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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
December 2017
Print publication year:
2017
Online ISBN:
9781316661765
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316661765
Subjects:
British History 1066-1450, History, Religion, Church History
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (107)
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Book description

The construction of a church was undoubtedly one of the most demanding events to take place in the life of a medieval parish. It required a huge outlay of time, money and labour, and often a new organisational structure to oversee design and management. Who took control and who provided the financing was deeply shaped by local patterns in wealth, authority and institutional development - from small villages with little formal government to settlements with highly unequal populations. This all took place during a period of great economic and social change as communities managed the impact of the Black Death, the end of serfdom and the slump of the mid-fifteenth century. This original and authoritative study provides an account of how economic change, local politics and architecture combined in late-medieval England. It will be of interest to researchers of medieval, socio-economic and art history.

Reviews

‘Church Building and Society in the Later Middle Ages is an engaging and significant study that sets church building - its administration and its financing - in later medieval England within the broader context of the changing economy and society of the period.’

Phillipp R. Schofield Source: The American Historical Review

‘This book is an excellent addition to the large corpus of material on the late medieval parish. It provides a holistic insight into the economic, social, and political complexities of parish church building.’

Judy Bailey Source: Parergon

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