OPILSTVO A OPILCI VO VIZITAČNÝCH PROTOKOLOCH NESKORÉHO STREDOVEKU

• Authors: Vincurský Martin

Title variants

EN

Inebriety and drunkards in Late Medieval visitation records

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

Parish visitation records are considered one of the most interesting and revealing sources for the study of everyday life in the Middle Ages. No wonder that sometimes the reader might find in their pages people drinking alcoholic beverages, visiting taverns, playing dice and generally enjoying their leisure time. As might be expected from the nature of these sources, many of them were parish priests, vicars, chaplains or other clergymen. Some were even responsible for other more serious violations of ecclesiastical or civil law while intoxicated. Visitation records often provide a very revealing insight into their lives, sometimes much more colourful and adventurous than we would expect. This study summarizes basic information on how parish visitations were conducted and what we can learn from visitation records about drinking in the Middle Ages. The main source of this study, the visitation record of the Prague archdeacon Paul of Janovicz (1379–1382), is supplemented by several other examples.

Keywords

EN

INEBRIETY; MEDIEVAL CLERGY; PARISH VISITATIONS; VISITATION RECORDS

• Publisher: Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historický časopis (Historical Journal)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 71
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 645 - 662

Contributors

author

Vincurský Martin

• Historický ústav, Filozofická fakulta, Masarykova univerzita v Brne, Arna Nováka 1/1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6529-3540

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/histcaso.2023.71.4.5