The article describeseveryday life and monastic school in the Norbertine convent in Imbramowice in years 1703-1741. Information is based entirely on the Chronicleconducted by the abbess Sophia Grothówna. Everyday life, although the Norbertine convent is an enclosed convent, was rich in a variety of events. The article includes information about circumstances of young ladies joining the monastery, postulate and final vows (after a year or two years from the beginning of the novitiate). Candidates wanting to join the monastery had to bring suitable dowry, although this may have taken a number of years to collect by the abbess. The article also contains information describing the school run in a convent for young ladies from the surrounding area, and further afield. Girls stayed for a few years or a few weeks, as there was no fixed curriculum, specifying the number of months or years of education. The Article also contains two tables: novices joining the Norbertine nunnery in Imbramowie in years 1703-1741 and girls living in the monastery and attending to convent school in the same range of years.
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