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From: "Laura Jacobus" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 13 April 2009 22:57
Subject: Re: [SPAM]Re: [M-R] Fw: [M-R] burials in church (and in chapels of
ease)
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> Thanks Jim. Goodall's book has been on my 'to do' list since it came out,
> so this was a helpful nudge! In answer to your question, the Scrovegni
> chapel (which is actually a church dedicated to St. Mary of Charity) was a
> 'prepositura', which I understand to be a private church outside the usual
> parish/diocesan system (though it still received an annual visitation by
> the bishop). Its 'preposito' (translatable as prevost?) headed a
> community of three or four Augustinian canons. Would that count as a
> college of canons? The founder is known to have made three endowments, the
> earliest of which was ten years after the church's foundation, and the
> surviving docs speak of maintaining 'appropriate divine offices and divine
> cult ' but don't say anything specific about memorial prayers. I think
> they were probably chantry endowments anyway, since he'd certainly added
> the apse and built himself a tomb in it by the time of the last endowment.
> The gap between foundation and endowment puzzles me - and that's why I'm
> still not sure whether he built the church with the intention of being
> buried there. To muddy the waters further, the family seems to have
> already had funerary chapels elsewhere in major Paduan churches.
>
> all best
>
> Laura
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> From: "jbugslag" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: 13 April 2009 21:31
> Subject: [SPAM]Re: [M-R] Fw: [M-R] burials in church (and in chapels of
> ease)
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>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>>> > Getting back the the Scrovegnis, there is a theory that the church
>>> > was intended as the founder's 'mausoleum' but I find this hard to
>>> > prove one way or another as he was eventually buried in an apsidal
>>> > chapel that was added to the original church.
>>
>> Laura,
>> Picking up on Tom's comment about chantries, this arrangement emulates
>> that in many
>> English parish churches, where the sanctuary is flanked on one side by a
>> rather large chapel
>> that serves as a chantry, often containing burials (lots of examples in
>> Colvin, Architecture and
>> the Afterlife). Ewelme, in Oxfordshire is a good example. The lords of
>> the manor had the
>> parish church rebuilt with just such a chantry, along with an
>> accompanying almshouse and
>> grammar school, and Alice de la Pole has a splendid tomb just between the
>> chantry and the
>> sanctuary, presumably to take advantage of Masses at either altar.
>> Although this is a 15th-
>> century example, there is a good recent study of it by John Goodall,
>> God's House at Ewelme
>> (Ashgate, 2001).
>> Did the Scrovegni Chapel, by the way, have merely a chaplain or a college
>> of canons?
>> Cheers,
>> Jim
>>
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