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