CHH volume 48 issue 3 Back matter DUKE MONOGRAPHS IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES CLIO UNBOUND Perception of the Social and Cultural Past in Renaissance England Arthur B. Ferguson "Clio Unbound is outstanding, original, and based on first-class historical scholarship. The development of historical consciousness in Renaissance England is a difficult subject that has long needed a distinguished scholar to do it justice. Ferguson has succeeded admirably. What he has done, essentially, is to ask new questions of both old and new sources. Why and how did historical consciousness develop in England? How did ideas and attitudes in different fields reinforce each other, or sometimes conflict and slow each other? The chapters on literary criticism and language, on law, and on the concept of civilization are especially good, full of original arguments. The final chapter is excellent in suggesting the specific ways in which 'medieval' attitudes and concepts differed from 'Renaissance' ones." F. SMITH FUSSNER "An important contribution to the history of ideas and attitudes about the past. The approach is original, the scholarship massive and comprehensive, the argument temperate and judicious." WILLIAM NELSON Summer 1979, $22.75 PRAISE AND BLAME IN RENAISSANCE ROME Rhetoric, Doctrine, and Reform in the Sacred Orators of the Papal Court, c. 1450-1521 John W. O'Malley "O'Malley's book is a unique contribution, and its subject, to my knowledge, has not been touched by any other book in any language." PAULOSKAR KRISTELLER "Renaissance scholarship over the past twenty years has become increasingly aware that Italian Renaissance culture had a religious side, that Renaissance Humanism did indeed express a certain break with the traditional medieval scholastic modes of writing and arguing, but that Renaissance Humanism was a Christian movement as far as its own practitioners were concerned. What O'Malley shows is that perhaps the most characteristic feature of Renaissance Humanism, epideictic rhetoric, found its way into the very center of traditional, Catholic Christendom in the shape of the sermons preached at .the papal court. Moreover, it profoundly influenced the form and style of Renaissance Christianity, and without in any way denying the Christian past, gave Renaissance Catholicism at the papal curia a very special emphasis. This means that O'Malley's book is one of the most important contributions in recent years to Renaissance cultural and religious history." CHARLESTRINKAUS Autumn 1979, $17.75 Publisher pays postage on prepaid orders. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS 6697 College Station / Durham, North Carolina 27708 Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640700039755 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:06:18, subject to the Cambridge https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640700039755 https://www.cambridge.org/core -Temple- In this book Wilson approaches the subject of civil religion from a new angle. Looking at the arguments ad- vanced to support Robert Bellah's in- terpretation of American culture, he concludes that there is not an institu- tionalized civil religion cult, but rather a more generalized public re- ligion in America. He suggests that the intellectual and social changes that led to the discovery of "civil re- ligion" are more interesting than the concept itself, and argues for a reflec- tive analysis of assumptions made in scholarly research. 240 p p . 1979 ISBN 0-87722-159-6 $12.50 Public Religion in American Culture John F. Wilson In this original monograph on the conceptual foundations of religion, James Muyskens examines the dif- ference between religion based on belief and religion based on hope. The dialectical subtlety of this con- trast lends his account its freshness and air of pertinence not only for pro- fessional theorists, but also for be- lievers who must attempt to reconcile their convictions with contemporary science and philosophy. 200 p p . 1979 ISBN 0-87722-162-6 $15.00 The Sufficiency of Hope Conceptual Foundations of Religion James L. Muyskens Drawing upon sociology, anthropol- ogy, literary criticism, and linguis- tics, Sandra Sizer analyzes the im- mensely popular revival meetings of the nineteenth century which shaped much of American culture and rhet- oric. This book offers a new perspec- tive on revivalism by examining the rhetoric of the hymns themselves and the sorts of events and developments in American society which made hymn-singing and revivals appeal- ing. The author shows how the hymn created a "social religion" or com- munity based on shared feelings and the feminine ideal. 238 p p . 1979 ISBN 0-87722-142-1 $15.00 Temple University Press Broad & Oxford Sts. Philadelphia 19122 (215) 7 8 7 - 8 7 8 7 Gospel Hymns and Social Religion The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Revivalism Sandra S. Sizer In the series, American Civilization, edited by Allen F. Davis Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640700039755 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:06:18, subject to the Cambridge https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640700039755 https://www.cambridge.org/core