IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 725: Medieval Commemoration, VI: Chantries
Tuesday 12 July 2011, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | MeMO - Medieval Memoria Online Project & Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht |
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| Organisers: | Kim Ragetli, MeMO - Medieval Memoria Online Project, Universiteit Utrecht Rolf de Weijert, Medieval Memoria Online, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Moderator/Chair: | Dick E. H. de Boer, Instituut voor Geschiedenis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
| Paper 725-a | Late Medieval Dutch Collegiate Churches as Intercessory Institutions (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Liturgy, Local History, Religious Life |
| Paper 725-b | The Development of a Culture of Commemoration: Chantries in Lincoln Cathedral in the 15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety |
| Paper 725-c | Parties Involved in Memoria Practices (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The first paper will consider collegiate churches uniting within their walls secular canons and chantry priests as institutionalised communities for memorial practice. Can they be characterized as large scale intercessory institutions? Was their very existence justified by the commemoration of their benefactors? The second paper examines the widening intercessory focus of chantries by identifying the statuses of the individuals founding chantries in the cathedral. Further it also analyses the nature of chantry commemoration, explores the roles of the chantry chaplains and vicars choral who served the chantries, and comments on the impact of chantries on the commemorative culture of Lincoln cathedral in the 15th century. The third paper concentrates on the founders of chantries and their patron saints. |