On the Feast of the Annunciation, let me ask a very profane question:
when I read contracts between orderers and artists, I thought about the
subsistence of medieval clergy. Besides fixed revenues coming from
benefices - the common practice as far as I know - is it usual to pay a
clergyman for special tasks extra? E. g. Santiago de Compostela 1167,
where king Fernando II made a contract with Magister Matheus, listing a
detailed salary for the care of the building - is it necessary if he was
a clergyman?
Marcus Frings
University of Technology Darmstadt
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