Table of Contents

Preface; Contributors; Abbreviations; 1. Public welfare and social legislation in the early medieval councils Walter Ullmann; 2. National synods, kingship as office and royal anointing: an early medieval syndrome Janet L. Nelson; 3. The case of Berenger of Tours Margaret Gibson; 4. Ecclesiastica and Regalia: Papal investiture policy from the Council of Guastalla to the first Lateran Council, 1106–23 M. J. Wilks; 5. Viri religiosi and the York election dispute Derek Baker; 6. Councils and synods in thirteenth-century Castile and Aragon Peter Linehan; 7. The Byzantine reaction to the Second Council of Lyons, 1274 Donald M. Nicol 8. The Council of London of 1342 Brenda Bolton; 9. Education in English ecclesiastical legislation of the later Middle Ages Roy M. Haines; 10. The representation of the universitas fidelium in the councils of the conciliar period Joseph Gill; 11. Nicholas Ryssheton and the Council of Pisa, 1409 Margaret Harvey; 12. The condemnation of John Wyclif at the Council of Constance Edith C. Tatnall; 13. Some aspects od English representation at the Council of Basle A. N. E. D. Schofield; 14. The Council of Basle and the Second Vatican Council A. J. Black; 15. The Colloquies between Catholics and Protestants, 1539–41 Basil Hall; 16. King James I's call for an ecumenical council W. B. Patterson; 17. John Hales and the Synod of Dort Robert Peters; 18. Assembley and Association in Dissent, 1689–1831 Geoffrey F. Nuttall; 19. The Convocation of 1710: an Anglican attempt at counter-revolution G. V. Bennet; 20. Laymen in synod: an aspect of the beginnings of synodical government in South Africa Peter Hinchliff; 21. The First Vatican Council E. E. Y. Hales; 22. Kikuyu and Edinburgh: the interaction of attitudes to two conferences Stuart P. Mews.

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