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Views from the Parish : churchwardens' accounts c.1500-c.1800 /

This collection of essays raises the profile of churchwardens' accounts, much beloved by many local historians, yet not as well-known as the parish registers and poor law material that also comprised the contents of the celebrated 'parish chest'. Churchwardens' accounts survive f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hitchman, Valerie (Editor ), Foster, Andrew (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Kenneth Fincham
  • Introduction / Andrew Foster and Valerie Hitchman
  • The economic impact of the Reformation on two Canterbury parishes / Sheila Sweetinburgh
  • London parish records and parish studies / texts, contexts, and debates over approapriate materials / Gary G. Gibbs
  • Counting communities, counting cultures : problems and progress with early modern churchwarden's accounts in western England and Wales / Katharine K. Olsen
  • Churchwardens' accounts and the confessional state in Ireland, c. 1660-1750 / Toby Barnard
  • Early modern churchwardens' accounts in Ireland / Evie Monaghan
  • Vermin, churchwardens and support for the parish poor / Christopher Webb
  • The public sphere and the parish pump : finding politics in the churchwardens' accounts, 1639-1643 / John Walter
  • Music and religious identity in Elizabethan London : the value (and limitations of the churchwardens' accounts / Jonathan Willis
  • Afterword : voices from the pews / Joan Dils
  • Appendix I. Canons of the Church of England relating to the work of churchwardens
  • Appendix II. What advice was available to churchwardens on their duties?
  • Appendix III. Labour and building costs in southeast England during the seventeenth century.