The presented study focuses on the attitude of Hungarian Augustinians towards the ownership of movable and immovable property in the middle ages. The issue is examined using the example of four monasteries of this order, which were located in present-day Slovakia. These monasteries in Veľký Šariš, Hrabkov, Bardejov and Spišské Podhradie belonged to the so-called Spiš District. Its existence and significance are also examined. All these Augustinian monasteries owned property in some form (from the ownership of entire villages or houses, to money and cattle). Since poverty was supposed to be a typical feature of mendicants, the attitude of the medieval Augustinian order towards property in its various forms makes a compelling focal research question of this study.
The paper deals with the Augustinian interpretation of human soul in classical Greek and Roman philosophy. It examines the views of the most important Christian Platonic, which Augustine developed as opposed to the pagan views in his 'De civitate Dei'. A special attention is paid to the analysis of the Augustinian doctrine of the relation between body and soul, death and Resurrection as related to Greek and Roman philosophy. The author also shows, how the pagan philosophy might have influenced the anthropological doctrine of the early Christian thinker.
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