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The Catholic Historical Review 92.1 (2006) 150-159



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Review News

After forty-three years of dedicated and skillful service that has made the Catholic Historical Review into a world-class journal, Msgr. Robert Trisco has turned its editorship over to Nelson H. Minnich, a professor of Renaissance and Reformation History in the Department of History and in the School of Theology and Religious Studies' program in Church History in the Catholic University of America. Msgr. Trisco as associate editor is graciously assisting Dr. Minnich during the transition. The new editor is most grateful for this assistance and looks forward to the continued help of Association members in submitting their articles for possible publication in the journal, in acting as referees of articles submitted, in writing book reviews and brief notices, and in offering materials for Notes and Comments. At present there is but a very small backlog of articles approved for publication. The editors welcome the submission of first-class, original, and thought-provoking articles on all aspects of the Catholic faith and institutional Church that will be of interest not only to specialists, but also to others outside the particular field. The journal seeks also studies that explore topics and raise issues of methodology that are of interest to a wider readership. Articles that survey the current state of scholarship on a particular topic related to the Catholic tradition and suggest new directions for research often prove very helpful. The editors urge those who have such material ready or in preparation or know someone who does to consider the Catholic Historical Review as a forum for its publication and to alert colleagues to this possibility. The editors also welcome any suggestions as to how to make the journal an even more important vehicle for advancing scholarly studies in the history of the Catholic Church.

Association News

For the eighty-seventh annual meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association, which will be held on January 4–7, 2007, in Atlanta, Georgia (see ante, XCI [July, 2005], 564), the chairman of the Committee on Program, James M. Powell, professor emeritus of Syracuse University, who is also first vice-president of the Association, has announced the membership of the committee as follows: [End Page 150] Constance Berman of the University of Iowa for medieval history (berman@uiowa.edu), Frank Coppa of St. John's University, New York, for late modern European history (coppa@stjohns.edu), Nicholas Creary of Marquette University for African history (nicholas.creary@mu.edu), William Hudon of Bloomsburg State University (Pennsylvania) for early modern European history (whudon@bloomu.edu), Asuncion Lavrin of Arizona State University for Latin American history (lavrind@aol.com), and Mark Massa, S.J., of Fordham University, who will be a visiting scholar at Loyola University Chicago in the spring of 2006, for American history (massasj@fordham.edu). Professor Powell's e-mail address is mpowell@dreamscape.com; his home address is 5100 Highbridge Street, Apt. 18D, Fayetteville, New York 13066, and his telephone number is 315-637-7793; fax: 315-443-5876. He asks the members to submit proposals promptly and to use e mail if possible. They should attach a brief abstract of each proposed paper. All participants in the sessions must be members of the Association. No one who presented a paper at the eighty-sixth annual meeting will be eligible to present one at the eighty-seventh. All proposals will be reviewed by the whole committee.

Meetings, Conferences, Colloquia, and Lectures

On September 16–17 at Cambridge University a conference on Consecrated Women was held under the sponsorship of Historians of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland. Sixty-five participants heard papers on women religious of the Catholic, Anglican, and Church of Scotland traditions, ranging from the medieval to twentieth-century periods. Among the topics treated were the material culture of their daily lives, their ministries, and their art works and writings. Questions about oral history and access to archives were also discussed. Next year's conference has been set for September 15–16 at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. For information, please contact...

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