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Hi June--
I've found several instances in fifteenth-century English records indicating
nunneries' paying fees to the bishop at a visitation; they were also required,
in many cases, to pay for the food etc. for the bishop and his retinue. The
Lincoln Record Society volumes on visitations done by J. Hamilton Thompson are
one fairly convenient place to look. I've worked with nunnery accounts that
have not been edited; if you're interested in some specific references, mainly
from the PRO, feel free to contact me off-list. Forgive the distasteful
self-promotion in the following reference, but I discuss visitation and its
attendant costs for nunneries in my book Spiritual Economies (University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2001).
All the best,
Nancy Warren
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>Dear Medieval-Religion List Members,
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>Please forgive two (perhaps obvious) questions that are rather unrelated to
>the recent discussion of Abelard, but I find this list one of the best
>resources.
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>The first question:
>In working with the fifteenth century monastic charters for a female house,
>I found a charter in which they paid the bishop a certain amount of cash in
>order to redeem the "visitation money" that they normally owed him.
>According to the charter, in the future the convent would no longer be
>required to render this fee. My question is: was it normal for a monastery
>to pay the bishop such a visitation fee? (I confess I have never heard of
>it before.) If so, does anyone have an idea of sources that might tell me
>more about this practice?
>
>My second question:
>These same charters also discuss the problem of the convent's provost
>alienating its properties. My question here is: did a provost have to be a
>religious (of some shape or form) or could a respectable lay person serve as
>the provost for a female community? Again, any ideas where I might find
>such information would also be very welcome.
>
>Many thanks in advance for your indulgence and insight,
>June Mecham
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