medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On 12/16/11, John Briggs wrote:
> On 16/12/2011 19:04, Christopher Crockett wrote:
> >
> >i seem to have read into Meg's query what i was most familiar with from the
> >French charters from the Chartrain.
>
> Forget charters (which tend to be early medieval) - the corrody tends to be late medieval. There's a bit about it in A. Hamilton Thompson's "English Clergy and Their Organization in the Later Middle Ages" (the comparative material in the book is drawn widely.)
>
In Latin there are a variety of spellings for this term, whose base meanings seem to be "household stock" and, from that, "maintenance allowance". The latter meaning occurs in a variety of contexts other than the ecclesiastical one we've been discussing here. See Latham et al., _Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources_, s.v. _corredium_. This a lengthy entry, full of examples.
The spelling _corrodium_ seems to be peculiarly insular; all examples of it in the also lengthy entry in Favre's Du Cange, s.v. _conredium_ are from English sources (the entry itself is at vol. 2, cols. 511-512; instances of _corrodium_ are on 511, starting at the bottom of the middle column). _Corrodarius_ occurs on the first column of col. 512 in the sense of "someone who is given a living allowance" and (probably contrary to actual use) is glossed as an equivalent (not said but perhaps understood: "but only in this respect") of _Praebendarius_.
I have not found in the dictionaries a Latin form _corrodianus_.
Best,
John Dillon
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