CURRICULUM VITAE
Nelson Hubert Minnich
Born: 15 January 1942, Cincinnati, Ohio
Addresses: 5713 37th Avenue Program in Church History
Hyattsville, Maryland20782 CatholicUniversity of America
Tel. (301) 277-5891 Washington, D.C. 20064
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Education:
1959-63 XavierUniversity (Cincinnati, Ohio) -- part time (Humanities) 1963-65 BostonCollege (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) -- AB (Philosophy) 1965-66 BostonCollege (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) -- MA (History)
1968-70 GregorianUniversity (Roma, Italia) -- STB (Theology)
1970-77 HarvardUniversity (Cambridge, Massachusetts) -- PhD (History)
Dissertation: "Episcopal Reform at the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17)" directed by Myron P. Gilmore
Post-Graduate Distinctions:
Foundation for Reformation Research: Junior Fellow (1971) for paleographical studies
Institute of International Education: Fulbright Grant for Research in Italy (1972-73) full award for dissertation research -- resigned due to impending death in family
Harvard University: Tuition plus stipend (1971-72), Staff TuitionScholarship (1972-73, 1974-76), Emerton Fellowship (1972-73), Harvard Traveling Fellowship (1973-74) for dissertation research
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference: Carl Meyer Prize (1977)
National Endowment for the Humanities: Summer Stipend (1978) to work on the "Protestatio" of Alberto Pio
Villa I Tatti: The HarvardUniversityCenter for Italian Renaissance Studies: Fellowship for the summer (1979) to study Leo X's concern for doctrine prior to Luther
AmericanAcademy in Rome: Post-Classical Humanistic Studies Fellowship (1979-80) Room and board plus stipend to study Leo X's concern for doctrine prior to Luther
American Council of Learned Societies: Research Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the PhD (1979-80) to study Leo X's concern for doctrine prior to Luther
Richard Krautheimer Scholarship: Research Grant (1980) to study Leo X's concern for doctrine prior to Luther
Societas Internationalis Historiae Conciliorum Investigandae: Travel grants to conferences in Toledo (1982), Ottobeuren (1984), Jerusalem (1986), Istanbul (1987), Ferrara-Florence (1990), Dubrovnik (1997)
American Philosophical Society: Research Grant (1984) to study Antonio Agli's autobiography
National Endowment for the Humanities: Grant for Translation (with Daniel J. Sheerin) (1986) grant to study Erasmus' debate with Alberto Pio
American Council of Learned Societies: Travel to Conferences Grant (1986) to give papers in Amsterdam and Ingolstadt
American Council of Learned Societies: Research Fellowship (1990) to study the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17)
Catholic University of America: Faculty Research Grant-In-Aid (1990) to study the Fifth Lateran Council; (1993), (1994), (1995), (1997)to prepare Erasmus-Pio debate manuscript for publication, and (2001) to work on the Renaissance Church's attitudes toward Blacks in Italy; (2003) to pay for illustrations for article on Raphael’s Leo X; (2009) to work on a critical edition of the decrees of Lateran V.
Renaissance Society of America: Senior Fellow Research Grant (2001) to work on RenaissanceChurch's attitudes toward Blacks in Italy.
NationalHumanitiesCenter: Senior Fellowship from the Lilly Endowment (2004-05)
Pontificio Comitato di Scienze Storiche: appointed to membership by Benedict XVI on 5 February 2007.
Graduate Students Association, The Catholic University of America: The Bruno Damiani Graduate Teacher of the Year Award 2010
Academic Positions:
1966-68 LoyolaAcademy (Wilmette, Illinois) -- Instructor in World and American History and in Civics
1972-73 HarvardUniversity (Cambridge, Massachusetts) -- Teaching Fellow and Assistant (1974-77)
1977- The Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.) -- Assistant (1977-83), Associate (1983-93), Full (1993- ) Professor in the Departments of History and Church History; acting chairman (Spring 1978 and Fall 1985), chairman (Spring 1979, Spring 1987 to Summer 1989, and Fall 1998 to Summer 2002) of the Department of Church History
1977- The Catholic Historical Review (Washington, D.C.) – Associate Editor (1977-90, 2003-05), Advisory Editor (1991-2003), Editor (2005- )
1988- Melville Studies in Church History (Washington, D.C.) -- Editor
Publications
Books:
Studies in Catholic History in Honor of John Tracy Ellis, ed. Nelson H. Minnich, Robert B. Eno, S.S., and Robert Trisco (Wilmington, Delaware: Michael Glazier, Inc., 1985), Pp. xxi, 765.
The Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17): Studies on Its Membership, Diplomacy, and Proposals for Reform [= Collected Studies Series CS 392] (London: Variorum, 1993), Pp. viii, 342.
The Catholic Reformation: Council, Churchmen, and Controversies [= Collected Studies Series CS 403] (London: Variorum, 1993), Pp. x, 313.
Encyclopedia of the Renaisssance, general editor Paul F. Grendler, associate editor for church history materials Nelson H. Minnich, 6 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999) -- I edited over 80 articles.
Controversies: Responsio ad epistolam paraeneticam Alberti Pii, Apologia adversus rhapsodias Alberti Pii, Brevissima scholia. Edited by Nelson H. Minnich, translated by Daniel Sheerin, annotated by Nelson H. Minnich and Daniel Sheerin, The Collected Works of Erasmus, volume 84. (Toronto/ Buffalo/London: University of Toronto Press, 2005), Pp. cxlviii, 483.
Councils of the Catholic Reformation: Pisa I (1409) to Trent (1545-63) [=Collected Studies Series CS890] (Aldershot,UK: Ashgate/Variorum, 2008), Pp. xii, 348.
Chapters in Books:
"`Incipiat Iudicium a Domo Domini': The Fifth Lateran Council and the Reform of Rome," Reform and Authority in the Medieval and ReformationChurch, ed. Guy F. Lytle (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1981) 127-142. Reprinted in The Catholic Reformation.
"Girolamo Massaino: Another Conciliarist at the Papal Court, Julius II to Adrian VI," Studies in Catholic History in Honor of John Tracy Ellis, ed. Nelson H. Minnich, Robert B. Eno, and Robert Trisco (Wilmington, Del.: Michael Glazier,Inc., 1985) 520-565.
"The Autobiography of Antonio degli Agli (ca. 1400-77), Humanist and Prelate," Renaissance Studies in Honor of Craig Hugh Smyth, 2 vols, ed. Andrew Morrogh et al. (= Villa I Tatti: The HarvardUniversityCenter for Italian Renaissance Studies, 7) (Florence: Giunti Barbera, 1985), I, 177-191. Reprinted in The Catholic Reformation.
"Erasmus and the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17)," Erasmus of Rotterdam, The Man and the Scholar: Proceedings of the Symposium Held at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 9-11, November 1986, ed. Jan Sperna Weiland and WillemTh.M. Frijhoff (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988) 46-60. Reprinted in The Catholic Reformation.
"On the Origins of Eck's `Enchiridion'," Johannes Eck (1486-1543) im Streit der Jahrhunderte: Internationales Symposium der Gesellschaft zur Herausgabe des Corpus Catholicorum aus Anlass des 500. Geburtstages des
Johannes Eck vom 13. bis 16. November 1986 in Ingolstadt und Eichstätt, ed. Erwin Iserloh (=Reformationsgeschichtliche Studien und Texte, Band 127) (Münster: Verlag Aschendorff, 1988) 37-73. Reprinted in The Catholic Reformation.
"The Proposals for an Episcopal College at Lateran V," Ecclesia Militans:
Studien zur Konzilien und Reformationsgeschichte. Remigius Bäumer zum 70. Geburtstag gewidmet, ed. Walter Brandmüller, Herbert Immenkötter, and Erwin Iserloh, 2 vols. (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1988), Band I: Zur Konziliengeschichte, 213-232. Reprinted in The Fifth Lateran Council.
"Prophecy and the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17)," Prophetic Rome in the High Renaissance Period, ed. Marjorie E. Reeves [= Oxford-Warburg Studies] (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), 63-87.
"The Role of Prophecy in the Career of the Enigmatic Bernardino López de Carvajal," Prophetic Rome in the High Renaissance Period, ed. Marjorie E. Reeves [= Oxford-Warburg Studies] (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), 111-120.
"`Wie in dem Basilischen concilio den Bohemen gescheen'? The Status of Protestants at the Council of Trent," The Contentious Triangle: Church, State, and University. A Festschrift in Honor of Professor George Huntston Williams, eds. Rodney L. Petersen and Calvin Augustine Pater [Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, 51] (Kirkville, MO: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1999), 201-219.
"The Last Two Councils of the Catholic Reformation: The Influence of Lateran V on Trent," Early Modern Catholicism: Essays in Honour of John W. O'Malley, S.J., eds. Kathleen M. Comerford and Hilmar M. Pabel (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001), 3-25.
"The Catholic Church and the Pastoral Care of Black Africans in Renaissance Italy," Blacks Africans in Renaissance Europe, eds. Thomas Earle and Kate J. Lowe (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2005), 280-300.
“The Images of Julius II in the Acta of the Councils of Pisa-Milan-Asti-Lyons (1511-12) and Lateran V (1512-17),” in: Giulio II: papa, politico, mecenate: Savona, Fortezza del Priamar, Sala della Sibilla, 25-26-27 marzo 2004. Atti del Convegno, eds. Giovanna Rotondi Terminiello and Giulio Nepi (Genova: De Ferrari & Devega S.r.l. Editoria, 2005), 79-90.
“The Role of the Schools of Theology in the Councils of the Late Medieval and Renaissance Periods: Konstanz to Lateran V,” in I Padri e le scuole teologiche nei concili, eds, Johannes Grohe, Jerónimo Leal,and Vito Reale (Città del Vaticano: Libreria editrice Vaticana, 2006), 59-95.
“Julius II and Leo X as Presidents of the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-1517),” in La Papauté à la Renaissance, eds. Florence Alazard and Frank La Branca [Centre d’Études Superieures de la Renaissance: Le savoir de Mantice] (Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2007), 153-166.
“Alberto Pio’s Defense of Scholastic Theology,” in Biblical Humanism and Scholasticism in the Age of Erasmus, edited by Erika Rummel (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2008), 277-295.
“Councils of the Catholic Reformation: A Historical Survey,” in The Church, the Councils, and Reform: The Legacy of the Fifteenth Century, eds. Gerald Christianson, Thomas M. Izbicki, and Christopher M. Bellitto (Washington, D.C.: The CatholicUniversity of America Press, 2008), 27-59.
“The Official Edition of the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17),” in Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, eds. Uta Renate Blumenthal, Kenneth Pennington, and Atria A. Larson (Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2008), 965-978.
“Rite Convocare ac Congregare Procedereque: The Struggle Between the Councils of Pisa-Milan-Asti-Lyon and Lateran V,” in Liturgie und Zeremoniell am Papsthof der Renaissance, eds. Jörg Bölling and Nikolaus Staubach [Tradition – Reform- Innovation] (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, forthcoming).
“Lateranense V,” in Conciliorum oecumenicorum generaliumque decreta, eds. Giuseppe Alberigo and Alberto Melloni, 3 vols., (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming) – a critical edition with introduction of twenty-two decrees (including the Concordat of Bologna) based on surviving bulls, copies of bulls recorded in the Vatican registers, early pamphlet printed editions of the bulls, the bulls as they appeared in the official acta of the Council edited by Antonio del Monte, and the version found in the re-edited Mansi edition), 202 pages in manuscript, awaiting publication
Journal Articles:
"Concepts of Reform Proposed at the Fifth Lateran Council," Archivum Historiae Pontificiae 7 (1969) 163-251. Reprinted in The Fifth Lateran Council with new appendices added.
"Two Woodcuts of Lateran V," (co-authored with Heinrich W. Pfeiffer) Archivum Historiae Pontificiae 8 (1970) 179-214.
"The Participants at the Fifth Lateran Council," Archivum Historiae Pontificiae 12 (1974) 157-206. Reprinted in The Fifth Lateran Council.
"The Orator of Jerusalem at Lateran V," Orientalia Christiana Periodica 40 (1974) 364-376. Reprinted in The Catholic Reformation.
"The `Protestatio' of Alberto Pio (1513)," Società, politica e cultura a Carpi ai tempi di Alberto III Pio: Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Carpi, 19-21 Maggio 1978), 2 vols., ed. Rino Avesani et al., Medioevo e Umanesimo 46 (Padova: Editrice Antenore, 1981), I, 261-289. Reprinted in The Fifth Lateran Council.
"The Character of Erasmus," (co-authored with William W. Meissner, M.D.), American Historical Review 83 (1978) 598-624; 84 (1979) 907-909. Reprinted in The Catholic Reformation.
"De Grassi's `Conciliabulum' at Lateran V: The De Gargiis Woodcut of Lateran V Re-Examined," (co-authored with Heinrich W. Pfeiffer), Archivum Historiae Pontificiae 19 (1981) 147-172.
"Paride de Grassi's Diary of the Fifth Lateran Council," Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 14 (1982) 370-460. Reprinted in The Catholic Reformation.
"The Healing of the Pisan Schism (1511-13)," Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 16 (1984) 59-192. Reprinted in The Fifth Lateran Council with new appendices added.
"The Function of Sacred Scripture in the Decrees of the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17)," Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 18 (1986) 319-329. Reprinted in The Fifth Lateran Council.
"Alexios Celadenus: A Disciple of Bessarion in Renaissance Italy," Culture, Society and Religion in Early Modern Europe: Essays by the Students and Colleagues of William J. Bouwsma, ed. Ellery Schalk, Historical Reflections 15 (1988) 47-64. Reprinted in The Catholic Reformation.
"Vocational Choices: An Unknown Letter of Pietro Querini to Gasparo Contarini and Niccolò Tiepolo (April, 1512)," (co-authored with Elisabeth G. Gleason) Catholic Historical Review 75 (1989) 1-20. Reprinted in The Catholic Reformation.
"The Debate between Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and Alberto Pio of Carpi on the Use of Sacred Images," Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 20 (1988) 379-413. Reprinted in The Catholic Reformation.
"Some Underlying Factors in the Erasmus-Pio Debate," The Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 13 (1993) 1-43.
"The Reform Proposals (1513) of Stefano Taleazzi for the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17)," Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 27/28 (1995/96) 543-70.
"The Role of Anticlericalism in the Reformation: A Review Essay," Catholic Historical Review 83 (1997) 452-61.
"The Changing Status of the Theologians in the General Councils of the West: Pisa (1409) to Trent (1545-63)," Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 30 (1998) 196-229.
"The Voice of Theologians in General Councils from Pisa to Trent," Theological Studies 59 (1998) 420-41.
"Councils of the Catholic Reformation (Pisa I to Trent): An Historiographical Survey," Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 32 (2000) 303-337.
“The Role of the Schools of Theology in the Councils of the Late Medieval and Renaissance Periods: Konstanz to Lateran V,” Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 35 (2003), 5-85; reprinted in I Padri e le scuole teologiche nei concili, eds, Johannes Grohe, Jerónimo Leal,and Vito Reale (Città del Vaticano: Libreria editrice Vaticana, 2006), 59-95.
"Raphael's Portrait `Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi de' Rossi': A Religious Interpretation," Renaissance Quarterly 56 (2003), 1005-1052.
“The First Printed Editions of the Modern Councils: from Konstanz to Lateran V (1499-1526)” Annali dell’ Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento / Jahrbuch des italienisch-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trient [Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino, 2004], 29 (2003), 447-468.
“The Decree Inter multiplices of Lateran V on Montes pietatis,” Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 38 (2006), 415-440.
“The Priesthood of All Believers at the Council of Trent,” The Jurist 67, no. 2 (2007), 341-363.
“The Fifth Lateran Council and Preventive Censorship of Printed Books,” Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia, serie 5, vol. 2 (June 2010), 67-104.
“The Legitimacy of the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17),” Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum(forthcoming)
Encyclopedia and Reference Work Articles:
"Julius II (Giuliano della Rovere), 1443-1513," Book of Days: An Encyclo- pedia of Information Sources on Historical Figures and Events Keyed to Calendar Dates (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Pierian Press, 1988) 670-672.
"Ellis, John Tracy," The New Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. XVIII (Supplement) (Palatine, Illinois: Jack Heraty and Associates, Inc., 1988) 137-139; revised and forthcoming.
"Lateransynoden II. Lateran V (1512-1517)," Theologische Realenzyklopädie Band XX (Berlin: Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1990) 489-492.
"Alexander VI," The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia, 2 vols., ed. Silvio A. Bedini (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992), I, 9-12.
"Innocent VIII," The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia, 2 vols., ed. Silvio A. Bedini (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992), I, 374.
"Papacy, Role of," Ibid., II, 537-540.
"Rome," ibid., II, 591-593.
"Leo X," Lexikon des Mittelalters (München: Artemis und Winkler Verlag, ca. 1991), V, col. 1881.
"Baltimore, Plenarkonzilien," Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche I (Freiburg: Verlag Herder, 1993), col. 1379.
"Adrian VI," Encyclopedia of the Reformation, ed. Hans J. Hillerbrand, 4 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), I, 8.
"Aleandro, Girolamo," Ibid., I, 17-18.
"Campeggi, Lorenzo," Ibid., I, 250-52.
"Giustiniani, Tommaso (Paolo)," Ibid., II, 175-76.
"Lateran Council, Fifth," Ibid., II, 397-99.
"Leo X," Ibid., II, 418-19.
"Observantism," Ibid., III, 165-66.
"Pio, Alberto," Ibid., III, 274-76.
"Peter, Carl Joseph," in New Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 19: Supplement: 1989-1995 (Palatine, Il.: Jack Heraty & Associates, 1996), 300-301.
"Lateran Konzil 5./Lateranense V," Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, Band VI (Freiburg: Herder, 1997), cols. 670-71.
"Lateran Council, Fifth," Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, edited by Paul F. Grendler, 6 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999), III, 387-388.
"Leo X," Ibid., III, 400-402.
"Papacy," Ibid., IV, 378-390.
"Clement VII," in Encyclopedia of the Vatican and Papacy, edited by Frank J. Coppa (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999), 90-92.
"Obituary Notice for Samuel Jefferson Thomas Miller (1919-99)," Catholic Historical Review 85 (1999), 341-44, 694-95.
"Francis of Paola, St. 1416-1507," Encyclopedia of Monasticism, ed. William M. Johnston, 2 vols. (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000), I, 500-501.
"Obituary Notice for George Pease [Huntston] Wiliams (1914-2000)," Catholic Historical Review 87 (2001), 138-142.
"Julius II (1503-13)," The Great Popes Through History: An Encyclopedia, ed. Frank J. Coppa, 2 vols. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002), I, 279-287.
"Leo X," Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, ed. Jonathan Dewald, 6 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons/Thomson/Gale, 2004), III, 480-482.
“Papacy and Papal States,” Ibid., IV, 380-392.
"Trent, Council of," Ibid., VI, 71-75.
“Innocent VIII,” in Dizionario storico dell’ Inquisizione, eds. Vincenzo Lavenia, Adriano Prosperi, and John Tedeschi, to be published by Editore Laterza.
“Concilio Lateranense V,” in Diccionario General de Derecho Canónico, eds. Javier Otaduy and Juan González Ayesta , 6 vols. (to be published by the Instituto Martin de Azpilcueta of the Universidad de Navarra)
“Councils, General,” Oxford Online Bibliography (2010)
“Julius II, 1503-13),” Ibid.
“Leo X, 1513-21),” Ibid.
Book Reviews:
Of Peter Partner, Renaissance Rome, 1500-1559: A Portrait of a Society (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976), Pp. xi,241, in Catholic Historical Review 64 (1978) 468-70.
Of Olivier de la Brosse, O.P., Joseph Lecler, S.J., Henri Holstein, S.J. and Charles Lefebvre, Latran V et Trente, Part I, vol. 10 of Histoire des conciles oecuméniques, ed. Gervais Dumeige, S.J. (Paris: Editions de l'Orante, 1975), Pp. 513, in Catholic Historical Review 64 (1978) 470-73.
Of Tommaso de Vio, Cajetan Responds: A Reader in Reformation Controversy, ed. and trans. by W. Jared Wicks, S.J. (Washington: The Catholic University Press, 1978), Pp. ii, 292, in Catholic Historical Review 65 (1979) 488-89.
Of Sebastian Castellio, Advice to a Desolate France in the Course of Whichthe Reason for the Present War is Outlined, as well as the Possible Remedy and, in the Main, Advice is Given as to Whether Consciences Should be Forced. The Year 1562, new edition with an introduction and explanatory notes by Marius F. Valkhoff, trans. by Wouter Valkhoff, preface to the English translation by Albert Geyser, (Shepherdstown, W. Va.: Patmos Press, 1975), Pp. xiii, 50, in Catholic Historical Review 65 (1979) 525-26.
Of Lucien Febvre, Life in Renaissance France, ed. and trans. by Marian Rothstein (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1977), Pp. xx, 163, in Catholic Historical Review 67 (1981) 679-80.
Of Loren Partridge and Randolph Starn, A Renaissance Likeness: Art and Culture in Raphael's `Julius II' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), Pp. xix, 159, in Catholic Historical Review 68 (1982) 327-29.
Of Felix Gilbert, The Pope, His Banker, and Venice (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980), Pp. vi, 157, in Catholic Historical Review 68 (1982) 338-39.
Of Philip Caraman, S.J., University of the Nations: The Story of theGregorianUniversity with Its Associated Institutes, the Biblical and Oriental, 1551-1962 (New York: Paulist Press, 1981), Pp. 157, in The Living Light 19 (1982) 286-87.
Of Alessandro Pastore, Marcantonio Flaminio: Fortune e sfortune di un chierico nell' Italia del cinquecento, nr. 10 of Studi e Richerche Storiche (Milan: Franco Angeli Editore, 1981), Pp. 184, in American Historical Review 87, nr. 4 (Oct., 1982) 1128-29.
Of Peter Iver Kaufman, Augustinian Piety and Catholic Reform: Augustine, Colet, and Erasmus (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1982), Pp. x, 151, in Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 4 (1984) 163-67.
Of Herbert David Rix, Martin Luther: The Man and the Image (New York: Irvington, 1983), Pp. vii, 332, in American Historical Review 90, nr. 2 (April, 1985) 435-36.
Of Richard Marius, Thomas More: A Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984) Pp. xxiv, 562, in America 153, nr. 14 (16 November 1985) 330-31, and reprinted in The Catholic Lawyer 30, nr. 1 (Winter, 1985) 94-98.
Of André Chastel, The Sack of Rome, 1527, trans. by Beth Archer, The A.W. Mellon Lectures in Fine Arts, 1977; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Bollingen Series, nr. XXXV, vol. 26 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983), Pp. xvii, 321, in Catholic Historical Review 72 (1986) 119-21.
Of Charles L. Stinger, The Renaissance in Rome (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1985), Pp. xvii, 444, in Theological Studies 47, nr. 2 (June, 1986).
Of Kaspar Schatzgeyer, O.F.M., Schriften zur Verteidigung der Messe, ed. and introduced by Erwin Iserloh and Peter Fabisch, nr. 37 of Corpus Catholicorum: Werke katholischer Schriftsteller im Zeitalter der Glaubensspaltung (Münster: Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1984), Pp. vi, 630, in Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum, 17 (1985) 480-82.
Of Margaret L. King, Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Domination(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986), Pp.xxi, 524, in Choice 24 (1986-87), nr. 3 (November, 1986) 536.