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...So were the mitred abbots a specifically English breed? I'd always
imagined this was some special status that only a pope could confer, and that
it was equally possible anywhere in western Christendom.
Interesting...
Jon
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> Thank you Peter
for elucidating that for me.
>
> I think Paul Chandler's point
says more comprehensively than I could what is
> probably the answer to
the original query.
>
> Rosemary
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval
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> Rosemary Hayes-Milligan and Andrew
Milligan wrote:
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medieval religion and culture
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> > Or was it the same as
being a 'mitred abbot' in England, which made the
> > abbot the
equivalent of a bishop among the lords spiritual? I cannot now
> >
remember whether the English mitred abbots were necessarily the same
>
> (there was certainly some overlap) as those who had papal exemptions from
> > episcopal jurisdiction.
> >
> > Rosemary
Hayes
>
> They were distinct: some mired abbots were not in
charge of exempt
> houses, and some heads of exempt houses were not
mitred. They are both
> cases of evolving custom which elude later
canonists' attempts to impose
> theoretical tidiness on them.
>
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