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Pastors and Priests in the Early Modern Grisons: Organized Profession or Side Activity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Ulrich Pfister
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Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster

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During the era of church reforms the clergy tended to become a profession—at least such has been argued with respect to English ministers during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.1 The present study endeavors to show that an analysis of the shifting position of the clergy in the continuum between a nonagricultural side activity, an estate in traditional society, and a profession can contribute to our understanding of the role that clergymen played in early modern church reforms, confessionalization, social discipline, and acculturation.

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16. Protocols of the synod, SKA B 7, pp. III–IX (1645), B 6, pp. III–XVII (1680), ch. 10.

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18. Protocols of the synod, early June 1575 and 20 June 1584, SKA B 3, p. 7 and p. 75, respectively: Stephan Dominicus, convicted for drunkenness, “praesit suae ecclesiae non solum syncera doctrina, verum et bono ac integro vitae exemplo.”

19. The passage is based on the protocols of the synod, SKA B 3; for the regulations of Censure in the statutes of the synod of 1645 see SKA B 7, pp. III–IX, caput III.

20. Some characteristic entries: Protocols of the synod, mid-June 1580, SKA B 3, pp. 46–47: Johann Anton Cortesius is allowed to continue his trade if he hands over business operations to his son or a relative; 69, 30 May 1583: Balthasar Toutsch is to content himself with his parish and to stop practicing the medical art; p. 76, 20 June 1584: Melchior Saluz is reprimanded “ob lascivam & male actam vitam in ebriando, ludendo, aut etiam ferè scortando”; pp. 84, 15 June 1585: Wolfgang Episcopius is censured as a “pugnator, potator, lascivus & levis in imponendo puellis”; pp. 102, 104–5, beginning on 9 June 1590: upon request by the community of Malix [where a source of mineral water is located; U. P.] Johannes Rudolph may offer drink, food, and lodging to mothers in childbed, to sick persons and to pilgrims, but may not act as a public innkeeper, Gideon Saluz is reprimanded for using inappropriate and offensive words in his preachings, and his wife has a bad reputation; finally, Jacob Andretina is proscribed and handed over to the secular court for being a tradesman and for having abandoned his wife during pestilence; p. 114, synod beginning on 14 June 1592: no brother is allowed to request a higher interest rate than prescribed by the regional statutes; Simon Widmer purges himself of adultery.

21. For a general discussion of the exemplary functions of the conduct of Protestant pastors, see Gugerli, David, Zwischen Pfrund und Predict: Die protestantische Pfarrfamilie auf der Zürcher Landschaft im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert (Zürich, 1988), 915, 28–43Google Scholar; Schorn-Schütte, Luise, Evangelische Geistlichkeit in der Frühneuzeit: deren Anteil an der Entfaltung frühmoderner Staatlichkeit und Gesellschaft: Dargestellt am Beispiel des Fürstentums Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, der Landgrafschaft Hessen-Kassel und der Stadt Braunschweig (Gütersloh, 1996), 357–71Google Scholar; on the (slow) evolution of discipline among reformed pastors in other Swiss cantons, see Pfister, Willy, Die Prädikanten des bernischen Aargaus im 16.–18. Jahrhundert 1528–1798 (Zürich, 1943)Google Scholar; Schär, Markus, Seelennöte der Untertanen: Selbstmord, Melancholie und Religion im Alten Zürich, 1500–1800 (Zürich, 1985), 167–73.Google Scholar

22. A good example is Jakob Winterli who applied for membership in 1590 but was only classified among the tolerated ministers. In 1591 he retained that status, but was admonished to heed drunkenness. In 1592 he was absent from the synod, but the dean received the commission to write him a letter exhorting him to correct his life. In 1593 he was proscribed (i.e., declared inept for the ministry), and in 1594 prosecution by lay authorities was invoked. However, Winterli was again examined by the synod in 1595 which was still not satisfied, classified him among the tolerated and announced that his behavior would be closely watched. While never excluded again, his case reappears several times until the end of the protocol in 1608, his main offenses being drunkenness, intrusion into other parishes, and infrequent presence at synodal meetings. Protocols of the synod, SKA B 3, use index in SKA B 14 to locate the 15 entries under his name!

23. Protocols of the synod, SKA B 6, use index in SKA B 14, p. 140–41 sub “Liederlichkeit” (19 references, mostly for the first three decades of the eighteenth century) to locate specific entries; see also Pfister, U., “Reformierte Sittenzucht,” 323.Google Scholar

24. Protocols of the synod, 27 June 1576, SKA B 3, p. 14; on alcohol consumption in relation to political networks see Pfister, Ulrich, “Politischer Klientelismus in der frühneuzeitlichen Schweiz,” Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte 42 (1992): 2868, here 32.Google Scholar

25. Protocols of the synod, 17–20 [probably June], 1652, SKA B 7, pp. III–IX, caput X, § 1; B 5, p. 11: regional colloquia are to censure hair cuts at every meeting; 257, pp. 26–29 May 1665: repetition of the paragraph on dress in the synodal statutes of 1645 in slightly different words. During the following years these stipulations were reenacted four times under slightly different form (1666, 1668, 1675, 1677); however, I have never encountered a specific censure of an individual minister for his dress or hair. The term of “social death” is borrowed from Patterson, Orlando, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study (Cambridge, Mass., 1982)Google Scholar; the final argument is inspired by Walz, Rainer, Hexenglaube und magische Kommunikation im Dorf der frühen Neuzeit: Die Verfolgungen in der Grafschaft Lippe (Paderborn, 1993), 5657Google Scholar, who argues that, before the advent of confessional churches and modern statehood, conflicts within local European peasant society were solved within the framework of agonal communication that demanded conflict resolution in an immediate face-to-face context and did not provide for a relegation of issues to third parties. In this perspective, confessional religiosity represented by “socially dead” clerics could provide a code for a socially and temporally generalized pattern of conflict resolution.

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30. Visitation of Oberhalbstein, 1623, BAC 262.8, box 1, pp. 11a–12, Visitation of Moesano 1639; BAC 262.8, box 3, p. 12r.

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45. Frigg, Albert, Die Mission der Kapuziner in den rätoromanischen und italienischen Talschaften Rätiens im 17.Jahrhundert (Chur, 1953), 4651, 58–59, 64–67, 79–94, 144–58, 175–96Google Scholar; Maissen, , Drei Bünde, ch. 2.Google Scholar

46. The statistical figures are derived from the prosopographical work quoted in note 3, information on incomes is contained in the sources mentioned in note 32. Scattered parishes in the north and the east of Graubünden, on which only incomplete information is available, are excluded from the analysis (Vier Dörfer, Samnaun, Poschiavo). On the spread of the mission and its organization see Frigg, , Mission der Kapuziner, 170–75Google Scholar; Maissen, , Drei Bünde, 309–13, 327–28.Google Scholar

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51. Ibid., 322–23, 326.

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