The Parish in English Life, 1400-1600Katherine L. French, Gary G. Gibbs, Beat A. Kümin The first comprehensive survey of the religious, social and cultural life of late medieval and Reformation parishes covers town and country, northern as well as southern communities, and provides an indication of the European setting just before and just after the enormous social and religious changes of the 16th century. 15 illustrations. |
Contents
The English parish in a European perspective | 15 |
Northern light? Parochial life in a dark corner | 56 |
Churchwardens accounts of early modern England | 74 |
Popular religion and the parish register 15381603 | 94 |
Parochial fundraising in late medieval Somerset | 115 |
The parish piety and patronage in late medieval | 133 |
New duties for the parish community in Tudor London | 163 |
Common terms and phrases
accounts activities aisle altar bequests Berkshire Berkshire RO Bishop Bristol burial Cambridge cent chancel chantries chapel churchwardens City clergy collection Cratfield Croscombe Cumbria diocese donors Duffy early modern East ecclesiastical Elizabethan English Parish English Reformation evidence example fifteenth fund-raising funding gild Gloucester Hallows Hallows Staining historians History Ibid images income John Kümin land loft manor manorial nave Norfolk Oxford paid painted parish church parish community parish of St Parish Registers parishioners parochial period pious Plate poor pre-Reformation priest Protestant records reign Religion religious rents Robin Hood Ronald Hutton rood screen rural saints secular sixteenth century social Society Somerset RO sources St Botolph St Botolph Aldersgate St Margaret St Martin St Mary St Mary's St Michael Cornhill St Michael's St Stephen Walbrook Stephen Coleman Street Suffolk surviving Thames Thomas Tintinhull tower town traditional Tudor urban wardens widow William women York