BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Arnold Hermann , To Think Like God: Pythagoras and Parmenides: The Origins of Philosophy. G. R. Evans (ed.), The First Christian Theologians. An Introduction to Theology in the Early Church. Elizabeth A. Castelli , Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making (Gender, Theory, and Religion). Frederick B. Davis , The Jew and Deicide: The Origin of an Archetype. Lucetta Scaraffia and Gabriella Zarri (eds), Women and Faith. Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity to the Present. Anthony Kenny , A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume Two: Medieval Philo‐sophy. Joshua Trachtenberg , Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion. Charles Christopher Mierow , trans., Otto of Freising, The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa. Dianne Hall , Women and the Church in Medieval Ireland, c. 1140–1540. Matthew Levering , Scripture and Metaphysics: Aquinas and the Renewal of Trinitarian Theology. Maribel Fierro (ed.), Judíos y Musulmanes en al‐Andalus y el Magreb Contactos Intelectuales. Alessandro Barbero , Charlemagne: Father of a Continent. Anne Winston ‐Allen , Convent Chronicles: Women Writing about Women and Reform in the Late Middle Ages. Theresa Coletti , Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England. Anneke B. Mulder ‐Bakker , Lives of the Anchoresses. The Rise of the Urban Recluse in Medieval Europe. Virginia Nixon , Mary's Mother: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe. Eamon Duffy , Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village. Robert Frykenberg (ed.) and Alain Low , assoc. (ed.), Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross‐Cultural Communication since 1500. Alister E. McGrath , The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation, 2d ed. Matt Goldish , The Sabbatean Prophets. Bernard Joassart , Érudition hagiographique au XVIIIe siècle. Jean Lebeuf et les Bollandistes. Correspondence. Presentation, édition et commentaire par Bernard Joassart. Michiel Wielema , The March of the Libertines. Spinozists and the Dutch Reformed Church (1660–1750). William Gibson , Enlightenment Prelate: Benjamin Hoadly, 1676–1761. Paul E. Kerry , Enlightenment Thought in the Writings of Goethe: A Contribution to the History of Ideas. John Harvey (ed.). Edmund Jones, The Appearance of Evil: Apparitions of Spirits in Wales. Roger Lee Brown (ed.), The Letters of Edward Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff, 1828–1849. R. Tudor Jones , Congregationalism in Wales. R. Tudor Jones , Faith and the Crisis of a Nation: Wales 1890–1914. Raymond Brady Williams , Williams on South Asian Religions and Immigration. Lawrence Rigel and Rosita Rosenberg , Liberal Judaism: The First Hundred Years. Daniel Carey (ed.), Asian Travel in the Renaissance. Maria Hsia Chang , Falun Gong: The End of Days. Heinz Halm , Shi ‘ism. Adrian Hastings , Alistair Mason , and Hugh Pyper (eds), Christian Thought: A Brief History. Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics. Alister E. McGrath , Theology: The Basics. Margaret Miles , The Word Made Flesh. A History of Christian Thought. Gareth Jones (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology. Jack Goody , Islam in Europe. Robert Haight , Christian Community in History: Vol. 1, Historical Ecclesiology. Alister E. McGrath and Darren C. Marks (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Protestantism. John Marston and Elizabeth Guthrie (eds), History, Buddhism, and New Religious Movements in Cambodia. Jorgen Nielson , Muslims in Western Europe. John David Dawson , Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity. Nils Holger Petersen , Mette Birkedal Bruun , Jeremy Llewellyn , and Eyolf Østrem (eds), The Appearances of Medieval Rituals: The Play of Construction and Modification.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Alfred P. Smyth (ed.), Medieval Europeans: studies in ethnic identity and national perspectives in medieval Europe. Andrew Linklater, The Transformation of Political Community: ethical foundations of the post- Westphalian era. András Bozóki (ed.), Intellectuals and Politics in Central Europe. Michael Löwy, Fatherland or Mother Earth? Essays on the national queation. Montserrat Guibernau and John Rex (eds.), The Ethnicity Reader: nationalism, multiculturalism, and migration. Ralph D. Grillo, Pluralism and the Politics of Difference: state, culture, and ethnicity in comparative perspective. Steve Bruce, Comparative Protestant Politics. Kas Deprez and Louis Vos (eds.), Nationalism in Belgium: shifting identities, 1780-1995. Taras Kuzio, Ukraine: State and nation building. Taras Kuzio (ed.), Contemporary Ukraine: dynamics of post-Soviet transformation. Seyoum Y. Hameso, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa. Seyoum Y. Hameso, Trevor Trueman and Temesgen M. Erena (eds.), Ethiopia: conquest and the quest for freedom and democracy. Martin Evans, The Memory of Resistance: French opposition to the Algerian War (1954–1962). Joane Nagel, American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Red Power and the resurgence of identity and culture. John Fitzgerald, Awakening China: politics, culture and class in the Nationalist Revolution.     

Book reviews

Books Reviewed:
Adam S. Cohen, The Uta Codex: Art, Philosophy, and Reform in Eleventh–Century Germany.
Georges Declercq, Anno Domini: The Origins of the Christian Era.
W.O. Frazer and A. Tyrrell (eds), Social Identity in Early Medieval Britain.
Timothy Graham (ed), The Recovery of Old English: Anglo–Saxon Studies in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
Guy Halsall (ed), Violence and Society in the Early Medieval West.
M. Kazanski, A. Nercessian and C. Zuckerman (eds), Les centres proto–urbains russes entre Scandinavie, Byzance et Orient.
Conrad Leyser, Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great.
Maureen C. Miller, The Bishop's Palace: Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy.
D. Fairchild Ruggles, Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain.
Guðrún Nordal, Tools of Literacy. The Role of Skaldic Verse in Icelandic Textual Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries.
I.S. Robinson, Henry IV of Germany, 1056–1106.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: M. G. Wiltshire : Ascetic Figures Before and in Early Buddhism: The Emergence of Gautama the Buddha (Religion and Reason 30, gen. ed. J. Waardenburg) P. G. Griffiths , N. Hakamaya , J. P. Keenan and P. L. Swanson (eds and trans): The Realm of A wakening: A Translation of and Study of the Tenth Chapter of Asan̊ga's Mahay anasan̊graha. Graeme Clarke , Brian Croke , Alanna Emmett Nobbs and Raoul Mortley (eds): Reading the Past in Late Antiquity. Alister E. Mc Grath : Luther's Theology of the Cross: Martin Luther's Theological Breakthrough. Ian Tyrrell : Woman's World, Woman's Empire: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880–1930. Patricia Grimshaw : Paths of Duty. American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii Mary Zwiep : Pilgrim Path. The First Company of Women Missionaries to Hawaii John P. Maguire : Prologue: A History of the Catholic Church as Seen from Townsville 1863–1983. W. J. Lawton : The Better Time to Be: Utopian Attitudes to Society among Sydney Anglicans, 1885 to 1914. Madeleine Sophie Mc Grath : These Women? Women Religious in the History of Australia: The Sisters of Mercy Parramatta 1888–1988.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: John Barton (ed.), The Biblical World. Stephen Hunt (ed.), Christian Millenarianism: From the Early Church to Waco. Gervase of Tilbury , Otia Imperialia: Recreation for an Emperor. Rachel Fulton , From Judgement to Passion. Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800–1200. Malcolm Lambert , Medieval Heresy: Popular Movements from the Gregorian Reform to the Reformation. Carter Lindberg (ed.), The Reformation Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Early Modern Period. Helen Parish and William G. Naphy (eds), Religion and Superstition in Reformation Europe. Peter Matheson , The Imaginative World of the Reformation. Bernard Joassart , Monseigneur Duchesne et les Bollandistes. Correspondence. Bernard Joassart , Friedrich von Hügel, Cuthbert Hamilton Turner et les Bollandistes. Correspondence. Iain M. Mackenzie , God's Order and Natural Law: The Work of the Laudian Divines. Stephan Greenblatt , Hamlet in Purgatory. Hanne Sanders (ed.), Between God and the Devil, Religious and Magical World‐Views in the Nordic Countries 1500–1800. John K. Nelson : A Blessed Company: Parishes, Parsons, and Parishoners in Anglican, Virginia, 1690–1776. John Allen Macaulay , Unitarianism in the Antebellum South: The Other Invisible Institution. Loretta M. Long , The Life of Selina Campbell: A Fellow Soldier in the Cause of Restoration. Linda C. Raeder , John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity. Ralph Waller , John Wesley: A Personal Portrait.. Richard P. Heitzenrater , The Elusive Mr. Wesley. Michael Goldsmith and Doug Munro ,The Accidental Missionary. Tales of Elekana. Allan K. Davidson (ed.), Tongan Anglicans 1902–2002. From the Church of England Mission in Tonga to the Tongan Anglican Church. Lynne Hume : Ancestral Power: The Dreaming, Consciousness and Aboriginal Australians. Heather McDonald , Blood, Bones and Spirit: Aboriginal Christianity in an East Kimberley Town.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe. Staffan Zetterholm (ed.), National Cultures and European Integration: Explanatory Essays on Cultural Diversity and Common Politics. Brian Jenkins and Spyros A. Sofos (eds.), Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe. Helma Lutz, Ann Phoenix and Nira Yuval-Davis (eds.), Crossfires: Nationalism, Racism and Gender in Europe. Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A Feminist International Politics. Tracey Hill and William Hughes (eds.), Contemporary Writing & National Identity. Clare Mar-Molinero and Angel Smith (eds.), Nationalism and the Nation in the Iberian Peninsula: Competing and Conflicting Identities. Michael Newman. Democracy, Sovereignty and the European Union. Seamus Dunn and T. G. Fraser, with a Foreword by Dr Otto van Habsburg, Europe and Ethnicity: The First World War and contemporary ethnic conflict. Peter Lynch, Minority Nationalism and European Integration. Joseph Ruane and Jennifer Todd, The Dynamics of Conflict in Northern Ireland: Power, Conflict and Emancipation. Donald Clark and Robert Williamson (eds.), Self-Determination: International Perspectives. Milton J. Esman and Shibley Telhami (eds.), International Organisations and Ethnic Conflict. Williamson, Joel, New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States. Subrata Mitra and Alison Lewis (eds.), Subnational Movements in South Asia.     

Gender and the Family in Pre‐industrial Europe

P. Fleming, Family and Household in Medieval England A. Lynn Martin, Alcohol, Sex and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe N. J. Menuge (ed.), Medieval Women and the Law P. Skinner, Women in Medieval Italian Society, 500–1200 F. A. Underhill, For Her Good Estates: The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh     

Book reviews

Books reviewed:
Guyda Armstrong and Ian N. Wood, (eds) Christianizing Peoples and Converting Individuals.
Pierre Bonnerue, (ed) Benedict of Aniane. Concordia regularum.
Constance Brittain Bouchard, 'Strong of Body, Brave and Noble': Chivalry and Society in Medieval France.
André Debord, Aristocratie et pouvoir: le rôle du château dans la France médiévale.
H. Conrad-O'Briain, A.M. D'Arcy and J. Scattergood.(eds), Text and Gloss. Studies in Insular Learning and Literature Presented to Joseph Donovan Pheifer.
Richard Gameson and Henrietta Leyser, (eds) Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages. Studies Presented to Henry Mayr-Harting.
Hans-Werner Goetz, Moderne Mediävistik. Stand und Perspektiven der Mittelalterforschung.
Heinrich Götz, Lateinisch-althochdeutsch-neuhochdeutsches Wörterbuch.
Matthew Innes, State and Society in the Early Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley 400–1000.
Bernhard Jussen, Spiritual Kinship as Social Practice: Godparenthood and Adoption in the Early Middle Ages.
Jeremy K. Knight, The End of Antiquity. Archaeology, Society and Religion, AD 235–700.
Richard Reece, The Later Roman Empire. An Archaeology, AD 150–600.
Ellen Swift, The End of the Western Roman Empire. An Archaeological Investigation.
Isabel Moreira, Dreams, Visions and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul.
J.M.H. Smith, (ed) Early Medieval Rome and the Christian West. Essays in Honour of Donald A. Bullough.
Benedicta Ward, High King Of Heaven: Aspects of Early English Spirituality.
Ann Williams, Kingship and Government in Pre-Conquest England, c. 500–1066.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Stan ‐Michel Pellistrandi , Gesche Landais , and Christine Pellistrandi (eds), Le Nain de Tillemont et l’historiagraphie de l’Antiquité romaine. Ekkehard W. Stegemann and Wolfgang Stegemann (eds), The Jesus Movement. A Social History of its First Century. Kathleen Kamerick , Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England 1350–1500. Michael P. Carroll , Irish Pilgrimage: Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion. John Wilkinson , Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades. Tomaz Mastnak , Crusading Peace: Christendom, the Muslim World, and Western Political Order. Sharon Farmer , Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris: Gender, Ideology and the Daily Lives of the Poor. John W. O'Malley , Trent and all That. Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era. Karin J. Mac Hardy , War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria: The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Political Interactions. Jeffrey R. Watt , Choosing Death. Suicide and Calvinism in Early Modern Geneva. Felicity Heal , Reformation in Britain and Ireland. David Boyd Haycock , William Stukeley. Science, Religion and Archaeology in Eighteenth‐Century England. Francis Harris , Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin. Robert Hymes , Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China. Anthony O'Mahony (ed.), The Christian Communities of Jerusalem and the Holy Land: Studies in History, Religion, and Politics. Amanda Porterfield (ed.), American Religious History. Pat Jalland , Australian Ways of Death: A Social and Cultural History 1840–1918. Colin Holden (ed.), People of the Past? The Culture of Melbourne Anglicanism and Anglicanism in Melbourne's Culture: Papers to Mark the 150th Anniversary of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, 1847–1997. Kenneth P. Serbin , Secret Dialogues: Church‐State Relations, Torture and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil. Yamaji Aizan , Essays on the Modern Japanese Church: Christianity in Meiji Japan. Thich Nhat Hanh , compiled by Jack Lawlor , Friends on the Path — Living Spiritual Communities. Armand L. Mauss , All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Perceptions of Race and Lineage. Margaret Lamberts Bendroth and Virginia Lieson Brereton (eds), Women and Twentieth‐Century Protestantism. Anthony O'Mahony and Atuallah Siddiqui (eds), Christians and Muslims in the Commonwealth: A Dynamic Role in the Future.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Douglas C. Langston, Conscience and Other Virtues Julius Wellhausen, The Pharisees and Sadducees: An Examination of Internal Jewish History H. Gregory Snyder, Teachers and Texts in the Ancient World: Philosophers, Jews and Christians Mathew Kuefler, The Manly Eunuch. Masculinity, Gender Ambiguity, and Christian Ideology in Late Antiquity Frank R. Trombley and John W. Watt, The Chronicle of Pseudo–Joshua the Stylite Michael Whitby, The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius Katherine Ludwig Jansen, The Making of the Magdalen. Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead (eds), Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England Bernhard Lohse, Martin Luther's Theology. Its Historical and Systematic Development Martin Brecht, Martin Luther: The Preservation of the Church, 1532–1546 Gonther Gassmann with Duane H. Larson and Mark W. Oldenburg, Historical Dictionary of Lutheranism Ashley Null, Thomas Cranmer's Doctrine of Repentance David M. Luebke (ed.), The Counter–Reformation: The Essential Readings Michael A. Mullett, The Catholic Reformation Ramie Targoff, Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England Maureen Perkins, The Reform of Time: Magic and Modernity Charles D. Cashdollar, A Spiritual Home. Life in British and American Reformed Congregations, 1830–1915 D. Densil Morgan, The Span of the Cross: Christian Religion and Society in Wales 1914–2000 Callum C. Brown, The Death of Christian Britain Kay Chadwick (ed.), Catholicism, Politics and Society in Twentieth–Century France Robert P. Geraci and Michel Khodarkovsky (eds), Of Religion and Empire: Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia Ronald L. Numbers and John Stenhouse (eds), Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Fire and Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834 Albert J. Raboteau, Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans James E. Tull, High–Church Baptists in the South: the Origin, Nature, and Influence of Landmarkism Betty A. Deberg, Ungodly Women: Gender and the First Wave of American Fundamentalism John Tonkin, Cathedral and Community. A History of St George's Cathedral, Perth Peter Riddell, Islam and the Malay–Indonesian World Joan Rowlands, Voluntary Exiles: From Tamatave to Peking Barry J. Richardson, Christianity, Evolution and the Environment. Fitting it Together David Noel Freedman and Michael J. McClymond, The Rivers of Paradise: Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muhammad as Religious Founders Ian S. Markham and Tinu Ruparell (eds), Encountering Religion     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Michael Keating, Nations against the State: the new politics of nationalism in Quebec, Catalonia and Scotland. Roel Meijer (ed.), Cosmopolitanism, Identity and Authenticity in the Middle East. Charles King and Neil J. Melvin (eds.), Nations Abroad: Diaspora Politics and International Relations in the Former Soviet Union. John T. Ishiyama and Marijke Breuning, Ethnopolitics in the New Europe. Karl Cordell (ed.), Ethnicity and Democratisation in the New Europe. Kemal Kirisci and Gareth M. Winrow, The Kurdish Question and Turkey, An Example of a Trans‐state Ethnic Conflict. Martin Stone, The Agony of Algeria. Asafa Jalata (ed.), Oromo Nationalism and Ethiopian Discourse: The Search for Freedom and Democracy. Kay B. Warren, Indigenous Movements and their Critics: Pan Maya Activism in Guatemala. Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Common Denominators: Ethnicity, Nation‐Building and Compromise in Mauritius.     

Book Reviews

Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class, And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life Gabriele Tondl, Convergence After Divergence? Regional Growth in Europe Brookings Institution Center on Urban & Metropolitan Policy, Beyond Merger: A Competitive Vision for the Regional City of Louisville Eliahu Stern, Ilan Salomon, and Piet H. L. Bovy (eds.), Travel Behaviour: Spatial Patterns, Congestion and Modelling Börje Johansson, Charlie Karlsson and Roger R. Stough (eds.), Theories of Endogenous Regional Growth: Lessons for Regional Policies Daniel Felsenstein and Michael Taylor (eds.), Promoting Local Growth: Process, Practice and Policy Southern California Studies Center, University of Southern California, Sprawl Hits the Wall: Confronting the Realities of Metropolitan Los Angeles Kathryn A. Foster, Regionalism on Purpose Gerrit J. Knaap (ed.), Land Market Monitoring for Smart Urban Growth Andrew Frank, Jonathan Raper, and Jean‐Paul Cheylan (eds.), Life and Motion of Socio‐Economic Units Matthew Gandy, Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City Joseph Rykwert, The Seduction of Place: The City in the Twenty‐First Century Daniel D. Arreola, Tejano South Texas: A Mexican American Cultural Province Manfred M. Fischer, Javier Revilla Diez, and Folke Snickars, Metropolitan Innovation Systems: Theory and Evidence from Three Metropolitan Regions in Europe Roger Simmonds and Gary Hack, Global City Regions: Their Emerging Forms Y. M. Yeung and David K. Y. Chu (eds.), Fujian: A Coastal Province in Transition and Transformation Coen Holtzappel, Martin Sanders, and Milan Titus (eds.), Riding a Tiger: Dilemmas of Integration and Decentralization in Indonesia     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Walker Connor, Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding Martin Thom, Republics, Nations and Tribes Jan Nederveen Pieterse and Bhikhu Parekh (eds.), The Decolonization of Imagination: Culture, Knowledge and Power Jacques Kornberg, Theodor Herd From Assimilation to Zionism Roman Szporluk (ed.), National Identity and Ethnicity in Russia and the New States of Eurasia, Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe Erica Benner, Really Existing Nationalisms: A Post-Communist View from Marx and Engels Bernd Baumgartl and Adrian Faveil (eds.), New Xenophobia in Europe Martin MacEwen, Tackling Racism in Europe: An Examination of Anti-Discrimination Law in Practice David Jacobson, Rights Across Borders—Immigration and the Decline of Citizenship Marco Martiniello (ed.), Migration, Citizenship and Ethno-National Identities in the European Union     

Short Notices

Books reviewed: Philip C. Almond , Adam and Eve in Seventeenth‐Century Thought. Peter Smith (ed.), Bahá’ís in the West. Aaron Milavec , The Didache: Text, Translation, Analysis, and Community. Terry J. Tekippe , Bernard Lonergan: An Introductory Guide to Insight. Norman Roth , Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. Mark Freeman , The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust: A Study in Quaker Philanthropy and Adult Education 1904–1954. Laurie Guy , Introducing Early Christianity: A Topical Survey of Its Life, Beliefs and Practices. Heather Hendershot , Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture. Emma Jones Lapsansky and Anne A. Verplanck (eds), Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption. Máire de Paor , Saint MoLing Luachra. R. N. Swanson (ed.), The Use and Abuse of Time in Christian History: Papers Read at the 1999 Summer Meeting and the 2000 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Cristina La Rocca (ed.), Italy in the Early Middle Ages 476–1000 Mary Dockray‐Miller, Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo‐Saxon England Samantha J. E. Riches and Sarah Salih (eds), Gender and Holiness: Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe Anthony Goodman, Margery Kempe and her World Bettine Birge, Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yüan China 960–1368 David Kuchta, The Three‐Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity: England, 1550–1850 Harry Cocks, Nameless Offences: Homosexual Desire in the 19th Century Wendy Rosslyn (ed.), Women and Gender in 18th‐Century Russia Irina Paert, Old Believers, Religious Dissent and Gender in Russia, 1760–1850 Shirley Wilson Logan, ‘We Are Coming’: The Persuasive Discourse of Nineteenth‐Century Black Women Adele Perry, On the Edge of Empire. Gender, Race and the Making of British Columbia 1849–1871 Myra Rutherdale, Women and the White Man's God. Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field Maina Chawla Singh, Gender, Religion and ‘Heathen Lands’: American Missionary Women in South Asia (1860s–1940s)     

Review article: The dangers of polemic: Is ritual still an interesting topic of historical study?

Philippe Buc, The Dangers of Ritual: Between Early Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory.
Gerd Althoff, Spielregeln der Politik im Mittelalter: Kommunikation in Frieden und Fehde.
Frans Theuws and Janet L. Nelson (eds). Rituals of Power from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages.
Joëlle Rollo-Koster (ed), Medieval and Early Modern Rituals: Formalized Behavior in Europe, China and Japan.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Athalya Brenner, The Intercourse of Knowledge: On Gendering Desire and ‘Sexuality’ in the Hebrew Bible Liz James (ed.), Women, Men and Eunuchs: Gender in Byzantium Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Marie Louise Stig Sørensen (eds), Excavating Women: A History of Women in European Archaeology Helen Solterer, The Master, and Minerva: Disputing Women in Medieval French Culture Ruth Mazo Karras, Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England Judith M. Bennett, Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300–1600 Warren Chernaik, Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature Stephanie McCurry, Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country Leora Auslander, Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France Michèle Riot-Sarcey, La démocratie à l'épreuve des femmes. Trois figures critiques du pouvoir 1830–1848 Gillian Scott, Feminism and the Politics of Working Women: The Women's Co-operative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War Elaine Tyler May, Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner, The Empty Cradle: Infertility in America from Colonial Times to the Present Melinda Chateauvert, Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Leisa D. Meyer, Creating GI Jane: Sexuality and Power in the Women's Army Corps During World War II Brenda L. Moore, To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African American WACs Stationed Overseas during World War II Patricia Ann Palmieri, In Adamless Eden: The Community of Women Faculty at Wellesley Alison Mackinnon, Love and Freedom: Professional Women and the Re-shaping of Personal Life Kathleen Day Hulbert and Diane Tickton Schuster (eds), Women's Lives Through Time: Educated American Women of the Twentieth Century Rina Benmayor and Andor Skotnes (eds), Migration and Identity (International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories 3) Rosalind Marsh (ed.), Women in Russia and Ukraine Mary Buckley (ed.), Post-Soviet Women: from the Baltic to Central Asia T. Dunbar Moodie with Vivienne Ndatshe, Going for Gold: Men, Mines and Migration Mari Jo Buhle, Feminism and its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis Elizabeth Abel, Barbara Christian, and Helen Moglen (eds), Female Subjects in Black and White     

‘It’s a man’s world’: Recent Studies of Male Representation of the Female in the Middle Ages

Blamires, Alcuin (ed.) Woman Defamed and Woman Defended. An Anthology of Medieval Texts Baldwin, John W. The Language of Sex: Five Voices from Northern France around 1200 Kay, Sarah and Rubin, Miri (eds) Framing Medieval Bodies Lomperis, Linda and Stanbury, Sarah (eds) Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature Burns, E. Jane Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature Krueger, Roberta L. Women Readers and the Ideology of Gender in Old French Verse Romance Cazelles, Brigitte The Lady as Saint: A Collection of French Hagiographic Romances of the Thirteenth Century Meale, Carol M. (ed.) Women and Literature in Britain, 1150–1500 Cherewatuk, Karen and Wiethaus, Ulrike (eds) Dear Sister: Medieval Women and the Epistology Genre