2023
Marie-Madeleine de Cevins, « A domonkos-rend konfraternitásáról a középkori Magyarországon », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, ID : 10670/1.z0qloi
The history of the medieval Dominican spiritual confraternities remains poorly knowndue to the lack of written testimonies and, moreover, due to the lack of monographs on thetopic. Though scanty and heterogeneous (28 “letters of benefits” preserved or attested, a dozenmentions in the registers of two convents in Transylvania, and a single testamentary clause),the Hungarian sources still reveal certain aspects of the problem. They show how early theHungarian faithful have started to enter the spiritual confraternity of the Preacher Brothers(as early as 1270), as well as the rapid expansion of this religious practice in the second halfof the 15th century, in the wake of the Observant reform. Moreover, it seems that at the levelof each convent, admission to the spiritual confraternity was not sold for money, but it was acompensation for previous donations. Often mixed with other spiritual rewards, it did notnecessarily leave any written evidence, and as such, it largely escapes the attention of thehistorians.