Visitations as a source of the history of book culture in the orders of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania on the example of regular penance canons (white Augustinians) Cover Image

Wizytacje źródłem do dziejów kultury książki w zakonach Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego – na przykładzie kanoników regularnych od pokuty (białych augustianów)information seeking, information searching, exploratory search, information foraging, informa
Visitations as a source of the history of book culture in the orders of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania on the example of regular penance canons (white Augustinians)

Author(s): Iwona Pietrzkiewicz
Subject(s): Cultural history, Library operations and management, Social history, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: Library science; historical source; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; Order of canons regular;

Summary/Abstract: Historical research on book culture in religious orders uses a specific and vast body of sources. One of the most important sources are the so-called visitations commissioned and performed by diocesan authorities or superiors of a given community in individual church institutions. The frequency of their preparation and the precision of the recorded data allow them to be treated as one of the basic sources for historical bibliology. The specificity of the formation of these archives in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and their dispersion due to political changes demonstrate the distinctiveness and importance of these sources.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 234-247
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish