RT Article
T1 The Role of the English Parishioner, 1100–1500
JF The journal of ecclesiastical history
VO 27
IS 1
SP 17
OP 29
A1 Mason, Emma
LA English
YR 1976
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1784742929
AB The present-day parishioner, constantly urged to take a more positive role in the life of the local church community, might be surprised to reflect that this onus of responsibility is a comparatively recent development, and that throughout most of the Middle Ages, on the rare occasions when parishioners as such were mentioned at all in the ecclesiastical records, it was virtually in the capacity of property, and often troublesome property at that.
DO 10.1017/S0022046900060553