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Parish Churches in the Early Modern World (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Parish Churches in the Early Modern World (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Across Europe, the parish church has stood for centuries at the
centre of local communities; it was the focal point of its
religious life, the rituals performed there marked the stages of
life from the cradle to the grave. Nonetheless the church itself
artistically and architecturally stood apart from the parish
community. It was often the largest and only stone-built building
in a village; it was legally distinct being subject to canon law,
as well as consecrated for the celebration of religious rites. The
buildings associated with the "cure of souls" were sacred sites or
holy places, where humanity interacted with the divine. In spite of
the importance of the parish church, these buildings have generally
not received the same attention from historians as non-parochial
places of worship. This collection of essays redresses this balance
and reflects on the parish church across a number of confessions -
Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed and Anti-Trinitarian - during the
early modern period. Rather than providing a series of case studies
of individual buildings, each essay looks at the evolution of
parish churches in response to religious reform as well as
confessional change and upheaval. They examine aspects of their
design and construction; furnishings and material culture; liturgy
and the use of the parish church. While these essays range widely
across Europe, the volume also considers how religious provision
and the parish church were translated into a global context with
colonial and commercial expansion in the Americas and Asia. This
interdisciplinary volume seeks to identify what was distinctive
about the parish church for the congregations that gathered in them
for worship and for communities across the early modern world.
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