The Pastor's Communion in Scania in the Seventeenth Century. New information from a collection of Latin letters
Abstract
The pastor’s communion was, for various reasons, a problematic question in Denmark and Sweden in the seventeenth century. Information about how, when and where the Swedish and Danish clergymen actually received communion is scarce. A hitherto neglected collection of Latin letters written by clergymen from the northwestern part of Scania shed some light on the problem. The letters give evidence that these vicars did not practice self-communion or give communion to their families, but asked a fellow clergyman in the neighbourhood to come to their aid. The communion always took place on weekdays and almost always in the morning.
Publicerad
2014-10-01
Nummer
Sektion
Artiklar
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work 6 (six) months after publication simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.