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The Medieval Architecture of the Mendicant Orders in Silesia
Jarošová, Markéta ; Kuthan, Jiří (advisor) ; Royt, Jan (referee) ; Kořán, Ivo (referee)
The subject of this dissertation thesis is medieval architecture of mendicant orders in Silesia and focuses on convent churches of the Minorites and Dominicans. The chosen subject has not been hitherto treated in detail in specialized literature neither in Polish, German or Czech art history. Mendicant orders in Silesia are studied especially by historians who research into medieval history of these orders and, above all, the formation and development of order provinces. The focal points of the thesis research concern preserved buildings of mendicants orders built in the period between the 13th and 14th centuries. Every individual building is presented as a monograph in the form of an extended catalogue entry. The catalogue of medieval buildings of mendicant orders is the crucial part of this dissertation thesis. In this list, individual buildings are divided according to orders. First, we mention history of individual medieval towns and history of particular convent complexes. Further, we focus on the location of mendicant buildings within medieval urbanism of towns. Next, the formal analysis of each building follows defining the most important phases in building the convents, especially the medieval stage of building. Each entry contains an evaluation of cultural and historical importance of a...
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