medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Christopher,
From your last message, it seems clear that a distinction must be
made between houses of secular and regular canons. Whatever their
differences (still not clear to me), there does appear to be many
similarities between houses of regular canons and monks. I suspect,
however, that knowledgeable people in the Middle Ages, just as
knowledgeable people on this list now, both used and understood
certain institutional terms in a relatively fuzzy popular manner.
> now, while the canons of the Cathedral of Chartres never refer to the
> institution to which they belong as a "monastery," the canons of the *abbey*
> of Saint John ("Saint-Jean-en-Vallée") *do* use that word to describe
> themselves.
According to Jacques Lacour, Chartres. Eglises et chapelles
(Chartres, 1985), pp. 47ff, the "chapter" of Saint-Jean-en-Vallee was
founded in c.1028. Bishop Ivo transformed it into an "abbey" of
"regular canons" in 1099. On the inhabitants, he is nicely
ambivalent, referring to them as "religieux".
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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