December 2012 Issue of Church History

The new issue of Church History is now accessible online. Feature articles include:
The Origins of the Christmas Date: Some Recent Trends in Historical Research, by CPE Nothaft.
The Last Carolingian Exegete: Pope Urban II, the Weight of Tradition, and Christian Reconquest, by Matthew Gabriele.
Monastic Literacy in John Cassian: Toward a New Sublimity, by Rebecca Krawiec.
Where Two Crosses Met: Religious Accommodation between a Reformed Protestant Community and a Commandery of the Order of Malta (Loudun, circa 1560–1660), by Edwin Bezzina.
Vital Nature and Vital Piety: Johann Arndt and the Evangelical Vitalism of Cotton Mather by Brett Malcolm Grainger.
A Leavening Force: African American Women and Christian Mission in the Civil Rights Era, by Mary K. Schueneman.
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