Last weekend, we attend the Twentieth Warwick Symposium on Parish Research at the University of Warwick (United Kingdom). Maria Amélia Campos delivered a paper entitled Writing the parish in medieval obituaries. The case of São Bartolomeu de Coimbra (12th to 15th centuries). Accepting the challenge of the Warwick symposium to focus on "Writing the parish", we presented a paper on a medieval obituary, as an example of a manuscript which illustrates a parish that continuously wrote and rewrote itself, scheduled and rescheduled responsibilities of the ecclesiastical community to the lay community and the clergy who lived in the parish, and which commemorated the memory of their ancestors in its church, at the same time projected how parish and parishioners wished to be remembered.
The Warwick Symposium is an annual event organized by My-Parish network – an online platform co-ordinated by Beat Kümin and Joe Chick on behalf of the interdisciplinary Warwick Network for Parish which supports a wide range of initiatives on parish history, art, heritage and culture from the Middle Ages to the present.