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GENERAL

Aers, David. Community, Gender, and Individual Identity: English Writing 1360-1430. London: Routledge, 1988.

Bainbridge, Virginia R., Gilds in the Medieval Countryside: Social and Religious Change in Cambridgeshire, c. 1350-1558. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1996.

Barber, Richard, The Pastons: A Family in the Wars of the Roses (Boydell & Brewer: Cambridge).

Bennett, Joan M. Women in the Medieval English Countryside. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Bennett, Joan M. “The Village Ale-Wife: Women and Brewing in Fourteenth-Century England.” In Women and Work in Preindustrial Europe, ed. Barbara Hanawalt.. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 20-36.

Cullum, P. H. "'And hir name was Charite': Charitable Giving by and for Women in Later Medieval Yorkshire." In Woman is a Worthy Wight: Women in English Society, c. 1200-1500, ed. P.J. P. Goldberg. Stroud: Allan Sutton, 182-211.

Delany, Sheila. Impolitic Bodies: Poetry, Saints, and Society in Fifteenth- Century England: The Work of Osbern Bokenham. New York: Oxford, 1998.

Frantzen, Alan and D. Moffat, eds. Work and Culture in the Middle Ages. Glasgow: Cruithne, 1994. 

Goldberg, P.J. P. Women, Work and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire c. 1300-1520. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Green, Alice. S. Town Life in the Fifteenth-Century. New York: Macmillan, 1984.

Hanawalt, Barbara. The Ties that Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Hanawalt, Barbara. Women and Work in Preindustrial Europe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.

Hilton, R. H. Class Conflict and the Crisis of Feudalism: Essays in Medieval Social History. London: Hambledon, 1985.

Howell, Martha. Women, Production and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Howell, Martha. “Citizenship and Gender: Women’s Political Status in Northern Medieval Cities.” In Women and Power in the Middle Ages, ed. M. Kowaleski. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988, 37-60.

Hughes, Jonathan. Pastors and Visionaries: Religion and Secular Life in Late Medieval Yorkshire. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1988.

James, Mervyn. “Ritual, Drama, and the Social Body in the Late Medieval English Town.” Past and Present 98 (1983): 3-29.

Maddern, Philippa. Violence and Social Order: East Anglia 1422-1442. New York: Clarendon Press, 1992.

Platt, Colin. The English Medieval Town. London: Sacker and Warburg, 1976.

Rubin, Miri. Charity and Community in Medieval Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 

Sargent, Michael, ed.  De Cella in Seculum: Religious and Secular Life and Devotion in Late Medieval England. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 1989.

Swanson, Robert Norman, Catholic England: Faith, Religion, and Observance before the Reformation trans. and annotated by Robert Norman Swanson, New Yorf: Manchester University Press, 1993. Description: 299 p.; Manchester Medieval Sources Series.

Taylor, William,  The Antiquities of King’s Lynn, London, 1844.

Thrupp, Sylvia. The Merchant Class of Medieval London, 1300-1500. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,  1948/1989.

Wood, Margaret. The English Mediaeval House. New York: Harper & Row,  1965/1983.

Zita, Charles. “Hosts, Processions and Pilgrimages in Fifteenth-Century Germany.” Past and Present 118 (1988): 25-64.

EAST ANGLIA
Barber, Malcolm. East Anglian and Other Studies Presented to Barbara Dodwell. Reading: Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, Reading University, 1985. Physical Details: vii,141 p. : 15 illustrations. Series: Reading medieval studies, 11. Summary: RILA number, title and author for the article in RILA's scope is as follows: Lady Chapel at Ely: its place in the English Decorated style, by Nicola COLDSTREAM (961). (RILA, GBR).

Beresford, M. W., John G. Hurst, Michael Aston, David Austin, and Christopher Dyer. The Rural Settlements of Medieval England: Studies Dedicated to Maurice Beresford and John Hurst. Oxford, UK; Cambridge, MA, USA: Blackwell, 1989.

Douglas, David Charles. The Social Structure of Medieval East Anglia. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927.

Gibson, Gail McMurray. The Theater of Devotion: East Anglian Drama and Society in the Late Middle Ages. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Lloyd, David W. Historic Towns of East Anglia. London: V. Gollancz, 1989. Description: 208 p.; 143 ill. (33 col.), maps. Source of data: BHA, Bibliography of the history of art.

Virgoe, Roger, Caroline M. Barron, Carole Rawcliffe, Joel T. Rosenthal. East Anglian Society and the Political Community of Late Medieval England. Norwich?: Centre of East Anglian Studies, University of East Anglia, 1997.

KING’S LYNN
Beloe, E.M. , F.S.A., Our Borough: Our Churches: King’s Lynn, Norfolk (Cambridge, 1899).

Clarke, Helen. “"English East Coast Ports in the Middle Ages: an Historical and Archaeological Survey."”Lübecker Schriften zur Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte Frankfurt am Main 7 (1983): 69-75, 4 fig. Summary: Du 11 à la fin du 16 s.: notamment le port de King's Lynn dans le Norfolk. Liste des ports soit fondés avant le 11 s., soit fondés au 11 s. et plus tard. Notes: Source of data: Répertoire d'art et d'archéologie (RAA)

Harrod, H., Esq. F.S.A., Report on the Deeds & Records of the Borough of King’s Lynn (King’s Lynn, 1874).

Hillen, Henry J.,  A History of the Borough of King’s Lynn, 2 vols. (Norwich, 1907).

James, Elizabeth M. “"An Inscribed Stone from the Lynn Blackfriars’ Site."” Norfolk Archaeology 38 (1982): 213-14. Physical Details: 1 illustration. Summary: Fragmentary inscribed tombstone (14th c.) from the site of the Dominican friary, King's Lynn. Notes: Source of data: RILA, International repertory of the literature of art. References: RILA, 13 1158 (1987)

Kent, Peter. “"King’s Lynn."” Fort 13 (1985): 49-60. Physical Details: 6 illus., plans, elevations; maps. Summary: Traces the history of the town's defences, 13th-20th cs. (RILA, GBR). Notes: Source of data

Mackerell, Benjamin,  The History and Antiquities of the Flourishing Corporation of King’s-Lynn (London: E. Cave, 1738)a: RILA, International repertory of the literature of art. References: RILA, 14 5319 (1988)

Owen, Dorothy Mary, ed. The Making of King's Lynn : A Documentary. London: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1984. Description 513 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm. Series Records of social and economic history ; new ser., 9

Rutledge, E., "King’s Lynn and Great Yarmouth, Two Thirteenth-century Surveys."” Norfolk Archaeology Norwich. 1978, v.37, no.1, 92-114. Summary: Etude d'une description de King's Lynn datée ici de 1279, et d'une autre de Yarmouth de 1286: occupation et parcelles. Notes: Source of data: Répertoire d'art et d'archéologie (RAA)

KENT
Ford, Judy. The Community of the Parish in Late Medieval Kent. Dissertation Fordham University. Advisor: Maryanne Kowaleski. 1994. Pages: 00367 Source: DAI, 55, no. 11A, (1994): 3609 Abstract: Throughout medieval England, the parish held a central place in the religion of the laity. In their parish churches, lay people not only followed the calendar through sequenced liturgies, but they also celebrated those rituals which marked the important events in their lives, such as birth and death. Parochial clergy served as the primary communicators of orthodox doctrine and practice. The fabric of the parish church, which contained altars, statues and stained glass, in many places was the only edifice to display public art, and in almost all places was the foremost structure devoted to pious uses. The lay members of medieval parishes not only shared a great deal, they also constituted a distinctive type of community.
The basis of community action was the joint responsibility lay parishioners held for the maintenance of the nave and ornaments of their church. A wide variety of practices were developed to raise funds to support this duty. Supervision of these activities was undertaken by officers chosen by the lay community, of which the most important were churchwardens.
This study of parishes in four settlements in the county of Kent finds both similarities and differences in the way their communities functioned. The parishes shared a social conservatism, tending to mirror the composition of the secular community in which they were located. For example, women and the poor, who were almost universally excluded from civic office, found their participation in the parish circumscribed as well. Nonetheless, the late-medieval parishioners who formed the core of these communities appear to have viewed service to the parish as possessing genuine religious merit.
The settlements under study differed in the strength of their community spirit. Some conditions seemed to have generally weakened attachment to the parish, including difficulty in traveling to the church, a small or frequently absent clerical staff and a relatively poor population. Parochial affiliation appears to have been strong in areas with a relatively high population density, a small ratio of clergy to laity, and a generally prosperous population. Furthermore, strength of the parish community was an important factor influencing the transition through the English Reformation.

LINCOLNSHIRE
Owen, Dorothy Mary. Church and Society in Medieval Lincoln: History of Lincolnshire Committee for the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 1981. Description: xxii, 170 p., 9 p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm. , Series: History of Lincolnshire ; v. 5

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