Councils and assemblies; papers read at the Eighth Summer Meeting and the Ninth Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society, edited by G. J. Cuming and Derek Baker.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.