Nordisk Patristik Bibliografi

A nontechnical, informed survey of recent scholarly debate on major topics important to an understanding of the early church, for students and interested laypersons. Divided into five general and twenty topical chapters, each with a short introductory essay, the bibliography contains abstracts of some 1,000 books and major articles dealing with the church from the beginning of the second century roughly to the end of the sixth. Most abstracts are followed by a list of book reviews, enabling users to gain to a wider evaluation of the work in question. Thoroughly cross-referenced and extensively indexed. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A first-of-its-kind bibliography, Matrology features profiles of more than 150 women writers from late antiquity to the early Middle Ages, listing the most authoritative original-language editions and more original- and other-languge editions of their writings. Also includes a bibliography of major secondary works relevant to ancient and medieval women.

Proceedings from the conference "Changing relationships between churches in Africa and Europe in the 20th century: Christian identity in the times of political crises," which took place October 8-12, 2005 at Makumira University College of Tumaini University in Tanzania.

Kenisha explores the religious history of Ethiopia and Eritrea. It builds on Gustav Arn's original account of the origins and development of evangelical Protestantism in the countries, recovering some of the same ground and carrying the story forward to include an account of the fate of the mission and the church, which was in large part the outcome of the heyday of Italian colonialism in Eritrea from the mid-1920s to 1935.

This book is a novel attempt to understand humanism as a socially meaningful cultural idiom in late Renaissance East Central Europe. Through an exploration of geographical regions that are relatively little known to an English reading public, it argues that late sixteenth-century East Central Europe was culturally thriving and intellectually open in the period between Copernicus and Galileo. Humanism was a dominant cluster of shared intellectual practices and cultural values that brought a number of concrete benefits both to the social-climber intellectual and to the social elite. Two exemplary case studies illustrate this thesis in substantive detail, and highlight the ambivalences and difficulties court humanists routinely faced. The protagonists Johannes Sambucus and Andreas Dudith, both born in the Kingdom of Hungary, were two of the major humanists of the Habsburg court, central figures in cosmopolitan networks of men of learning and characteristic representatives of an Erasmian spirit that was struggling for survival in the face of confessionalisation. Through an analysis of their careers at court and a presentation of their self-fashioning as savants and courtiers, the book explores the social and political significance of their humanist learning and intellectual strategies.