Introduction / Abigail Firey
Truth, tradition, and history : the historiography of high/late medieval and early modern penance / R. Emmet McLaughlin
The historiography of early medieval penance / Rob Meens
Juridical administration in the church and pastoral care in late antiquity / Kevin Uhalde
Spiritual guarantors at penance, baptism, and ordination in the late Antique East / Claudia Rapp
Topographies of penance in the Latin West (c.800-c.1200) / Dominique Iogna-Prat, translated by Graham Robert Edwards
Blushing before the judge and physician : moral arbitration in the Carolingian Empire / Abigail Firey
Cum aliquis venerit ad sacerdotem : penitential experience in the Central Middle Ages / Karen Wagner
The scholastic turn (1100-1500) penitential theology and law in the schools / Joseph Goering
Penitential theology and law at the turn of the fifteenth century / Henry Ansgar Kelly
Between the reality of life and the order of canon law : the Holy Apostolic Penitentiary and the supplications from Norway 1448-1531 / Torstein Jorgensen
At heresy's door : Borromeo, penance, and confessional boundaries in early modern Europe / Wietse de Boer
Embracing the 'true relic' of Christ : suffering, penance, and private confession in the thought of Martin Luther / Ronald K. Rittgers
Lay piety and community identity in the early modern world / Gretchen Starr-LeBeau
Confessors as hagiographers in early modern Catholic culture / Jodi Bilinkoff.