The Role of the English Parishioner, 1100–1500

Emma Mason

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The Role of the English Parishioner, 1100–1500

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Lecturer in Medieval History, Birkbeck College, University of London

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The present-day parishioner, constantly urged to take a more positive role in the life of the local church community, might be surprised to reflect that this onus of responsibility is a comparatively recent development, and that throughout most of the Middle Ages, on the rare occasions when parishioners as such were mentioned at all in the ecclesiastical records, it was virtually in the capacity of property, and often troublesome property at that.

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Information: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , January 1976 , pp. 17 - 29

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