{"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}
{"title":"Recovering the Multiple Worlds of the Medieval Church: Thoughtful Lives, Inspired Critics, and Changing Narratives","authors":"John Van Engen","doi":"10.1353/cat.2019.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.2019.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The author describes his formative influences, his mentors, and his scholarship in Medieval history at the University of Notre Dame.","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"104 1","pages":"613 - vi"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cat.2019.0012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66399279","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 Manly Priest: Clerical Celibacy, Masculinity, and Reform in England and Normandy, 1066-1300 by Jennifer d. Thibodeaux (review)","authors":"Katherine Allen Smith","doi":"10.1353/cat.2017.0166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.2017.0166","url":null,"abstract":"problems and inconsistencies, which he puts forward even in his chapters on the Bible and early christianity, maintaining a disparity between the old Testament’s edenic portrayal of the equality of the sexes and a notion of male headship to which women must be submissive. His account of the medieval period unveils numerous ambiguities and tensions. on the one hand, the period affirmed consent as the basis of marriage, thus making the woman an equal partner in agreeing to a marriage; on the other, women were often subject to familial economic concerns. on the one hand, the church denounced spousal abuse and protected women from brutality; on the other, many husbands treated their wives poorly. The point for angenendt, however, is that christianity did affirm the equality the sexes and conceived of marriage as a partnership; the point is that, when given the chance, the christian church did protect women from savage husbands. What angenendt wants his readers to understand is how unusual such a situation is in the history of the world.","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"103 1","pages":"797 - 798"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cat.2017.0166","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66399527","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":"Mendicant Cultures in the Medieval and Early Modern World: Word, Deed, and Image eds. by Sally J. Cornelison, Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, and Peter Howard (review)","authors":"S. Mcmichael","doi":"10.1353/cat.2017.0168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.2017.0168","url":null,"abstract":"The stated purpose of this book is to “revisit, revise, and enhance our understanding of the ways in which words, deeds, and images shaped and represented mendicant religious culture in italy and abroad” (p. xii). The eleven articles are focused on the time between the early thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries, primarily in italy but not confined to the birthplace of Francis. The book offers a smorgasbord of information about mendicant theologians and preachers, church leaders, missionaries (in particular William of rubruck’s mission to the Mongols), medieval women, sacred places, and religious objects. We get a significant glimpse of the many aspects that make up the various mendicant cultures of the dominican and Franciscan world of the later Middle ages and beyond.","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"103 1","pages":"800 - 801"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cat.2017.0168","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66399699","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":"Republic and the Governor","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctt189ts5g.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt189ts5g.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"1 1","pages":"133-147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147907884","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":"Nostra Aetate and Ecumenism","authors":"Michael Root","doi":"10.2307/j.ctt1g69zbs.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1g69zbs.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"1 1","pages":"27-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147910094","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}