Appointments of the church representatives to the office represented significant processes in the functioning of the church and reflected their status and influence in the society. In the Spiš Chapter, these were the superiors of the church, provosts and canons. In the history of the Spiš Chapter, the practices of appointment underwent significant changes. Besides highest church representatives, papal court and the archbishopric of Esztergom; secular patrons, especially Hungarian sovereigns and members of the Chapter were also involved in the process. Occupation of the canonical posts changed a few times as well. The article deals partially with the practice of acceptance of the office, too. Its aim is to specify the changes which occurred from the foundation of the Chapter at the turn of the 13th century until the foundation of the Spiš Bishopric in 1776. The work is based mostly on the published and unpublished archival sources, especially deeds, canonical visitations and chapter statuses.
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Seals are one of the specific sources which can be used to study medieval history. The seals of the ecclesiastical institutions and ecclesiastical individuals form an exceptional group in terms of iconography. A necessary condition for their use is first and foremost to make them accessible to professional researchers, to study and analyse them and publish the findings. The following text introduces a few fragmentary sources, the seals of the Church representatives from Spiš dated to the 14th and 15th centuries. The seals of three representatives of the religious orders (Benedictines, Cistercians and the Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre) and three priests of the Spiš parishes are presented. The seals were part of four documents made in a privilegial way. The contribution focuses sigillographic and iconographic analysis of the mentioned seals.
The study deals with the testaments of church representatives in modern era, particularly in the region of Spiš in the 18th century. The development of testamentary law is described. It is analysed the division of canons´ property into the hereditary and non-hereditary property belonging to the beneficium. The basic development of property inheritance rules and partition of the property among the heir beneficiaries are described. The paper introduces the testament of canon Andrej Čepešéni (1738) and describes its content and formal design. The aim is to use the particular example in order to introduce the modern era testaments.
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