Fr Vincent Zapletal OP (1867-1938), a Czech Old Testament scholar, is one of the most important pioneers of the historic-critical method in catholic exegesis. As with many others, even he had to search for another field of interest during the era of modernist crisis. During the 1920s, Fr Zapletal published six biblical novels, written in German, in which he gave an account of the lives of the great figures of the Old Testament: Moses, David, Joseph. The paper studies the motivation for writing these novels, their literary qualities, the censorship of the novels and the reception of the novels after they were published.
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The article gives an overview of the career of Czech biblist Vladimir Pavel Skrabal OP. We can summarize his life in the following dates: on 1 Nov 1904: born in Babice u Uherskeho Hradiste; on 26 Sept 1923: takes the first vows; on 9 Jul 1928: ordination (Rome); on 15 Jul 1928: his first mass (Babice); on 22 Jun 1929: licentiate (Angelicum, Rome); on 31 May 1930: doctorate (Angelicum, his doctoral thesis: De connexione inter resurrectionem Christi et nostram); from 1930: takes part in education of Dominican clerks in Olomouc; from 1931: occasional correspondent of theological review 'Na hlubinu'; in 1935: sent to Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Française de Jerusalem; during the Second World War: after the closure of Czech universities worked as substitute professor for diocesan seminarists; in 1948: publishes a translation of the New Testament into Czech (imprimatur was awarded on 21 May 1948); on 13 Apr 1950: interned; 5 Sept 1950-28 Feb 1951: clothes-presser in Kraliky; 1 Mar-27 Jul 1951: clothes-presser in Osek; 28 Jul 1951-27 Aug 1952: warehouseman in the glass factory Union in Duchcov; 28 Aug 1952-15 Dec 1955: worker in the forest and field in the state farm in Zeliv; after his release from internment: worked briefly as warehouseman in Frydek, then as maintenance man in the House for abandoned children in Mistek; May-July 1959: worked in hospital; after 1959: in Restaurants and Eating rooms in Ostrava; in the beginning of 1962: his health got extremely worse; in 1963: operation at the beginning of the year, needs permanent treatment, prosecution of State Security - StB (suspected of obstruction of state control of the Churches); on 16 Feb 1964: dies in Mistek; on 20 Feb 1964: buried in Olomouc.
The author presents new findings about the conventual and particular schools in the Polish provice of Dominicans in the 14th century on the basis of fragments of records of the Opatowiec chapter from 1384 (which were discovered by Thomas Kaeppela in Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München/Munich in 1977), analyzed by himself in 2012. He shows, among other things, that in the light of these new data the standard view often repeated in the literature about the alleged weakness of the Polish system of educaction as compared to the Western part of the Order should be discarded. Polish Dominicans owned at least 25 particular schools: 8 – studia artium, 8 – studia naturarum, 9 – studia theologiae. At the current stage of research for the 14th c. 54 conventual lecturers and 35 lecturers in particular schools (artium, naturarum, theologiae) are known. The most developed system of particular education had three divisions (contrata, natio) of the province: Silesia, Little Poland and Prussia. As much as 85% of all Polish provincial schools were located those three regions. The analysis of the relationship between the number of monasteries in a given division and the number of schools active in the area shows the dominant position of Silesian and Prussian communities in the 14th c. Polish province. According to the author this was closely related to the wider activities of the Dominicans of German nationality (mainly from Silesia) with the purpose of moving the centre of the province from Cracow to Wrocław.
The literature related to the problem of the child in the Middle Ages is quite extensive. The exception is the topic closely connected to the Dominican officium praedicationis, namely sermons to children. The author discusses two sermones ad pueros found in the thirteenth century treatise De instructione puerorum by the Dominican William of Tournai. The sermons are typical model sermons (sermones moderni), the purpose of which was to supply Dominican preachers with schemas and proposals of sermons which were said by them to the youngest pupils in the scholae attached to monasteries.
Among the many pieces of information about Dominicans recorded by Jan Długosz in his works, there is the introduction to the description of the endowment of the Holy Trinity Dominican monastery in Cracow and following it a list of provincials during the years 1225-1478 (in: Liber beneficiorum dioecesis Cracoviensis, vol. III). This quite extensive, as compared to other mentions in the works of Długosz, text forms a short history of the beginnings of the order’s activity in Poland. The picture presented there differs from the version established in mid-14th c. and current later which is found in the Life of St. Hyacinth. It also contains reliable but later forgotten information about brother Gerard of Wrocław who became provincial in 1225 and sent brothers to new monasteries. Comparing this description with Libellus de principiis ord. Praedicatorum written by Jordan of Saxony (first half of the 13th c.) and with the oldest lives of St. Dominic shows that they formed the pattern for its author, most probably from mid-13th c. This relation was certainly used by Długosz. Such ideas could not appear in the times of Długosz when the cult of St. Hyacinth was spread as the founder of the province and miracle maker.
The territory of the Holy Roman Empire (Sacrum Imperium Romanum) had been relatively buzzing with hustling educational activity since the Carolingian era. However, a certain deficit of a qualitative alternative to the university centres, well-known during the High Middle Ages from the other parts of that time Europe, had been present till the foundation of the university in Prague in 1348. Within the German speaking territory of Sacrum Imperium Romanum the mendicants monastic schools (general and particular studies) sui generis had been featured as the immediate predecessor of the local universities, at least in particular cases within the theological field. Before the foundation of the Charles University in Prague, 28 establishments, conceived as studies, are supposed to have existed in the Central Europe area. Mostly Dominicans in their general study in Cologne, formally founded in 1248, meant to be probably the most international and the best educated entity in the German territory, in the most numerous urban commune of that region. The Dominican school of that place earned the international respect mostly thanks to the work of Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas, although the gap between the foundation of the general study and the constitution of the university (University privileges for the city of Cologne were delivered by Urban VI on 21st May 1388 in Perugia) accounted for long 140 years. Even the activities of the latter university took place in the local Dominican and Franciscan convent premises. In the area of the Teutonic Dominican province, there supposed to be two or three schools educating their scholars in the lower – logical – degree of philosophical foundations on the particular, so called provincial schools level. About the year 1284 Teutonia was said to keep already seven of the artistic schools in Regensburg, Basel, Worms, Würzburg, Leipzig, Neuruppin and Halberstadt at its disposal. Later in the 14th century there were far more of different types of Dominican particular studies (comp. the table n.). The effective structure of the Dominican studying centres was highly developed and rationally organized, due to that fact, it became a fundamental part of the posterior educational background, in which the university was definitely established within the beyond the Alps territory Sacrum Imperium Romanum in the second half of 14th century.
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