medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I think you really ought to read A. Hamilton Thompson's Ford Lectures,
"The English clergy and their organization in the later Middle Ages"
(1947). Also his Raleigh Lecture "Diocesan Organision in the Middle
Ages: Archdeacons and Rural Deans", Proceedings of the British Academy,
Vol, 29, pp. 3-44 (1943).
Jon and I have disagreed on the past over whether St John's, Chester had
(as it claimed) the status of a cathedral in the later Middle Ages - it
had a Dean and Chapter. The quasi-sub-cathedrals of Ripon, Beverley and
Southwell all had chapters.
John Briggs
On 23/11/2013 12:09, Jane Stemp Wickenden wrote:
>
> Thanks Jon - especially for reminding me about the vicars choral - and John.
>
>
> I have done my best to research my facts and I know most of the
> establishable dates - the Fasti, for example, gave me the names of the deans
> from Ivo to Richard de Spaxton to Alexander Medicus across the period
> 1140-1213.
>
> Although Wells was a cathedral as of 909, the Norman Bishop John moved the
> bishop's seat to Bath in 1090, at which point Wells lost its cathedral
> status. Only after 1245 did it once more become the cathedral of the
> diocese, now called Bath & Wells.
>
> My problem is that while I know all this happened, I find it hard to
> envisage what this *meant* in terms of how it affected the workings of the
> church and chapter, especially with an absentee bishop. Did an archdeacon
> outrank a dean, for example?
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