Retribution, repentance, and reconciliation : papers read at the 2002 Summer Meeting and the 2003 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society / edited by Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory.

Includes bibliographical references.

'I have heard from some teachers' : the second-century struggle for forgiveness and reconciliation / Christine Trevett -- Informal penance in early medieval Christendom / Richard Price -- Token of repentance and reconciliation : Oswiu and the murder of King Oswine / Christopher M. Scargill -- Penance in the age of Gregorian reform / Sarah Hamilton -- Penance and reconciliation in the crusader states : Matthew Paris, Jacques de Vitry and the eastern Christians / Andrew Jotischky -- Theologies of reconciliation in thirteenth-century England / William H. Campbell -- Church discipline in the later Middle Ages : the priors of Durham as archdeacons / Margaret Harvey -- Satisfaction in early modern Europe, c.1400-1700 / John Bossy -- Luther and the sacramentality of penance / David Bagchi -- Judgement and repentance in Tudor Manchester : the celestial journey of Ellis Hall / Peter Marshall -- Did Calvinists have a guilt complex? reformed religion, conscience and regulation in early modern Europe / Graeme Murdock -- Recantation and retribution : 'remembering Francis Spira', 1548-1638 / M. A. Overell -- 'Partial customs of those frozen parts' : religious riot and reconciliation in the north of England / Andrew Cambers -- Confession and absolution in Caroline Cambridge : the 1637 crisis in context / Eric Josef Carlson --

'There very children were soe full of hatred' : Royalist clerical families and the politics of everyday conflict in Civil War and Interregnum England / Michelle Wolfe -- 'In love and charity with your neighbours' : ecclesiastical courts and justices of the peace in England in the eighteenth century / W.M. Jacob -- Public orders into moral communities : eighteenth-century Fast and Thanksgiving Day sermons in the Dutch Republic and New England / Peter van Rooden -- Imprisonment and release in the writings of the Wesleys / Tim MacQuiban -- Relationships human and divine : retribution and repentance in children's lives, 1740-1870 / Mary Clare Martin -- Community and discipline in Ulster Presbyterianism, c.1770-1840 / Andrew Holmes -- Penance and the priestless old believers in modern Russia, 1771-c.1850 / Irina Paert -- Judging the nation : early nineteenth-century British evangelicals and divine retribution / John Wolffe -- Gladiators of expiation : the Cult of the Martyrs in the Catholic revival of the nineteenth century / Vincent Viaene -- Völker and Mokomoko : 'symbols of reconciliation' in Aotearoa, New Zealand / Allan K. Davidson -- God and the gallows : Christianity and capital punishment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Hugh McLeod -- British army chaplains and capital courts-martial in the First World War / Michael Snape -- From resistance to national reconciliation : the response and role of the Ecumenical Church in South Africa / John W. de Gruchy.