Published: 2024-12-30

Social Environment of the Dominican Monastery in Brzeg

Krzysztof Kaczmarek Logo ORCID

Abstract

The Dominican monastery of the Holy Cross was founded in the 1330s by Duke Boleslaw III. The monks stayed in Brzeg for two centuries and then had to leave the city after the Protestant conversion of Frederick II. In the 1540s the buildings belonging to them (church and monastery) were demolished. The records and documentary sources preserved to this day (including in particular the convent’s obituary and its account book) show that during the two centuries of their activity the friars managed to attract a circle of supporters that included: the ducal court, wealthy burghers and noblemen, the poorer inhabitants of Brzeg, who performed servile services for the friars and paid work in the monastery, and numerous supporters living
in the vast areas of the monastic district that belonged to them. The Dominicans directed an attractive pastoral offer to them and obtained from them by means of fundraising or trade the resources necessary for the functioning of their community.

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Kaczmarek, K. (2024). Social Environment of the Dominican Monastery in Brzeg. Średniowiecze Polskie I Powszechne, 16, 59–82. https://doi.org/10.31261/SPiP.2024.20.01

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Vol. 16 (2024)
Published: 2024-12-30


ISSN: 2080-492X
eISSN: 2353-9720

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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