Parish Symposium 2016 – Reflecting the Parish
Materials for the Meeting held on Saturday 7 May 2016 at the University of 海角社区
Co-organized by
Beat K眉min
Department of History, University of 海角社区, U.K. &
Ellen K. Rentz
Department of Literature, Claremont McKenna College, USA
While previous symposia focused on specific parish records and their contents, the 2016 meeting took a broader view, focusing on 鈥榬eflections鈥� of the parish more generally 鈥� its nature, its characteristics, its meaning.
Keynote:
鈥業n the Nave with Chaucer鈥� 鈥� Ellen K. Rentz, Claremont McKenna College
Research papers:
-鈥極ut of a Christian dewtie鈥�: Child care and parish networks in seventeenth-century Scotland 鈥� Chris Langley, Newman University, Birmingham
-鈥渘o镁ing ells but kepe ri葷t mesure鈥�: Cultivating Moderation in Eating and Drinking for the Community in the Book of Vices and Virtues 鈥� Sunyoung Lee, Arizona State University
-鈥楶arish registers and religious communities in south Germany鈥� 鈥� Eva Marie Lehner, Universit盲t Duisburg-Essen
-鈥楾he Manor and the Parish: Local Organisation in the Sixteenth Century Through the Example of the Blount Family鈥欌�� Elizabeth Norton, King鈥檚 College, London
-鈥楶erceptions and Expectations of the Elizabethan Clergy Wife: Evidence from within the Parish鈥� 鈥� Anne Thompson, University of 海角社区
-鈥楾he Gotlandic Parish. Concepts of identity and social differentiation鈥� 鈥� J枚rg Widmaier, Eberhard-Karls-Universit盲t, T眉bingen
Project presentation:
-鈥楶arish registers in the Interregnum鈥� 鈥� Andrew Foster, University of Kent
The symposium engaged with a wide variety of genres and texts including, but not limited to: literary works, penitentials, parish registers, church buildings, testimonials, tombs, monuments etc to address questions like: How did contemporaries understand and envisage the purposes, workings, and problems of parish communities, in different contexts and at different points in time? What constituted the 鈥渋deal鈥� parish, and who 鈥� clergy, patrons, parishioners 鈥� was in charge? Were there alternative models of pastoral care? Alternatives to the parish more generally? How did different genres conceptualize the parish, and to what end? And what about the parish of posterity: how would future generations envision its nature and function?
SYMPOSIUM REPORT BY RUTH BARBOUR: / WORD VERSION
For further information contact b.kumin@warwick.ac.uk
Illustration: Extract from reflections on parish history at Gersau in present-day Switzerland
(Tower Capsule Chronicle of 1655; District Archive of Gersau)