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  • 22 - Church and clergy

  • from PART VI - LATE MEDIEVAL SOCIETY (c. 1350–1520)
  • Edited by Knut Helle, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Scandinavia
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    04 September 2003, pp 653-676

  • Summary

    The beginning as well as the end of the period 1350-1520 is marked by historical events of considerable significance in Scandinavian church history. The demographic effects of the plague epidemics led to general loss of population which reduced the size of congregations and caused a shortage of clerics, leading to incorporations and annexations of parishes. In the period from the great plague to the mid-fifteenth century donations of land to the Church increased considerably, both as pious gifts and in return for perpetual masses, revealing a religious spirit of generosity as well as fear for the dies irae and the life to come. St Birgitta was strongly influenced by her membership of the Swedish high nobility and her spiritual background in the Swedish church. For the whole papal schism the Nordic churches remained in the Roman obedience. During most of the late Middle Ages their relationship with the papacy also interacted closely with their ties to the royal power.