Last month I posted a link to an article about how people conducted themselves in medieval parish churches in Parish life in the past based on Professor Nicholas Orme’s new book Going to Church in Medieval England.
A friend has now drawn my attention to a longer article available at the Mail Online website which gives a more extensive set of examples, drawn from the same book, of what might happen when one went to church - or if one did not go to church - in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. I think it fair to say that they make contemporary complaints about noisy toddlers or chattering adults look rather small beer. That said one should add that writing the past from records of misdeeds is risky both because presumably most people were reasonably well conducted and also because we know about such things because there were procedures to try to correct or prevent them.
The Mail Online article can be read at Book explores what REALLY happened at church in Medieval England
I must say that I look forward to reading the whole book,
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