{"title":"The Seafaring Saint: Sources and Analogues of the Twelfth-Century Voyage of Saint Brendan (review)","authors":"S. Mac Mathúna","doi":"10.1353/cat.2005.0115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.2005.0115","url":null,"abstract":"ianate features and parallels, written in Italy but in Northumbria. We have no luxuriously decorated or illustrated books from York,or Lyon,or for that matter Rome; we cannot be certain that any were produced in these important centers,nor can we be confident of their appearance if they once existed.Verkerk’s frequent use of Roman liturgical and textual sources in her interpretations of the miniatures is valuable and interesting, but not much of an argument for an origin in Rome. Roman liturgies were widely emulated or adapted elsewhere; the manuscripts she perforce uses to ascertain just what Roman liturgy was during this period are themselves Frankish manuscripts, not Roman.The seven deacons she identifies in one of the miniatures are an important feature of the urban church in Rome,but, as she points out,depend upon a scriptural passage of universal currency. On the point of origin of the book, a healthy agnosticism still seems in order. Scholarship has probably devoted too much effort to the question of origins, which often becomes a reductive and schematic exercise, forcing a definitive choice beyond the limitations of our knowledge. More interesting is the discourse to which Verkerk’s book effectively contributes, a discourse not about where books were made but about for whom they were made, what they signified, and how they were used.","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"91 1","pages":"138 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2005-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cat.2005.0115","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66397616","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":"Francis of Assisi: Performing the Gospel Life (review)","authors":"Michael Robson","doi":"10.1353/cat.2005.0129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.2005.0129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"91 1","pages":"200 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2005-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cat.2005.0129","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66397686","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 Legend of St Brendan: A Critical Bibliography (review)","authors":"S. Mac Mathúna","doi":"10.1353/cat.2004.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.2004.0026","url":null,"abstract":"(p. 136) that the Church’s contribution was a loan. He badly distorts the inscription on Heraclius’ coins as the “provocative message” of “God has chosen the Romans [Byzantines]” (p. 71); it was actually a desperate cry:“God help the Romans!” One of Regan’s main arguments that Heraclius was a “crusader” is wildly anachronistic:“Five centuries after his great Persian campaigns Heraclius became part of the history of the crusades written by [the Western Crusader] William of Tyre” (p. 77).","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"90 1","pages":"95 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2004-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cat.2004.0026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66397416","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":"Christ in Celtic Christianity: Britain and Ireland from the Fifth to the Tenth Century (review)","authors":"D. Hall","doi":"10.1353/cat.2004.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.2004.0016","url":null,"abstract":"relics even though they were not sure where the saint’s remains were buried. Bakirtzes suggests that church leaders might have deliberately forgotten where the relics were to foil imperial requests to move them to Constantinople.By the eleventh century,pilgrims visited Demetrios’church to fill ampullae with miracleworking myron, an aromatic liquid which had begun to flow from beneath the church.After Italians took the relics to the West, the Thessalonians conveniently discovered a new detail of Demetrios’ martyrdom. He had fallen into a well at his death, and this well, now by the side of the church, was the true source of the myron. In the fifteenth century, Turkish pilgrims came to visit the shrine of Demetrios, and Sultan Murad II even sacrificed a ram in honor of the saint.","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"17 1","pages":"100 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2004-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cat.2004.0016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66396922","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":"This Train Is Bound for Glory","authors":"J. R. McCarthy","doi":"10.4324/9781315591759-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315591759-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"89 1","pages":"136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70651867","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}
S. Avella, P. Carey, Michael Phayer, Barbara Misner
{"title":"The Eighty-Second Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association","authors":"S. Avella, P. Carey, Michael Phayer, Barbara Misner","doi":"10.1353/cat.2007.0144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.2007.0144","url":null,"abstract":"Report of the Committee on Program Steven M. Avella, Patrick W Carey, and Michael Phayer, all of Marquette University, and Barbara Misner, S.C.S.C., of Merrill, Wisconsin, constituted the Committee on Program for the 2002 meeting. The committee sent out calls for papers through the Association's journal, and the committee members personally invited historians to participate in the meeting. We encouraged members to submit entire panel proposals and were successful in this endeavor. Because of the response from members of the Association and a few others, the committee was able to put together a program of eleven panels with some chronological variety and a diversity of interests, from peace and violence in the Middle Ages to Sisters in nineteenth-century France and to John Tracy Ellis. Presenters came from every region of the United States, as well as from New Zealand and England. All the sessions were held between January 4 and 6 and at the San Francisco Hilton Hotel. All of the panels appear to have been well received. January 4, first morning session: \"Peace and Violence at the Millennium: Texts and Contexts for France Around the Year 1000.\" Chair: Martin Claussen, University of San Francisco. Thomas Head, Hunter College and the Graduate Center City University of New York: \"The Peace of God to the Year 1000: A Re-examination of the Sources\"; Mathew Kuefler, San Diego State University: \"Dating and Authorship of Odo of Cluny's Life of Gerald of Aurillac\";Jeffrey A. Bowman, Kenyon College: \"True Crime: Murder and Mayhem in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century Charters.\" Commentator: Geoffrey Koziol, University of Callfornia at Berkeley, was unable to attend. Comments came from the chair, the participants, and many of the fifty persons who attended the session. January 4, second morning session: \"Twentieth-Century Catholicism in Callfornia: Three Different Views.\" Chair and Commentator: Joseph Chinnici, Franciscan School of Theology, Berkeley Steven M. Avella, Marquette University: \"The Church and the Sword: Shaping Postwar Catholic Life in California's Central Valley\"; Richard Gribble, Stonehill College: \"Urban Apostle: Edward Hanna and the City of San Francisco\";Jeffrey Burns,Archives of the Archdiocese of San Francisco: \"Priests in Revolt: Redefining Priesthood in San Francisco, 1962-- 1974.\" Over fifty persons attended a very lively and stimulating set of presentations and discussions. January 4, first afternoon session: \"Liberalism and Secularization in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.\" Chair and Commentator. Thomas W. Jodziewicz, University of Dallas. J. Ignacio Mendez, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb: \"Colombia Church Property and the Liberals in the Early 1860s\"; Steven Schloesser, Boston College: \"Anti-Modernist/Ultramontanist? Jean Cocteau, Jacques Maritain, and the 1920s Parisian Renouveau Catholique.\" Seven persons attended the session and engaged the presenters with challenging questions and encouraging comments. January 4, second a","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"88 1","pages":"293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2002-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cat.2007.0144","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66397830","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":"Churches and Social Issues in Twentieth-Century Britain (review)","authors":"J. Wolffe","doi":"10.1353/cat.2002.0111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.2002.0111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"88 1","pages":"376 - 377"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2002-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cat.2002.0111","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66396794","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":"Jansenism: Catholic Resistance to Authority from the Reformation to the French Revolution (review)","authors":"Jacques M. Gres Gayer","doi":"10.1353/cat.2001.0154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.2001.0154","url":null,"abstract":"cracy. He secured a post in the secretariat of state in 1578, where Cardinal Tolomei Galli, secretary of state under Gregory XIII, served as his mentor. Cardinal Ippolito Aldobrandini, the future Clement VIII, took him on a mission to Poland in 1588, and in the following years he twice was part of papal missions to Transylvania. The year 1596 found him accompanying Cardinal de Medici on a mission to France that eventually helped in the conclusion of the Treaty of Vervins (1598). So Amalteo was sixty-one-years old and a man of considerable experience when he was appointed to the nunciature in Cologne.","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"87 1","pages":"743 - 744"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2001-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cat.2001.0154","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66397008","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":"Inquisition and Power: Catharism and the Confessing Subject in Medieval Languedoc (review)","authors":"Bernard Hamilton","doi":"10.1353/CAT.2003.0158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CAT.2003.0158","url":null,"abstract":"Inquisition and Power. Catharism and the Confessing Subject in Medieval Languedoc. By John H. Arnold (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. Pp. ix, 311.) John Arnold has chosen as his epigraph this passage from T.J. Jackson Lears: Studying consumers through the eyes of market researchers is a little like studying heretics through the eyes of inquisitors: it can be a useful and indeed indispensable practice . . . but we cannot pretend . . . that the statements constitute the clear and unmediated voice of the people . . . that the inquisitors have vanished from the scene without leaving a trace. Arnold takes issue with those scholars who have uncritically accepted the evidence of inquisition witnesses, ignoring the circumstances in which their depositions were made. He seeks to evaluate the inquisition records from Languedoc in a more balanced way by using the methodology of Michel Foucault. Foucault was concerned to examine the connection between power and knowledge and argued that power was exercised by elite groups, such as doctors, through the use of linguistic and symbolic conventions which claimed to be cohesive and authoritative, which he described as discourses. Arnold takes the reader fully into his confidence, and Part I of his book (pp. 1-110) is spent chiefly in examining the sources and explaining the problems which they present when interpreted in Foucault's terms. He rightly argues that the southern French records may be considered as a unit, since although the inquisitors did not form part of an organization, they all exercised identical powers as papal judges delegate, they all sought to enforce the same body of law, and they all used, broadly speaking, the same methods, set out in handbooks which some of them had written. Moreover, since clear evidence about the use of torture \"is very infrequently found within the Languedocian records\" (p. 31), it can be assumed that most examinations were conducted in the same way. Arnold argues that: \"The inquisitors during . . . the thirteenth century, formulated a discourse about heresy and transgression and laid claim to a privileged authority for that language\" (p. 90). Consequently, witnesses who gave evidence within this framework of questioning would reinforce the picture of Catharism which the inquisitors already held and on which their questions were based, whereas the witnesses' own understanding of that faith might have been rather different. This approach seems simplistic. Although heresy was often described in terms of a disease by the medieval Church, the inquisitors were not in the position of doctors, whose technical medical vocabulary was not contested. As is clear from their own writings, the Cathars had their own language of power and taught their followers to challenge the Catholic understanding of traditional Christian theological concepts such as creation and incarnation. Encounters between well-instructed Cathar believers and inquisitors often turned into ","PeriodicalId":44384,"journal":{"name":"CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"89 1","pages":"547 - 549"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2001-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/CAT.2003.0158","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66396866","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}