medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Laura Jacobus <[log in to unmask]>
> Getting back the the Scrovegnis, there is a theory that the church was
intended as the founder's 'mausoleum'
"the family's necropolis" is the usual way that suchlike institutions are
referred to (assuming that that is what's going on here), at least in the
literature related to the French examples.
>but I find this hard to prove one way or another as he was eventually buried
in an apsidal chapel that was added to the original church.
not at all unusual, for a family necropolis.
Any Port in a Storm, after all.
at least, that would be the case in cc. 11-12 (if not before and after).
founders' (and their family members') burial in churches --be they regular
abbeys or secular collegials-- which they founded or significantly endowed or
(at least) heavily patronized was so widespread (in France at least) as to be
quite commonplace and, i should think, nearly impossible to stamp out (why
should anyone wish to stamp the practice out?).
i'm sure that it was just the expected Norm for suchlike institutions.
exceptions would be for special cases --like Chartres cathedral (conditions
for which Jim can certainly explain better than i)-- churches which served a
much, much wider and more universal clientele.
*were* there tombs in those side chapels of St. Mary's of Paris?
c
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