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I have a particular interest in the history of the parish, particularly its lay officers and social aspects, from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. My thesis on the development of the late medieval parish to about 1560 was published as "The Shaping of a Community" in 1996 and I've co-edited a collection of essays (The Parish in English Life, 1997), in which my contribution sketched similarities and differences compared to Continental Europe. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%