This Week's Acquisitions
- Emily Grace Harding, A Noble Sacrifice: A Temperance Tale (Walter Scott, n.d.). As per the usual, various people try to save a local village from the demon drink, while a mysterious curse hangs over the proceedings. (eBay)
- Karen Harvey, The Little Republic: Masculinity and Domestic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Oxford, 2012). Examines the expectations for men when it came to maintaining the household finances, exerting their religious and paternal authority, and so on. (Amazon)
- Louis Chatellier, The Europe of the Devout: The Catholic Reformation and the Formation of a New Society, trans. Jean Birrell (Cambridge, 1989). Traces the history of the Marian Congregations in Europe and their effects. (Amazon [secondhand])
- C. Michael Shea, Newman's Early Roman Catholic Legacy 1845-1854 (Oxford, 2017). An attempt to rescue Newman from charges that he was essentially irrelevant to the development of English Catholicism immediately after his conversion. (Amazon)
- Seth Perry, Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States (Princeton, 2018). Investigates how Americans quoted, appropriated, taught, and read the Bible. (Amazon)