A01=David N Lepine
Author_David N Lepine
Canons
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Cathedral Clergy
Diocesan Administration
England
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Lichfield
Middle Ages
Reformation
Residence
Salisbury
Secular Cathedrals
Product details
- ISBN 9780851156200
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 24 Aug 1995
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A study of the lives of cathedral clergy in the middle ages.
This study focuses on the canons of the nine secular cathedrals in England in the later middle ages, who were amongst the most able and successful clerics of their age. After considering the functions of the cathedrals which provided them with a comfortable income and considerable status, Dr Lepine turns to the canons themselves, tracing their origins and analysing their careers. He examines the canons' residence at their cathedrals, establishing how manywere resident in the close and how much time they spent there. The study concludes by presenting two case studies to show the vigour and diversity of capitular life in the later middle ages: Salisbury between 1398 and 1458 (its so-called golden age) and Lichfield from 1490 to 1540, on the eve of the Reformation.
Dr DAVID LEPINE teaches history at Dartford Grammar School.
