This volume contains some papers presented at the conference Concilium Lateranense IV--Commemorating the Octocentenary of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215, held in Rome in November 23-29, 2015.

Maureen B.M. Boulton is Professor emerita of French at the University of Notre Dame and, since 2017, a Visiting Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Her interests in medieval French literature, including that of England, have ranged from the relationship between lyric poetry and narrative to religious literature, especially the lives of Christ and his mother. The author of The Song in the Story: Lyric Insertions in French Narrative Fiction, 1200-1400 (1993), her most recent books are Piety and Persecution in the French Texts of England (2013) and Sacred Fictions of Medieval France: Narrative Theology in the Lives of Christ and the Virgin, 1150-1500 (2015). She was Ruth J. Dean's junior collaborator on Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (1999).