Piastowskie fundacje klasztorów żeńskich w Polsce XIII wieku
Piast Dynasty Foundations of Female Monasteries in Thirteenth-Century Poland

Between the Reception of Foreign Patterns and the Creation of an Original Model

Author(s): Anna Agnieszka Dryblak
Subject(s): History, Middle Ages, Theology and Religion, 6th to 12th Centuries, 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century, History of Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Middle Ages; monastic foundations; aristocratic monastic foundations; female monasticism
Summary/Abstract: The monograph offers an analysis of chief convent foundations set up in the thirteenth century by benefactors from Piast dynasty circles. The foundations are shown in a comparative perspective which looks both at the idea of the convent in Western Europe of the early Middle Ages and its receptions in Central Europe. The (somewhat different) origins of female monastic communities in Poland are also presented, with an additional focus on major aristocratic foundations.

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