuable source of information on the early Christians’ social and religious identity, family networks, authority structures, and place and function in society. This collection of essays by various specialists of Early Christianity, Epigraphy, and Late Antiquity, offers a broad geographical survey of the expansion and socio-cultural development of Christianity/ies in Asia Minor and Greece, and sheds new light on the religious transformation of the Later Roman Empire.Trade ReviewThis is an unusually important collection of papers. It offers a wealth of new evidence on the development of Early Christianity, put together substantially on the basis of the new Inscriptiones Christianae Graecae database. (...) This collection represents only the beginning of what will no doubt be a substantial and sustained move forward in the study of early Christianity in the Greek-speaking sphere. Peter Oakes, Journal for the Study of the new Testament, 2019Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations List of Figures Notes on Contributors Part 1 Early Christianity in Asia Minor 1 Pagane Relikte in der Spätantike: Griechische Katasterinschriften als religionsgeschichtliche Quellen  Ulrich Huttner 2 The Acts of John and Christian Communities in Ephesus in the Mid-Second Century AD  Paul Trebilco 3 Graeco-Roman Associations, Judean Synagogues and Early Christianity in Bithynia-Pontus  Markus Öhler 4 Frühes Christentum in Galatien: Inschriften aus dem südlichen Haymana-Hochland  Jennifer Krumm 5 Präsentation und Selbstrepräsentation von Christinnen auf lykaonischen Grabinschriften  Christiane Zimmermann 6 Relational Identity and Roman Name-Giving among Lycaonian Christians  Cilliers Breytenbach 7 Die Löwen der Berge: Lebendige, steinerne und literarische Löwen im Rauhen Kilikien  Philipp Pilhofer Part 2 Early Christianity in Greece, the Southern Balkans, and Beyond 8 Early Christian Inscriptions from the Corinthia and the Peloponnese  Erkki Sironen 9 Authority and Identity in the Early Christian Inscriptions from Macedonia  Julien M. Ogereau 10 The Authority of Paul’s Memory and Early Christian Identity at Philippi  Cédric Brélaz 11 Stobi in Late Antiquity: Epigraphic Testimonia  Slavica Babamova 12 The Formation of a Pauline Letter Collection in Light of Roman Epigraphic Evidence  Laura S. Nasrallah 13 The Use of Greek in the Early Christian Inscriptions from Rome and Italy (3rd–4th Cent.)  Antonio E. Felle 14 From Aphrodite(s) to Saintly Bishops in Late Antique Cyprus  Georgios Deligiannakis Indices

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