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I'm trying to minimize the length of the parenthesized locations found in church-related citations. While I understand the need to unambiguously indicate the location of the authoring body, I note that the EE examples don't often seem to show the related country. Is this just the result of an assumption about the scope of a project being known from the context of a citation?
History-Hunter, Typically,…
History-Hunter,
Typically, the text of our narrative indicates the country in which we are working. Adding the country to every citation, church or otherwise, is pointless and burdensome. On the other hand, if we are writing about early settlers of Sandwich, Massachusetts, and all our references to Sandwich refer to that Massachusetts village—but then we introduce a new person, John Whipperdoodle, and we say he was twenty-nine when he was elected reeve of Sandwich and for that age we cite his baptismal record from St. Peter's Church, Sandwich, Kent, England—then clarity would call for a full place identification.