Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - IV. The Romanized Church under the Union Sovereigns (1389—1520 A.D.)
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
6. INNER RELIGIOUS LIFE OF THE CHURCH. 171
for that absence of bitterness in the Reformation movement
which seems, to a foreigner, very remarkable.
As regards the personnel of the cathedral chapters
19
in
the later middle age, they were, as I have said, bodies of
secular canons, as in the English cathedrals of the old
foundation. The Benedictines never got hold of the
Swedish cathedrals as they did amongst ourselves of the
chapters of the great sees of Canterbury, Durham, Win
chester, Ely, Norwich and others. But the Swedish secular
chapters had a shorter history than ours, and were not as
fully developed as those of York, London, Lincoln, Salis
bury, Wells, Exeter, Hereford, Lichfield, and Chichester,
etc. Lund, then in Danish territory, shows by its beauti
fully furnished retro-choir what might have been. The
development of the dignities in the cathedrals also differs
considerably from our own. In the first period of the
secular foundations the only officers were a provost and a
certain number of canons. The provost continued to be
the chief man in the chapter. Next to him, both in order
of time and dignity, came the archdeacon, of whom there
seems to have been only one in each diocese, instead of
several, as among ourselves. Then came the dean, and
while the provost was largely an officer with outside busi
ness, the dean was occupied with the interior concerns of
19
I have not seen K. V. Lundquist :
Bidrag till kannedom om
de Svenska Domkapitlct under medeltiden, Stockholm, 1897,
nor the German work of Ph. Schneider : Die bischoflichen
Domkapitel, 2 ausg., 1892. There is a summary of the
capitular system (without any particular reference to England
or Sweden) in P. R. E. 3
, by P. Hinschius (Hauck). I have
found most information in H. Hildebrand s Sv. Medeltid, Book
v., pp. 136-159, which seems to be chiefly based on Lundquist.
The reader who is interested in the subject of English
cathedrals will find much information in E. A. Freeman :
History
of the Cathedral Church of Wells, illustrating the history of
the cathedral churches of the old foundation, Lond., 1870, and
E. W. Benson (Bishop of Truro, afterwards archbishop) : The
Cathedral, its necessary place in the life and work of the Church,
Lond., 1878). There are some notices of a
"
Provost
"
at Wells
in Freeman :
pp. 33, 39, 150, 166.
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
