Other Books Received

OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED Aers, David, and Lynn Staley. The Powers of the Holy: Religion, Politics, and Gender in Late Medieval English Culture. (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 1996. Pp. vU, 310. $45.00 cloth; $19.95 paperback .) Baum, Gregory. The Churchfor Others: Protestant Theology in Commmunist East Germany. (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans PubUshUig Company. 1996. Pp. xvii, 156. $15.00 paperback.) Bradshaw, Paul E, and Lawrence A. Hoffman (Eds.). Life Cycles in Jewish and Christian Worship. [Two Liturgical Traditions, Volume 4.] (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. 1996. Pp. ix, 303. $32.95.) Brett,Annabel S. Liberty, Right andNature:IndividualRights in Later Scholastic Thought. [Ideas in Context, 44.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 1997. Pp. xU, 254. $59-95.) Casey, Maurice. IsJohn's Gospel True? (NewYork: Routledge. 1996. Pp. xii, 268. $74.95.) Cavadinijohn C. (Ed.). Gregory the Great.A Symposium. [Notre Dame Studies in Theology,Volume 2.] (Notre Dame, Ind.: University ofNotre Dame Press. 1995. Pp. xiv, 226. $34.95.) Contents: 1. Robert A. Markus, "The Jew as a Hermeneutic Device:The Inner Life of Gregorian Topos" (pp. 1-15); 2. Carole Straw,"Purity and Death" (pp. 16-37); 3. Conrad Leyser,"Expertise and Authority Ln Gregory the Great: The Social Function of Peritia" (pp. 38-6l);4.JamesJ. 0'DonneU,"The Holiness of Gregory"(pp. 62-81); 5. Rodrigue Bélanger, "La dialectique Parole-Chair dans la christologie de Grégoire le Grand" (pp. 82-93); 6. Paul Meyvaert, "A Letter of Pelagius II Composed by Gregory the Great" (pp. 94-1 16); 7. G. J. M. Bartelink, "Pope Gregory the Great's Knowledge of Greek" (pp. 117-136); Paul Meyvaert, "Translator's Appendix: Gregory the Great and Astronomy" (pp. 137- 145); 8.Bernard McGinn, "Contemplation Ln Gregory the Great" (pp. 146-167); 9.Grover A. Zinn,Jr., "Exegesis and SpirituaUty in the Writings of Gregory the Great" (pp. 168-180); 10. Celia Chazelle, "Memory, Instruction, Worship : 'Gregory's' Influence on Early Medieval Doctrines of the Artistic Image" (pp. 181-215); U.E. Ann Matter,"Gregory the Great in the Twelfth Century:The Glossa Ordinaria" (pp. 216-226). ChaUha,Yaya, and Edward Le JoIy (Comp.). TheJoy in Loving:A Guide to Daily Living with Mother Teresa. (NewYork:Viking. 1997. Pp. 438. $1995.) 564 OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED565 Clancy, Thomas H., SJ. English Catholic Books, 1641-1700: A Bibliography. Revised Edition. (Brookfield,Vt.: Scolar Press,Ashgate PubUshing Company. 1996.Pp. xvUi, 215. $67.95.) The first edition, pubUshed by Loyola University Press of Chicago Ln 1974, was reviewed by J. Anthony Williams ante, LXIII GuIy, 1977), 464-465. The numbers in that edition have been preserved ; new discoveries have been added under decimals. Use is faciUtated by thorough indexes of printers and bookseUers, translators and editors, persons and groups to whom books were dedicated, and proper names mentioned Ui the text as well as a chronological index. Conn, Samuel K.Jr. Women in the Streets:Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1996. Pp. xi, 250. Paperback.) The fifth chapter deals with "Nuns and Dowry Funds: Women's Choices in the Renaissance" (pp. 76-97). Cummins, John. Francis Drake: The Lives of a Hero. (New York: St. Martin's Press. 1997. Pp. xv, 348. $16.95 paperback.) Curran, Charles E. The Origins ofMoral Theology in the United States: Three DifferentApproaches. [Moral Traditions and Moral Arguments.] (Washington , D.C: Georgetown University Press. 1997. Pp. xiii, 311. $55.00 cloth; $24.95 paperback.) The three moral theologians studied here are Aloysius Sabetti, SJ.,Thomas J. Bouquillon, andJohn B. Hogan, S.S. de Grazia, Sebastian. A Country with No Name: Tales from the Constitution. (NewYork: Pantheon Books. 1997. Pp. Lx, 419. $27.50.) Doyle, WUliam. Venality: The Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France. (New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press. 1996. Pp. xvU, 343· $85.00.) Emery, Kent, Jr. Monastic, Scholastic and Mystical Theologies from the Later MiddleAges. [Collected Studies Series.] (Brookfield,Vt.:Variorum,Ashgate Publishing Company. 1996. Pp. xii, 362. $98.95.) Finocchiaro, Maurice A. (Trans, and Ed.). Galileo on the World Systems. A New Abridged Translation and Guide. (Berkeley: University of California Press. 1997.Pp. xi, 425...