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Article: Guilds and the Parish Community in Late Medieval East Anglia, c. 1470-1550.(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2002
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 North American Conference on British Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Ken Farnhill. Guilds and the Parish Community in Late Medieval East Anglia, c. 1470-1550. York: York Medieval Press; dist. by Boydell and Brewer, Rochester, N. Y. 2001. Pp. ix, 237. $90.00. ISBN 1-903153-05-0.
In this carefully researched volume on East Anglian guilds in the years before the Henrician Reformation, Ken Farnhill joins the developing debate over the relationship between parishes and guilds in late medieval Europe. As the impressive bibliography reveals, Farnhill has plumbed the rich East Anglian archival sources on parishes, religious fraternities, and manorial communities as well as the secondary literature on the functions, purposes, and structures ...