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Healers and healing in early modern Italy . By David Gentilcore. (Social and Cultural Values in Early Modern Europe.) Pp. x+240 incl. 2 maps and 8 figs. Manchester–New York: Manchester University Press, 1998. £45. 0 7190 4199 6

Religio Medici. Medicine and religion in seventeenth-century England . Edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham. Pp. viii+347 incl. 7 ills. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996. £49.50. 1 85928 339 X

Glory, jest and riddle. Religious thought in the Enlightenment. By James Byrne. Pp. xiii + 253. London: SCM Press, 1996. £14.95 (paper). 0 334 02656 3

The Christian philosopher . By Cotton Mather. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Winton U. Solberg. Pp. cxlii + 488. Urbana-Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

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Sleepless Souls. Suicide in early modern England . By MacDonald Michael and Murphy Terence. (Oxford Studies in Social History.) Pp. xvi + 383 incl. figs and tables. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. £40. 0 19 822919 4

Galileo Heretic . By Pietro Redondi. (Trans, by Raymond Rosenthal of Galileo eretico , 1983.) Pp. viii + 256 + 18 ills. London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1988. £17.95. 0 7139 9007 4

Darwin's Forgotten Defenders. The encounter between evangelical theology and evolutionary thought . By David N. Livingstone. Pp. xii + 210 + ills. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans/Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1987. £7.95. 0 8028 0260 5

Truth, Liberty, Religion. Essays celebrating two hundred years of Manchester College . Edited by Barbara Smith. Pp. xxiv + 325 + ills. Oxford: Manchester College, Oxford, 1986. £19.95. 09508715 16

Faith and Doubt in Victorian Britain . By Elisabeth Jay. (Context and Commentary.) Pp. xii + 136 + 5 plates. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986. £20 (cloth), £6.95 (paper), 0 333 37658 7; 0 333 37659 5