Gary G. Gibbs - Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London: Communities and Reforms

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 activities and events. Each chapter in this book explores a different parish in a different part of the city, revealing their unique cultures, societies, and economies against the backdrop of presiding themes and developments of the age. Through detailed microhistorical analysis, patterns of collective behavior, parishioner relationships, and parish leadership are highlighted, providing a new perspective on the period. The reader is drawn into the local neighborhoods and able to trace how people living in the Tudor era experienced the tumultuous changes of their time.

This book is ideal for scholars and students of early modern history, microhistory, parish studies, the history of the English Reformation, and those with an interest in administrative history of the late medieval and early modern periods.

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 Londons parishes, Mary I, Machyns diary, and Arthur Goldings translation of Ovids Metamorphoses.

Microhistories

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Five Parishes in late Medieval and Tudor London: Communities and Reforms, by Gary G. Gibbs

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Names: Gibbs, Gary G., author.

Title: Five parishes in late medieval and Tudor London : communities and reforms / Gary G. Gibbs.

Description: 1 [edition]. | New York : Taylor & Francis, 2019. |

Series: Microhistories | Includes bibliographical references and index. |

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019007829 (print) | LCCN 2019017312 (ebook) |

ISBN 9780429026232 (eBook) | ISBN 9780367134020 (hardback : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: London (England)--Church history--16th century. |

London (England)--Church history--17th century.

Classification: LCC BR764 (ebook) | LCC BR764 .G53 2019 (print) |

DDC 274.21/05--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019007829

ISBN: 978-0-367-13402-0 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-02623-2 (ebk)

While on sabbatical between December 2013 and August 2014, I shut myself in my home office and I wrote. That January and February were unusually cold in western Virginia, many of us learned what an Artic vortex was, and so my memories center upon concentrated periods of writing interrupted by breaks to walk dogs in the cold weatherLeo, an elderly Maltese, and Holbein, an energetic Miniature Schnauzer. We then ate treats and retreated to the office. Usually there was silence, but sometime an oldies station played at low volume. Later, as the weather became warmer, the heat went off and the windows were opened, but the routine remained the same as I progressed from an introduction, to the various chapters, and finally a conclusion. This period of writing with my two friends became one of the most wonderful experiences of my academic life.

Of course, such an event could not have occurred without a great deal of preparationyears of preparation during which I was helped by more people than I am able to count. I found my first churchwardens account (a published transcription) when I was ca. 22 and a student at the University of Florida, studying with C. John Sommerville, and I arrived at the University of Virginia at the age of 25 with plans to study those sources further, with the late Martin Havran, while also taking coursework with H.C.E. Midelfort, Carlos Eire, and Duane Osheim. I made my first trip to Londons Guildhall Library when I was 27. And, thanks to support from the Faculty Development Committee at Roanoke College, I have made several trips to London to gather archival evidence, encountering many helpful and kind archivists and members of staff not only at the Guildhall, but also at the London Metropolitan Archives, Lambeth Palace Library, The Drapers Hall, The Goldsmiths Hall, The Salters Hall, and The National Archives at Kew. Closer to home, the library staff at the Fintel Library, Roanoke College, especially Jeffrey Martin (ILL) and Piper Cumbo (Reference) have solved many a last-minute, self-inflicted emergency.

In 1994, I was on a panel at the first International Medieval Congress at Leeds with Katherine French and Beat Kmin, an event which led to the publication of a collection of essays, and which also began two professional relationships which have never ceased. The publication also provided me the opportunity to launch numerous endeavors with others in the profession who are also interested in parish records.