The People of the Parish: Community Life in a Late Medieval English Diocese by Katherine L. French

The People of the Parish: Community Life in a Late Medieval English Diocese

Katherine L. French

320 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 ad...

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