Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts (original) (raw)
2000, The Sixteenth century journal
Theologische RealenzyklopaW die, XXXI : SeelenwanderungkSprache\Sprachwissenschaft\ Sprachphilosophie. Edited by Gerhard Mu$ ller and Claus-Jurgen Thornton. Pp. vijj ills. Berlin-New York : Walter de Gruyter, . DM . ; JEH () ; DOI : .\S This volume begins with two sad obituaries ; of Joachim Mehlhausen who for fifteen years cared for the articles on modern church history, and of Carl Heinrich Ratschow who persuaded the publishing house that another theological encyclopaedia was needed and laid down the principles that themes must be selective and that the chief weight must be historical. We owe gratitude to both. The letters in this volume mean many articles beginning with Social or Sozial and make a more dominantly modern volume than most ; Socialism and Christian Socialism, Social Democracy, Sociology, Social Ethics and more, a wide range in these subjects ; with excellent articles on slavery and Christian attitudes to it, sexuality, simony and the religion of gypsies and their fate in Christian cultures (not easily found, it is under Sinti und Roma, the Byzantine word Zigeuner is regarded as pejorative). Of states, Spain (moderate and wise upon the civil war and its aftermath), Slovakia and Siebenbu$ rgen. The histories of Sunday, and Sunday Schools, are well done. Of individuals, Popes Silvester and Sixtus and Sixtus ; two Lord Shaftesburys ; Archbishop So$ derblom ; Robertson Smith ; in the Reformation Spalatin and Servetus and Sozzini and Selnecker, in Pietism Spener, in Orthodoxy Serafim of Sarov ; in the Fathers Severus of Antioch and the Sibylline books. As always some of the best articles are on pastoral care ; here that on Seelsorge and an unusual one illustrated briefly on Sepulkralkunst. A surprise is a long essay on Shakespeare. Simultaneum gives a unique account of the way churches were shared between denominations in a way that cannot be described as ecumenical. S C, O C C Les Reliques. Objets, cultes, symboles. Actes du colloque international de I'UniversiteT du Littoral-CoV te d'Opale (Boulogne-sur-Mer).-septembre. Edited by Edina Bozo! ky and Anne-Marie Helve! tius. (Hagiologia. E; tudes sur la Saintete! en Occident-Studies on Western Sainthood, .) Pp. incl. ills and colour plates. Turnhout : Brepols, . B.Fr. ,. JEH () ; DOI : .\S U S A J M. H. S Augustine in iconography. History and legend. Edited by Joseph C. Schnaubelt and Frederick Van Fleteren, artistic editor George Radan. (Augustinian Historical Institute, .) Pp. xxij incl. numerous ills. New York : Peter Lang, . £. JEH () ; DOI : .\S For this its fourth volume, Collectanea Augustiniana, a series of studies designed to form a complementary corpus to the mainstream of scholarship on St Augustine, takes up the analysis of his iconography. Covering more than archaeological and artistic topics, both historical and legendary, its range makes it a welcome addition to the study of religious iconography in general and of the visual representation of Augustine in particular. The organisation of the material is tripartite. And the first principal part is preceded by a lengthy editorial introduction in the form of a kind of Quellenforschung, which provides a programmatic statement, and describes and interprets the significant literary sources underlying the representations. Part offers several independent studies considering the artistic setting of Augustine's biography. It covers the relevant archaeological excavations, including an analysis of the ruins of the baptistry of Milan and a critical study of the Basilica pacis at Hippo. The probable historical journey of Augustine's remains to Italy, and the history and influence of Augustinian monasticism there, also emerge clearly in this section. Part examines the Augustinian cycles, including the Augustine screen in Carlisle Cathedral, and part concentrates on Augustine's portrait, and its elaboration, from the earliest recorded in a twelfth-century manuscript in the Laurentian Library to that of the fifteenth-century Certosa of Pavia, and the celebrated sixteenth-century portrait ' St Augustine in his Study ' by Carpaccio. The value of the uniformly interesting essays in these two parts is to bring out the influence of Augustine's thinking and exegesis on general artistic problems : the widespread and pervading cultural influence of the De civitate dei is here clearly demonstrated. The editors round off their volume with a brief retrospective. In this unusual work, therefore, they offer church historians an account in one volume of the evolution of the artistic persona, as opposed to the historical person, of St Augustine, and of the perennial cultural influence of his thought. So although it is not a complete treatment of Augustinian iconography, which at present is impossible, nevertheless this collection of studies is remarkable from many points of view and it extends most usefully the solid catalogue raisonneT established earlier by P. Courcelle and J. Courcelle. U N M C-M Imaging the early medieval Bible. Edited by John Williams. (The Penn State Series in the History of the Book.) Pp. viij incl. figsj colour plates. University Park, P : The Pennsylvania State University Press, . $. JEH () ; DOI : .\S Until recently the study of the patchy and varied surviving evidence for early medieval biblical illustration has focused on its origins and precursors. The illuminator's docility to artistic models, and the continuity and constancy of