This eighth volume of Studies in Church History contains twenty-six papers read at two recent meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society.

1. Popular religious beliefs and the late Roman historians Arnaldo Momigliano; 2. Popular religion and christological controversy in the fifth W. H. C. Frend; 3. The Merovingian monastery of St Evroul in the light of conflicting traditions Marjorie Chibnall; 4. Vir Dei: secular sanctity in the early tenth century Derek Baker; 5. A critique of popular religion: Guibert of Nogent on The Relics of the Saints Colin Morris; 6. The making of a twelfth-century relic collection Denis Bethell; 7. Innocent III's treatment of the Humiliati Brenda Bolton; 8. Piety and impiety in thirteenth-century Italy Alexander Murray; 9. Some popular prophecies from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries Marjorie E. Reeves; 10. Belief and practice as illustrated by John XXII's excommunication of Robert Bruce Rosalind M. T. Hill; 11. Bacon and eggs: bishop Buckingham and superstition in Lincolnshire Dorothy M. Owen; 12. `Wilde wittes and wilfulnes': John Swetstock's attack on those 'poyswunmongeres', the Lollards Roy M. Haines; 13. Protestant spirituality in the first age of the Reformation Gordon Rupp; 14. Some thoughts on the development of a lay religious consciousness in pre-Civil-War England Marc L. Schwarz; 15. The social teaching of archbishop John Williams R. Buick Knox; 16. The puritan piety of members of the Long Parliament G. S. S. Yule (in absentia); 17. He-goats before the Flocks': a note on the part played by women in the founding of some Civil War churches Claire Cross; 18. The social status of some seventeenth-century rural Dissenters Margaret Spufford; 19. Methodism and the mob in the eighteenth century John Walsh; 20. Evangelicalism and worldliness, 1770¿1870 Michael Hennell; 21. The religion of the people and the problem of control, 1790¿1830 (Presidential Address) W. R. Ward; 22. Papists, Protestants and the Irish in London, 1835¿70 Sheridan Gilley; 23. The Churches and society in nineteenth-century England: a rural perspective David M. Thompson; 24. Pratique, piece et foi populaire dins la France moderne au XIXème et XXème siècles A. Latreille (in absentia); 25. The Welsh revival of 1904¿5: a critique Basil Hall; 26. Puritanicalism, sport, and race: a symbolic crusade of 1911 Stuart Mews.