Views from the Parish : churchwardens' accounts c.1500-c.1800 / edited by Valerie Hitchman and Andrew Foster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hitchman, Valerie, editor.

Foster, Andrew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church officers.

England--Church history.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

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

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8667-X

OCLC:

930995513