Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is an annual collection of articles based on papers given to the Society by distinguished invited speakers, and by winners of the Society's prizes. Volume 28 commemorates 150 years of Royal Historical Society publishing, and includes the following articles: 'Alive - And Still Kicking: The RHS at 150'; 'Formalising Aristocratic Power in Royal acta in Late Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth-Century France and Scotland'; 'Castles and the Militarisation of Urban Society in Imperial Japan'; 'Buildings, Landscapes and Regimes of Materiality'; 'The Rise and...

This volume explores the legal issues and legal consequences underlying relations between secular and religious authorities in the context of the Christian Church, from its earliest emergence within Roman Palestine as a persecuted minority sect through the period when it became legally recognized within the Roman empire, its many institutional manifestations in the East and West throughout the Middle Ages, the reconfigurations associated with the Reformation and Catholic/Counter-Reformations, the legal and constitutional complications, and the variable consequences of so-called secularization...

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, this volume reflects on the way that the Church, from the earliest times, has cared for the sick and for the physical and spiritual health of society. Anointing and praying for the sick have always been combined with medical care. Religious foundations such as leper hospitals cared for the diseased but also isolated them to protect the health of society. The institutionalization of the Church's care for the sick led to the foundation of hospitals and medical schools. Many of the articles focus on the Church's response to sickness, especially pandemics....