April 2014
Community Conflict and Collective Memory in the Late Medieval Parish Church
by Kristi Woodward Bain (Northwestern University)
“What role does conflict play in the formation of community identity? And how do powerful, even violent, moments sustain that identity throughout centuries of change and transformation? Questions such as these galvanize this present study, which undertakes to illustrate the vibrancy of parish life in late medieval England by examining fifteenth-century monastic-parochial disputes, that is, when parishioners fought against monks with whom they shared their church buildings.”
Read Community Conflict and Collective Memory in the Late Medieval Parish Church.
Read the invited responses by:
John Craig (Simon Fraser University); and
Katherine French (University of Michigan).
Image: Wymondham Abbey, Wikimedia Commons