Parish churches [ Institutions ]
… for centuries, one serving Catholics (at the front), the other the Reformed community. Picture by the author. Résumé Parish churches have provided key places of sociability from the Middle Ages to the present. Particularly in premodern … Dissent Hierarchy Politics Religion Towns ‘It is difficult for today’s historians to appreciate the importance of the parish in the life of the early modern world’. 1 1 . Raymond Gillespie (ed.), The Vestry Records of the Parish of St John the Evangelist, Dublin, 1595-1658 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002), p. 9. Parishes can be defined as …
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