This Week's Acquisitions

(Apparently, this was Reformation week.)

• Robert Edric, Cradle Song (Black Swan, 2004).  First in a trilogy of literary mysteries.
• Gordon Dahlquist, The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Bantam, 2006).  Neo-Victorian-fantasy-mystery-thriller.
• Anon., Medieval and Modern Saints and Miracles (Harper, 1876).  American anti-Catholic text that also circulated in England.
• William Cunningham, Reformers and the Theology of the Reformation (1862; rpt. Banner of Truth, 1979).  Reprint of a lecture series.  Brief account of Cunningham here. 
• John E. Curran, Jr., Roman Invasions: The British History, Protestant Anti-Romanism, and the Historical Imagination in England, 1530-1660 (Delaware, 2002).  Geoffrey of Monmouth and Reformation historiography.
• Richard Rex, Henry VIII and the English Reformation (Palgrave Macmillan, 1993).  Brief overview; part of the British History in Perspective series.
• Diarmaid MacCulloch, Later Reformation in England, 1547-1603 (Palgrave Macmillan, 1990).  Another book in the series.