On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, JULIA BARROW wrote:
> The succession from communal praebenda to individual praebendae is
> fairly normal on the continent, but the latter start to emerge it is
> worth noting that it was normal to manage all the prebendal
> estates as one and then make distributions from the income, and it
> was these distributions which were the 'individual' prebends. The
> switchover period varies, but I think Emile Lesne (the best authority
> on the subject) saw it starting in the late 11th c in France. For
> Germany it's more like the 12th c, sometimes late in that period,
> and here it was usually linked with the separation of the chapter
> estates into two blocks, one for the provost (to stop him from
> continuing to control the canons' income) and the other for the
> canons.
>
>
For Poitou-- 3rd qtr of the 10th cent.
Mike
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