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Gunter maurer leonhard weiss1/20/2024 It can be shown that beginning in the 15th century the importance of property in Constance to the collegiate chapter diminished steadily. On the other hand, the example of the House zum Riesen, which from 1323 until into the nineteenth century was held in copyhold permits questions concerning the chapter’s administrative and archival practices to be discussed. Konrad resided not at Bischofszell itself but rather in the episcopal city, where he established a library for research purposes, which, along with the house, he reserved in usufruct. In 1311, Konrad, a doctor and a canon of the collegiate chapter, bestowed his house (zur Krone) on the collegiate church in return for a life annuity. Using the example of the house zur Krone, the essay explores the social environment of a canon and his connection to the collegiate’s seat. Neither of the two houses in Constance belonging to the collegiate chapter of Bischofszell served as its official city seat. A society’s obligations to the poor also rested on the principal of care and reciprocity. The parish as the structuring principle of both city and village was founded not least on the practice of intercessory prayer on the part of the living for the dead. The connection between community-building (“Kommunalismus”) and Christianization provides a possible means of explaining the continuing vitality of the donation of annual commemorations in the age of confessions. Church parishes, the town and the village communities (“Gemeinden”)-in and of themselves abstractions-constantly reinvented themselves publically in defined and limited ways that could be both bodily and spatially perceived -as in the case of visiting tombs or supporting and feeding the poor, acts framing the liturgy in the commemoration masses. The article explores connections between city and village communities and the Church in light of donations for the salvation of souls. Written documents from Bischofszell makes it apparent that already well before the Reformation the laity had an impact on church life-both as individuals as well as collectively as members of confraternities.
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