The Early Modern Parish at 66th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America 2020
Country: USA
City: Philadelphia
Abstr. due: 01.08.2019
Dates: 17.06.20 — 20.06.20
Area Of Sciences: Arts; Cultural science;
Organizing comittee e-mail: soldenbu@tulane.edu
Organizers: Renaissance Society of America
The parish was a fundamental unit of social organization in the early modern period. It was a significant administrative unit for local governance as well as a site for the resolution of disputes. It was a focal point for religious practice and sometimes arguments over right religion. A given parish might encourage community or inspire resentment among parishioners. Work by Katherine L. French, Beat Kümin, Peter Lake, Natalie Mears, Alec Ryrie, and Robert Whiting (to name only a very few scholars) all attest to the continuing relevance of the parish in early modern studies. I am seeking papers on the pre- and/or early modern parish from any relevant discipline for a proposed session (or possibly multiple sessions) at the Renaissance Society of America, 2020 in Philadelphia, PA.
Topics might include (but are by no means limited to):
• community and/or conflict within a particular parish
• gender dynamics within a particular parish (or parishes)
• the parish as an instrument of bureaucratic control (or site of subversion)
• ritual within a particular parish
• the literary world of a parish
• parish funeral monuments as literature
• class dynamics in a specific parish
• disputes over religion at the parish level
• the role of the laity in the parish
• parish guilds
• microhistorical work on a particular parish
• change from medieval to early modern within the parish
Conference Web-Site: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/05/31/the-early-modern-parish-rsa-2020