Reviews

Author:

Peter Brown

Reviewer:

Elizabeth DePalma Digeser

DePalma Digeser on Brown, 'Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD'

Peter Brown. Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. 792 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-15290-5; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-691-16177-8.

Reviewed by Elizabeth DePalma Digeser (University of California, Santa Barbara) Published on H-HRE (May, 2016) Commissioned by Tryntje Helfferich

Author:

Richard J. Ninness

Reviewer:

Erica Bastress-Dukeheart

Bastress-Dukeheart on Ninness, 'Between Opposition and Collaboration: Nobles, Bishops, and the German Reformations in the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg, 1555-1619'

Richard J. Ninness. Between Opposition and Collaboration: Nobles, Bishops, and the German Reformations in the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg, 1555-1619. Leiden: Brill, 2011. xii + 224 pp. $136.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-20154-5.

Reviewed by Erica Bastress-Dukeheart (Skidmore College) Published on H-HRE (May, 2013) Commissioned by Amy R. Caldwell

Author:

Peter Mack

Reviewer:

Brian J. Maxson

Maxson on Mack, 'A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620'

Peter Mack. A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. vii + 345 pp. $150.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-959728-4.

Reviewed by Brian J. Maxson (East Tennessee State University) Published on H-HRE (April, 2013) Commissioned by Amy R. Caldwell

Author:

Jay Rubenstein

Reviewer:

Brian N. Becker

Becker on Rubenstein, 'Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse'

Jay Rubenstein. Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse. New York: Basic Books, 2011. 424 pp. $29.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-01929-8; ISBN 978-0-465-02748-4.

Reviewed by Brian N. Becker (Delta State University) Published on H-HRE (January, 2013) Commissioned by Amy R. Caldwell

Crusading Seen through the Lens of Apocalypse

Author:

Marios Costambeys, Matthew Innes, Simon MacLean

Reviewer:

Hans J. Hummer

Hummer on Costambeys and Innes and MacLean, 'The Carolingian World'

Marios Costambeys, Matthew Innes, Simon MacLean. The Carolingian World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xix + 505 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-56366-6; $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-56494-6.

Reviewed by Hans J. Hummer Published on H-HRE (January, 2013) Commissioned by Amy R. Caldwell

The Carolingian World Reimagined

Author:

Philip M. Soergel

Reviewer:

Lance Lubelski

Lubelski on Soergel, 'Miracles and the Protestant Imagination: The Evangelical Wonder Book in Reformation Germany'

Philip M. Soergel. Miracles and the Protestant Imagination: The Evangelical Wonder Book in Reformation Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Illustrations. 256 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-984466-1.

Reviewed by Lance Lubelski Published on H-HRE (October, 2012) Commissioned by Amy R. Caldwell

Author:

Hillay Zmora

Reviewer:

Stuart Carroll

Carroll on Zmora, 'The Feud in Early Modern Germany'

Hillay Zmora. The Feud in Early Modern Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xiv + 211 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-11251-2.

Reviewed by Stuart Carroll (University of York) Published on H-HRE (October, 2012) Commissioned by Amy R. Caldwell

Author:

Dana E. Katz

Reviewer:

Adam Shear

Shear on Katz, 'The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance'

Dana E. Katz. The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xi + 228 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4085-6.

Reviewed by Adam Shear (University of Pittsburgh) Published on H-HRE (October, 2012) Commissioned by Amy R. Caldwell

Representations of Violence and Real Life

Author:

Brad S. Gregory

Reviewer:

Kathleen Crowther

Crowther on Gregory, 'The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society'

Brad S. Gregory. The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. 574 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-04563-7.

Reviewed by Kathleen Crowther Published on H-HRE (September, 2012) Commissioned by Amy R. Caldwell

Author:

Lee Palmer Wandel

Reviewer:

Karin Maag

Maag on Wandel, 'The Reformation: Towards a New History'

Lee Palmer Wandel. The Reformation: Towards a New History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. ix + 281 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-88949-0; $26.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-71797-7.

Reviewed by Karin Maag (Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary) Published on H-HRE (July, 2012) Commissioned by Amy R. Caldwell

Author:

Matthew Gabriele

Reviewer:

David Hay

Hay on Gabriele, 'An Empire of Memory: The Legend of Charlemagne, the Franks, and Jerusalem before the First Crusade'

Matthew Gabriele. An Empire of Memory: The Legend of Charlemagne, the Franks, and Jerusalem before the First Crusade. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 256 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-959144-2.

Reviewed by David Hay Published on H-HRE (June, 2012) Commissioned by Amy R. Caldwell

Provocative Ideas

Author:

Richard F. Cassady

Reviewer:

Brian N. Becker

Becker on Cassady, 'The Emperor and the Saint: Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, Francis of Assisi, and Journeys to Medieval Places'

Richard F. Cassady. The Emperor and the Saint: Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, Francis of Assisi, and Journeys to Medieval Places. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2011. 474 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87580-439-2.

Reviewed by Brian N. Becker (Delta State University) Published on H-HRE (June, 2012) Commissioned by Amy R. Caldwell

Author:

Paul Sonnino

Reviewer:

Hamish Scott

Scott on Sonnino, 'Mazarin's Quest: The Congress of Westphalia and the Coming of the Fronde'

Paul Sonnino. Mazarin's Quest: The Congress of Westphalia and the Coming of the Fronde. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. 330 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-03182-1.

Reviewed by Hamish Scott (Department of History, University of Glasgow) Published on H-HRE (June, 2010) Commissioned by Tryntje Helfferich

Mazarin's Peace

Author:

J. Todd Billings

Reviewer:

Karen Spierling

Spierling on Billings, 'Calvin, Participation, and the Gift: The Activity of Believers in Union with Christ'

J. Todd Billings. Calvin, Participation, and the Gift: The Activity of Believers in Union with Christ. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. x + 218 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-921187-6.

Reviewed by Karen Spierling (The Ohio State University) Published on H-HRE (June, 2010) Commissioned by Tryntje Helfferich

Regifting Calvin’s Theology

Author:

Barbara Drake Boehm, Jiri Fajt, eds.

Reviewer:

Jane Hutchison

Hutchison on Boehm and Fajt, 'Prague, the Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437'

Barbara Drake Boehm, Jiri Fajt, eds. Prague, the Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437. Metropolitan Museum of Art Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Illustrations. xiii + 366 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-11138-5.

Reviewed by Jane Hutchison (Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Published on H-HRE (May, 2010) Commissioned by Tryntje Helfferich

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DePalma Digeser on Brown, 'Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD'

Bastress-Dukeheart on Ninness, 'Between Opposition and Collaboration: Nobles, Bishops, and the German Reformations in the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg, 1555-1619'

Maxson on Mack, 'A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620'

Becker on Rubenstein, 'Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse'

Hummer on Costambeys and Innes and MacLean, 'The Carolingian World'

Lubelski on Soergel, 'Miracles and the Protestant Imagination: The Evangelical Wonder Book in Reformation Germany'

Carroll on Zmora, 'The Feud in Early Modern Germany'

Shear on Katz, 'The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance'

Crowther on Gregory, 'The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society'

Maag on Wandel, 'The Reformation: Towards a New History'

Hay on Gabriele, 'An Empire of Memory: The Legend of Charlemagne, the Franks, and Jerusalem before the First Crusade'

Becker on Cassady, 'The Emperor and the Saint: Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, Francis of Assisi, and Journeys to Medieval Places'

Scott on Sonnino, 'Mazarin's Quest: The Congress of Westphalia and the Coming of the Fronde'

Spierling on Billings, 'Calvin, Participation, and the Gift: The Activity of Believers in Union with Christ'

Hutchison on Boehm and Fajt, 'Prague, the Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437'

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