Download or read book A History of Anne Arundel County in Maryland written by Elihu Samuel Riley and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The People of the Parish written by Katherine L. French and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The parish, the lowest level of hierarchy in the medieval church, was the shared responsibility of the laity and the clergy. Most Christians were baptized, went to confession, were married, and were buried in the parish church or churchyard; in addition, business, legal settlements, sociability, and entertainment brought people to the church, uniting secular and sacred concerns. In The People of the Parish, Katherine L. French contends that late medieval religion was participatory and flexible, promoting different kinds of spiritual and material involvement. The rich parish records of the small diocese of Bath and Wells include wills, court records, and detailed accounts by lay churchwardens of everyday parish activities. They reveal the differences between parishes within a single diocese that cannot be attributed to regional variation. By using these records show to the range and diversity of late medieval parish life, and a Christianity vibrant enough to accommodate differences in status, wealth, gender, and local priorities, French refines our understanding of lay attitudes toward Christianity in the two centuries before the Reformation.
Download or read book The Good Women of the Parish written by Katherine L. French and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was immense social and economic upheaval between the Black Death and the English Reformation, and contemporary writers often blamed this upheaval on immorality, singling out women's behavior for particular censure. Late medieval moral treatises and sermons increasingly connected good behavior for women with Christianity, and their failure to conform to sin. Katherine L. French argues, however, that medieval laywomen both coped with the chaotic changes following the plague and justified their own changing behavior by participating in local religion. Through active engagement in the parish church, the basic unit of public worship, women promoted and validated their own interests and responsibilities. Scholarship on medieval women's religious experiences has focused primarily on elite women, nuns, and mystics who either were literate enough to leave written records of their religious ideas and behavior or had access to literate men who did this for them. Most women, however, were not literate, were not members of religious orders, and did not have private confessors. As The Good Women of the Parish shows, the great majority of women practiced their religion in a parish church. By looking at women's contributions to parish maintenance, the ways they shaped the liturgy and church seating arrangements, and their increasing opportunities for collective action in all-women's groups, the book argues that gendered behavior was central to parish life and that women's parish activities gave them increasing visibility and even, on occasion, authority. In the face of demands for silence, modesty, and passivity, women of every social status used religious practices as an important source of self-expression, creativity, and agency.
Download or read book Collections Historical Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce from the Earliest Accounts written by Adam Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce written by Adam Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collections Historical Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire and Its Borders written by Powys-land Club and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the English Baptists Including an Investigation of the History of Baptism in England To which are Prefixed Testimonies of Ancient Writers in Favour of Adult Baptism Etc written by Joseph Ivimey and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collections Historical and Archeological Relating to Montgomeryshire and Its Borders written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the English Baptists The principal events of the history of the Protestant dissenters during the reign of Geo III and of the Baptist churches in London with notices of the principal churches in the country during the same period written by Joseph Ivimey and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tracing Your Ancestors Parish Records written by Stuart A. Raymond and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parish records are essential sources for family and local historians, and Stuart Raymond's handbook is an invaluable guide to them. He explores and explains the fascinating and varied historical and personal information they contain. His is the first thoroughgoing survey of these resources to be published for over three decades. In a concise, easy-to-follow text he describes where these important records can be found and demonstrates how they can be used. Records relating to the poor laws, apprentices, the church, tithes, enclosures and charities are all covered. The emphasis throughout is on understanding their original purpose and on revealing how relevant they are for researchers today. Compelling insights into individual lives and communities in the past can be gleaned from them, and they are especially useful when they are combined with other major sources, such as the census.Your Ancestors' Parish Records is an excellent introduction to this key area of family and local history research it is a book that all family and local historians should have on their shelf.
Download or read book Beauties of England and Wales written by Britton and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The City and the Parish Drama in York and Beyond written by Alexandra F. Johnston and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected Studies CS1062 This volume brings together a selection of the major articles of Alexandra F. Johnston, which along with similar volumes by the late David Mills, Peter Meredith and Meg Twycross makes up a set of "Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies". Alexandra Johnston, the founding director of the research project, Records of Early English Drama, is one of these four key scholars whose work has had a profound influence on the study of medieval and early modern English drama. This collection of essays focuses especially on the York plays: on the Mercers’ documents that initiated the project itself; on the theology and christology of the plays; on the relationship between the plays and contemporary administrative bodies, both civic and national; and on the performance of the York plays in modern times. A further group of articles considers documentary evidence for the wide range of drama and mimetic ceremony in the Midlands and the West Country, reinforcing our understanding that these events took place predominately on a local parish level. The collection is rounded out with a survey of the immense changes that our reading of early English drama have undergone over the past half century.
Download or read book American Quarterly Church Review and Ecclesiastical Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book HISTORY OF THE PREEN FAMILY VOLUME FOUR BRIDGNORTH GROUP 1640 1911 written by Susan Laflin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The PREEN FAMILY HISTORY STUDY GROUP exists to research the family. It organises an Annual Reunion and is preparing a History of the Preen Family in four volumes. DNA analysis has shown that the Preen Family is divided into three groups, each with a common ancestor in the seventeenth century. Volume One will discuss the early history of the family and then Volumes Two to Four will each cover one of the three groups. This book is Volume Four describing the Bridgnorth Group. The Bridgnorth Group are descended from Frank and Fanny Preen who lived in Mill Street Bridgnorth in the 1640s and the book traces their descendants as they spread throughout the West Midlands and later throughout the world. It ends with the families who appeared in the 1911 census.
Download or read book A Review of England and Wales in which the Historical Events of Every Town Village and Place are Briefly Expressed written by J. Gronow and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
