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OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED Abulafia, David (Ed.). The French Descent into Renaissance Italy, 1494-95:Antecedents and Effects. (Brookfield,Vt.: Variorum. Ashgate Publishing Company . 1995. Pp. xiv.496. $91.95.) African Synod (The): Documents, Reflections, Perspectives. Compiled and edited by the Africa Faith & Justice Network under the direction of Maura Browne, S.N.D. (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books. 1996. Pp. ix, 286. $22.00 paperback.) Agasso, Domenico. Thecla Merlo:Messenger ofthe Good News. (Boston: St. Paul Books & Media. 1994. Pp. 270. $8.50 paperback.) Anderson, Jon W, and William B. Friend (Eds.). The Culture of Bible Belt Catholics. (Mahwah,N.J.:PauIist Press. 1995. Pp. v, 303. $14.95 paperback.) Ardolino, Frank. Apocalypse & Armada in Kyd's Spanish Tragedy. [Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies, Vol. XXIX.] (Kirksville, Mo.: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers. 1995. Pp. xviii, 187. $35.00.) Azevedo, Marcello, SJ. The Consecrated Life: Crossroads and Directions. Translated by Guillermo Cook. (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books. 1995. Pp. xvii, 141. Paperback.) Bammel, C. R Tradition and Exegesis in Early Christian Writers. [Collected Studies Series.] (Brookfield, Vt.: Variorum. Ashgate Publishing Company. 1995. Pp. xii, 312. $87.50.) Among the articles included are"Ignatian Problems " (1982), "Justin der Märtyrer" (1984), "Herakleon" (first publication), "The State of Play with Regard to Hippolytus and the Contra Noetum" (1990), "Peacemaking and Religious Tolerance in the Early Church" (first publication), and "Die Einheit des Glaubens und die Mannigfaltigkeit der Bräuche in der christlichen Überlieferung nach Irenäus"(1990). Bañuelas, Arturo J. (Ed.). Mestizo Christianity: Theology from the Latino Perspective . (Maryknoll, N.Y: Orbis Books. 1995. Pp. vi, 278. $17.00 paperback .) Bartlett, Robert. The Making ofEurope; Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1993. Pp. xvi, 432. $29.95.) 587 588 OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED Beauregard, David N., O.M.V. Virtue's Own Feature:Shakespeare and the Virtue Ethics Tradition. (Newark: University of Delaware Press. 1995. Pp. 260. $41.50.) Bercé,Yves-Marie. The Birth ofAbsolutism:A History of France, 1598-1661. Translated by Richard Rex. (NewYork: St. Martin's Press. 1996. Pp. viii, 262. $45.00 cloth; $1995 paperback.) Berquistjon hJudaism in Persia's Shadow.A Social andHistoricalApproach. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press. 1995. Pp. vi, 282. Paperback.) Bitel, Lisa M. Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 1996. Pp. xviii, 307. $35.00.) Bloch, R. Howard. God's Plagiarist: Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce oftheAbbéMigne. (Chicago:The University of Chicago Press. 1995. Pp. ix, 152. Paperback.) Originally published in 1994 and reviewed by Richard F. Costigan, S.J., ante, LXXXI (July, 1995), 450-451. Boles, John B. Religion in Antebellum Kentucky. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. 1995. Pp. xii, 148. $9.95 paperback.) Originally published in 1976 and reviewed by Thomas W Spalding ante, LXIII (October, 1977), 654-655. Bracken, Joseph A., SJ. The Divine Matrix: Creativity as Link between East and West. [Faith Meets Faith Series.] (Maryknoll, N.Y: Orbis Books. 1995. Pp. xi, 179. $21.00 paperback.) Brown, Elizabeth A. R. Franks, Burgundians, and the Aquitanians and the Royal Coronation Ceremony in France. [Transactions of the Amerian Philosophical Society, Vol. 82, Part 7] (Philadelphia: The Amerian Philosophical Society. 1992. Pp. xi, 189. Paperback.) Brown, Peter. Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire. [The Curti Lectures, The University ofWisconsin-Madison, 1988.] (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press. 1992. Pp. x, 182. $45.00 cloth; $12.95 paperback.) Buckley, Anthony D., and Mary Catherine Kenney Negotiating Identity: Rhetoric, Metaphor, and Social L>rama in Northern Ireland. [Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry.] (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1995. Pp. x, 270. $44.50.) Butt, Gerald. Life at the Crossroads:A History ofGaza. (Epping, Essex: Rimai. A division of Scorpion Cavendish. 1995. Pp. vii, 200.) Buzzi, Franco. // Concilio di Trente (1545-1563): Breve introduzione ad alcuni temi teologici principali. [Facoltà Teológica dell'Italia Settentrionale .] (Milan: Glossa. 1995. Pp. 191. Paperback.) The main themes OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED 589 developed here are revelation, original sin, justification, and the sacraments , particularly the Eucharist. There is an extensive bibliography. Cardenal, Ernesto. Abide in Love. (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books. 1995. Pp. xxv, 164. Paperback.) Carmichael...

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