Call for Papers - Urban Parish Communit... (Coimbra, 2-3 December) We call for research papers that draw upon sociological analyses of secular and ecclesiastical communities, their discourses and the interactions between them— both in terms of cooperation and collaboration, and disputingly and competingly — in order to characterise the parish in its temporal and spiritual dimensions. Proposals may cover longer-term examinations or focus more narrowly on a period and place in Western and Eastern Christianity. Comparative approaches and contextualised micro-history are especially welcome in that they allow for further, wider comparison. As a starting point, we suggest four research strands, which should not be taken separately but rather as intersecting plans, with the common goal of contributing to understanding the parish as an institutional, judicial and fiscal reality across medieval Christendom, through gaining a better knowledge of the men and women that were part of it. 1. Secular and regular ecclesiastical communities in and around the parish. 2. Households and urban lineages: strategies of social assertion and the preservation of memory. 3. Urban social groups and professions: association, representation and solidarity. 4. Foreigners, religious minorities and disreputable occupations: dynamics of integration and exclusion. Proposal length: up to 500 words CV length: up to two pages Deadline: 30 April 2021 Send proposals to: rimsmeeting@gmail.com