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Dear Christopher!
Thank you for these wonderful links about Notre-Dame.
As regards Abelard as a "canon" of Notre-Dame, this interpretation derives
from Heloise's words, quoted by Abelard in HC: "te clericum atque
canonicum..." Abelard *perhaps* had acquired a canonry at Sens before 1111
(Geoffrey of Courlon, Chronicon Senonense: magister Petrus Abaulart,
canonicus primo maioris ecclesie Senonensis...), but he had never been a
canon, i. e. minor or major prebendary, of Notre-Dame, as well as a teacher
of the "cathedral school" of Notre-Dame, which was first founded as
corporate institution in about 1127 (Stephen of Senlis). Abelard's chair
near Saint-Christophe on the Parvis Notre-Dame (outside the cloister),
former chair of William of Champeaux, which he took over in 1113 , had
primarily been linked to the archdeaconry of Paris and to a donation for
poor students. In his function as master of philosophy and theology, he
*perhaps* ranked as "concanonicus" or "canonicus liberalis" of the chapter
of Notre-Dame. This was not a "beneficium" but a title of honour, which
could also been attributed to women (see Haildis the Rich and others in
Molinier, Notre-Dame obituary). Last year, I have written a major piece on
this (in German):
http://www.abaelard.de/abaelard/040206intro.htm
Kind regards
W. Robl
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