Other Books Received

Other Books Received

Beasley, Conger, Jr. Spanish Peaks: Land and Legends. Photographs by Barbara Sparks. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado. 2006. Pp. xvi, 186; 70 b/w photographs, 1 map. $27.95 paperback.) Originally published in 2001.

Bissegger, Arthur. Une paroisse raconte ses morts: L'obituaire de l'église Saint-Paul à Villeneuve (XIV^e–XV^e siècle). (Lausanne: Cahiers Lausannois d'Histoire Médiévale. 2003. Pp. 204. Paperback.)

Burrus, Virginia, and Catherine Keller (Eds.). Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline. (New York: Fordham University Press. 2007. Pp. xxi, 470. $80.00 clothbound; $28.00 paperback.)

Campi, Emidio, and Joseph C. McLelland (Eds.). Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: Peter Martyr Vermigli. [The Peter Martyr Library, Volume Nine. Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, Vol. LXXIII.] (Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press. 2006. Pp. xxxii, 439. Clothbound.)

Cassidy, Richard J. Four Times Peter: Portrayals of Peter in the Four Gospels and at Philippi. [Interfaces.] (Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 154. $15.95 paperback.)

Cooper, Kate, and Jeremy Gregory (Eds.). Elite and Popular Religion. [Studies in Church History, Vol. 42.] (Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell and Brewer. For the Ecclesiastical History Society. 2006. Pp. xiii, 441. $80.00.) Contents: Jamie Wood, "Elites and Baptism: Religious 'Strategies of Distinction' in Visigothic Spain" (pp. 3-17); Éamonn Ó Carragáin, "At Once Elitist and Popular: the Audiences of the Bewcastle and Ruthwell Crosses" (pp. 18-40); Claire Taylor, "Elite Reform and Popular Heresy in c. 1000: 'Revitalization Movements' as a Model for Understanding Religious Dissidence Historically" (pp. 41-53); William J. Purkis, "Elite and Popular Perceptions of the Imitatio Christi in Twelfth-Century Crusade Spirituality" (pp. 54-64); Simon Yarrow, "Narrative, Audience and the Negotiation of Community in Twelfth-Century English Miracle Collections" (pp. 65-77); Catherine Rider, "Elite and Popular Superstitions in the Exempla of Stephen of Bourbon" (pp. 78-88); A. K. McHardy, "Superior Spirituality versus Popular Piety in Late-Medieval England" (pp. 89-98); Kathryne Beebe, "Knights, Cooks, Monks and Tourists: Elite and Popular Experience of the Late-Medieval Jerusalem Pilgrimage" (pp. 99-109); Elizabeth Freeman, " Cistercian Nuns in Medieval England: Unofficial Meets Official" (pp. 110-119); Salvador Ryan, "The Most Traversed Bridge: a Reconsideration of Elite and Popular Religion in Late Medieval Ireland" (pp. 120-129); R. N. Swanson, "Prayer and Participation in Late Medieval England" (pp. 130-139); Eamon Duffy, "Elite and Popular Religion: the Book of Hours and Lay Piety in the Later Middle Ages" (presidential address) (pp.140-161); David D'Avray, "Popular and Elite Religion: Feastdays and Preaching" (pp. 162-179); Urszula Borkowska, OSU, "From Royal Prayer Books to Common Prayers: Religious Practices in Late Medieval and Early Modern Poland" (pp. 180-189); David Bagchi, "Poets, Peasants, and Pamphlets: Who Wrote and Who Read Reformation Flugschriften?" (pp. 189-196); Patrick Preston, "Some Italian Vernacular Religious Books, their Authors and their Readers, 1543-8" (pp. 197-205); Trevor Johnson, " 'Everyone Should Be Like the People': Elite and Popular Religion and the Counter Reformation" (pp. 206-224); Brian Cummings, "Martin Marprelate and the Popular Voice" (pp. 225-239); D.A. Brading, "Divine Idea and 'Our Mother': Elite and Popular Understanding in the Cult of Our Lady of Guadalupe of Mexico" (pp. 240-260); Peter Marshall, "Piety and Poisoning in Restoration Plymouth" (pp. 261-271); Sally Jordan, "Paternalism and Roman Catholicism: The English Catholic Elite in the Long Eighteenth Century" (pp. 272-281); Colin Hayden, "Rural Religion and the Politeness of Parsons: the Church of England in South Warwickshire, c. 1689-c. 1820" (pp. 282-293); W. M. Jacob, " '. . . This Congregation Here Present. . .': Seating in Parish Churches during the Long Eighteenth Century" (pp. 294-304); Linda Kirk, "Indefinite Success: Religion and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Geneva" (pp. 305-314); Andrew Holmes, "Ulster Presbyterianism as a Popular Religious Culture, 1750-1860" (pp. 315-326); Timothy C. F. Stunt, "Elitist Leadership and Congregational Participation among Early Plymouth Brethren" (pp. 327-336); Sheridan Gilley, "Popular and Elite Religion: the Church and Devotional Control" (pp...