dr Zbigniew Witczak
Uniwersytet Opolski
VIII KONGRES MEDIEWISTÓW POLSKICH - GNIEZNO 2025

Coordinator
List of papers
Management of monastery property in the Middle Ages. Strategies - challenges - dependencies. The example of Silesian monasteries of regular canons.

The abbeys of the regular canons of Ślęża/Wrocław and Nowogród Bobrzański/Żagań actively participated in the economic life of the communities in which they operated. Possessing material goods, these monasteries pursued an economic policy that depended not only on the resources they had, but also on relations with secular authorities, including rulers. The objectives of the presentation will be to present the strategy for managing the monastery property and the changes that occurred in it until the beginning of the 16th century, to discuss the dependencies that the social environment of the abbeys had on this process, and to indicate the influence that the monastery economy could have on local communities.