Lacticines

Lacticinien ( pl. ) Is the Middle Latin name for foods made from milk (e.g. cheese, butter, clarified butter).

In the Orthodox churches of is for certain times liturgical year , the abstinence commanded by Laktizinien. In the western church , the consumption of lacticines and eggs was forbidden on fast days until the 15th century . A church dispensation issued in writing in the Middle Ages against payment of a fine was called "Butterbrief", the imposed penance "Butterpfennig" . In 1486 Pope Innocent VIII also allowed the consumption of dairy products during Lent .

The rules of the order or constitutions of some contemplative orders (such as the Discalced Carmelite Sisters ) provided for the renouncement of lacticines and egg dishes either all year round or in the period from the Exaltation of the Cross to Easter , up to the Constitution Perfectae caritatis, for the modern renewal of religious life .

See also

• Latteltage

literature

• Ernst Schubert : Eating and Drinking in the Middle Ages. Primus, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-89678-702-6 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Butterbrief  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Christian Kanis Gretschel : Church conditions in Leipzig before and during the Reformation in 1539 , A. Fest'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1839, p. 175 (digitized)