Other Books Received

Benadusi, Lorenzo. The Enemy of the New Man: Homosexuality in Fascist Italy. Trans. Suzanne Dingee and Jennifer Pudney. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 2012. Pp. xxii, 424. $55.00.)

The Biblical Foundations of the Doctrine of Justification: An Ecumenical Follow-Up to the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification. (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press. 2012. Pp. xiv, 129. $21.95 paperback.)

Chenavier, Robert. Simone Weil: Attention to the Real. Trans. Bernard E. Doering. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. 2012. Pp. xii, 92. $20.00 paperback.) Originally published in French in 2009.

Cuchet, Guillaume. Les Voix d’Outre-Tombe: Tables tournantes, spiritisme et société au XIX^esiècle. (Paris: Éditions du Seuil. 2012. Pp. 458. €26, 00 paperback.)

Delany, Sheila (Trans. and Introd.). Anti-Saints: The New Golden Legend of Sylvain Maréchal. (Edmonton, Canada: University of Alberta Press. 2012. Pp. viii, 174. $34.95 paperback.) Compiled by a radical, rationalist journalist early in the French Revolution, these subversively satirical lives of women saints were intended to turn their readers away from religion.

DeSilva, Jennifer Mara (Ed.). Episcopal Reform and Politics in Early Modern Europe. [Early Modern Studies, Vol. 10.] (Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press. 2012. Pp. xiv, 226. $44.95 paperback.) Contents: William V. Hudon, “Foreword: The Local Nature of Episcopal Reform in the Age of the Council of Trent” (pp. ix–xiv); Jennifer Mara DeSilva, “Introduction: A Living Example” (pp. 1–25). Part 1: Episcopal Authority: Raymond A. Powell, “A Hierarchy that Had Fought: Episcopal Promotion during the Reign of Mary I (1553–58) and the Roots of Episcopal Resistance to the Elizabethan Religious Settlement” (pp. 26–45); Hans Cools, “Bishops in the Habsburg Netherlands on the Eve of the Catholic Renewal” (pp. 46–62); Antonella Perin and John Alexander, “Office and Patronage in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Tortona” (pp. 63–87). Part 2: Pastoral Practice: Jennifer Mara DeSilva, “The Absentee Bishop in Residence: Paris de’ Grassi, Bishop of Pesaro, 1513–28” (pp. 88–109); John Christopoulos, “Papal Authority, Episcopal Reservation, and Abortion in Sixteenth-Century Italy” (pp. 110–27); Jill Fehleison, “Ministering to Catholics and Protestants Alike: The Preaching, Polemics, and Pastoral Care of François de Sales” (pp. 128–46). Part 3: Clerical Reform: Linder Lierheimer, “Gender, Resistance, and the Limits of Episcopal Authority: Sébastien Zamet’s Relationship with Nuns, 1615–55” (pp. 147–72); Celeste McNamara, “Challenges to Episcopal Authority in Seventeenth-Century Padua” (pp. 173–93); Jean-Pascal Gay, “Trials that Should Have Been: The Question of Judicial Jurisdiction over French Bishops in the Seventeenth Century and the Self-Narration of the Roman Inquisition” (pp. 194–214).

Eisenbichler, Konrad. The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. 2012. Pp. xiv, 371. $32.00 paperback.)

Fitzgerald, Christina M., and John T. Sebastian (Eds.). The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama. (Buffalo, NY: Broadview Press. 2013. Pp. xiv, 566. $69.95 paperback.)

Gregory, Jeremy, and Hugh McLeod (Eds.). International Religious Networks. [Studies in Church History, Subsidia, 14.] (Rochester, NY: Published for the Ecclesiastical History Society by Boydell and Brewer. 2012. Pp. xxii, 292. $70.00.) Contents: Christine Walsh, “Medieval Saints’ Cults as International Networks: The Example of the Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria” (pp. 1–8); Andrew Jotischky, “St Sabas and the Palestinian Monastic Network under Crusader Rule” (pp. 9–19); Anne J. Duggan, “Religious Networks in Action: The European Expansion of the Cult of St Thomas of Canterbury” (pp. 20–43); Damian J. Smith, “Networking to Orthodoxy: The Case of Durán of Huesca” (pp. 44–54); Keiko Nowacka, “Networks of Ideas, Networks of Men: Clerical Reform, Parisian Theologians, and the Movement to Reform Prostitutes in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century France” (pp. 55–66); Brenda Bolton, “From Frontier to Mission: Networking by Unlikely Allies in the Church International, 1198–1216” (pp. 67–82); Barbara Bombi, “An Archival Network: The Teutonic Knights between the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century” (pp. 83–95); Alec Ryrie, “John Knox’s International Network” (pp. 96–115); Clotilde Prunier, “Scottish Catholic Correspondence Networks in Eighteenth-Century Europe” (p. 116–26); Jeremy Gregory, “Transatlantic Anglican Networks, c. 1680–c.1770: Transplanting...