tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2486014069491785541.post8825343639610863636..comments2023-10-30T06:46:03.614-07:00Comments on Outlandish Knight: More on Norman churches...David Pettshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13514706608520437856noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2486014069491785541.post-10234158190881458002009-10-13T05:41:20.175-07:002009-10-13T05:41:20.175-07:00I agree, this is a bit of a methodological challen...I agree, this is a bit of a methodological challenge. It has been argued that a similar thing happens in parts of the Danelaw in the UK. Although the gap that some people suggest in Western Normandy is potentially over a century. THere are also other problems- for example, assuming that early burials equates to an early church. For example, in Wales, Christian cemeteries could occur at a site for a significant length of time before it was ever given a church.<br /><br />I'm also interested in how far the possible physical location might help to explore this. For example, is there any evidence for the different long-term development of churches that are situated away from the medieval village, and those which are located in the heart of the settlement, or between those with circular churchyards which form the focus of the settlement layout and those which have seemingly been tagged on to the edge of a settlement. So much to do...David Pettshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13514706608520437856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2486014069491785541.post-80737675878123935192009-10-13T02:28:18.023-07:002009-10-13T02:28:18.023-07:00I'm just thinking out loud, but are you making...I'm just thinking out loud, but are you making a distinction between a "church community" and a "church building"? Because surely the one can fall into abeyance and leave the other still visible, even after moldering away for a century? (And even if the structure was too flimsy still to be visible, people would still know where grandpa was buried.) There were villages in the Netherlands that went 30 years or more without a pastor during the Dutch Revolt, between closing down as Catholic parishes and opening up as Dutch Reformed congregations, so some similar sort of collapse and reinvention of church organisation during the Viking period doesn't strike me as unlikely.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04315105493443923507noreply@blogger.com