This Week's Acquisitions
- Lady Georgiana Fullerton, Laurentia: A Tale of Japan (Kelly & Piet, 1866). Historical novel about the Jesuit mission to Japan in the seventeenth century. (eBay)
- [Emily Steele], Matty's Missionary Box and the Message it Brought (Nelson, 1871). Short children's novel about how an impoverished family is changed by the Biblical text on a missionary box (several examples here). Includes two other short stories. (eBay)
- Madeline Miller, Circe (Little, Brown, 2018). Reimagines the legend of Circe as told from her point of view. (Lift Bridge)
- Mervyn Busteed, The Irish in Manchester c. 1750-1921: Resistance, Adaptation, and Identity (Manchester, 2016). Transformations of the Irish immigrant community as they negotiated with local institutions. (Amazon)
- John W. O'Malley, Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church (Harvard, 2018). A new history of what went on behind the scenes at Vatican I in the debates over papal infallibility. (Amazon)
- Grantley McDonald, Biblical Criticism in Early Modern Europe: Erasmus, the Johannine Comma and Trinitarian Debate (Cambridge, 2016). Despite the title, this is actually a history of debates over the comma and their implications for scholarship down to the present day. (Amazon)