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www.psupress.org | 1 New New in Paperback New Toward a Humean True Receptive Human Virtues The Salem Belle Religion Around Emily Religion Around Religion A New Reading of Jonathan Edwards’s A Tale of 1692 Dickinson Shakespeare Genuine Theism, Moderate Hope, and Ethics Ebenezer Wheelwright W. Clark Gilpin Peter Iver Kaufman Practical Morality Elizabeth Agnew Cochran Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Richard Kopley “Thorough and revealing, replete with “As endless numbers of biographical Andre C. Willis “Cochran presents a creative, concise, poem exempla and references to the studies demonstrate, Shakespeare “It is wonderful to have The Salem “Andre Willis’s book is an original and lucid account that deserves principal spokespersons of that era, remains frustratingly elusive on Belle back in print, edited expertly treatment and superb analysis of serious consideration by historians, Gilpin’s study contributes significantly questions of religion. What were his by Richard Kopley. Published eight Hume’s conception of ‘true religion.’ theologians, and ethicists.” to illuminating both Dickinson’s po- religious allegiances? We cannot tell; years before The Scarlet Letter, Willis’s meticulous scholarship —B. M. Stephens, Choice etry and the culture that inspired it.” the evidence of his life says little, Wheelwright’s novel was an impor- ranges across the magisterial corpus —R. R. Jolly, Choice and his plays say less. Although “To restore virtue to the heart of tant part of the cultural mix behind of the most profound and powerful he tackles large philosophical and morality, today’s theological ethicists Hawthorne’s masterpiece, as Kopley “In this illuminating, deeply researched philosopher in the English language. religious questions of identity, ex- retrieve and mine the works of demonstrates in his perceptive intro- book, W. Clark Gilpin probes the mul- His synthetic perspective situates istence, ethics, and the afterlife, he Augustine and Aquinas, as well as duction. Also, The Salem Belle stands tifaceted religious contexts—historical, Hume’s conception of ‘true religion’ never weighs into specific doctrinal their philosophical precursors, Plato on its own as a thought-provoking biographical, cultural, and theo- within the context of Hume’s quest debates of his lifetime. That high- and Aristotle. Into this pantheon novel about Puritan times written logical—of Emily Dickinson’s poetry. for a science of human nature. His browed, lightly-moustachioed face, of virtue ethicists, Elizabeth Agnew from the perspective of nineteenth- Gilpin provides the richest account yet use of major figures such as Locke, familiar from the title page of the Cochran now proposes, from the century America.” of Dickinson and religion.” Hutchinson, Descartes, Hobbes, First Folio, remains inscrutable to us. New World, the Puritan Jonathan —David S. Reynolds, author of —David S. Reynolds, author of Tindal, Toland, Grotius, and Lord Edwards. This surprising proposal is Walt Whitman’s America Beneath the American Renaissance “But how we yearn to know! The cult Herbert to situate Hume’s mitigated completely convincing and satisfying. of the Bard guarantees that anything “In a book subtly yet lucidly focused on Emily Dickinson’s metaphors of crossing skepticism, attenuated naturalism, Cochran gives us not only a compel- “Richard Kopley’s discovery that about Shakespeare will catch twenty- thresholds, boundaries, or bridges between disparate realms, W. Clark Gilpin and classical humanism is quite per- ling key in which to read the great Ebenezer Wheelwright’s The Salem first-century attention. By its title succeeds in bridging the boundary between historians of American religion, suasive. Willis’s argument is highly American theologian (Edwards schol- Belle is a precursor to Hawthorne’s alone, Peter Iver Kaufman’s Religion like himself, and lovers of literature. This book calls attention to the startling nuanced, critically fair, and textually ars take note!), but also a contempo- The Scarlet Letter is substantiated by Around Shakespeare would appear to range of often contradictory influences Dickinson may have ‘overheard’ within grounded. The writing is crystal clear, rary notion of moral agency, humbly his careful and perceptive attention respond to that need to know.” nineteenth-century religious culture—influences not limited to revivalism and balanced, humble, assured, and hon- cognizant of human sinfulness as to detail. The novel itself is fun and —Sean Henry, theological discourse but extending to hymnody, spiritualism, women’s culture, est. It is the kind of book that would well as the call to responsibility and quirky and explores the kinds of Marginalia Review of Books and the Civil War. Readers will especially appreciate Gilpin’s choice of poems make Hume smile from the grave, as the need for grace. Cochran’s refresh- historical and cultural issues that for insightful analysis of the poet’s practice of seclusion, her habits of fostering “Shakespeare scholars and those if to say, ‘Someone has got the gist ingly rich theological account makes also motivated Hawthorne. Kopley’s friendships, her responses to grief, and her sustained attention to possibilities studying other aspects of Renais- of what I was about! And there is no the restoration of virtue ethics all argument is sound, clear, and persua- of immortality.” —Jane Eberwein, Oakland University sance English life will come away greater satisfaction than this!’” the more probable by attending to, sive, and the connections he makes with a sharper, more accurate con- —Cornel West, rather than ignoring, the Reforma- are right on target.” “A subtle exploration of the ways in which literary creativity and religious ideas ception of the period’s maelstrom Union Theological Seminary tion. Brava!” —Samuel Chase Coale, and practices can deepen and extend one another. W. Clark Gilpin illuminates of religious influences and, I cannot 264 pages | 6 × 9 | 2015 —James F. Keenan, S.J., Wheaton College how Emily Dickinson experimented with the religion around her to create a po- but think, with a healthy reluctance isbn 978-0-271-06487-1 | cloth: $74.95 sh Boston College 224 pages | 5 × 7.25 | 1/2016 etry of singular religious vision, a poetry that is shaped by nineteenth-century to indulge in oversimplification isbn 978-0-271-07116-9 | cloth: $64.95 sh religious thought and practice and that reimagines it in significant ways.” 216 pages | 6 × 9 | 2010 about it.” —John E. Curran Jr., isbn 978-0-271-04845-1 | paper: $34.95 sh —Stephanie Paulsell, Harvard Divinity School Renaissance Quarterly “A finely textured discussion of Dickinson that brings into critical view both 264 pages | 5.5 × 8.5 | 2013 earlier trends and the most current modes of scholarship. Religion is extended isbn 978-0-271-06181-8 | cloth: $34.95 sh beyond theological, intellectual history to religious practices, expressions, histo- Religion Around Series ricities, and enactments, embedding Dickinson in a wide cultural matrix. In doing this, the book traces changes in the meanings of America and in fundamental paradigms for representing American life—from the national to the transat- lantic, from one narrative (and narratives about oneness) to multiple senses of American identities. Enjoyably written, this book brings together contemporary issues in American culture and Dickinson studies in ways that alter our sense of Dickinson’s reading of her American world and hence our reading of her.” —Shira Wolosky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 216 pages | 5.5 × 8.5 | 2014 isbn 978-0-271-06476-5 | cloth: $34.95 sh Religion Around Series

2 | penn state university press www.psupress.org | 3 New in Paperback New in Paperback New in Paperback New Revised Edition Divining the Self Understanding the Borderline Exegesis Zen and the Unspeakable God Economics as Religion A Study in Yoruba Myth and Human Qurʾanic Miracle Stories in Leif E. Vaage Comparative Interpretations of Mystical From Samuelson to Chicago and Consciousness Experience Beyond the Modern Age “Leif Vaage’s ‘borderline exegesis’ Jason N. Blum Robert H. Nelson Velma E. Love Isra Yazicioglu works on the edges and in the “The breadth that Love manages to “Isra Yazicioglu’s Understanding the crevices of biblical texts and biblical “Jason Blum has given us a novel and very “Robert Nelson has written what achieve in a work of this brief length scholarship to engage ‘life questions’ interesting attempt to offer a new take on may be the most important recent Qurʾanic Miracle Stories in the Modern is impressive. It takes account of fes- Age is an intriguing study not only of that are particularly urgent for those the elusive subject of religious experience. book on the future of the economics tivals and archetypes, as well as Ca- who are living on the edge or on the The book is useful in many ways: it orga- profession.” —Andrew Morriss, the Qurʾan but also of the recep- ribbean and West African traditions tion history of the sacred text in margins. This edgy and yet balanced nizes, and criticizes, the main epistemo- Books and Culture and their performances and revision book does not assume the Christian logical assumptions made by theories of light of the challenge of rationalism. “Robert Nelson’s Economics as Religion in African American communities in triumphalism that has plagued many mystical experience, and it argues Blum’s Meandering from the Qurʾan itself offers a unique set of insights into the US.” —K. M. Simmons, Choice ‘liberational’ readings of the Bible. I case over several rigorously constructed to Ghazali and Ibn Rushd as well as the social role of the economics find it accessible and admirable.” chapters. Recommended to anyone inter- “This historical context for researchers Peirce and Hume and Nursi, Yazicio- profession. . . . The book should be —Tat-siong Benny Liew, ested in religious experience.” of contemporary Ifa/Orisha tradition glu’s work serves as a useful reminder assigned reading for undergraduates College of the Holy Cross —Ivan Strenski, in the United States remains vital, of how intellectual trends in each in intermediate microeconomics University of California, Riverside as well as being simply enjoyable era have shaped our interaction with “With his proposal of a ‘borderline and first-year graduate students in reading for practitioners of Yoruba divine revelation in a way that is exegesis,’ Leif Vaage challenges tra- “Jason Blum illustrates fascinating similari- economics.” —Jennifer Roback, timeless—and also timely.” ditional biblical scholarship, opening religion.” —Daniel Foor, ties and parallels in the writings of Ibn al-ʿArabi, Meister Eckhart, and Hui-neng Journal of Markets and Morality Pomegranate: The International —Omid Safi, the possibility of reading the Bible with respect to their views on the metaphysical structure between the self and “An economic theorist himself, Nel- Journal of Pagan Studies University of North Carolina with a utopian imagination. Such a ultimacy and on the nature of mystical knowing, despite obvious major differ- son elegantly exposes his firm under- reading is a conversation with the ences among these influential mystics. This insightful comparative study devel- “Well-crafted case studies like Divining “This is an important book that brings standing of the history of economic biblical texts that takes place in ops with rigorous precision and clarity a novel theoretical framework for the the Self are important contributions miracle stories from Islam into conver- theory. . . . He is in fact perfectly the margins of well-being, where study of comparative mysticism, one that shows much originality and promise.” to the process of bringing religious sation with philosophy. . . . Yazicioglu’s at ease venturing into theological the ‘good life’ cannot be taken for —Michael Stoeber, Regis College, University of Toronto pragmatic hermeneutics raises highly and religious history, persuasively studies into compatibility with the granted and life itself is often threat- relevant philosophical questions and “Jason Blum’s phenomenological approach to the analysis of mystical experi- establishing parallels between the lived religious and scriptural practices ened. Stimulated by his long-term makes us rethink our assumptions ences is both original and substantial, contributing to the recent debates about economic and religious realms.” of participants. Traditionally, scholars contact with borderline experiences about Qurʾanic miracle stories, show- the nature of those experiences with a more subtle and holistic attitude. It will —Aren E. Annus, Nova Religio: have focused on the text itself to of life in the outskirts of Lima, Peru, ing how we must read them as relevant become an important part of the ongoing methodological controversies.” The Journal of Alternative and find meanings based on words and Vaage’s reading of various biblical scriptural texts that question our —Moshe Idel, Hebrew University and Shalom Hartman Institute Emergent Religions concepts in order to claim religious texts shows how this kind of exegesis relevance. This study looks beyond assumptions about the world. This is can help imagine a better world.” “This is a gem of a book. It is well written, tightly organized, and succinct in its This new edition of Economics as Reli- print and inscription by focusing a well-written and engaging book on —Santiago Guijarro, Pontifical formulations. It manages to take three very sophisticated mystical authors from gion situates the influence of Robert on an influential oral and (relatively an important topic. It deserves to be University of Salamanca, president three very different cultures and put them into critical conversation both with Nelson’s work in the scholarly eco- recently) written corpus in use among widely read and discussed.” of the Spanish Biblical Association one another and with the ontological assumptions of the contemporary acad- nomic and theological conversations a participant population that out- —Gavin Flood, University of Oxford emy. The result is a wonderful example of the new comparativism.” of today and reflects on the state of numbers many ‘mainline’ Christian 232 pages | 6 × 9 | 2013 216 pages | 6 × 9 | 2014 isbn 978-0-271-06157-3 | paper: $32.95 sh isbn 978-0-271-06288-4 | paper: $29.95 sh —Jeffrey J. Kripal, Rice University the economics profession and the denominations.” —Grey Gundaker, Signifying (on) Scriptures Series Signifying (on) Scriptures Series potential implications for theology, College of William and Mary Zen and the Unspeakable God reevaluates how we study mystical experience. For- economics, and other social sciences. 160 pages | 3 illustrations | 6 × 9 | 2012 saking the prescriptive epistemological box that has constrained the conversa- 436 pages | 6 × 9 | 2014 isbn 978-0-271-05406-3 | paper: $24.95 sh tion for decades, ensuring that methodology has overshadowed subject matter, isbn 978-0-271-06376-8 | paper: $35.95 sh Signifying (on) Scriptures Series Jason Blum proposes a new interpretive approach—one that begins with a mystic’s own beliefs about the nature of mystical experience. Blum brings this approach to bear on the experiential accounts of three mystical exemplars: Meister Eckhart, Ibn al-ʿArabi, and Hui-neng. Through close readings of their texts, he uncovers the mystics’ own fundamental assumptions about transcen- dence and harnesses these as interpretive guides to their experiences. 200 pages | 1 illustration | 6 × 9 | 2015 isbn 978-0-271-07079-7 | cloth: $74.95 sh

4 | penn state university press www.psupress.org | 5 New in Paperback New in Paperback New Church and Estate Books and Religious Jacob Green’s Revolution Nothing but Love in God’s The Spirit of Praise Religion and Wealth in Industrial-Era Devotion Radical Religion and Reform in a Water Music and Worship in Global Philadelphia The Redemptive Reading of an Revolutionary Age Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity Thomas F. Rzeznik Irishman in Nineteenth-Century New S. Scott Rohrer Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement Edited by Monique M. Ingalls and Amos Yong “Rich in original research and percep- England “Jacob Green, an independent- Robert Darden Allan F. Westphall tive analysis, Church and Estate is a minded Presbyterian minister, “The African American spiritual tradi- “A fresh and timely collection of es- major contribution to our under- “Allan Westphall’s book is more than played a leading role in New Jersey tion long ago overflowed its cultural says on the role of music in pente- standing of the interplay of religious an exhaustive account of one reader during the tumultuous days of banks to become a wellspring for costal-charismatic Christian practice. belief and new industrial fortunes reading. It is a welcome excavation the American Revolution. S. Scott quintessentially American sacred and The editors have done a superb job Rohrer’s innovative biography in the late nineteenth and early of the ways in which a non-elite New secular music. In Nothing but Love in of organizing the material, and the rescues this intriguing figure from twentieth centuries. . . . This is a Hampshire farmer lived his reading, God’s Water, Robert Darden meticu- contributors approach their topics unwarranted obscurity. In so doing, brilliant and important study that physically manipulating his books lously and mellifluously charts that with remarkable sensitivity and rigor. it also illuminates the strong (but will be a crucial reference for those to reflect and develop his beliefs and flow from the origins of the spiritual Represented here are the voices of complicated) connections between seeking to understand the changes devotional practices. Westphall’s as a balm against the pain of slavery both scholars and practitioners, who religion and politics at the dawn of in Quakerism in the last century in meticulous insights into the mate- to adaptation and repurposing as write from well-grounded perspec- the American nation. Rohrer’s atten- dialogue with the broader religious rial dimension of reading illustrate a means of empowering, uniting, tives. The volume challenges its tion to the closely related biography and economic landscape.” the surprising ways the physical and persevering in the struggle for readers by insisting that they grapple of a loyalist Episcopalian (Thomas —William L. Coleman, text has been used for religious self- with overlapping yet sometimes Bradbury Chandler) only sharpens civil rights. Darden offers an essential Quaker History fashioning.” —Michael J. Everton, guide to the evolution of a tradition, the myriad springs, eddies, and crosscur- dissonant points of view. It shows the illuminating portrait of Green us that music is much more than a “Among the strengths of [Church and Simon Fraser University rents that over centuries fed into the enduring river that is the legacy of African that stands at the heart of this fine mere appendage to religious practice; Estate is Rzeznik’s] refusal to reduce American sacred song.” “Allan Westphall brings together an study.” —Mark Noll, rather, music is often inextricably his stories of the changes taking —Jerry Zolten, Pennsylvania State University, author of Great God A’mighty! extensive knowledge of Thomas University of Notre Dame linked to the theological and political place [in Philadelphia] to economics The Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music Connary’s sources (his books), the “There is no more intriguing character realms. The Spirit of Praise makes an and matters of social status. These scholarship directly and indirectly among the American Revolution’s “This book is absolutely brilliant! Part social history, part investigative reporting, inspiring contribution to our un- are human stories in which the dealing with a reader’s interaction pastors than Jacob Green, a fervent and a lot of sound cultural analysis with a touch of theological reflection, this derstanding of the role of music and power of wealth and the seeking with his texts, and the old Irish patriot, antislavery advocate, and magnum opus illuminates the importance of black sacred music within the civil worship in the contexts of Christian of ‘spiritual capital’ and prestige and medieval sources of Connary’s principled Calvinist. S. Scott Rohrer rights movement. Nothing but Love in God’s Water reveals black sacred music as practice and everyday life.” and influence were ever operative, Catholicism. This fresh, original brings Green’s story to life in this a liberating expression, a tool for liberation, and the most important chronicle —Melvin L. Butler, but where ‘sincere spiritual yearn- study explores the significance of a much-needed biography, with its ad- of the liberation experience. Robert Darden’s tome is accurate, well written, University of Chicago ings’ and a ‘genuine desire for sound reader’s text embellishments and mirable combination of lucid writing captivating, and full of insightful interpretations of the power of music within teachings, meaningful worship and Aside from the editors, the contribu- examines how a farmer and ‘book and historical insight.” the African American experience.” tors are Peter Althouse, Will Boone, spiritual fulfillment’ also had their keeper’ can integrate himself into —Thomas S. Kidd, —Emmett G. Price III, Northeastern University roles. . . . One appreciates [Rzeznik’s] his books—making them an exten- Mark Evans, Ryan R. Gladwin, Birgit- Baylor University The first of two volumes chronicling the history and role of music in the African comprehension of the complexities sion of himself.” ta J. Johnson, Jean Ngoya Kidula, Mi- 320 pages | 8 illustrations/2 maps | 6 × 9 | 2014 American experience, Nothing but Love in God’s Water explores how songs and and mixed motivations of religious —A. Franklin Parks, isbn 978-0-271-06422-2 | paper: $34.95 sh randa Klaver, Andrew Mall, Kimberly singers helped African Americans challenge and overcome slavery, subjugation, life of this era.” Frostburg State University Jenkins Marshall, Andrew M. McCoy, —Frederick Houk Borsch, and suppression. From the spirituals of southern fields and the ringing chords Martijn Oosterbaan, Dave Perkins, 248 pages | 34 illustrations | 6 × 9 | 2014 of black gospel to the protest songs that changed the landscape of labor and the Anglican and Episcopal History isbn 978-0-271-06405-5 | paper: $39.95 sh Wen Reagan, Tanya Riches, Michael cadences sung before dogs and water cannons in Birmingham, sacred song has 304 pages | 11 illus./1 map | 6.125 × 9.25 | 2013 Penn State Series in the History of the Book Webb, and Michael Wilkinson. stood center stage in the African American drama. Myriad interviews, one-of- isbn 978-0-271-05968-6 | paper: $39.95 sh 312 pages | 5 illustrations | 6 × 9 | 2015 a-kind sources, and rare or lost recordings are used to examine this enormously isbn 978-0-271-06662-2 | cloth: $79.95 sh persuasive facet of the movement. Nothing but Love in God’s Water explains the historical significance of song and helps us understand how music enabled the civil rights movement to challenge the most powerful nation on the planet. 224 pages | 7 illustrations | 7 × 10 | 2014 isbn 978-0-271-05084-3 | cloth: $34.95 tr

6 | penn state university press www.psupress.org | 7 New New in Paperback New New Supernatural The Spiritual Vision of The Wanton Jesuit and the The Chankas and the Priest Entertainments Frank Buchman Wayward Saint A Tale of Murder and Exile in Highland Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Philip Boobbyer A Tale of Sex, Religion, and Politics in Peru Modern Media Culture Eighteenth-Century France Sabine Hyland “Philip Boobbyer . . . has provided a Simone Natale definitive and well-written portrait, Mita Choudhury “Based on an amazing wealth of docu- “We all know that the supernatural is which will be of enduring value, of “Students of eighteenth-century France mentation gleaned from archives entertaining. Just turn on your televi- Buchman and his vision.” have long been aware of the importance and private collections on three sion set or go to the movies. But this —Peter Forster, Church Times of the Cadière affair. Fortunately, the case continents, this marvelous microhis- tory brings to life the world of the entertaining? Supernatural Entertain- “Frank Buchman was the American has now found its historian. Mita Choud- Andean villagers of Pampachiri as ments is one of the most original books founder of the international move- hury, a leading expert on the politics of they fall under the ruthless exploita- I have read in a long time. Simone Na- ment that was variously called the theological conflict in Old Regime France, tion of a sadistic priest. Beginning tale’s embrace of the history of technol- First Century Christian Fellowship, has given us a rich account of the scandal- with a series of events in this small ogy, celebrity studies, material culture, the Oxford Group, and Moral Re- ous provincial encounter in the early 1730s village during the late sixteenth popular culture, photography, and Armament. This body had a protean that resounded all the way to the halls of century, Sabine Hyland weaves a film studies to plumb the immediate character, evolving from a religious Versailles and the Sorbonne.” vivid story of the foundations and historical background of the modern revival movement into something —Jeffrey S. Ravel, persistence of Chanka ethnicity, the supernatural also makes it astonish- like a nongovernmental organiza- Massachusetts Institute of Technology ingly capacious and interdisciplinary. role of the church and its clergy, and tion dedicated to world peace and rec- This microhistory investigates the famous and scandalous 1731 trial in which Get ready for a ride. Or a show.” the nature of Spanish colonialism. In onciliation. The ideas of the founder Catherine Cadière, a young woman in the south of France, accused her Jesuit —Jeffrey J. Kripal, Rice University so doing, she provides a more bal- have proved elusive, but Philip Boob- confessor, Jean-Baptiste Girard, of seduction, heresy, abortion, and bewitch- anced evaluation of the construction byer, who has enjoyed full access to ment. Generally considered to be the last witchcraft trial in early modern France, “Approaching Victorian supernaturalism as popular spectacle, Simone Natale of a new social order.” the available sources, has now pieced the Cadière affair was central to the volatile politics of 1730s France, a time makes a compelling argument that nineteenth-century spiritualism made a — Noble David Cook, together a compelling portrayal of when magistrates and lawyers were seeking to contain clerical power. significant contribution to what would become the dominant religion of the Florida International University twentieth century: the entertainment industry. Rather than seeing the spiri- what moved the man.” Mita Choudhury’s examination of the trial sheds light on two important tualists and their energetic followers as gullible or deluded, Natale explores the —David Bebbington, “In this gripping, excitingly narrated phenomena with broad historical implications: the questioning of traditional more fascinating possibility that medium, circle, and audience helped redefine University of Stirling history, Sabine Hyland tells the story authority and the growing disquiet about the role of the sacred and divine in the possibilities of domestic leisure and public performance.” of a Spanish priest who for a decade “Philip Boobbyer’s thorough scholar- French society. Both contributed to the French people’s ever-increasing disen- —Jeffrey Sconce, Northwestern University abused and bedeviled his parishio- ship uncovers the roots of Buchman’s chantment with the church and the king. Choudhury builds her story through ners—the Chankas of the village spiritual vision and demonstrates an extensive examination of archival material, including trial records, pam- In Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale paints a vivid picture of spiritual- of Pampachiri, in the high Andes of the wide-reaching significance of his phlets, periodicals, and unpublished correspondence from witnesses. ism’s rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores the movement’s southern Peru. This is a groundbreak- strong connection to the rise of the media entertainment industry in the nine- campaigns for moral renewal. It will The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint offers new insights into how the ing microhistory of the highest order, teenth century. Natale frames spiritualism as part of a process that formed a become the definitive study of this eighteenth-century public interpreted the accusations and why the case con- deeply informing our understanding new commodity culture that changed how public entertainments were produced enigmatic figure.” —Brian Stanley, sumed the public for years, developing from a local sex scandal to a referendum of people and events in a remote and consumed. Starting with the story of the Fox sisters from Hydesville, New University of Edinburgh on religious authority and its place in French society and politics. corner of the colonial Andean world.” York, who are considered the first spiritualist mediums in history, Natale fol- 232 pages | 10 illustrations | 6 × 9 | 2013 —Gary Urton, lows the trajectory of spiritualism in Great Britain and the United States from isbn 978-0-271-05980-8 | paper: $32.95 sh 248 pages | 21 illustrations/2 maps | 6 × 9 | 2015 isbn 978-0-271-07081-0 | cloth: $64.95 sh Harvard University its foundation in 1848 to the beginning of the twentieth century. Supernatural 216 pages | 27 illustrations/2 maps | 6 × 9 | 6/2016 Entertainments shows us that spiritualist mediums and leaders employed some isbn 978-0-271-07122-0 | cloth: $59.95 sh of the same advertising and promotional strategies and other spectacular tech- niques that were being developed for the broader live entertainment industry. Most spiritualistic mediums were indistinguishable from other professional per- formers, since they had managers and agents, advertised in the press, and used spectacularism to draw in their audiences. Natale is one of the first scholars to address the overlap between this religious movement’s explosion and develop- ments in show business during the nineteenth century. 240 pages | 31 illustrations | 6 × 9 | 2/2016 isbn 978-0-271-07104-6 | cloth: $79.95 sh

8 | penn state university press www.psupress.org | 9 New New in Paperback New New in Paperback The Arras Witch Treatises The Transformations of Rewriting Magic Invoking Angels Johannes Tinctor’s Invectives contre la Magic An Exegesis of the Visionary Theurgic Ideas and Practices, secte de vauderie and the Recollectio casus, Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries status et condicionis Valdensium ydolatrum Middle Ages and Renaissance French Monk Edited by Claire Fanger by the Anonymous of Arras (1460) Claire Fanger Frank Klaassen “Invoking Angels makes an important Edited and translated by Andrew Colin Gow, Robert B. Desjardins, Winner, 2014 Margaret Wade Labarge “A pithy and intellectually enriching ex- contribution to the growing scholarly and François V. Pageau Prize, Canadian Society of Medievalists ploration, not of a strange intellectual literature on medieval and early outlier, but of a profoundly imagina- modern ritual magic.” “Well argued and well researched, [The “This scholarly and remarkably clear tive and quintessentially medieval —Christopher Lehrich, Transformations of Magic] represents a translation of two extremely important mind.” —Frank Klaassen, Boston University thorough and scholarly treatment of treatises regarding the infamous witch University of Saskatchewan hunt in Arras circa 1460 provides a medieval magical texts, as well as an Invoking Angels brings together a fascinating glimpse into the mind-set engrossing read.” —Michael Heyes, “Rewriting Magic is a deeply interesting tightly themed collection of essays of two promoters of witch hunting who Religious Studies Review book. It gives the reader a sense of on late medieval and early modern the personal immediacy of scholarly texts concerned with the role of defined demonic heresy and justi- “Klaassen’s elegantly written mono- discovery as well as a deep sense of the angels in the cosmos, focusing on fied the use of cruel tactics to extract graph is an incisive analysis of an un- intimate interior practice of a remark- angelic rituals and spiritual cosmolo- confessions. Revealing both similarity derstudied body of evidence. His argu- able monk. The book takes you into gies. Collectively, these essays tie to and significant differences from ment that two types of ‘illicit learned the heart of medieval magic and its medieval angel magic texts more other demonological works, The Arras magic’ characterized the period be- complex visionary experience. I know of no other book like it.” clearly to medieval religion and to Witch Treatises offers an exciting new tween 1300 and 1600 brings coherence —Tanya Luhrmann, Stanford University the better-known author-magicians resource for both teaching and scholarship.” and clarity to an intellectual tradition of the early modern period. In the —Gary K. Waite, University of New Brunswick that has too often been overlooked. By In Rewriting Magic, Claire Fanger explores a fourteenth-century text called The process of rearticulating the under- locating magical texts within broad Flowers of Heavenly Teaching. Written by a Benedictine monk named John of “This important work sheds much light on the fifteenth-century origins of the standing of Christian angel magic, theological, philosophical, and schol- Morigny, the work all but disappeared from the historical record, and it is only witch craze. The ‘elaborated theory’ of witchcraft described here is absolutely contributors examine the places arly traditions and by emphasizing the now coming to light again in multiple versions and copies. While John’s book fascinating, not just because it predates the classic era of witch hunting by a cen- where an intersection of Christian, continuities between medieval ritual largely comprises an extended set of prayers for gaining knowledge, The Flow- tury but also because it was so incoherent and contentious and yet terrifyingly Jewish, and Islamic ideas can be magic and Renaissance texts, Klaassen ers of Heavenly Teaching is unusual among prayer books of its time because it relevant to changing social and political conditions. This is a story about medieval identified. superstition as well as the modernity of print and law and state building.” challenges his readers to see medieval includes a visionary autobiography with intimate information about the book’s —Malcolm Gaskill, University of East Anglia and Renaissance intellectual culture inspiration and composition. Through the window of this record, we witness Aside from the editor, the con- in new ways. His work thus not only how John reconstructs and reconsecrates a condemned liturgy for knowledge tributors are Harvey J. Hames, Frank The Arras Witch Treatises presents for the first time complete and accessible Eng- makes a valuable contribution to the acquisition: the ars notoria of Solomon. John’s work was the subject of intense Klaassen, Katelyn Mesler, Sophie lish translations of two major source texts—Tinctor’s Invectives and the Anony- history of magic in the premodern era, criticism and public scandal, and his book was burned as heretical in 1323. The Page, Jan R. Veenstra, Julien Véro- mous’s Recollectio—that arose from the famous Arras witch hunts and trial in the but also participates in conversations trauma of these experiences left its imprint on the book, but in unexpected and nèse, Nicolas Weill-Parot, and Elliot mid-fifteenth century in France. These writings by trial judge Jacques du Bois (be- about the periodization of the Middle sometimes baffling ways. Fanger decodes this imprint even as she relays the nar- R. Wolfson. lieved to be the “Anonymous of Arras”) and the intellectual Johannes Tinctor offer Ages and the Renaissance.” rative of how she learned to understand it. In engaging prose, she explores the 408 pages | 5 illustrations | 6 × 9 | 2012 valuable eyewitness perspectives on the trials and persecution of alleged witches. —2014 Margaret Wade Labarge twin processes of knowledge acquisition in John’s visionary autobiography and isbn 978-0-271-05143-7 | paper: $39.95 sh More important, they provide a window onto the divergent views on witchcraft Prize Committee her own work of discovery as she reconstructed the background to his extraor- and demonology that arose in Arras and surrounding regions during the late me- 280 pages | 6 × 9 | 2013 dinary book. Fanger’s approach to her subject exemplifies innovative historical dieval period. Along with the translations, the volume includes a student-friendly isbn 978-0-271-05627-2 | paper: $34.95 sh inquiry, research, and methodology. Part theology, part historical anthropology, introduction, which situates the treatises and trials in their historical and intel- Magic in History Series part biblio-memoir, Rewriting Magic relates a story that will have deep implica- lectual contexts, and critical apparatus aimed toward classroom use. tions for the study of medieval life, monasticism, prayer, magic, and religion. 136 pages | 1 map | 6 × 9 | 5/2016 232 pages | 4 illustrations | 6.125 × 9.25 | 2015 isbn 978-0-271-07128-2 | paper: $24.95 sh isbn 978-0-271-06650-9 | cloth: $79.95 sh Magic in History Sourcebooks Series

The Arras Witch Treatises is the first volume in the Magic in History Sourcebooks series. These primary-source volumes are perfect for the classroom and will appeal to anyone interested in history, witchcraft, and the occult. Scholars, students, and fans of the Magic in History books will welcome these important compilations and translations. The Magic in History Sourcebooks series offers an exciting, first-hand glimpse into the exploration of the history and practice of the occult.

10 | penn state university press magic in history series www.psupress.org | 11 New in Paperback New in Paperback Forbidden Rites Battling Demons Prayer, Magic, and the Binding Words Alchemical Belief Magic in the Cloister A Necromancer’s Manual of the Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Stars in the Ancient and Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages Occultism in the Religious Culture of Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Fifteenth Century Late Middle Ages Late Antique World Don C. Skemer Early Modern England Occult Approaches to the Medieval Bruce Janacek Universe Richard Kieckhefer Michael D. Bailey Edited by Scott Noegel, Joel Walker, “Binding Words will become a prized and Brannon Wheeler Sophie Page “I was captivated . . . by Forbidden “This book is a must for late medieval- source of information and inspira- “By identifying alchemical belief as Rites, part of an excellent series un- ists and anyone interested in the “This book is as professionally and tion for future research on magic, an intangible but pervasive force “Magic in the Cloister is a stimulating der the rubric Magic in History; with history of witchcraft and magic.” indeed attractively produced as are popular culture and text.” at work within late Tudor and work: its research is meticulous, its wonderful wit and succinct contex- —Jeffrey R. Watt, the other volumes in the worthy —Bettina Bildhauer, Stuart society, Janacek’s volume is insights compelling, and its prose tual insights, Richard Kieckhefer has Religious Studies Review Pennsylvania State Magic in History Times Literary Supplement significant for pointing to a more limpid. For this reviewer, the first nuanced view of political, philosophi- edited a German wizard’s grimoire, 216 pages | 3 illustrations | 6.125 × 9.25 | 2003 series.” —Daniel Ogden, 336 pages | 12 illustrations | 6.125 × 9.25 | 2006 visit to the library of St. Augustine’s cal, and religious preconceptions in packed with spells for Prospero-like isbn 978-0-271-02226-0 | paper: $35.95 sh International Journal isbn 978-0-271-02723-4 | paper: $46.95 sh was thrilling indeed.” conjurations of phantom banquets of the Classical Tradition early modern England. By drawing —David J. Collins, S.J., attention to hidden currents within and castles in the air, as well as Conjuring Spirits 272 pages | 13 illus./1 map | 6.125 × 9.25 | 2003 The Bathhouse at Midnight Catholic Historical Review alchemical culture as an agent of complicated charms, many involving isbn 978-0-271-02258-1 | paper: $35.95 sh An Historical Survey of Magic and Texts and Traditions of Medieval change, Alchemical Belief constitutes “Page contextualizes licit and illicit hoopoes, against all manner of ills.” Divination in Russia Ritual Magic an important springboard for new forms of magic and the reasons for —Marina Warner, Icons of Power W. F. Ryan Edited by Claire Fanger studies about the interrelationship their classification in the medieval Times Literary Supplement Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity mind, focusing upon magical practice “Well illustrated throughout and with “Ryan’s book is a tour de force. It is between theology and science in pre- 392 pages | 6.125 × 9.25 | 1998 Naomi Janowitz in the monastery. . . . Magic in the isbn 978-0-271-01751-8 | paper: $36.95 tr a very useful bibliography and index, likely to remain the fundamental modern society.” —Donna Bilak, Cloister is well worth the read, par- Fanger’s volume adds considerable A 2003 Choice Outstanding Academic reference work on magic in Russia Early Science and Medicine ticularly for the academic audience weight to the need to study magic as Title for generations to come.” Ritual Magic “With the arguments of Bacon in who is coming to these texts for the part of the broader religious and sci- —Eve Levin, Slavic Review Elizabeth M. 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This cians how to conjure good or evil Spiritual and Demonic XIV’s France complex view helps to highlight the and even putting into practice magical spirits.” —Richard Kieckhefer, 192 pages | 6.125 × 9.25 | 2002 Lynn Wood Mollenauer texts that were kept in the library of Magic isbn 978-0-271-05837-5 | paper: $30.95 sh fact that the eventual triumph of the Northwestern University their monastery. St. Augustine’s, Can- From Ficino to Campanella “For anyone with an interest in the sceptical views of alchemy was by no 336 pages | 6 × 9 | 1999 terbury, offered not only a haven for D. P. Walker New in Paperback history of magic, Strange Revelations means obvious in the climate of early isbn 978-0-271-01846-1 | paper: $35.95 sh prayer but also a laboratory for occult Available in the U.S., Canada, Philippines, and Unlocked Books contains fascinating revelations modern England. 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12 | penn state university press magic in history series www.psupress.org | 13 New in Paperback New New in Paperback New in Paperback The Bernward Gospels Picturing Experience in the The Feast of Corpus Christi Warfare and the Miraculous Sacred Plunder Priests of the French Art, Memory, and the Episcopate in Early Printed Book Barbara R. Walters, Vincent Corrigan, in the Chronicles of the Venice and the Aftermath of the Revolution Medieval Germany Breydenbach’s Peregrinatio from and Peter T. Ricketts First Crusade Fourth Crusade Saints and Renegades in a New Jennifer P. Kingsley Venice to Jerusalem “In this welcome, scholarly book, Elizabeth Lapina David M. Perry Political Era Elizabeth Ross three American academics work Joseph F. Byrnes “The Bernward Gospels is a learned and - “Taking as a leitmotif a celebrated “This insightful work is the first to ing in the field of medieval studies well-written volume that contains in- “The first in-depth analysis in English, moment from the narratives of the explore the effects that waves of dis- “In his new book, Joseph Byrnes assemble a remarkable collection novative insights into the miniatures this study explores both the artistic First Crusade—the appearance of placed relics from Constantinople had takes us into the fascinating world of material that brings fresh light of one of the most important and and intellectual achievements of the an army of saints during the siege on Venice and, more broadly, Latin of Catholic priests who sought, in to bear on the origins and early de- famous medieval manuscripts. It is Peregrinatio. Beautifully produced, of Antioch—Elizabeth Lapina Christianity. Peeling back layers of different ways, to work with rather velopment of the festival of Corpus to the author’s credit that she makes it includes large color plates of the gradually builds an original and con- narrative in the translation accounts, than against the French Revolution. Christi.” —Kenneth Stevenson, fresh observations and draws impor- seven famous woodcut views of cities vincing interpretation of crusader David Perry reveals evolving attitudes Moving beyond a simple narrative of Journal of Theological Studies tant conclusions about a medieval along the route from Venice to the psychology and historiography. Her and anxieties about crusading, sanc- church-state conflict and dechristian- work that has been studied continu- East that set a model for later chroni- “The inclusion of Corpus Christi mate- contribution to our understanding tity, and power. His expertise with ization, Byrnes explores the personal ously for well over one hundred years. cle books. . . . A valuable contribution rial in such vernacular poems attests of the part played by the Normans these scattered sources illuminates and professional dramas of indi- Jennifer Kingsley demonstrates once to the Peregrinatio literature.” to the growing popularity of the feast in the development of crusade ideol- his analysis, and his evocative prose viduals ranging from the abbé Henri again the sophisticated nature of the —D. Pincus, Choice and the desire of the Church that ogy is especially groundbreaking. makes it a real pleasure to read.” Grégoire, who struggled to reconcile manuscript’s pictorial program and This is an important and innovative —Thomas F. Madden, Catholicism and the republic through “The design [of Ross’s book] is notably this feast be received and dissemi- implicates the pictures in broader work that is also, from start to fin- Saint Louis University a reformed Constitutional Church, generous and the production excep- nated at a popular level. Beyond the conversations about the proper func- ish, a delight to read.” to terrorists such as Jacques Roux, tional, appropriate to the study of an content of this book that is stellar, In Sacred Plunder, David Perry argues tion of medieval imagery, memory, —Jay Rubenstein, who turned against his past and important monument in the history this volume distinguishes itself as a that plundered relics, and narratives and spiritual seeing.” University of Tennessee condemned his clerical colleagues as of the book. . . . Above all there is the monument to collaborative research about them, played a central role in —Adam S. Cohen, and a must-have for any serious fanatics and hypocrites. Drawing on elegance and clarity of the writing: In Warfare and the Miraculous in shaping the memorial legacy of the University of Toronto scholar of the liturgy.” their sermons, speeches, letters, and measured, jargon­-free, and often the Chronicles of the First Crusade, Fourth Crusade and the develop- —Michael S. Driscoll, pamphlets, Byrnes allows us to hear Few works of art better illustrate the commanding as well. Not only is this Elizabeth Lapina examines a variety ment of Venice’s civic identity in the a discordant chorus of voices provid- splendor of eleventh-century paint- book a pleasure to read, but also the Catholic Historical Review of these chronicles, written both by thirteenth century. After the Fourth ing a rich commentary on the politi- ing than the manuscript often re- care taken in the research and the “The Feast of Corpus Christi is in many participants in the crusade and by Crusade ended in 1204, the disputes cal and religious history of France ferred to as the “precious gospels” of soundness of the author’s judgment ways an invaluable resource. It those who stayed behind. Her goal is over the memory and meaning of during the revolutionary decade of Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim, with are manifest throughout.” makes available for the first time a to understand the enterprise from the conquest began. Many crusaders the 1790s. This book will be a valu- its peculiar combination of sophisti- —Peter Parshall, The Medieval Review centrally important group of texts the perspective of its contemporaries faced accusations of impiety, sacri- able resource for historians of France, cation and naïveté, its dramatically and chants, presented in such a way and near contemporaries. Lapina lege, violence, and theft. In their own “Thanks to Elizabeth Ross’s beautiful- but it should also draw the attention gesturing figures, and the saturated that specialists and nonspecialists analyzes the diversity of ways in defense, they produced hagiographi- ly written text, I feel like an armchair of scholars interested in the tense colors of its densely ornamented alike can easily make use of them for which the chroniclers tried to justify cal narratives about the movement traveler peering over the artist’s and complex relationship between surfaces. In The Bernward Gospels, research and teaching.” the First Crusade as a “holy war,” of relics. Perry demonstrates how shoulder as he documents the exotic religion and politics that continues Jennifer Kingsley offers the first —Susan Boynton, Speculum: where physical violence could be not these narratives became a focal point people, cities, and creatures his party to shape our contemporary world.” interpretive study of the pictorial just sinless, but salvific. for cultural transformation and an encountered. This is the best study A Journal of Medieval Studies program of this famed manuscript argument for the creation of the new —Thomas Kselman, in any language of the Peregrinatio in 562 pages | 7 × 10 | 2006 224 pages | 6 × 9 | 2015 University of Notre Dame and considers how the gospel book isbn 978-0-271-06686-8 | paper: $29.95 sh isbn 978-0-271-06670-7 | cloth: $74.95 sh Venetian empire. terram sanctam.” 344 pages | 36 illustrations/3 maps | 6 × 9 | 2014 conditioned contemporary and future 248 pages | 6 illustrations/3 maps | 6 × 9 | 2015 —Jeffrey Chipps Smith, isbn 978-0-271-06378-2 | paper: $39.95 sh viewers to remember the bishop. isbn 978-0-271-06508-3 | paper: $34.95 sh University of Texas at Austin 228 pages | 18 color/34 b&w illus. | 8 × 10 | 2014 isbn 978-0-271-06079-8 | cloth: $79.95 sh 256 + gatefold pages | 9 × 10 | 2014 27 color/84 b&w illustrations isbn 978-0-271-06122-1 | cloth: $79.95 sh A book in the Art History Publication Initiative (ahpi), a collaborative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

jennifer p. kingsley the bernward gospels

art, memory, and the episcopate in medieval germany

14 | penn state university press www.psupress.org | 15 New New in Paperback New New New New Contested Treasure The Aroma of Jewish Literary Cultures The Monk’s Haggadah An Inch or Two of Time Imagining the Kibbutz Jews and Authority in the Crown of Righteousness Volume 1, The Ancient Period A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Time and Space in Jewish Modernisms Visions of Utopia in Literature Aragon Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life David Stern Codex from the Monastery of Jordan D. Finkin and Film Thomas W. Barton and Literature Tegernsee, with a prologue by Friar Ranen Omer-Sherman “How fitting for David Stern’s articles “An Inch or Two of Time sets forth Deborah A. 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It will of early rabbinic midrash as com- the manuscript, and David Stern’s visits concepts of Jewish collective the lens of its most radical experi- cy of their jurisdiction over Muslim interest students of Judaism and mentary. Stern has a magical textual introduction describes the collabora- memory and redefines the arc of ment. Tracing the evolution of the and Jewish communities. In so doing, those studying religion and culture touch, which he employs to deepen tion that brought the volume into Jewish history through the disrup- kibbutz from its utopian beginnings this highly compelling book provides in the first centuries CE.” our understanding of both the liter- being. It makes for a great story, and tive language and fragmented style through economic crisis and ideo- fresh insight into the fragmented yet —A. J. Avery-Peck, Choice ary and the material dimensions of Stern tells it as the intellectual ad- and themes of interwar Jewish logical disillusionment to its current interconnected nature of power in the rabbinic and, more broadly, Jewish venture it clearly was. Fourteen years poetry. Finkin’s argument centers hybrid forms, Ranen Omer-Sherman “Green excels at navigating vari- medieval Mediterranean.” culture in constant conversation in the making, The Monk’s Haggadah on the conjoined metaphors of time illuminates the tensions between ous authorship and dating issues, —Paola Tartakoff, Rutgers University with variegated theoretical and represents quite an achievement and and space that are expressed and individualism and collectivism, capi- explaining that many midrashim practical perspectives. This harvest demonstrates the power of multidis- embedded in this poetry in the Jew- talism and socialism, diaspora and “Contested Treasure represents a depict logical cultural and physiologi- of over three decades of his scholar- ciplinary collaborative work.” ish languages, Yiddish and Hebrew. national identity that lie at the heart significant advance in understanding cal characteristics of perfume. She ship demonstrates his unequaled —Deeana Klepper, H-Net Through them, Finkin addresses the of Israeli society. . . . This important the situation of the Jews in the Crown handles archaeological sources with range, variety, and depth as a most il- broader issues of disrupted time and book should be required reading for of Aragon by showing how contingent ease, expertly incorporating their “This book wonderfully proves the luminating and challenging reader of space, which informed all of modern- anyone interested in understanding and contested royal claims of jurisdic- findings into her textual analysis.” value of collaborative research. The rabbinic literary culture in its many ist literature, art, and music during Israel’s individual diversity and col- tion were. The power of seigneurial —Krista N. Dalton, Religion introduction describes how this manifestations.” lective soul.” —Margot Singer, control over Jews has never been collaboration came about and is a period when these concepts were “Green’s book shows us how the rab- —Steven D. 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Finkin discovers the redefi- “Part literary critique, part social discusses, as well as texts of the Bible Tortosa after its conquest by Christian volume Jewish Literary Cultures is a the researchers gradually came to nition of ‘time and space, history history, Omer-Sherman’s book sheds itself, used aromas in their imagery armies—an exotic and complicated collection of essays and studies of recognize that the Haggadah and its and territory,’ which leads to new light not only on the narratives of to think with, and not (merely) city of trade and agriculture ruled by diverse texts and topics in ancient Latin—and very Christian—preface understandings of the idea of ‘nation’ the kibbutz but also on the utopian because they smell nice.” an uneasy complex of church, noble, Jewish literature, ranging from fables constitute one of the most remark- and of literature. 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Marraro Prize stimulating book on the reforming “A major contribution to the history lustrated book examines the place book provides an overarching history Tom Nickson’s revelatory study di- for Italian History, American Catholic impulse of the Catholic Church in of Florentine churches. Julia Miller of biblical imagery in the work of of a misunderstood and easily pigeon- rects new and penetrating light onto Historical Association the middle decades of the eighteenth and Laurie Taylor-Mitchell’s fascinat- American Jewish artists. . . . The holed group of artists. But Cordula the social importance—and architec- century and its impact on art and ing book elucidates how the paint- “Art, Ritual, and Civic Identity in substance of the book is a detailed Grewe goes on to mount an impres- tural significance—of his subject.” visual culture, particularly in Rome. ings created for the Humiliati monks Medieval Southern Italy offers a rich consideration of the work of five sive project of historical understand- —Peter Linehan, St. John’s College, Christopher Johns addresses the at the Church of the Ognissanti analysis of the roles that pulpits, can- Jewish artists—Jack Levine, George ing that makes the Nazarene artist University of Cambridge question ‘What was Catholic en- represented their religious ideals of dlesticks, and other fixtures played in Segal, Audrey Flack, Larry Rivers, and group accessible by returning them lightenment?’ from the disciplines of charity and humility, even though “With this imposing study of the pri- preaching and liturgical performance. R. B. Kitaj—each of whom receives to the history of art, from which cultural, intellectual, and art history, their monastic order did not always matial cathedral of Spain, Tom Nick- Examining local and continuously a sympathetic and often revealing they have been largely absent. Grewe and his research has resulted in a adhere to its stated convictions, was son has written one of the outstand- changing practices, multiple uses treatment. These biographies, along challenges the reigning conception of delightful book that will be of con- often plagued by controversy, and ing architectural monographs in the of single monuments, music, burial with a concluding epilogue, are ampli- modernity to make room for some- siderable interest to a wide variety rarely submitted to reforms.” history of Spanish (and European) customs, iconography, the relation of fied by observations on comparable thing modernist critics have been of readers. Jansenism, sumptuary —Jeryldene M. Wood, Gothic. But, as the author underlines, words to images, church reform, the work by other Jewish artists laboring happy to use as a foil. In the end, she laws, enlightened Catholic ideas University of Illinois the book is as much concerned with meaning of unfolding, the signifi- in the same vein.” —W. Cahn, Choice argues that the artists who preferred about the connection between faith at Urbana–Champaign the building of history as the his- cance of darkness (and light), and thought to materiality turn out to and science, and coffee drinking in “In our secular age, the idea that the tory of building. It reconciles many myriad other issues that enliven the “From Giotto to Botticelli presents a have been precursors of very modern the middle decades of the eighteenth Bible could shape a modern artist, separate studies on the cathedral and appreciation of specific works, the comprehensive study of the Church conceptual art.” —David Morgan, century are but a few of the topics he never mind a modern Jewish and blends new Spanish art-historical book provides a subtle overall ac- of the Ognissanti in Florence as a Duke University discusses. Art and architectural his- American artist, seems odd. Yet in scholarship with close documentary way to better understand the ideol- count of how design and decoration torians with an interest in Settecento her brilliant new book, Samantha “Revisions of modernism seem per- archaeology. Above all, it presents ogy and interests of the Humiliati, a not only framed but also fashioned Rome will find the book particularly Baskind shows how the Bible—not petually in the works these days. But a rich overlay of Roman, Visigothic, religious order whose art patronage the real activities that took place in interesting.” —Edgar Peters Bowron, necessarily only a Jewish Bible there is perhaps none more persua- and Islamic cultures and integrates has been unjustly neglected. This medieval churches.” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Tanach) but also the American Bible sive and stimulating than Cordula them into Toledo’s active communi- —Herbert L. Kessler, fascinating study sheds new light on of the Puritans—echoes in Jew- Grewe’s The Nazarenes. An exciting ties of Jews, Muslims, Christians, Johns Hopkins University “This magisterial study reveals the how the Humiliati shaped art to suit ish American art. Looking at Jack new history of this nineteenth- and confessional converts—ques- artistic vibrancy and intellectual fer- their changing goals as they moved “In this sumptuously illustrated and Levine, George Segal, Audrey Flack, century Germanic movement—and tions of ethnic identity which still ment at the heart of the Catholic en- from poverty and humility to secular beautifully written volume, Nino Larry Rivers, and R. B. Kitaj, Baskind a rare one in English—the book’s dominate our own concerns. Spain, lightenment. It upends old notions pleasures and wealth. Sumptuously Zchomelidse invites the reader to rei- provides a sophisticated and critical narrative offers a fresh critical take at last, has the cathedral it deserves.” of the Church as a passive spectator illustrated, thoroughly researched, magine the southern Italian church reading of how religious imagery on the Nazarenes’ retrospective —Paul Crossley, of cultural change and reveals the and well written, this book convinces as a space in which elaborately carved survives and flourishes in our secular vanguard art. Along the way, Grewe The Courtauld Institute of Art myriad and dynamic ways in which the reader of the critical importance furnishings, illustrated scrolls, and world.” —Sander L. 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