Book reviews by Rachel
Fulton Brown
Review
of Charlie Lovett, Lewis Carroll: Formed by Faith, in The Journal of Religion, (forthcoming).
Review
of Richard Kieckhefer, The Mystical Presence of Christ: The Exceptional and the Ordinary in Late Medieval Religion, in Journal of Religious History, (forthcoming).
Review
of Gertrud the Great of Helfta, The Memorial of the Abundance of Divine Sweetness, trans. Alexandra Barratt, in Cistercian Studies Quarterly, (forthcoming).
Review
of Brian Patrick McGuire, Bernard of Clairvaux: An Inner Life, in The Journal of Religion, 103.2 (April 2023): 248-50.
Review
of Jonathan D. Teubner, Prayer after Augustine: A Study in the Development of the Latin Tradition, in The Journal of Religion, 102.1 (January 2022): 151-53.
Review
of Holly Ordway, Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages, in Athwart, July 14, 2021.
Review
of Mary Dzon, The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages, in The Journal of Theological Studies 71.1 (April 2020): 387-89.
Review
of Jill K. H. Geoffrion, Visions of Mary: Art, Devotion, and Beauty at Chartres Cathedral, in Reading Religion, September 12, 2018.
Review
of John Munns, Cross and Culture in Anglo-Norman England, in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 69.3 (July 2018): 633-35.
Review
of Kati Ihnat, Mother of Mercy, Bane of the Jews: Devotion to the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Norman England, in Speculum 93 (April 2018): 519-20
Review
of Amy Hollywood, Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion, in The Medieval Review 17.11.17
Review of Stephen Shoemaker, Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion, in First Things (June/July 2017): 45-49.
Review
of R.M. Thomson and M. Winterbottom, eds. Miracles
of the Blessed Virgin Mary: William of Malmesbury, in The Medieval Review 16.09.35.
Review
of David C. Mengel and Lisa Wolverton, eds., Christianity and Culture in the Middle Ages: Essays to Honor John Van
Engen, in Irish Theological Quarterly
81 (May 2016): 209-10.
Review
of Maureen Barry McCann Boulton, Sacred
Fictions of Medieval France, in H-France,
Vol. 16 (April 2016), No. 50.
Review
of Line Cecilie Engh, Gendered Identities in Bernard of
Clairvaux's "Sermons on the Song of Songs": Performing the Bride,
in Speculum 90. 4 (October 2015):
1112-13.
Review
of Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown, ed., The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture, With a
Critical Edition of 'O Vernicle,' in Francia-Recensio
2015/3: http://www.perspectivia.net/publikationen/francia/francia-recensio/2015-3/ma/cooper_fultonbrown.
Review
of Michelle Karnes, Imagination,
Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages, in The Catholic Historical Review 101.2 (Spring 2015): 360-62.
Review
of Kathleen Walker-Meikle, Medieval Pets,
in The Historian 76.4 (Winter 2014):
887-88.
Review
of Cynthia Robinson, Imagining the
Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile: The Virgin, Christ, Devotions, and
Images in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, in Speculum 89.3 (2014): 817-19.
Review
of Mary Carruthers, The Experience of
Beauty in the Middle Ages, in The
Medieval Review 14.02.10.
Review
of Virginia Reinburg, French Books of
Hours: Making an Archive of Prayer, c. 1400-1600, in The Journal of Modern History 85.4 (2013): 943-45.
Review
of Leslie Brubaker and Mary B. Cunningham, ed., The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium: Texts and Images, in The Medieval Review 12.10.08.
Review
of Gary Waller, The Virgin Mary in Late
Medieval and Early Modern English Literature and Popular Culture, in The Medieval Review 12.02.29.
Review
of Judith H. Oliver, Singing with Angels:
Liturgy, Music, and Art in the Gradual of Gisela von Kerssenbrock, in Studies in Iconography 30 (2009):
219-223.
Review
of Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven
Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis, in The Journal of Religion 88.4 (2008): 557-58.
Review
of Ann Astell, Eating Beauty: The
Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages, in Spiritus: A Journal of Christian
Spirituality 7.2 (Fall 2007): 225-28.
Review
of Jean-Francois Cottier, Anima mea: Pri`eres
priv'ees et textes de devotion du Moyen Age latin, in The Journal of Medieval Latin 16 (2006): 307-11.
Review
of Fernando and Gioia Lanzi, Saints and
their Symbols: Recognizing Saints in Art and in Popular Images, trans.
Matthew J. O'Connell, in Church History
75.3 (September 2006): 716-17.
Review
of Beth Kreitzer, Reforming Mary:
Changing Images of the Virgin Mary in Lutheran Sermons of the Sixteenth Century,
in Church History 74.3 (September 2005): 612-14.
Review
of M.B. Pranger, The Artificiality of
Christianity: Essays on the Poetics of Monasticism, in The Journal of Religion 85.1 (January 2005): 180-81.
Review
of Barbara Newman, God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the
Middle Ages, in Modern Philology 102.3 (February 2005): 413-17.
Review
of Richard Barber, The Holy Grail:
Imagination and Belief, in America:
The National Catholic Weekly 191.19 (December 13, 2004): 17-18.
Review
of Constance Brittain Bouchard, "Every Valley Shall Be Exalted": The
Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought, in H-France,
September 2003.
Review
of Celia Chazelle, The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era: Theology and
Art of Christ's Passion, in The Journal of Religion 83 (July 2003):
460-62.
Review
of Donna Spivey Ellington, From Sacred Body to Angelic Soul: Understanding
Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, in The Medieval Review
02.03.08.
Review
of Anne Winston-Allen, Stories of the
Rose: The Making of the Rosary in the Middle Ages, in The Journal of Religion 79 (July 1999): 469-71.
Review
of Timothy Gorringe, God's Just
Vengeance: Crime, violence and the rhetoric of salvation, in Law and History Review 17 (Summer 1999):
393-96.
Review
of R.N. Swanson, Religion and Devotion in
Europe, c. 1215-c. 1515, in The
Journal of Religion 77 (April 1997): 297-99.
Review
of Giles Constable, Three Studies in
Medieval Religious and Social Thought: The Interpretation of Mary and Martha.
The Ideal of the Imitation of Christ. The Orders of Society, in Albion 28 (Winter 1996): 667-69.
Review
of Mary C. Mansfield, The Humiliation of
Sinners: Public Penance in Thirteenth-Century France, in The Journal of Religion 76 (October
1996): 632-34.
Review of Georges Duby, Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages, in
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
38 (1995): 665-67.
Review of Andreae de Sancto Victore opera, 3:
Expositiones historicas in libros salomonis, edited by Rainer Berndt, in Speculum 69.1 (1994): 101-2.