A usurper with a crosier? The winding paths of the ecclesiastical career of Bohemian Carmelite Świętosław, the first Catholic Bishop of Łuck (1404–ca. 1410)
A usurper with a crosier? The winding paths of the ecclesiastical career of Bohemian Carmelite Świętosław, the first Catholic Bishop of Łuck (1404–ca. 1410)
Author(s): Tomasz GraffSubject(s): History, Middle Ages, 15th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
Keywords: Świętosław Bishop of Łuck; Władysław Jagiełło and Witold’s ecclesiastical policy in Ruthenia; Halicz Metropolis; late-medieval episcopate of the Jagiellonian monarchy
Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the career of Bohemian Carmelite monk Świętosław, the first Catholic Bishop of Łuck. His appointment destabilized the situation in Volhynia in the early 15th century. The author seeks to determine the identity of Świętosław’s patron.
Journal: Historia Slavorum Occidentis
- Issue Year: 24/2020
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 11-34
- Page Count: 24
- Language: English
