Landscape, memory and custom: parish identities<i>c</i>. 1550–1700 ∗

Whyte, Nicola

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“…Postles (in Journal of Historical Geography ) illustrates the multi‐faceted uses and meanings of the church porch: conduit between profane and sacred worlds; place of penance; dispute; legal agreement; charitable relief; and exclusion. Whyte's subtle reconstruction of contemporary understandings of parish boundaries suggests that in an age before comprehensive mapping, parish boundaries were still subject to dispute, and held in tension between legal records and popular memory. Where we envisage invisible lines stretching across the countryside, she argues that contemporaries imagined boundaries ‘as nodal points in the landscape’, as they processed between them.…”

Section: (Iii) 1500–1700 Henry French University Of Exetermentioning

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Section: (Iii) 1500–1700 Henry French University Of Exetermentioning

confidence: 99%

Review of periodical literature published in 2007

Pratt¹,

Schofield²,

French³

et al. 2009

The Economic History Review

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“…Rogation processions had also long served as important rituals of parish demarcation, the limits and boundaries of parish territory being marked, affirmed, and committed to memory through the act of perambulating the perimeter of this territory and 'beating the bounds' with rods. 8 This latter practice gives us the term by which Rogation observances are still bestknown today. This demarcation and performance of a ritual mnemonic involved the actual beating of marker points-usually stones, trees, or posts-and occasionally the beating of junior members of the processing congregation at particular points to keep younger generations mindful of territorial limits.…”

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Perambulation and Performance in Early Modern Festive Culture

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2021

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This essay examines the performative aspect of observances and festivities associated with Rogationtide, or ‘perambulation day’, in early modern England. After considering pre- and post-Reformation Rogationtide traditions, it identifies how these occasions were an opportunity for communities and parishes to reflect upon and consolidate local boundaries and identities. It also explores how documentary evidence for perambulations broadens critical understandings of the mimetic, musical, and festive activities recorded in the Records of Early English Drama (REED) project, posing methodological questions about using performance as well as mimesis as a characteristic determining a record’s inclusion in a REED collection.

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“… see Brown, K M et al, 2007-9; Clarke & Claydon 2010; Coster & Spicer 2005;Cowan 1961;1967; Halvorson & Spierling (eds) 2008;Hindle 2008; Mitchell & Christie, 1896; Peterkin, 1838;Spicer 2005; forthcoming; Thomson, 1839-45; Thomson, T & Innes, 1814-75;Todd 2002; Walsham 2011;Whyte 2007. …”

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Modern Scotland: Archaeology, the Modern past and the Modern present

2012

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The main recommendations of the panel report can be summarised under five key headings:  HUMANITY The Panel recommends recognition that research in this field should be geared towards the development of critical understandings of self and society in the modern world. Archaeological research into the modern past should be ambitious in seeking to contribute to understanding of the major social, economic and environmental developments through which the modern world came into being. Modern-world archaeology can add significantly to knowledge of Scotland’s historical relationships with the rest of the British Isles, Europe and the wider world. Archaeology offers a new perspective on what it has meant to be a modern person and a member of modern society, inhabiting a modern world.  MATERIALITY The Panel recommends approaches to research which focus on the materiality of the recent past (i.e. the character of relationships between people and their material world). Archaeology’s contribution to understandings of the modern world lies in its ability to situate, humanise and contextualise broader historical developments. Archaeological research can provide new insights into the modern past by investigating historical trends not as abstract phenomena but as changes to real lives, affecting different localities in different ways. Archaeology can take a long-term perspective on major modern developments, researching their ‘prehistory’ (which often extends back into the Middle Ages) and their material legacy in the present. Archaeology can humanise and contextualise long-term processes and global connections by working outwards from individual life stories, developing biographies of individual artefacts and buildings and evidencing the reciprocity of people, things, places and landscapes. The modern person and modern social relationships were formed in and through material environments and, to understand modern humanity, it is crucial that we understand humanity’s material relationships in the modern world.  PERSPECTIVE The Panel recommends the development, realisation and promotion of work which takes a critical perspective on the present from a deeper understanding of the recent past. Research into the modern past provides a critical perspective on the present, uncovering the origins of our current ways of life and of relating to each other and to the world around us. It is important that this relevance is acknowledged, understood, developed and mobilised to connect past, present and future. The material approach of archaeology can enhance understanding, challenge assumptions and develop new and alternative histories. Modern Scotland: Archaeology, the Modern past and the Modern present vi Archaeology can evidence varied experience of social, environmental and economic change in the past. It can consider questions of local distinctiveness and global homogeneity in complex and nuanced ways. It can reveal the hidden histories of those whose ways of life diverged from the historical mainstream. Archaeology can challenge simplistic, essentialist understandings of the recent Scottish past, providing insights into the historical character and interaction of Scottish, British and other identities and ideologies.  COLLABORATION The Panel recommends the development of integrated and collaborative research practices. Perhaps above all other periods of the past, the modern past is a field of enquiry where there is great potential benefit in collaboration between different specialist sectors within archaeology, between different disciplines, between Scottish-based researchers and researchers elsewhere in the world and between professionals and the public. The Panel advocates the development of new ways of working involving integrated and collaborative investigation of the modern past. Extending beyond previous modes of inter-disciplinary practice, these new approaches should involve active engagement between different interests developing collaborative responses to common questions and problems.  REFLECTION The Panel recommends that a reflexive approach is taken to the archaeology of the modern past, requiring research into the nature of academic, professional and public engagements with the modern past and the development of new reflexive modes of practice. Archaeology investigates the past but it does so from its position in the present. Research should develop a greater understanding of modern-period archaeology as a scholarly pursuit and social practice in the present. Research should provide insights into the ways in which the modern past is presented and represented in particular contexts. Work is required to better evidence popular understandings of and engagements with the modern past and to understand the politics of the recent past, particularly its material aspect. Research should seek to advance knowledge and understanding of the moral and ethical viewpoints held by professionals and members of the public in relation to the archaeology of the recent past. There is a need to critically review public engagement practices in modern-world archaeology and develop new modes of public-professional collaboration and to generate practices through which archaeology can make positive interventions in the world. And there is a need to embed processes of ethical reflection and beneficial action into archaeological practice relating to the modern past.

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Landscape, memory and custom: parish identitiesc. 1550–1700 ∗

Cited by 14 publications

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Review of periodical literature published in 2007

Review of periodical literature published in 2007

Perambulation and Performance in Early Modern Festive Culture

Modern Scotland: Archaeology, the Modern past and the Modern present

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