medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> I'm not convinced - to my mind, a collegiate church has canons, and a chapel
> has chaplains :-)
>
> But if they were confused if the Middle Ages, I don't suppose we shall sort
> it out now...
John,
Perhaps "confused" is not so accurate a word as "combined". Many noble
residences, I am sure, had chapels that never had colleges of canons founded at
them. They were just chapels. On the other hand, increasingly in the later Middle
Ages, collegiate foundations were made by wealthy individuals for the good of their
own soul, in a manner similar to the foundations of monasteries back in the 12th
century. Not all of them, by any means, were founded at palace chapels, and most
were independent institutions. If one was wealthy and powerful enough, there was
no impediment to combining the two functions. One might consider it as a sort of
soteriological streamlining.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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