{"title":"Obituary","authors":"Daniel J. Watkins","doi":"10.1353/cat.2023.a899409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.2023.a899409","url":null,"abstract":"Obituary Daniel J. Watkins Click for larger view View full resolution Dale K. Van Kley (July 31, 1941–March 14, 2023) A self-professed \"Protestant historian of the Catholic Jansenist controversy,\" Dale K. Van Kley was a pioneer in the field of eighteenth-century European history. Van Kley studied at Calvin College before pursuing a Ph.D. in History at Yale University. After a brief time as a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, he returned to Calvin where he taught for twenty-eight years. He spent another fourteen years at The Ohio State University, training and mentoring both undergraduate and graduate students. Van Kley dedicated much of his career to studying the impact of the Jansenist movement on the politics, society, and intellectual culture of Old Regime and revolutionary Europe. His first book, The Jansenists and the Expulsion of the Jesuits from France, uncovered the role that Jansenist barristers and their allies played in the downfall of the Society of Jesus in France. Through meticulous archival research, Van Kley singlehandedly dismantled the narrative, propagated most famously by Jean le Rond d'Alembert himself, that the philosophes were the sole figures responsible for the Jesuits' demise. In the 1980s, Van Kley turned his eyes toward the French Revolution. His first step was to explore, in his words, \"the relevance of the Jansenist controversy to the 'social'\" by way of a book on the Robert-François Damiens, a domestic servant who attempted to assassinate King Louis XV in 1757. The Damiens Affair and the Unraveling of the Ancien Régime showed that the Jansenist controversy permeated the popular elements of French society and, in so doing, contributed to [End Page 439] the \"de-sacralization\" of the monarchy and the collapse of the Old Regime. Van Kley's study of the French Revolution reached new heights at the end of the decade when he—along with many of the most notable scholars of the revolution in the United States, England, and France—participated in a series of conferences on \"The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture.\" The conferences commemorated the bicentennial of the event and ushered in a rethinking of the French Revolution and its impact on the modern world. Van Kley's own work on the revolution continued into the 1990s with numerous articles and essays in The Journal of Modern History, French Historical Studies, and other outlets. In 1996, he published his intellectual tour de force, The Religious Origins of the French Revolution. The Religious Origins masterfully traced the role that religious disputes played in shaping constitutional and \"patriotic\" discourses from the sixteenth-century Reformation through the initial years of the revolution. It remains required reading for all those studying the intellectual culture of revolution in the early modern period. By the opening of the new millennium, Van Kley's interests turned to lands beyond France. In an edited volume and a","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135469558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ecclesiastical Participation of the Catholic Laity in the Late Modern Period: The Case of Italian Immigrants in the United States","authors":"Massimo Di Gioacchino","doi":"10.1353/cat.2020.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.2020.0058","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article focuses on two ancient ecclesiastical institutions, the lay patronage (Ius Patronatus) and the council of the upkeep of the church (Consilium Fabricae Ecclesiae). It attests to how those two institutions, in decline in Italy and almost unknown in the United States in the late modern period, diffused and developed among Italian immigrants in the United States. The aim is to contribute to the historical understanding of the evolution of the ecclesiastical culture of the Catholic laity in the late modern period, in particular before the promulgation of the Codex Iuris Canonici (1917).","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"106 1","pages":"625 - 655"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cat.2020.0058","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66400138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Argentine Catholic Democratic Scientists and Their Projects for a Research University (1932–59)","authors":"M. de Asúa","doi":"10.1353/cat.2020.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.2020.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper considers the ideas and activities of a group of highly-qualified Catholic scientists in Argentina who supported Christian democracy during the decades of authoritarian governments and the presidency of Juan D. Perón. The physiologists Juan T. Lewis and Eduardo Braun Menéndez, disciples of Nobel Prize winner Bernardo Houssay, and engineer Augusto J. Durelli, who would develop much of his career in the United States, sought to set up in the country facilities for advanced scientific research which they saw as the basis of a new Catholic university. This paper pays particular attention to the conflicts built around their proposals for the creation of private confessional universities in the face of strong opposition by those sectors of society that considered that the secular state should have the control of higher education.","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"106 1","pages":"107 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cat.2020.0018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66400057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vatican II and the American Press: Conflict to Transparency","authors":"R. Gribble","doi":"10.1353/cat.2019.0097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.2019.0097","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Vatican II was a milestone in providing access to the world press of the day-to-day activities of the Council Fathers. During the first period (1962) journalists were generally frustrated in their ability to report the Council's daily events, but this improved greatly in the three remaining periods, due in large measure to a more open style of Pope Paul VI, a vastly improved Vatican Press Office, and the work of the United States Catholic Bishops Press Panel. While some frustration remained, the world press experienced a more transparent Church.","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"105 1","pages":"503 - 530"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cat.2019.0097","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66399829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Honey of Souls: Cassiodorus and the Interpretation of Psalms in the Early Medieval West by Derek A. Olsen (review)","authors":"Frans van Liere","doi":"10.1353/cat.2019.0101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.2019.0101","url":null,"abstract":"It would be interesting to learn how Zumholz would integrate the criticism of late nineteenthand early twentieth-century feminists into her story. Perhaps the most important moderate feminist leader in Imperial Germany, Helene Lange, grew up in Oldenburg, and Zumholz describes her life and work for women’s education. Gertrud Bäumer, Lange’s life-long partner and successor as the leader of the Bund Deutscher Frauenverein, the National Council of Women’s Organizations with half a million members in 1913, criticized Catholic women activists for their acceptance of Catholic doctrine that required women’s subordination to men. In 1901 Bäumer called into question the idea of a “women’s movement in the narrow sense” that could grow from the foundation of Catholicism. (Bäumer, Die Geschichte der Frauenbewegung in Deutschland [1901], p. 165). Similarly, Ika Freundenberg, a Bavarian moderate women’s activist, argued in 1904 after the founding of the Katholischer Deutscher Frauenbund that “Catholic belief is a constraint for the spread of the women’s movement.” (Alfred Kall, Katholische Frauenbewegung in Deutschland [1983], p. 308). Catholic leaders of religious orders made decisions about the sisters’ basic freedoms: who wrote them letters, what they could read, where they could go, and whom they could see. Sisters who came into conflict with church authorities could find themselves punished. These aspects of life in a Catholic order and the sisters’ vow of obedience are not consistent with Zumholz’s emphasis on the independence and choices of the women religious she studies.","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"105 1","pages":"562 - 563"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cat.2019.0101","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66399992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Festal Works of St. Gregory of Narek. Annotated Translation of the Odes, Litanies, and Encomia trans. by Abraham Terian (review)","authors":"Sergio la Porta","doi":"10.1353/cat.2019.0064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.2019.0064","url":null,"abstract":"Rather than Gottschalk appearing as an antagonist in the well-studied lives of Carolingian luminaries like Hrabanus Maurus and Hincmar of Reims, the powerful, influential, and prolific archbishops are presented almost solely from Gottschalk’s perspective and look very different from their typical scholarly portraits. Similarly, rather than analyzing the legal and theological reasoning of disputes involving Gottschalk, attention remains squarely on social and political manipulation by all parties in attempts to find ways of seizing power in the disputes. Throughout, Gillis takes as sympathetic and apologetic an approach to Gottschalk as possible. This perspective leads to a number of subjunctive constructions as he connects his admittedly difficult and sparse sources. It also pushes Gillis’ discussion into some surprising corners, such as when he lionizes Gottschalk’s demand to be subjected to particularly violent and gruesome judicial ordeals, which occasioned some Carolingian leaders to question his sanity.","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"105 1","pages":"354 - 355"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cat.2019.0064","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66399746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Riforma del cattolicesimo? Le attività e le scelte di Pio X ed. by Giuliano Brugnotto, Gianpaolo Romanato (review)","authors":"G. Vian","doi":"10.1353/cat.2019.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.2019.0027","url":null,"abstract":"Reuchlin (1455–1522) (Berlin/Boston, 2015), Reuchlin advised obedience to the devise of Mt 13:30 that one should not pull up one with the other (see his Expert Opinion for the emperor of 1510, Recommendation Whether to Confiscate, Destroy and Burn All Jewish Books). In the Age of Enlightenment, Mt 13:30 was used by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Pierre Bayle, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant—each in his own way. Chapter VI covers the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Modern Religious Liberty). Flaws are found in the index of names where the given pages usually are removed by two page numbers. Unfortunately, there is no list of abbreviations that were used. Nevertheless, Angenendt’s study is to be highly recommended. Endnotes are copious and comprise pages 185–212. The list of source material is given on nine pages (pp. 213–221). The bibliography is gigantic (pp. 222–240). Instead of “Marin Bucer” it should read Martin Bucer (p. 218). This book demonstrates that church history is essentially the history of Bible interpretation.","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"105 1","pages":"158 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cat.2019.0027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66399436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"With All Gentleness: A Life of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, CSsR by Carl W. Hoegerl, C.Ss.R (review)","authors":"M. Kuttner","doi":"10.1353/cat.2019.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.2019.0036","url":null,"abstract":"Finally, I would have liked to see Avella engaged more fully in analyzing his data more, something he does well in some fleeting moments of his text. Undoubtedly, he has the extremely difficult task of mapping out for the first time a narrative of the history of the diocese of Des Moines. As such, his work is a ground-breaking contribution not only to the Church in Southwest Iowa, but a significant addition to the historiography of the American Catholic Church.","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"105 1","pages":"172 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cat.2019.0036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66400108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}