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Dear Colleagues, Though not a medievalist, I would like to offer what I have
read or heard on the subject. A basilica is a Roman style building with a
center clerestory for lighting, supported by collumns and flanked by aisles.
It is backed by an apse which was the place for the seat of the Roman official
who presided in it. It was appropriated by the Church for worship, with the
altar in the place of the seat of the magistrate and sometimes included seats
for Church dignitaries. St. Apollinare in Ravenna is a classic, early
example.
I also understand, from what I have been told by friends in Italy that a
"basilica", in the later sense used by the Church, could be any church,
regardless of size or style of architecture, where a pope had said a Mass.
A cathedral is the seat of a bishopric, or the church of the _cathedra_.
Yrs, c.t. ault
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>Dear Christopher,
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>Sorry to pile more on top of Jim's questions, but what
>has basilical status have to do with "cathedralism"?
>The word "basilica" has, as far as I know, two
>meanings: a church built to house relics; an edifice
>in a certain architectural style: nave, perhaps with
>side aisles, with a rounded apse at one end. If
>there's a rule that a cathedral may not also be a
>basilica, I don't know of it.
>MG
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>> Christopher,
>> All this about collegiate churches and monasteries
>> is fascinating,
>> but I'm still unclear what you mean here. Most of
>> your explanation
>> involves royal and/or noble patronage, which could,
>> so far as I know,
>> be directed towards either sort of institution.
>> But is it not the
>> case that a collegiate church is served by a college
>> of canons, and a
>> monastery by monks? Granted, I've always been
>> struck by the physical
>> similarities between houses of Augustinian Canons
>> and Benedictine
>> Monks, and once again, I've never been very sure
>> what the practical
>> differences between these two institutions might
>> have been. But you
>> seem to be claiming that a single institution could
>> have both canons
>> and monks? Or am I wrong?
>> Cheers,
>> Jim
>>
>>
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