medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
If it was a cathedral priory, like Norwich, Winchester, Bath, etc, the
bishop might have been seen more as 'their' bishop than if it was merely a
monastery within a diocese?
Rosemary Hayes
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Subject: Re: [M-R] Of bones and things and monks and bishops
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Since the topic of abbots, priors, monasteries, etc., has come up, may I
> ask: was it usual for monks to boil their bishop in their crypt? Aren't
> monasteries independent of the bishop? Shouldn't they have been boiling
> their abbot (or if they were humble, their prior) instead?
>
> Bernadette Filotas
>
>
>>
>> And "Relics", by Pip Vaughan-Hughes, which deals with the same trade and
>> has
>> a deeply appropriate denouement. And of course the four titles by Sylvian
>> Hamilton, whose first ("The Bone Pedlar") begins: In the crypt of the
>> monastery church the monks were boiling their bishop.
>>
>> It's the kind of occupation that is going to hold a horrid fascination
>> for
>> the modern mind, after all.
>>
>> Pat
>>
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