Friday 7 May 2021
5.45 pm - Welcome & Introduction
6 pm - KEYNOTE ADDRESS
KEITH SNELL (Emeritus Professor of Rural and Cultural History, Leicester), 'Parishes, pandemics and paths to take: post-Covid historical options'
7 - 8.30 pm - PANEL 1: Local Politics of Poor Relief
ANTHEA JONES (Cheltenham), ‘A grass-roots examination of the annals of the poor in one parish and one year’
STEVEN KING (Nottingham Trent) - 'Remembering the parish and its ways: Memory as currency in the negotiation of poor relief'
SAMANTHA WILLIAMS (Cambridge) - 'The "unruly infected"? Authority, order and the impact of plague on everyday life in Cambridge, 1625'
GABI WÜTHRICH (Zürich) - 'From local to global: Public education and poor relief strategy during an early modern famine'
Saturday 8 May 2021
8.45 - 10.30 am - PANEL 2: Strangers & Locals
MICHELA BERTI (Pesaro) & EMILIE CORSWAREM (Liège): 'Music and sense of belonging. Liturgical, musical and ceremonial practices of National Churches of Rome in the early modern period'
GERMÁN JIMÉNEZ MONTES (Groningen): 'Foreign identity and categories of belonging in sixteenth-century Seville'
TAMARA SCHEER (Vienna/Rome): 'Arbitrariness of exclusion and inclusion: The German Roman-Catholic parish in Rome and its politics of belonging (1859-1915)'
HANNAH REEVE (Newcastle): 'Migration and belonging in the long eighteenth century'
MAIK SCHMERBAUCH (Berlin/Frankfurt a.M.): 'German military parishes as an important part of Catholic military welfare and public defense policy'
10.45 am - 12.15 pm - PANEL 3: Negotiating Community
ALICE BLACKWOOD (Oxford): 'Residency and representation in the politics of the English parish, 1540-1660'
ROBERT W. DANIEL (Warwick): 'Parish poor and church labour in early seventeenth-century Wandsworth'
PRISCA M. GREENHOW (Leicester): 'Who "truly belonged" to the parish of Mattishall in Norfolk?'
KATHARINA SIMON (Marburg): 'In or out? - Negotiating belonging in early modern petitions'
12.15 - 1.15 pm - Lunch Break
1.15 - 2.45 pm - PANEL 4: Patronage & Paternalism
ALAN MACDONALD (Dundee): 'Funding the cure of souls in Scotland's parishes c.1100-c.1620: Appropriation, Reformation and revocation'
CRISTÓVÃO MATA (Coimbra): 'Seigneurial patronage and ecclesiastical prosopography: The padroado privilege of the House of Aveiro (16-18th Centuries)'
EMMA MARSHALL (York): 'The parochial politics of gentry healthcare practices in early modern England'
LINDA ROBERTSON (Dundee): 'The post-Restoration exercise of power through ecclesiastical patronage in western Sussex'
3.00 - 4.15 pm - PANEL 5: People & Politics
SARAH BOOTE POWELL (Warwick): 'Petticoat parishioners: Female agency and parish polls in 1830s Coventry and Northampton'
MARY O'CONNOR (Oxford): 'Parish vestries and popular politics in early nineteenth-century England'
MARIA TAUBER (Warwick): 'Mary Clarke’s “parliament of women” – Representing the MP in the parish'
4.30 - 6 pm - PANEL 6: Parish Governance
TOM BERVOETS (Brussel): 'Conflicting interests: The legal struggle for parish governance in rural Brabant, 1715-85'
SPIKE GIBBS (LSE): 'State ‘incorporation’, parish and manor: Churchwardens and manorial officeholders at Worfield, 1327-1648'
RALPH HOULBROOKE (Reading): 'Trouble in Swallowfield'
STEPHEN PIERPONT (UCL) & PETER M. SOLAR (Bruxelles/Oxford): 'The poor rate, the land tax and the evolution of local tax administration during the seventeenth century'
To participate without giving a paper, advance registration is required. Please send your email address & a brief note on parish-related interests to: my-parish@warwick.ac.uk by 1 May 2021. We will then provide you with a joining link shortly before the event, which will take place virtually on Blackboard Collaborate (a platform accessible via all major browsers without the need to download an app or programme).