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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture The first two items below may be of interest. Rosemary Hayes ----- Original Message ----- From: IHR Reviews To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:01 PM Subject: Reviews in History email alert - 15 October 2009 Welcome to Reviews in History, which this week assesses five books ranging over a variety of subjects and time periods. First Peter Webster reviews (no. 804) two volumes on early modern church music, Beth Quitslund's The Reformation in Rhyme. Sternhold, Hopkins and the English Metrical Psalter, 1547-1603, and Humanism and the Reform of Sacred Music in Early Modern England. John Merbecke the Orator and The Booke of Common Praier Noted (1550) by Hyun-Ah Kim. Next the medieval prison is the focus of a short and ambitious work by G. Geltner, The Medieval Prison: A Social History, which has been reviewed for us (no. 805) by Jonathan Rose. The first full-length work on the history of adoption in England (A Child for Keeps: the History of Adoption in England, 1918-45 by Jenny Keating) is the subject of our next piece (no. 806) by Daniel Grey, to which the author's response can be found here. Finally a collection of essays assessing the emergence of and developments in cultural history in the United States, The Cultural Turn in U.S. History: Past, Present, and Future, is analysed at length (no. 807) by Patrick Hagopian. As always, all comments or suggestions should be sent to [log in to unmask] Best wishes Danny Millum Deputy Editor, Reviews in History / Editorial Assistant (Web) Institute of Historical Research [log in to unmask] 020 7862 8812 http://www.history.ac.uk/ ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html