Reviews

H enri D esroche : The Sociology of Hope. D aniel W. P atterson : The Shaker Spiritual. I iro K ajanto : Classical and Christian; Studies in the Latin Epitaphs of Medieval and Renaissance Rome. M ark R. C ohen : Jewish Self‐Government in Medieval Egypt: The Origins of the Office of Head of the Jews ca. 1065–1126. J effrey R ichards : Consul of God: The Life and Times of Gregory the Great. P aul L awrence R ose : Bodin and the Great God of Nature: The Moral and Religious Universe of a Judaiser. P aul L awrence R ose (ed.): Jean Bodin: Selected Writings on Philosophy, Religion, and Politics. J oyce O ldham A ppleby : Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth Century England. J. A. S harpe : Defamation and Sexual Slander in Early Modern England: The Church Courts at York (Borthwick Papers, No. 58). K enneth M. B oyd : Scottish Church Attitudes to Sex, Marriage and the Family, 1850–1914. P aul M c H ugh : Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform. E dmund C ampion : John Henry Newman: Friends, Allies, Bishops, Catholics. N. M errill D istad : Guessing at Truth: The Life of Julius Charles Hare (1795‐1855) Shepherdstown A lan D. G ilbert : The Making of Post‐Christian Britain: A History of the Secularization of Modern Society. A nn ‐M ari J ordens : The Stenhouse Circle: Literary Life in Mid‐Nineteenth Century Sydney. B rian K ennedy : Silver, Sin, and Sixpenny Ale: A Social History of Broken Hill, 1883–1921. I an B reward : Grace and Truth: A History of the Theological Hall, Knox College, Dunedin 1876–1975.