medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
In a message dated 22/05/2006 17:03:53 GMT Daylight Time,
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<<I'm going to stick my neck out and say that a collegiate foundation
wouldn't
be Augustinian pre-Conquest. If the canons are prebendaries and living in
houses, that rather sounds as if they are secular canons rather than Regular
Canons (Augustinians).>>
You are almost certainly right. There is certainly nothing to indicate that
it was /originally/ Augustinian, and virtually nothing to say it /ever/ was.
The church (minster) was there pre Domesday, and probably long before that,
as a Celtic (if I may use the word) Christian centre. Once the Norman
college was established, there were secular canons (though the resident ones
weren't the prebendaries, who as Leland had it "almost be nether ther"); but I
did find one reference to secular Augustinian canons--at
_http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15716b.htm_ (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15716b.htm) (Catholic
Encyclopedia, sv Kingdom of Würtemberg)--which left me very confused on the
topic. I have as a result not mentioned the Augustinians in my draft,
although they feature in previous writings on the Deanery, and have indeed been
referred to by others in describing some aspects of these carvings.
I think this is a case of someone getting the wrong end of the stick way
back when, and the mistake gaining a credibility as the centuries pass...
Susan
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