David Knowles / Christopher Brooke -- Early Christian attitudes to property and slavery / Geoffrey de Ste Croix -- Holy kings: the bane of seventh-century society / Rosalind M.T. Hill -- Outsiders, insiders and property at Durham around 1100 / Bernard Meehan -- Legend and reality: the case of Waldef of Melrose / Derek Baker -- Fulk of Toulouse: the escape that failed / Brenda Boulton -- Judicium Dei: the social and political significance of the ordeal in the eleventh century / Colin Morris -- Ecclesiastical attitudes to novelty c1100-c1250 / Beryl Smalley -- The alien priories and the expulsion of aliens from England in 1378 / A.K. McHardy -- Church, society and politics in the early fifteenth century as viewed from an English pulpit / Roy M. Haines -- Luther and the right of resistance to the emperor / W.D.J. Cargill Thompson -- Was the Protestant reformation a revolution?: the case of Geneva / Robert M. Kingdon -- Jean de Serres and the politics of religious pacification 1594-8 / W.B. Patterson -- The resolutioners and the Scottish nobility in the early months of 1660 / Julia Buckroyd -- Jansenism and politics in the eighteenth century / John McManners -- 'Christ's kingdom not of this world': the case of Benjamin Hoadly versus William Law reconsidered / Henry D. Rack -- A colonial concordat: two views of Christianity and civilisation / A.F. Walls -- Alessandro Gavazzi: a Barnabite friar and the risorgimento (presidential address) / Basil Hall -- Church and state in Borneo: the Anglican bishopric / Brian Taylor -- Gladstone and the nonconformists: a religious affinity in politics / D.W. Bebbington -- The politics of the Enabling act (1919) / David M. Thompson -- The Presbyterian church in Ireland and the Government of Ireland act (1920) / John M. Barkley -- The Barmen declaration (May 1934) / Owen Geoffrey Rees -- Church and politics: Dorothy Buxton and the German church / Keith Robbins.