medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
It is nice to know things were just as complicated in England
as in Iceland, even without local lords! For the record, and in case anyone knows of parallels,
there is an Icelandic regulation of unknown provenance
(perhaps 11th c. , first century after formal conversion) which
allows the builder of a church to prohibit burial within the graveyard until
he, or a family member, is the first person to be buried there. (Oviously what we´re
talking about here is a form of Eigenkirche.)
My follow-up question concerns episcopal statutes on these matters.
As I recall there is a work by Cheney entitled something like
"Statutes and Synods of the English Church", and volumes have
recently been published concerning individual English dioceses.
My question is, is there anything comparable from "France" or
"Germany" (realizing that these terms are not really suitable
for the Middle Ages!) for the 11th-15th centuries?
Thanks again to John and all contributors to this discussion!
Meg
"I don't think it's the status of the building as such, as its relationship
to the parish church. Take, for example, the private chapel at The Vyne in
Hampshire (then Sherborne Cowdray in the parish of Sherborne St John - just
to confuse you further, the parish church is St Andrew!). Here there were
restrictions on the type of services: baptisms but not marriages, I believe.
The chaplain was to sit at the lord of the manor's table, but to be paid by
the Rector. The chapel was re-endowed as a chantry in the fourteenth
century: the chaplain was then to be responsible for the furnishings, but
the lord of the manor was to maintain the fabric of both the nave and the
chancel."
John Briggs
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