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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The late medieval parish was a topic which excited but little interest some twenty years ago when I embarked on research. Recent debate on the Reformation however has greatly stimulated the need to know more about the state of the church before the changes in the sixteenth century; it should also be noted that students have found the area to be of considerable interest in its own right. As a result the beliefs practices and devotional lives of the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century laity now attract increasing attention. In the circumstances I count myself lucky that I have lived with the parish and parishioners of All Saints’ Bristol for so long. I was by no means the first to discover the archive surviving for All Saints’ late medieval parishioners but I would be the first to admit that I am profoundly thankful for the wealth of detail and insight which it has afforded both during my doctoral research and since. Examples from the archive and the wider understanding made possible by such plentiful materials have done much to formulate my impressions and conclusions. My thesis benefited greatly; so too has my published work. Recent forays into the archives and histories of late medieval London’s parishes have served only to confirm what I already suspected: that the All Saints’ archive has a variety and breadth which render it quite exceptional. Hence my return. (LL)