medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
You may also be interested to know that Sarah Foot's book on minsters
is about to come out. She also pointed me to the proceedings of
Harlaxton 11 (1994, publ. 1998) which contains rival views.
Julian Haseldine.
On Fri, 21 May 2004 12:38:18 -0400 Katherine French
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> usually i believe having responsibility for the cure of souls of those
> living within a specific area (this would go with the job of being a
> canon). many in fact shared their church space with the parishioners, so in
> effect they are both monastic churches and parish churches at the same
> time. this arrangement is not terribly uncommon. there are lots of parish
> churches still designated minster in the late middle ages, although whether
> they still had their canons isn't clear to me--ie. Ilminster, Somerset. In
> Dorset, Sherborne Minster the canons and parishioners fought about the
> arrangement. according to Leland's Itinerary someone shot a flaming arrow
> into the top of the roof. the resulting fire burned the church and melted
> the bells. reportedly there are flaming arrows in some of the roof bosses,
> but i can't vouch for that personally. there are also churches that are
> both monastic and parochial, but not minsters--ie. Dunster, in also
> Somerset, had Benedictines.
> Kit French
> At 05:00 PM 5/21/2004 +0100, you wrote:
> >medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> >
> >Christopher Crockett wrote:
>> why do we call Durham a "cathedral" but York a "minster" anyway?
> > >
>
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