This wide-ranging book, first published in 1994, traces the development of popular culture in England from the Iron Age to the eighteenth century.

A 'grass roots' cultural history of the English parish from the earliest times to Queen Victoria.

In the sixteenth century, the people of England witnessed the physical transformation of their most valued buildings: their parish churches. This is the first e

The parish, the lowest level of hierarchy in the medieval church, was the shared responsibility of the laity and the clergy. Most Christians were baptized, went

The first comprehensive survey of the religious, social and cultural life of late medieval and Reformation parishes covers town and country, northern as well as