medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Jon Cannon wrote:
>
> To my mind any group of secular clerics that are organized as a single
> community is a 'college'. The members of this community could be quite
> lowly figures, and its function could vary hugely: Knowles et al list
> hundreds of collegiate churches, only a few of which had titles as
> grand as 'canon' or 'prebendary'. Some were small groupings of clerks
> 'governed' by a single priest, devoted to chantry masses or alms;
> others took all the priests of a large urban parish and put them
> under a single 'umbrella'. The large cathedral sub-colleges of Vicars
> and Chantry Priests were by definition lowlier than canons.
A 'Prebendary' has a prebend :-)
But the point at issue was that both St George's, Windsor and St Stephen's,
Westminster had canons (colleges founded by Edward III) - so I suggested
that they counted as collegiate churches.
John Briggs
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