medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
The solution adopted in the TASC datasets is to use 'chapel' (lower-case 'c') for chapels within buildings and 'Chapel' (upper-case 'C') for those which are free-standing. Suffixes indicate what type of chapel is involved - e.g. cemetery, domestic, castle, hermitage, bridge, and so on.
Hope this helps.
Graham
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Subject: Re: [M-R] chapels and oratories
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I'm afraid that the English language just won't do what you want it to
do. "Chapel" is going to be the preferred term in both instances. The
best I can offer is:
(a) Oratory would mostly be used for a chapel in a *secular* building,
although "chapel" will still be used for something which looks like a
chapel...
(b) Oratory would be the the preferred term for a *one-person* chapel.
John Briggs
On 24/06/2011 16:04, Cormack, Margaret Jean wrote:
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> I finally realized that rather than driving myself crazy trying to find a valid rationale for categorizing different types of religious sites, I should just ask the list for their reaction to the above terms. Let me first state my problem: I am NOT trying to find a hard and fast definition of the difference between the terms "chapel" and "oratory", I am faced with the task of using these two terms to indicate different kinds of sites, "freestanding" ones and sites within another religious building, such as a church or cathedral.
> Both are commonly called "chapel" in English, and one or the other is going to have to be termed "oratory" for the purpose of searching in a database. My question is, which? I emphasize that the exact term used in the documentation will also be available - for example, if the Oratorio Santo Giovanni Battiste (with apologies to those who can actually spell in Italian) turns out to be categorized as a "chapel", the fact that it is locally called
> "oratorio" will also be stated (and Italian speakers may now tell me that "oratory" means "chapel" . . . ). What I am trying to do is distinguish clearly between sites that represent independent map entries and those that would overlap with others, as when a single church contains half a dozen chapels/oratories. The choice of which term applies to which is going to be to some extent an random, as medieval sources are themselves not consistent in their terminology. However, I'd like to choose a convention that "sounds right" to the majority of medievalists and othe users.
> Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated
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