medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Ms B M Cook wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
> Can anyone who is clued up in medieaval economics tell me how
> prebends were funded, or rather tell me if I am remembering correctly
> or have got the whole thing screwed up.
>
> As I believe, prebends were incomes provided for Cathedral Canons who
> lived in houses and not a quasi monastic common life.
Prebends seem to have originated as gifts of land or churches from laymen
(or the bishop, as at Salisbury), but with some right of nomination
reserved. It made sense to appoint as a canon someone with local ties who
would be the resident rector and receive the tithes and income from glebe
directly. Where there were estates of manors or land, again a canon could be
appointed to live locally and manage the estates. But other estates were
farmed, and the income reserved to a central fund for the maintenance of the
resident canons.
This is touched on in Diana E. Greenway's "1091, St Osmund and the
Constitution of the Cathedral" pp.1-9 in Medieval Art and Architecture at
Salisbury Cathedral (British Archaeological Association Conference
Transactions XVII, 1996).
John Briggs
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