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> Subject: More on Mendicants near Gates: (was beggars and saints'
> charity)Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:28:06 -0800
> From: pierre.mackay <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Diana Wright <[log in to unmask]>
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> John Dillon's notes are a valuable corrective to the assumed
> preference
> for gates. The Dominican sites in Greece are interesting in this
> regard. We can't place the Dominican priory in Thebes, but the
> priory
> in Negropont survives as the seat of the metropolitan of Chalkis,
> (now
> named for Ayia Paraskevi). St. Mary and St Dominic of Negropont
> was set
> just south of the geographic center of Negropont, and quite distant
> from
> all the gates. As Dillon notes, available space is most likely to
> be
> the principal reason for the siting. Strong archaeological
> evidence,
> including dendrochronology, supports the notice in the acta of the
> Chapter general of 1249, and places this church in 1250. There
> seems to
> have been a convent of the Augustinian Temple of the Lord (ex-
> Jerusalem)
> at the north end of town, so close to the gate that it gave its
> name to
> the Porta del Tempio, so there is one support for the idea of
> location
> at gates. The Franciscan priory is outside the walls altogether,
> in the
> northern borgo.
>
> Santa Sophia of Andravida (1264) was authorised for Glarentza in
> 1256,
> but William II Villehardouin made the Dominicans an offer that a
> mendicant order would find it hard to resist, and it was placed in
> Andravida, a town with no walls and no gates. Again it was the
> availability of land that governed the location, and we have no
> sense of
> where the center of the mediaeval town may have been.
>
> San Pietro Martiro of Candia (authorized in 1289) was down by the
> sea
> wall but not near a gate. The Dominicans had been consolidating a
> site
> out of bequests and land swaps for a couple of decades before the
> priory
> was authorized, and one assumes that San Pietro is on that site.
> The
> original bequest probably governs the location.
>
> San Niccolo of Canea was authorized in 1294, but seems not to have
> been
> built until a bit later. It is near the wall, but not
> significantly
> near a gate. Canea had made a special petition to get a priory
> authorized, so it is quite likely that the town had already
> selected the
> site. Even by the end of the thirteenth century, the Dominicans
> were
> not likely to be in a position to be choosy about location.
>
> I note that St. Eustorgius in Milan is about as close to a gate as
> you
> can get, but St Niccolo and St. Dominic of Bologna is not. Both of
> them are "flagship" priories of the Dominican order, and
> established
> fairly early.
>
> Pierre MacKay
> Dept. of Classics, University of Washington.
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>
>
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