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The People of the Parish. Community Life in a Late Medieval English Diocese
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The Catholic Historical Review
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October 1, 2001
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The People of the Parish. Community Life in a Late Medieval English Diocese. By Katherine L. French. [The Middle Ages Series.] (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. Pp. ix, 316. $59.95.)
In one way or another, this book has been in the making for over a decade, but it was well worth waiting for. Building on her doctoral work, Katherine French offers a coherent, well-written, and stimulating survey of parish life in the diocese of Bath and Wells, covering the county of Somerset in England's West Country. Parochial activities, to summarize the main thesis, reflected distinct communal identities composed of a complex blend of secular and religious components. Far from being ...
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