Materials for studying the history of collegiate chapters, i.e. church institutions that started to emerge in Bohemia alongside secular clergy and monasteries in the 11th century, are greatly unbalanced. We have an extremely well-preserved archive from the Vyšehrad Chapter, one of the oldest established by the prince and later first King of Bohemia Vratislaus II, but conversely there are chapters about which we know very little. As a result, we can only systematically study the development, administration, material provisioning, spiritual aspects, and public activities of specific Bohemian collegiate chapters.
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