Patrick--I don't know of such a study. However, I did do an article a few
years ago comparing the funeral ritual performed at one house of regular
canons (St-Jean-en-Vallee, at Chartres) with that of some other canonial
and monastic houses, and found that the ritual at St-Jean was surprisingly
long and elaborate, more so than some of the monastic houses. If it would
help, the article appeared in Revue Benedictine in 1995.--Megan
>Dear colleagues,
>
>There have been several studies of the customaries of monastic houses in
>the tenth through the twelfth centuries that try, with varying success, to
>reconstruct how the divine office was celebrated, and in particular how
>long each hour and its attendant extra psalms and prayers took, with
>suggestions that Cluniac monks (for example) were in choir 26 hours a day,
>or that (a la Leclercq) different groups of monks from the same monastery
>performed different parts of the office in different monastic chapels
>simultaneously.
>
>My question is - has anyone done similar studies for houses of canons,
>secular or regular, in the same period?
>
>
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>Patrick J. Nugent
>Department of Religion
>Earlham College
>Richmond, Indiana 47374 USA
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