Outputs (2)

Remembering the Dead: Postmortem Guild Membership in Late Medieval England (2024)
Journal Article
Harkes, R. (2024). Remembering the Dead: Postmortem Guild Membership in Late Medieval England. Journal of British Studies, 63(2), 323–348. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.109

As in many areas of pre-Reformation devotion, the dead were a conspicuous presence in English religious guilds of all sizes. Members joined in the expectation that the guild would say prayers and perform masses for their souls after death, and previo... Read More about Remembering the Dead: Postmortem Guild Membership in Late Medieval England.

Sociological approaches and the urban history of medieval England: research trends and new perspectives (2017–2022) (2022)
Journal Article
Harkes, R. C. (2022). Sociological approaches and the urban history of medieval England: research trends and new perspectives (2017–2022). Urban History, 49(3), 648-656. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926822000293

In 2011, when Jelle Haemers looked back on a decade's worth of Ph.D. theses on urban centres in the medieval Low Countries, he identified three main trends in scholarship: the emphasis on individuals, rather than institutions; the increasing use of n... Read More about Sociological approaches and the urban history of medieval England: research trends and new perspectives (2017–2022).