The Church on its past : Papers read at the 2011 Summer Meeting and the 2012 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society / edited by Peter D. Clarke and Charlotte Methuen.

Papers read at the 2011 Summer Meeting and the 2012 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part I. The churches' use of the past -- Intimations of a massacre : Thessalonica, Theodosius I and self-ironization in Socrates Scholasticus's historia ecclesiastica / Luke Gardiner -- Constructing the apostolic past : the case of Dionysius the Areopagite / Andrew Louth -- Biblical history and the end of times : seventh-century Christian accounts of the rise of Islam / Jessica Lee Ehinger -- Bede on the Jewish church / Conor O'Brien -- The deposit of monastic faith : the Carolingians on the essence of monasticism / Renie Choy -- Remembering Pope Gregory VII : Cardinal Boso and Alexander III / John Doran -- Honorius III and the Crusade : responsive papal government versus the memory of his predecessors / Thomas W. Smith -- Carmelites and crusading in the later Middle Ages / Andrew Jotischky -- An Anglican view of the Crusades : Thomas Fuller's The historie of the holy warre / Bernard Hamilton -- Using the past against the papacy : Luther's appeal to church history in his anti-papal writings / Charlotte Methuen -- Polydore Vergil and ecclesiastical historiography in his De inventoribus rerum IV-VIII / Jonathan Arnold -- Historian or prophet? John Bale's perception of the past / Susan Royal -- 'Holding up a lamp to the sun' : Hiberno-Papal relations and the construction of Irish Orthodoxy in John Lynch's Cambrensis eversus (1662) / Salvador Ryan -- Gilbert Burnet : an ecclesiastical historian and the invention of the English Restoration era / Tony Claydon -- The medieval church in early Methodism and anti-Methodism / Chris Wilson -- Representing and misrepresenting the history of Puritanism in eighteenth-century England / Robert G. Ingram -- Archbishop Tait, the Huguenots and the French church at Canterbury / Andrew Spicer --

Memorializing 1662 : Hampshire Congregationalists and the 250th anniversary of the Great Ejection / Rosalind Johnson and Roger Ottewill -- The Church of England in the Diocese of London : what does history have to offer to the present-day church? / John Wolffe -- Part II. Changing perspectives on church history -- What did women do for the early church? the recent history of a question / Judith M. Lieu -- Changing historical perspectives on the English Reformation : the last fifty years / Diarmaid MacCulloch -- Historiography of the Scottish Reformation : the Catholics fight back? / Stephen Mark Holmes -- Patrick Boyle, the Irish colleges and the historiography of Irish Catholicism / Liam Chambers -- The Evangelical discovery of history / David W. Bebbington -- Insider and outsider history : theories of Quaker origins from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Rosemary Moore -- Histories of heterodoxy : shifting approaches to a millenarian tradition in modern church history / Philip Lockley -- Re-visioning the past and re-sourcing the future : the unresolved historiographical struggle in Roman Catholic scholarship and authoritative teaching / Kenneth L. Parker -- The development of G. G. Coulton's critique of the Roman Catholic school of history / Alex Corio-- Money matters : the neglect of finance in the historiography of modern Christianity / Sarah Flew -- Part III. Church and state in history -- Church and state, religion and power in late antique and Byzantine scholarship of the last five decades / Claudia Rapp -- Church and state in early modern ecclesiastical historiography / Anthony Milton -- The fall and rise of church and state? religious history, politics and the state in Britain, 1961-2011 / Matthew Grimley.