I missed the original enquiry, but there is a paper on churching in the English
middle ages by Gail Gibson in Barbara Hanawalt, ed., Bodies and Disciplines ..._
As I'm at home, I can't give a better reference.
D.
>
> The length of time between birth and churching in England was also
> about a month, at least by the time the Book of Common Prayer came into
> use, and my impression is that this was just a continuation of the
> former custom. David Cressy published an article about churching a
> couple of years or so ago in _Past and Present_, and also deals with the
> topic in his _Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion and the
> Life-cycle in Tudor and Stuart England_ (1997).
>
> Sharon Arnoult
> History Dept.
> SWTSU
>
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