The Knights Hospitaller and their Role in the Urban Life

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Knights Hospitaller and their Role in the Urban Life

Original language description

Study focuses on the urban element of the Hospitaller Order’s Czech province, which was particularly dominant in the clerical section of the Order. Urban population had important role not only in the administration of Hospitaller churches, but also in the economic management of the Order’s individual houses and the organisational-administrative structure of the entire province. Due to the exceptional standing of the priests in the Czech province, the sons of burghers could often become commanders in the smaller parish houses, which in the overall context of the Order was seen as unusual. Among the knights coming from towns we mainly find members of the leading patrician families from the large royal towns. Priors of some of the prominent convents frequently also became commanders of other houses of the Order. In several cases their function as a representative of a prominent house (in Prague, Kłodzko and Silesian Wrocław) also led to their appointment as the Czech prior’s lieutenants. The close links of the Order with the urban environment is documented by the existence of many of the Order’s hospitals and the extended network of Hospitaller parish schools in the towns. The Order’s hospitals were provided more than likely by religious fraternities and “supervised” by Order’s members. This hospitals cared not only for pilgrims and travellers as well as longer-term shelter for the poor and elderly (primarily oblates – elderly servants of nobleman or donates – people bound by commitments to life in a convent). Also Hospitaller parish schools in the towns were all dependent primarily on the exceptional standing and number of the Order’s clerical elements within its Czech province. In contradiction to the usual opinion we can confirmed in the some houses of the Order not only liturgical texts, but also examples of the law and history books. The close links of the Order’s schools and hospitals with the urban environment led to another deeper interconnection between the Order and urban patrician families, which then facilitated their sons’ entrance into the Order and connection with urban society led to further waves of donations and pious gifts from members of burgher families.

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Mus. Moraviae, Sci. soc.

ISSN

0323-0570

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Volume of the periodical

105

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

251-270

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