Includes bibliographical references.

Papal courts and courtiers in the Renaissance / Denys Hay -- The late Renaissance and the unfolding Reformation in Europe / Euan Cameron -- La notion de dignité humaine selon Erasme de Rotterdam / Jean-Claude Margolin -- Forma Christianisimi: die theologische Bewertung eines kleinen katechetischen Lehrstücks durch Luther und Erasmus von Rotterdam / Joachim Mehlhausen -- Pastoral care and the Reformation in Germany / R. W. Scribner -- Protestant veneration of Mary: Luther's interpretation of the Magnificat / Gerhard Müller -- The importance of the imperial city of Nuremberg in the Reformation / Gottfried Seebass -- Calvin's Latin preface to his proposed French edition of Chrysostom's homilies: translation and commentary / W. Ian P. Hazlett -- Probably they are God's children: Theodore Beza's doctrine of baptism / Jill Raitt -- Religious verse in French neo-Latin poetry until the death of Francis I and Marguerite of Navarre / I. D. McFarlane -- Church ordinances and regulations of the Dutch synods 'under the Cross' (1559-1563) / F. R. J. Knetsch -- Zurich and the Scottish Reformation: Rudolf Gwalther's Homilies on Galations of 1576 / Bruce Gordon -- Charles Perrot (1541-1608): his opinion on a writing of Georg Cassander / G. H. M. Posthumus Meyjes -- A disputed letter: relations between the Church of Scotland and the Reformed Church in the province of Zeeland in the year of the Solemn League and Covenant / Willem Nijenhuis -- Monastic learning and libraries in sixteenth-century Yorkshire / Claire Cross -- The Battle of Finsbury Field and its wider context / A. G. Dickens -- The piety of the Catholic restoration in England, 1553-1558 / David M. Loades -- The Latin polemic of the Marian exiles / Andrew Pettegree -- Erecting the discipline in provincial England: the Order of Northampton, 1571 / W. J. Sheils -- Alexander Mylin, Bishop George Brown, and the chapter of Dunkeld / John Macqueen -- The religion of early Scottish Protestants / James Kirk -- 'The face of ane perfyt reformed kyrk': St Andrews and the early Scottish Reformation / Jane E. A. Dawson.