Parish Texts
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Blogs and short notes
- Wright, James, '', in: Triskele Heritage (2 August 2021)
Debates
Pre-Reformation Churchwardens鈥 Accounts and Parish Government
by Clive Burgess, in English Historical Review cxvii (2002), 306-32
by Beat K眉min, ibid. cxix (2004), 87-99
by Clive Burgess, ibid., 100-116
(specifically on seasonal festivity) by Ronald Hutton, ibid. cxx (2005), 66-79
The Church of England in the Eighteenth Century
Snape, Michael, The Church of England in Industrialising Society. The Lancashire Parish of Whalley in the Eighteenth Century (Boydell and Brewer, 2003).
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The social costs of Baroque church building
Z眉ckert, Hartmut, Die sozialen Grundlagen der Barockkultur in S眉ddeutschland (1988)
Hersche, Peter, '', in: 贵谤眉丑苍别耻锄别颈迟-滨苍蹿辞 6 (2/1995), 151-71
" , '', in: 贵谤眉丑苍别耻锄别颈迟-滨苍蹿辞 9 (1/1998), 52-3
Roeck, Bernd, '', in: 贵谤眉丑苍别耻锄别颈迟-滨苍蹿辞 9 (1/1998), 54-5
Reviews
Valerie Hitchman and Andrew Foster (eds), Views from the Parish: Churchwardens鈥 Accounts c. 1500-1800Link opens in a new window (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015)
Reviewed by Ruth Barbour, University of 糖心TV (February 2017)
Periodicals
(published by the Ecclesiological Society; online access to most issues)
(annual publication by 鈥榖uildingconservation.com鈥)
Books, theses and essays
Andrew, Susan, 鈥樷 (PhD Plymouth University, 2011)
Barnwell, Paul, 鈥楾he Use of the Church: Blisworth, Northamptonshire, on the Eve of the Reformation鈥, Ecclesiology Today 35 (2005), 43-62
鈥 , 鈥楲ow side windows: ventilating a 170-year old controversy鈥, Ecclesiology Today 36 (2006), 49-76
Bauwens, Michal, '' (PhD University of Ghent, 2020)
Beyer, J眉rgen, 'Ein Blick in die K眉che des Pastors Jacob Stolterfoth (1650)', in: Zeitschrift f眉r L眉beckische Geschichte 97 (2017), 133-60 [edition and commentary of a list of gifts to a Lutheran pastor]
Boscani Leoni, Simona, 鈥樷, in: Images Re-vues 2 (2006)
Canobbio, Elisabetta, 鈥, in: idem et al. (eds), Per nos hodie consecrata: Incontri per i Cinquecento anni della consacrazione della chiesa della Beata Vergine Assunta di Morbegno (1506–2006) [Ad Fontes e-book, 2006]
Capp, Bernard, , Past & Present 182 (2004), 55-83 [uses church court disputes as windows into the social dynamics of a Midlands parish]
Colombo, Emanuele Camillo, (New Digital Press, 2018) [on the construction of minority religious identities in early modern southern Italy]
Curzel, Emanuele, 鈥, in: Rete Medievali (2010) [on ecclesiastical organization in the countryside; with information on sources, archives, resources]
Davidson Cragoe, Carol, (BBC History Trail, 2005) [on church architecture on the eve of the Reformation]
鈥 , (BBC History Trail, 2005) [on the impact of the English Reformation]
Davies, Michael, [chronological survey from the earliest times to after Trent]
Della Misericordia, Massimo, : Documento notarile, forme della convivenza, riflessione locale sulla vita associata nella montagna lombarda e nella pianura comasca (secoli XIV–XVI) [Ad Fontes e-book, 2008]
鈥 , - La chiesa della comunit脿 fra devozione e identit脿 locale鈥 [essay on the communal foundation of a 'contrada' chapel, i.e. the Chiesa Santissima Trinit脿 at Teregua, Valtellina/Italy, erected by the inhabitants of a hamlet subject to the parish of S. Nicol貌/Valfurva and the Comune of Bormio in the 1520s and administered by local officials] (e-text, c. 2008)
" , 鈥Pratiche e immagini di carit脿: Una lettura degli affreschi die Pendolasco (secoli XIV-XV)鈥, in BOLLETTINO DELLA SOCIET脌 STORICA VALTELLINESE 67 (2014), 29-58
" , 鈥S. Fedele di Pendolasco tra storia locale e storia generale鈥, BOLLETTINO DELLA SOCIET脌 STORICA VALTELLINESE 67 (2014), 365-373
鈥樷赌Bona compagnia鈥. Le confraternite tra comunit脿 e parrocchia in Valtellina tra il XV e il XVI secolo鈥,in: Storia e Regione 24 (1/2015), 32-61 [ ]
鈥, 鈥Protagonisti sociali, vita religiosa, luoghi di culto nel basso medioevo鈥, in V. Mariotti (ed.), La Valtellina nei secoli. Studi e ricerche archeologiche (Mantova: SAP Societ脿 archeologica Padana, 2015), 81-194
鈥 , 鈥Altari dei morti. Spazio sacro, sepolture e celebrazione degli edificatori fra basso medioevo e prima et脿 moderna (a partire da chiese alpine)鈥, in: L. Arcangeli, G. Chittolini, F. Del Tredici, & E. Rossetti (eds), Famiglie e spazi sacri nella Lombardia del Rinascimento (Milano: Scalpendi-Lombardia nel Rinascimento, 2015), 344-411
..., 鈥Ritual Surveys. Conflict, Articulation, and Composition of Local Societies within the Sacred Sphere in the Lombardy Alps during the Late Middle Ages鈥, in: M. Bellabarba, H. Obermair, & H. Sato (eds), Communities and Conflicts in the Alps from the Late Middle Ages to Early Modernity (Bologna-Berlin: il Mulino - Duncker & Humblot, 2015), 127-150
鈥 , 鈥Le croci astili rinascimentali della Valfurva. Uno sguardo storico鈥. in: BOLLETTINO STORICO ALTA VALTELLINA 21 (2018), 25-60
鈥 , 鈥A proposito de La chiesa di San Martino di Cosio Valtellino: istituzioni ecclesiastiche, vita religiosa e committenza artistica nella complessit脿 storica di un ambito territoriale鈥, in: BOLLETTINO DELLA SOCIET脌 STORICA VALTELLINESE 71 (2018), 265-273
鈥 , 鈥Sotiantes crucem. Processioni e croci processionali nelle Alpi lombarde alla fine del Medioevo鈥, in: B. Figliuolo, R. Di Meglio & A. Ambrosio (eds), Ingenita curiositas. Studi sull鈥橧talia medievale per Giovanni Vitolo (Battipaglia : Laveglia Carlone, 2018), 675-696
鈥, 鈥Le decime dai signori alle comunit脿 nella Lombardia settentrionale (XIV-XVI secolo)鈥, in: Andrea Gamberini & Fabrizio Pagnoni (eds), La signoria rurale nell鈥橧talia del tardo medioevo, 1. Gli spazi economici (Milano/Torino: Pearson Italia, 2019), 129-154
鈥, 鈥Prout alii de comuni. Aristocratici, comunit脿 e la nuova consuetudine delle decime in diocesi di Como (secoli XIV-XVI)鈥, in: Studi di storia medioevale e di diplomatica N.S. III (2019), 81-108
" , 'Il prete del comune e l'ufficio della cura d'anime in diocesi di Como nel tardo medioevo [The priest of the commune and the cure of souls in the late medieval Diocese of Como]', in: F. Zuliani (ed.), Una nuova frontiera al centro dell鈥橢uropa: Le Alpi e la dorsale cattolica (sec. XV-XVII) (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2020), 103-31
Hersche, Peter, '', in: 贵谤眉丑苍别耻锄别颈迟-滨苍蹿辞 6 (2/1995), 151-71
" , '', in: 贵谤眉丑苍别耻锄别颈迟-滨苍蹿辞 9 (1/1998), 52-3
Hiljanen, Mikko, 鈥氣, in: Perichoresis 13 (2/2015), 35-55
Hobbs, Stephen, (research paper)
Julius, H., . Eine begriffsgeschichtliche Untersuchung [Rural Churches and Rural Clergy in the Bishopric of Constance during the early and high Middle Ages. A terminological study] (Diss.phil. University of Constance, 2003)
Kuha, Miia, '', in: Perichoresis 13 (2/2015), 17-33
" , [The observance of holy days in early modern Savo (Eastern Finland)] (Jyv盲skyl盲, 2016) []
K眉min, Beat, 鈥樷, in: K. French, G. Gibbs and B. K眉min (eds), The Parish in English Life 1400-1600 (Manchester: UP, 1997), 15-32 [aspects of a comparative history of the European parish 1400-1600]
" , 鈥樷, in: C. Burgess and E. Duffy (eds), The Parish in Late Medieval England, Harlaxton Medieval Studies XIV (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2006), 95-111 and pl. 1-4 [stresses the long-term social, political and cultural repercussions of late medieval parish life; link provides access to pre-print version]
" (ed.), . Historische Essays zum Gedenkjahr 鈥淕ersau 2014鈥 [Political Freedom and Republican Culture in Old Europe. Historical Essays for the Bicentary of the Restoration of the Parish Republic of Gersau 1814-2014] (Vitznau: Bucher Druckmedien, 2015) []
" , 鈥樷 (December 2022), The Digital Encyclopedia of British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century [online], ISSN 2803-2845 [Accessed on 14/12/2022]
Luxford, Julian, 鈥樷, in: M. Bernstein (ed.), Towards an Art History of the Parish Church 1200-1399 (London: Courtauld, 2021), ch. 1 [a deliberate 'provocation' addressed to those who use the category of 'parish churches' without reflection and contextualization]
Markkola, Pirjo, 鈥樷, in: Perichoresis 13 (2/2015), 3-15
Marshall, Peter, 鈥樷, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 71 (1999), 185-99 [on the problematic relationship between a clergyman and his parishioners; by kind permission of Yorkshire Archaeological Society]
Mercieca, Simon, 'Starting a Family in another Land: Spaniards in Malta 1580s to 1640s', in: Joan Abela et al (eds), Proceedings of History Week 2013 (Malta History Society, 2014), 41-62 []
" , 'Anatomies of Spanish settlers in Malta between 1580 and 1648 : their family stories', in: Symposia Melitensia 11 (2015), 145-170 []
Minnen, Bart, 鈥樷赌溾 [= English summary of contribution to:] Den Heyligen Sant Al in Brabant: De Sint-Martinuskerk van Wezemaal en de cultus van Sint Job 1000-2000 (Averbode, 2011)
Mouthon, Fabrice, (XIIe-XVe si猫cles): une sp茅cificit茅 montagnarde?, in: Reti medievali Rivista VII (2006)/2
Obermair, Hannes, 鈥樷 [Church and Town Origin: The Parish Church of Bolzano in the High Middle Ages], Der Schlern 69 (1995), 449-74
鈥 , 鈥樷, in: Gebhardt M.; Siller, M. (eds), Vigil Raber (+ 1552). Zur 450. Wiederkehr seines Todesjahres. Akten des 4. Symposiums der Sterzinger Osterspiele, Schlern-Schriften, 326 (Innsbruck, 2004), 147-159.
鈥 , 鈥, Concilium medii aevi 7 (G枚ttingen 2004), 193-208 [on the sociology and cultural context of Tyrolean Easter plays]
Orlik, Susan, '', a guest blog for Middling Culture (3 September 2019)
[survey of the parish's significance from the 'Icons of England' website commissioned by the Department of Culture]
Pierre-Louis, Jessica, '' (PhD, Antilles-Guyane, 2015) [thesis on free people of colour in early modern Martinique, based in part on parish registers; with English abstract]
Postles, Dave, '' (Institute of Historical Research: e-seminar in History, 1998)
R盲ih盲, Antti, 鈥樷, in: Perichoresis 13 (2/2015), 57-75
Rantanen, Arja, [Transcribers in the periphery: Parish scribes in Ostrobothnia 1721–1868] (Turku, 2014) []
Roberts, Penny, 鈥樷, in: Cultural and Social History 4 (2007), 297-315 [explores the language and context of peace in a period of intense military conflict, illuminating the social and cultural dimensions for the contested nature of sixteenth-century politics especially in the urban parishes of France]
Roffey, Simon, 'Recording the parish church fabric: Objective and subjective approaches to structural analysis鈥 (Conference paper taken from the 鈥淚nstitute of Field Archaeologists鈥, 2005) []
Saunders, Elaine, '"' (PhD, Open University, 2017)
Scott, Jacob, 鈥樷, National Churches Trust Blog (30 September 2016).[with video samples of photogrammetry, a process whereby a computer uses multiple two-dimensional photographs of an object taken from different angles to create a three-dimensional model]
Simpson, Paula, ' [exploring the scribal activity involved in recording tithe payment in early modern Kent], a blog post for: Middling Culture (1 March 2021)
Untermann, Matthias, 鈥樷, in: Architektur Geschichten: Festschrift f眉r G眉nther Binding (Cologne, 1996), 73-90
Upton, Anthony Arthur, '' (PhD Leicester, 2003)
Varanini, Gian Maria, '鈥 (conference paper, 2002) [a historiographical survey of the terms village-commune-parish for northern Italy]
Wadsworth, Sally, 'The Parish Churches, Cathedral and Corporation of Salisbury: Continuity and Change c. 1480-c. 1650' (PhD thesis University of Birmingham, 2021)
Willis, Jonathan, 鈥樷 (blog post for the many-headed monster, 6 August 2016)
Wise, Ken, 鈥 (2007) [essay on the pattern of illness in Drayton St Leonard, Oxon.]
Parish Histories
Benham, Stephen; Callaghan, Nigel, 鈥 [parish in Mid-Wales with documents from the 17thC]
Davidson Cragoe, Carol, (BBC History Trail, 2002) [on discovering and interpreting local churches]
Geyer, Nobert et al., [History of the Parish of St John the Baptist (Bamberg Diocese)]
Grosjean, Alexia; Murdoch, Steve, (2001) [online history of a parish in North-East Scotland]
Guernsey Museums, [includes a timeline from the 11thC]
Whitwell Local History Group, [online history of a Derbyshire parish]

Churchwardens’ accounts of St Mary’s, Gries, a rural parish in South Tyrol (Northern Italy): Start of income items for 1422, kindly provided by Hannes Obermair of the Stadtarchiv Bozen / Archivio Storico Cittá di Bolzano.