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York Minster.
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York Minster.
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York Minster
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“Dom” Zephyrinus: Q. For those of us in the un-Anglo and uninformed “States”:
ReplyDeleteIs “York Minster” = York Cathedral?
Thank You, Dante Peregrinus, for your most interesting question. Basically, the answer to your question is “Yes”, but with certain caveats.
DeleteWikipedia quotes “Minster” as follows:
The word Minster (Old English “Mynster”) was a rendering of the Latin “Monasterium”,[2][1] from Greek "μοναστήριον" ("Monasterion"). In Early-English sources, “Monasterium” and “Mynster” were used interchangeably.[3] They were applied to all Communities who had devoted their lives to Christian observance, regardless of the gender of the occupants or the activities in which said occupants typically engaged.[4]
“Monasterium” was, for instance, applied equally to a small Community of men living away from other Secular settlements, to a large Community of men and women living in a planned enclosure designed around a Church, and to a widow and her unmarried daughters living in seclusion.[5]
The Modern-English term "Monastery" does not express the same connotation as the Latin “Monasterium”, from which it derives, or the Old-English “Mynster”. This is because the term “Monastery” has come to be associated with Contemplative Regularity, such as that observed by The Benedictine or Cistercian Orders, although this does not apply to the situation in Anglo-Saxon England prior to the 10th-Century A.D.[6]
By the 10th-Century A.D., a gradual distinction between a "Church" and a "Mynster" began to emerge.[7] For instance, in the “Leechdoms”, the sixteenth day was propitious for establishing a “Mynster”, and the sixth day of the Moon for Founding a Church.[7]
This suggests that, by the 10th-Century A.D. and the 11th-Century, “Mynster” was being used to refer to a "Superior Church", which was regarded as “Long-Established” and to which people paid their Dues.[7]