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Jonathan Wright
Monteverdi’s career of harmony and rivalry
claudio monteverdi, whose 450th anniversary we celebrate this year, was almost as good at grumbling as he was at composing. he had entered t...
Rome’s come a long way since Dickens
in 1845, charles dickens witnessed a public execution in rome. a man had been found guilty of beating a bavarian noblewoman to death with he...
Priests, prisoners and unhappy marriages
the church cannot remain silent by oscar romero, orbis, £14.99 during his time as archbishop of san salvador, oscar romero received a predic...
The Bible-bashing founding fathers
reading the bible with the founding fathers by daniel dreisbach, oup, £20 talk to the wrong american political pundit and you may come away ...
The inner hell of the Reformation’s ringleader
martin luther: catholic dissident by peter stanford, hodder, £20 on page 90 of peter stanford’s compelling new book we find martin luther in...
A millennium of converting bigwigs
missionary monks by edward smither, cascade books, £20 it’s easy to presuppose a sharp division between globe-trotting missionaries and cloi...
The pagan roots of Christian icons
the dawn of christian art in panel paintings and icons by thomas f mathews with norman e muller, getty, £32.50 thomas mathews, assisted here...
Good intentions amid the greed and murder
continental ambitions by kevin starr, ignatius press, £28 a modern, satisfactory survey of catholicism in colonial north america has long be...
The Holy Terror from Baltimore
damning words: the life and religious times of hl mencken by dg hart, eerdmans, £18.99 henry louis mencken worked hard to poke fun at religi...
When Coleridge took on the Enlightenment
mariner by malcolm guite, hodder, £25 for malcolm guite, coleridge’s the rime of the ancient mariner is a “unique and always generative visi...
Rumours, leaks and dodgy dossiers
when did the word “dossier” become so sinister? if you’re eager to ratchet up the tension or create a sense of skulduggery then the other op...
Why Martin Luther’s anti-Semitism matters
luther’s jews by thomas kaufmann, oup, £18.99 martin luther’s venomous writings against the jewish people were part of what thomas kaufmann ...
Thomas Merton’s cheerful radicalism
the root of war is fear by jim forest, orbis, £17.99 as a trappist, thomas merton “belonged to a religious order with a tradition of silent ...
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