1st Edition
Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London Communities and Reforms
By Gary G Gibbs
Copyright 2019
216 Pages
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Routledge
212 Pages
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Routledge
212 Pages
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Routledge
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Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London presents linked microhistorical studies of five London parishes, using their own parish records to reconstruct their individual operations, religious practices, and societies. The parish was a foundational institution in Tudor London. Every layperson inhabited one and they interacted with their neighbors in a variety of parochial... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1: Allhallows London Wall, 1455–1536: Fundraising and Collaboration; Chapter 2: Saint Michael Cornhill: Foundational Transformations, ca. 1450–1610; Chapter 3: Saint. Stephen Coleman Street: Living on the Margins; Chapter 4: Saint Botolph Aldgate: Accounting for Reform, 1547-1554; Chapter 5: Saint Peter Westcheap: Crossing the Divide; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Biography
Gary G. Gibbs is Professor of History at Roanoke College, USA, and Book Review Editor for The Sixteenth Century Journal. He has written essays on London’s parishes, Mary I, Machyn’s diary, and Arthur Golding’s translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
