Craig Harline and counter-current P...

Craig Harline and counter-current Put. A Bishop Tale: Mathias Hovius Among His collection in Seventeenth-Century Flanders. New Haven: Yale UP 2000 x + 387 pp ISBN 0-300-09405-1 $2795

Episcopal biography is a respectable, if not always appreciated, subspecies of the genus biography, species biography of ecclesiastical officeholders, frequently related to and sometimes confused with the species hagiography. The genre itself grew revealed of the early lists, then series of lives, of bishops in the larger Christian communities of the Roman empire, particularly that of Rome (the series of papal