Church history and the early church historians / R.A. Markus -- Recently discovered materials for writing the history of christian Nubia / William Frend -- The 'Frankish' penitentials / Rosamond Pierce -- Ritual and reality in the early medieval ordines / Janet L. Nelson -- Ecclesiastical chronology: fasti 1066-1300 / Diana Greenway -- The council of Westminster 1175: new light on an old source / Mary Cheney -- A socio-linguistic approach to the latin middle ages / Michael Richter -- Scissors and paste: Corpus Christi, Cambridge, MS 139 again / Derek Baker -- Sources for the early history of the humiliati / Brenda Bolton Uncovenanted blessings of ecclesiastical records / Rosalind M.T. Hill -- Misleading manuscripts: Wyclif and the non-wyclif bible / Michael Wicks -- Maximus sermocinator verbi Dei: the sermon literature of pope Clement VI / Diana Wood -- The compilation of a late fourteenth-century precedent book, Register Brian 2 / Roy M. Haines -- The letters of the university of Oxford on withdrawal of obedience from pope Boniface IX / Margaret Harvey -- Ecclesiastical jurisdiction 1300 to 1550: the records and their interpretation / Dorothy Owen -- The Greek church under the Turks: problems of research / Steven Runciman -- John Strype as a source for the study of sixteenth-century English church history / W.D.J. Cargill Thompson -- The recusant view of the English past / W.B. Patterson -- Theology as a basis for policy in the elizabethan church / David J. Keep Popular piety and the records of the unestablished churches, 1460-1660 / Claire Cross -- Welsh church history: sources and problems / Nigel Yates -- Nineteenth-century parochial sources / Robert Dunning -- Supernaturalised culture: catholic attitudes and latin lands / Sheridan Gilley -- Victorian religious periodicals: fragments that remain / Patrick Scott -- The significance of territorial church history for church history in general / Martin Brecht -- Institutions and illusions: the dilemma of the modern ecclesiastical historian / Keith Robbins.