Kirsi Salonen is professor of European and World History at the University of Turku, Finland. She is specialist of medieval ecclesiastical history and history of law. Her most recent monograph in English is Papal Justice in the Late Middle Ages (Routledge, 2016). Torstein Jørgensen is professor at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen and at the School of Mission and Theology, Stavanger.

• Introduction LOCAL NEEDS IN GLOBAL CONTEXTS Paolo Ostinelli: Penitentiary Evidence and Local Archive Material: The Case of Upper Italy, 1438-1484 Torstein Jørgensen: Canon Law in Norway Illustrated by the Penitentiary Texts: An Example of a European Centre–Periphery Perspective MARRIAGE AND SEXUAL CONDUCT Jennifer R. McDonald: Illegitimate Scots in the Registers of Supplications and the Registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary during the Pontificate of Sixtus IV (1471–1484) Kirsi Salonen: Diemunda and Heinrich – Married or Not? About a Marriage Litigation in the Consistorial Court of Freising in the Late Middle Ana Marinkovic: Si et in quantum. The Role of Papal Dispensations in Matrimonial Contracts of Fifteenth-Century Ragusa Ludwig Schmugge: Matrimonial Dispensation: How the Penitentiary Handled Cases of Impotence VAGRANTS AND APOSTATES Gerhard Jaritz: ... monasterium ipsum (sine licentia) exivit: A Familiar Image For the Fifteenth-Century Dioceses of Passau and Salzburg? Milena Svec Goetschi: Thief and Arsonist: The Adventurous Fate of a Runaway LOCAL NEEDS IN THREATENED LANDS Etleva Lala: The Survival of the Catholic Church in Albania during the Period of Direct Contact with the Ottomans (1458–1484) Antonín Kalous: The Official Papal Policy towards Bohemia and Moravia in the 1460s and Its Relation to the Penitentiary Office: The Case of Olomouc List of Contributors

Kirsi Salonen is professor of European and World History at the University of Turku, Finland. She is specialist of medieval ecclesiastical history and history of law. Her most recent monograph in English is Papal Justice in the Late Middle Ages (Routledge, 2016). Torstein Jørgensen is professor at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen and at the School of Mission and Theology, Stavanger.

• Introduction LOCAL NEEDS IN GLOBAL CONTEXTS Paolo Ostinelli: Penitentiary Evidence and Local Archive Material: The Case of Upper Italy, 1438-1484 Torstein Jørgensen: Canon Law in Norway Illustrated by the Penitentiary Texts: An Example of a European Centre–Periphery Perspective MARRIAGE AND SEXUAL CONDUCT Jennifer R. McDonald: Illegitimate Scots in the Registers of Supplications and the Registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary during the Pontificate of Sixtus IV (1471–1484) Kirsi Salonen: Diemunda and Heinrich – Married or Not? About a Marriage Litigation in the Consistorial Court of Freising in the Late Middle Ana Marinkovic: Si et in quantum. The Role of Papal Dispensations in Matrimonial Contracts of Fifteenth-Century Ragusa Ludwig Schmugge: Matrimonial Dispensation: How the Penitentiary Handled Cases of Impotence VAGRANTS AND APOSTATES Gerhard Jaritz: ... monasterium ipsum (sine licentia) exivit: A Familiar Image For the Fifteenth-Century Dioceses of Passau and Salzburg? Milena Svec Goetschi: Thief and Arsonist: The Adventurous Fate of a Runaway LOCAL NEEDS IN THREATENED LANDS Etleva Lala: The Survival of the Catholic Church in Albania during the Period of Direct Contact with the Ottomans (1458–1484) Antonín Kalous: The Official Papal Policy towards Bohemia and Moravia in the 1460s and Its Relation to the Penitentiary Office: The Case of Olomouc List of Contributors

Kirsi Salonen is professor of European and World History at the University of Turku, Finland. She is specialist of medieval ecclesiastical history and history of law. Her most recent monograph in English is Papal Justice in the Late Middle Ages (Routledge, 2016). Torstein Jørgensen is professor at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen and at the School of Mission and Theology, Stavanger.

• Introduction LOCAL NEEDS IN GLOBAL CONTEXTS Paolo Ostinelli: Penitentiary Evidence and Local Archive Material: The Case of Upper Italy, 1438-1484 Torstein Jørgensen: Canon Law in Norway Illustrated by the Penitentiary Texts: An Example of a European Centre–Periphery Perspective MARRIAGE AND SEXUAL CONDUCT Jennifer R. McDonald: Illegitimate Scots in the Registers of Supplications and the Registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary during the Pontificate of Sixtus IV (1471–1484) Kirsi Salonen: Diemunda and Heinrich – Married or Not? About a Marriage Litigation in the Consistorial Court of Freising in the Late Middle Ana Marinkovic: Si et in quantum. The Role of Papal Dispensations in Matrimonial Contracts of Fifteenth-Century Ragusa Ludwig Schmugge: Matrimonial Dispensation: How the Penitentiary Handled Cases of Impotence VAGRANTS AND APOSTATES Gerhard Jaritz: ... monasterium ipsum (sine licentia) exivit: A Familiar Image For the Fifteenth-Century Dioceses of Passau and Salzburg? Milena Svec Goetschi: Thief and Arsonist: The Adventurous Fate of a Runaway LOCAL NEEDS IN THREATENED LANDS Etleva Lala: The Survival of the Catholic Church in Albania during the Period of Direct Contact with the Ottomans (1458–1484) Antonín Kalous: The Official Papal Policy towards Bohemia and Moravia in the 1460s and Its Relation to the Penitentiary Office: The Case of Olomouc List of Contributors