| Contents |
Foreword / Kenneth Fincham -- Introduction / Andrew Foster and Valerie Hitchman -- The economic impact of the Reformation on two Canterbury parishes / Sheila Sweetinburgh -- London parish records and parish studies / texts, contexts, and debates over approapriate materials / Gary G. Gibbs -- Counting communities, counting cultures : problems and progress with early modern churchwarden's accounts in western England and Wales / Katharine K. Olsen -- Churchwardens' accounts and the confessional state in Ireland, c. 1660-1750 / Toby Barnard -- Early modern churchwardens' accounts in Ireland / Evie Monaghan -- Vermin, churchwardens and support for the parish poor / Christopher Webb -- The public sphere and the parish pump : finding politics in the churchwardens' accounts, 1639-1643 / John Walter -- Music and religious identity in Elizabethan London : the value (and limitations of the churchwardens' accounts / Jonathan Willis -- Afterword : voices from the pews / Joan Dils -- Appendix I. Canons of the Church of England relating to the work of churchwardens -- Appendix II. What advice was available to churchwardens on their duties? -- Appendix III. Labour and building costs in southeast England during the seventeenth century. |
