mgr Dawid Kuriański

Section 30.: Sub cuius potestatem? Silesian monks - books - texts - ideas

One of the prepositures of the Abbey of the Canons Regular of St. Augustine in Żagań was located in Zielona Góra, within the territory of the Duchy of Głogów. In 1423, Dukes Henry IX the Elder and Henry X the Younger granted the right of patronage over the parish church in Zielona Góra to the Canons Regular of Żagań. Over time, the newly established prepositure became a place of refuge (and at times exile) for monks from Żagań seeking asylum in the face of an escalating conflict with secular authorities. This turbulent period is described in the chronicle of the abbots of Żagań (Catalogus abbatum Saganensium). In my presentation, I would like to demonstrate, using manuscripts preserved in the University Library of Wrocław (BUWr) as examples, how political circumstances and personal conflicts influenced the literary activity of the monks in Zielona Góra.