Report of the Editor

Volume 102 of the journal consisted of 903 pages of articles, essays, book reviews, brief notices, and the quarterly sections “Notes and Comments,” “Periodical Literature,” and “Other Books Received,” with an additional forty-nine pages of preliminary material and Index, for a total of 952 pages. Subsidies from authors and contributions from others made directly to the journal allowed for the addition of pages above those budgeted. Professor Paul F. Grendler of Chapel Hill, NC (emeritus of the University of Toronto and a past president of the American Catholic Historical Association) once again generously made such a contribution.

Of the fifteen regular articles published, one treated a medieval topic, four early modern European, four late modern European, four American, and two mission history. Two-thirds of their authors came from American institutions, the other third from Australian, English, Irish, and Italian universities. One Forum Essay, dealing with a late modern European topic, had contributions by scholars from Canada, Italy, and the United States. The authors of the Review Article and Review Essay came from the United States.

In 2016 the journal published 218 book reviews and two brief notices. The book reviews can be subdivided into the following categories: general and miscellaneous (22), ancient (10), medieval (52), early modern (53), late modern (23), American (35), Latin American (14), Asian/Australian (5), and African (4). Their authors came mostly from institutions in the United States (134 or 61%), but those in other countries were also represented: in England/Ulster (37 or 17%); Canada and Germany (7 each or 3%); The Netherlands and Scotland (4 each or 2%); Italy and Switzerland (3 each or 1%), Australia, Belgium, Ireland, Israel, and Spain (2 each or 1%), and one each for Argentina, China (Hong Kong), The Czech Republic, France, Mexico, New Zealand, Tanzania, Ukraine, and Wales. The two brief notices were by authors at institutions in the United States. Please see Table 1.

The journal received thirty-eight new submissions of articles in 2016. They came primarily from the United States, but also from Belgium, England (2), France, Korea, Malta, South Africa, South Sudan, and Spain. Table 2 shows the current disposition of these submissions. During the year 2016, fourteen articles accepted mostly earlier were published.

Ms. Katya Mouris continued as the devoted assistant to Msgr. Trisco, who resumed his primary role as the skillful book editor, while continuing to compile the sections Periodical Literature and Other Books Received. After nine years of expert assistance as staff editor Ms. Elizabeth Foxwell has left the journal for a fulltime position elsewhere. She will be much missed and leaves with our deep gratitude for her dedicated service.

Table 1.

Book Reviews and Brief Notices Published in 2016.

Table 2.

Manuscripts Submitted in 2016