medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Standard works include: George Cook, Mediaeval Chantries and Chantry
Chapels, rev. ed. (London,1963), K. L. Wood-Legh, Perpetual Chantries in
Britain (Cambridge, Eng., 1965) and Alan Kreider, English Chantries:
The Road to Dissolution (Cambridge, MA, 1979).
Best, Megan
John Briggs wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Can anyone point me to sources which would indicate who would serve
> chantries (and particularly chantry chapels) in monastic churches (and
> in particular monastic cathedrals)? I am thinking of England in the
> first instance.
>
> I would have thought that chantry chapels would have been rarer in
> monastic chuches, and would have been served by the monks themselves
> rather than by secular chaplains, with the exception of monastic
> cathedrals.
>
> To my surprise, I found a houses of Augustinian Canons (Anglesey
> Priory, Cambridgeshire) where early chantry agreements (VCH
> Cambridgeshire) specified secular chaplains, who were to be given food
> and lodging in the monastic house!
>
> (This may throw some light on the other vexed question as to whether
> regular canons served their parish churches themselves or put in vicars.)
>
> John Briggs
>
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