Parish Texts
Snape, Michael, The Church of England in Industrialising Society. The Lancashire Parish of Whalley in the Eighteenth Century (Boydell and Brewer, 2003).
[Review by Mark Smith in Reviews in History 1/4/05]
'Pre-Reformation Churchwardens' Accounts and Parish Government': Debate in The English Historical Review
[Essay by Clive Burgess, in English Historical Review cxvii (2002), 306-32]
[Response by Beat Kümin, ibid. cxix (2004), 87-99]
[Rejoinder by Clive Burgess, ibid., 100-116]
[Contribution (specifically on seasonal festivity) by Ronald Hutton, ibid. cxx (2005), 66-79]
Barnwell, Paul, ‘The Use of the Church: Blisworth, Northamptonshire, on the Eve of the Reformation’, Ecclesiology Today 35 (2005), 43-62
" , 'Low side windows: ventilating a 170-year old controversy', Ecclesiology Today 36 (2006), 49-76
Boscani Leoni, Simona, 'Les images abîmées entre iconoclasme, pratiques religieuses et rituels magiques', in: Images Re-vues 2 (2006)
Canobbio, Elisabetta, ‘Chiese, clero e fedeli nella Valtellina del Quattrocento’
, 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]
Davidson Cragoe, Carol, 'The Early Church: Towards Gothic Splendour' (BBC History Trail, 2005) [on church architecture on the eve of the Reformation]
" , 'Towards the Floodgates of Religious Reform' (BBC History Trail, 2005) [on the impact of the English Reformation]
" , ‘The custom of the English Church: parish church maintenance in England before 1300’, Journal of Medieval History 36 (2010), 20-38
Davies, Michael, A Short History of the Roman Mass [chronological survey from the earliest times to after Trent]
Della Misericordia, Massimo, Figure di comunità: 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]
" , 'Le origini - La chiesa della comunità fra devozione e identità locale' [essay on the communal foundation of a 'contrada' chapel, i.e. the Chiesa Santissima Trinità at Teregua, Valtellina/Italy, erected by the inhabitants of a hamlet subject to the parish of S. Nicolò/Valfurva and the Comune of Bormio in the 1520s and administered by local officials] (e-text, c. 2008)
Hobbs, Stephen, Travel alms payments in the Hartland Church and Harton Borough Accounts 1612-1706 (research paper)
Julius, H., Landkirchen und Landklerus im Bistum Konstanz während des frühen und hohen Mittelalters. 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)
Kümin, Beat, 'The English parish in a European perspective', in: K. French, G. Gibbs and B. Kümin (eds), The Parish in English Life 1400-1600 (Manchester: UP, 1997), 15-32 [aspects of a comparative history of the European parish 1400-1600]
Mouthon, Fabrice, Circonscriptions religieuses, territoire et communautés dans les Alpes médiévales (XIIe-XVe siècles): une spécificité montagnarde?, in: Reti medievali Rivista VII (2006)/2
Obermair, Hannes, 'Kirche und Stadtentstehung. Die Pfarrkirche Bozen im Hochmittelalter (11.–13. Jahrhundert)' [Church and Town Origin: The Parish Church of Bolzano in the High Middle Ages], Der Schlern 69 (1995), 449-74
" , 'Die soziale Bühne der Stadt. Vigil Raber und der Spielbetrieb in Bozen um 1500 – eine sozialhistorische Skizze', 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.
" , 'The Social Stages of the City. Vigil Raber and Performance Direction in Bozen/Bolzano (Northern Italy) - a Socio-historical Outline', Concilium medii aevi 7 (Göttingen 2004), 193-208 [on the sociology and cultural context of Tyrolean Easter plays]
Postles, Dave, 'Some ambiguities of late medieval religion in England' (Institute of Historical Research: e-seminar in History, 1998)
Roffey, Simon, 'Recording the parish church fabric: Objective and subjective approaches to structural analysis' (Conference paper taken from the "Institute of Field Archaeologists", 2005) [MS Word-version]
'The parish church: From their Saxon roots to today' [survey of the parish's significance from the 'Icons of England' website commissioned by the Department of Culture]
Varanini, Gian Maria, 'Spunti per una discussione del rapporto fra ricerca medievistica recente e storia delle comunità di villagio' (conference paper, 2002) [a historiographical survey of the terms village-commune-parish for northern Italy]
Wise, Ken, 'The health of a village' (2007) [essay on the pattern of illness in Drayton St Leonard, Oxon.]
Benham, Stephen; Callaghan, Nigel, 'Llangynfelyn: A Parish History' [parish in Mid-Wales with documents from the 17thC]
Davidson Cragoe, Carol, Kirtling Parish Church (BBC History Trail, 2002) [on discovering and interpreting local churches]
Geyer, Nobert et al., 'St Johannes der Täufer, Schlüsselfeld: Pfarreigeschichte' [History of the Parish of St John the Baptist (Bamberg Diocese)]
Grosjean, Alexia; Murdoch, Steve, Belhelvie - A Millenium of History (2001) [online history of a parish in North-East Scotland]
Guernsey Museums, 'Guernsey Parish History' [includes a timeline from the 11thC]
Whitwell Local History Group, 'Whitwell - A Parish History' [online history of a Derbyshire parish]
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Baroque interior of the Parish Church of
Aulzhausen in Bavaria (rebuilt 1734) [source]
