Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Heresy and schism in the later Roman empire S. L. Greenslade; 2. Christianity and dissent in Roman North Africa: changing perspectives in recent work R. A. Markus; 3. Heresy and schism as social and national movements W. H. C. Frend; 4. Attitudes to schism at the council of Nicaea Everett Ferguson; 5. Society, theodicy and the origins of heresy: towards a reassessment of the medieval evidence Janet L. Nelson; 6, Tradition and temerity: papal attitudes to deviants 1159–1216 Brenda Bolton; 7. Heresy and learning in early cistercianism Derek Baker; 8. Reformatio regni: Wyclif and Hus as leaders of religious protest movements Michael Wilks; 9. Bishop Buckingham and the lollards of Lincoln diocese A. K. McHardy; 10. Some aspects of lollard book production Anne Hudson; 11. A sermon by John Luke on the ending of the Great Schism 1409 Margaret Harvey; 12. Thomas Rudborne, monk of Winchester and the council of Florence Joan G. Greatrex; 13. Julius II and the schismatic cardinals Walter Ullmann; 14. Lincolnshire 1536: heresy, schism or religious discontent? Margaret Bowker; 15. The Family of Love and the diocese of Ely Felicity Heal; 16. The quest for the heretical laity in the visitation records of Ely in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries Margaret Spufford; 17. 'Dens of loitering lubbers': protestant protest against cathedral foundations 1540–1640 Claire Cross; 18. The Anglo-Gallicanism of dom Thomas Preston 1567–1647 Maurus Lunn; 19. Henry IV and the huguenot appeal for a return to Poissy W. B. Patterson; 20. Orthodox and catholics in the seventeenth century: schism or intercommunion? K. T. Ware; 21. The emergence of the schism in seventeenth-century Scotland Gordon Donaldson; 22. Religious protest and urban authority: the case of Henry Sherfield, iconoclast 1633 Paul Slack; 23. Swedenborgianism: heresy, schism or religious protest? W. R. Ward; 24. An Irish heretic bishop: Robert Clayton of Clogher A. R. Winnett; 25. The arian schism in Ireland 1830 J. M. Barkley; 26. Protest and schism in nineteenth-century German Catholicism: the Ronge-Czerski movement 1844–5 Wayne Detzler; 27. 'God and Mammon': religious protest and educational change in New England from the Revolution to the Gilded Age Keith Hampson; 28. Reason and emotion in working-class religion 1794–1824 Stuart Mews; 29. A. H. Clough: a case study in Victorian doubt P. G. Scott; 30. African separatists: heresy, schism or protest movement? Peter Hinchcliff

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Many of the authors reflect the interest in 'religious sociology' which characterises much contemporary continental work in the field of ecclesiastical history.