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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture ---- Graham Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > John [Freeman] was being carefully punctilious in describing Bromyard > and Ledbury as portionary churches, but his apology for using the term > 'collegiate' is not really necessary because 'portionality' (if one can > use that word) is one of the markers of pre-Conquest minsters, which in > the main, as we know, were collegiate. I don't think we do know that. A-S minsters certainly had multiple clergy (even multiple priests), but they dodn't seem to have usually had a college which itself possessed the advowson, which was the feature of later medieval colleges erected from parish churches. (If you were a patron, you could turn your parish church into a college by endowing it with something - the rectory - which you didn't own!) The feature of the 'portionality' was the multiple nature of the advowson, which could presumably be in several hands. John Briggs ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html