The article firstly studies abbatial elections in the Strahov Monastery from a general perspective and secondly tries to analyze individual elections and summarize tendencies that changed over the period of more than two hundred years. The first sphere concentrates on restored monastic decrees from 1630 and the way they defined the superior’s election as well as decrees issued by the ruler in this respect. Outcomes of an analysis in the second sphere point out the individual’s qualifications for the “electable” position in the Strahov Monastery and allow comparison with other Premonstratensian monasteries within the Bohemian and Moravian circarium.
The essay is concerned with a transformation of spiritual administration conducted by the Premonstratensians – members of the Strahov monastery at the break of the 18th and 19th century. Although monastic parishes manned by canons had been an everyday reality of the monastery since as early as the post-White Mountain period, their number significantly increased in the researched period. This coincided with a reform of spiritual administration imposed by Joseph II and the superiors’ effort to eliminate disestablishment of the monastery through a broad support of pastoral and pedagogic activities. Besides indisputable benefits, extension of the spiritual administrativ meant a financial and personal burden for the monastery which was firstly connected with administration of the patron rights. Secondly, manning new locations and parishes collided with a decline of monastery members, which did not end until the early 19th century. From a broad perspective, this strategy influenced evolution of the monastic order in the Bohemian lands until the early 20th century.
The paper is concerned with works connected with large, thematically and formally specified groups of manuscript sources in the Early Modern Age. Based on historiographic and biographic sources from the monastic milieu, it explains creation of the so-called interpretation tools, proceeding from factual description of the manuscripts, thus allowing monitoring of the factual aspect of the researched text and their authorship.
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