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Another difficulty with "altar-team" (or "altar team") is that this term has a rather different meaning in some modern churches. See (e.g.):
http://stlukeshr.com/MinistryDescriptions/Altar%20Team%20Co-Lead.asp
http://golove.org/article/altar-team/
http://www.plm.org/about-us2/our-faith-in-action/altar-team/
http://www.lordoflife.org/PDFs/Worship/Altar%20Team%20Handbook%20Nov%202009.pdf
Presumably, you will define for your readers whatever term it is that you settle upon. Nonetheless, any term that's ambiguous -- esp. if used repeatedly --, whether it be "chapel" or "altar-team", ought to be avoided. Perhaps use Latin _capella_, setting it in italics. That would mark this locution sufficiently to signal at every use (i.e., not just those immediately proximate to the definition) that this is a technical term employed here with a particular meaning.
Best,
John Dillon
On 02/27/13, John Briggs wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> "Altar-team" seems about right. "Celebrant and assistants" or
> "Ministers" are the only alternatives. But "priest, (sub-)deacon and
> server" seems an odd "team" - are you sure that is right? It sounds
> either too many, or not enough. For a "private" mass you need a priest
> and a server. For a sung mass, you usually need priest, deacon,
> sub-deacon, plus other assistant(s). Are you interpreting "priest,
> cleric and servant" correctly? Could it not be priest, cleric in minor
> orders plus a lay servant? All three "teams" could then act together
> as priest, deacon, and sub-deacon (for each altar in turn), with the
> three clerics as acolyte, thurifer, crucifer, etc, and the lay
> servants either not at the altar, or playing minor roles.
>
> John Briggs
>
> On 27/02/2013, Laura Jacobus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> >
> > Thanks. Sounds like I may have to go for the horribly clunky 'altar-team'.
> > Have been toying with 'altar-triad' but it conjures up images of medieval
> > Chinese mafiosi. 'Chapel' according to SOD includes the choir, and I
> > need a term that's restricted to priest, (sub-)deacon and server, as that's
> > how they are described in the relevant documents. Feel free to keep those
> > suggestions coming!
> >
> > all best
> >
> > Laura
> > On 26 February 2013 22:28, John Briggs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> >>
> >> Actually, it was standard terminology to refer to the *whole team* of
> >> clerics (including the choir) as the "chapel" (household chapel,
> >> chapel royal.)
> >>
> >> In architectural terms, it is easier in French: "La Chapelle Royale"
> >> was the building, "La Chapelle du Roi" were the personnel.
> >>
> >> John Briggs
> >>
> >> On 26/02/2013, Laura Jacobus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Ha! Someone else who can't resist a digression! Thanks.
> >> >
> >> > Actually, it would be very helpful if anyone knows of another word I
> >> could
> >> > use to describe the 'team' that celebrates/serves at the altar.
> >> > Rosemary
> >> > sounds right in calling it a 'chapel' but in the context of the
> >> > architectural history I'm writing (correction- trying and failing to
> >> write)
> >> > its too confusing to use 'chapel' for the building, 'chapel' for the
> >> altars
> >> > in subsidiary spaces in the building, and 'chapel' for the people in
> >> > the
> >> > chapels within the chapel.
> >> >
> >> > Annoyingly, the Arena Chapel in Padua (which is my subject) isn't a
> >> quite a
> >> > chapel but a church, but I can't fight more than a century of
> >> > historiography so am stuck with the name.
> >>
> > --
> > Dr. Laura Jacobus
> > Senior Lecturer in History of Art
> > Birkbeck College, University of London
> >
> > For details of my book on Giotto and the Arena Chapel see
> > http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9781905375127-1
> >
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