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Vol. 88 (1997): Our Past

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Everyday life of the Benedictine abbey in Mogilno. An outline of problems

  • Danuta Konieczka-Śliwińska
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52204/np.1997.88.5-31  [Google Scholar]
Published: 1997-12-30

Abstract

The article concerns the nature of everyday life in the Benedictine abbey in Mogilno in the 11th–19th centuries. The author bases his findings on written sources, such as the Benedictine Rule, various legal and financial documents, chronicle entries, lists, catalogs and letters. They are located in the State Archives in Poznań and Bydgoszcz and in the Archdiocesan Archives in Gniezno. Some of them were published in the Diplomatic Code of Greater Poland. The written sources were supplemented with materials from excavations carried out in the abbey in the 1970s and 1980s (the results were published in specialist publications). The objectives of this research project are as follows. Firstly, to prepare a comprehensive picture of the everyday life of Benedictine monks, in accordance with their Rule, secondly, to relate this picture to Polish realities, and thirdly, to recreate the everyday life of the monks, paying particular attention to two issues - in what areas of life the inhabitants of the Mogilno Abbey strictly in which they adhered to the Rule and in which they deviated from it. Descriptions of various aspects of monastic life and activities of monks reflect the complexity of everyday life in the monastery. Individual sections are devoted to everyday life within the walls of the monastery, the functioning of the monastery in the life of the local community and the region, the relations of the Mogilno Benedictines with the church hierarchy and other orders, and the role of the order in the history of Poland, i.e. its political role, involvement in missionary activities and patriotic ethos.

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