| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 for only a minority of parishes of England, Wales and Ireland, meaning they are 'treasure trove' where they do exist. They afford an invaluable source for information about the maintenance of church fabric, furnishings, liturgy, music, and the nature of parish worship and community life in general. We are fortunate to p |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 21, 2015) |
| Subject |
Church officers -- England -- History
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RELIGION -- Christian Church -- Administration.
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Church officers
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| SUBJECT |
England -- Church history.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043263
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| Subject |
England
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hitchman, Valerie, editor.
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Foster, Andrew, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781443886673 |
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144388667X |
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