• Bernstein, Meg (ed.), Towards an Art History of the Parish Church 1200-1399 (London: Courtauld, 2021) [contents, with open access]

 

• Brown, Nick; Whittingham, Christine (eds), Berkhamsted St Peter Churchwardens’ Accounts, c. 1584-1660, Hertfordshire Record Society vol. XXXVIII (2022) [flyer; publisher information]

 

• Chittolini, Giorgio, La Chiesa lombarda. Ricerche sulla storia ecclesiastica dell'Italia padana (secoli XIV-XV) [The Church in Lombardy: Studies on the Ecclesiastical History of the Po Valley (14-15th centuries)] (Milan: Scalpendi, 2021) [this collection of essays by one of the most influential Italian scholars of local ecclesiastical structures in the late Middle Ages contains studies on urban and rural parishes as well as other churches linked to local communities in the Lombardy region; further information]

 

• Falvey, Heather (ed.). Pre-Reformation Wills from Rickmansworth Parish (1409-1539) (Rickmansworth Historical Society, 2021) [comprising 213 wills and 35 other probate documents relating to this Hertfordshire parish, with an extensive introduction; publisher information; information flyer]

 

• Gibbs, Gary & Hitchman, Valerie (eds), The Churchwardens' Accounts of St Botolph Without Aldersgate [1466-1500] (Leiden: Brill, 2024) [publisher info]

 

• Hersche, Peter, Kirchen als Gemeinschaftswerk: Zu den wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Grundlagen frühneuzeitlichen Sakralbaus [Churches as collective endeavours: On the economic and social foundations of sacred buildings] (Basel: Schwabe, 2022) [with particular reference to the Baroque period in Switzerland]
   
• Kaufman, Lucy, A People’s Reformation: Building the English Church in the Elizabethan Parish (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2022)

 

• Miller Renberg, Lynneth, Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640: Negotiating the Steps of Faith (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2022) [publisher information]

 

• Orlik, Susan, Decorating the Parish Church in Post-Reformation England: Material Culture, Community and Identity in Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, 1560–1640 (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2022) [publisher details & special offer]

 

• Provero, Luigi, Contadini e potere nel medioevo: Secoli IX-XV [Peasants and Power in the Middle Ages: 9-15^th Centuries] (Roma: Carocci, 2020) [publisher information; see esp. ch. 9 on 'praying']

 

• Purdy, Jessica G., 'Parish Libraries and their Readers in Early Modern England, 1558-1709' (PhD thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2021)

   

• Wadsworth, Sally, 'The Parish Churches, Cathedral and Corporation of Salisbury: Continuity and Change c. 1480-c. 1650' (PhD thesis University of Birmingham, 2021)

 

• Zuliani, Federico (ed.), Una nuova frontiera al centro dell’Europa: Le Alpi e la dorsale cattolica (sec. XV-XVII) [A new frontier at Europe's Centre: The Alps and the backbone of Catholicism] (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2020) [includes parish-related essays by M. Della Misericordia, C. di Filippo, F. Del Tredici & E. Canobbio]