Penance and the Market Place: a Reformation Dialogue with the Medieval Church (c. 1250¿c. 1600)The final version of this paper has benefited immensely from the critical comments of three referees, including Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, without which it would have been immeasurably poorer. Professor Charles Phythian-Adams kindly read an early draft and Dr Paul Griffiths a later one. An embryonic version was read at the Mid West Conference on British Studies in Cincinnati in October 2000. Professor Margo Todd read a version of the paper and made some helpful comments, as noted below. I am also