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