chroni notebooka

Katarzyna Bock
(Project secretary)
Mateusz Matuszyk
(Project coordinator)
Research project: Cultural heritage of dissolved
monasteries on the territory of former Poland
and in Silesia in 18th and 19th centuries: fate,
significance, cataloguing.
Project report, 6 March–30 November 2012*
1. Organisation of work
The Project was launched on 6 March 2012 by the Polish Historical Society. Its leader is Prof dr hab.
Marek Derwich from the Institute of History, University of Wrocław. The Project team also includes
Mgr Katarzyna Bock (secretary), Mgr Mateusz Matuszyk (coordinator) and Mgr Patryk Dawidziuk
(IT coordinator) as well as nearly 200 collaborators representing various research disciplines.
Staying in touch and exchanging information with them about research conducted in Poland and
other countries into the heritage of the dissolutions are an important part of our activities under
the Project. The full list of the Project collaborators is available on www.kasaty.pl/zespol.
The premises and objectives of the Projects as well as methods stemming from them made a
multifaceted approach necessary. The first thing to be done was to organise the Project Office. To
this end in March 2012 we prepared document templates and forms, document workflow, stamps,
letters with information about the Project launch sent to all collaborators, partner institutions and
other interested parties, and divided tasks between the team members.
At the same time we began organising the technical base. After the Ministry released the funds for
the Project in April and May 2012, we bought the basic technical equipment, i.e. office equipment
(computers, monitors, a paper shredder, printer, photographic equipment, minor electronic
devices), the domain www.kasaty.pl, office software and supplies.
In addition, we worked on the Project graphic design. The Project logo and the logo of the
Hereditas Monasteriorum journal as well as the layout of the website www.hm.kasaty.pl were
ready in May 2012. Promotional materials (Project stationery, pens, notebooks, roll-ups, lanyards,
pins and stickers) were ready in June 2012. We also produced a graphic design for our series
“Cultural Heritage of Dissolved Monasteries” under which we will publish monographs, conference
proceedings, source editions, inventories and catalogues financed or co-financed under the
Project.
1.1. Website
One of the key elements in the promotion of the Project as well as one of its tools is a website.
After purchasing the domain, we designed the website’s structure (tabs and categories) and layout,
and then programmed the site (June 2012). The ultimate purpose of the website is to serve as an
information platform for our collaborators as well as people interested in the project; the
information published on it is grouped into four thematic categories: “News”, “Project chronicle”,
“Conferences” and “Publications”. The websites features information about various events
(“Events” tab) and about the Project (“The Project”), links to electronic databases and materials
* Research funded under the Ministry of Science and Higher Education’s “National Programme for the Development
of Humanities” for 2012–2016.
(“Knowledge Portal”), list of current collaborators (“Team”), list of partner institutions (“Partners”)
as well as contact data (“Contact”). In August 2012 the website was made available in English and
(in a limited version) German.
As the project grew and there were new needs relating to its effective functioning, in October 2012
we decided to rebuilt the website, which would operate under a new structure as of January 2013.
The “Events” tab will feature news, information about conferences, new publications as well as
current research. The “Project” tab will include information about the project, practical
information for our collaborators, list of current collaborators (“Team”) as well as partners and
project chronicle. A separate “Conferences” tab will feature information about past and future
conferences. Under the “Publications” tab users will find a list of publications published under the
Project series, publications in preparation and publications associated with the Project. Under the
“Online material” tab they will find inventories and catalogues, publications from the Project
series, sources, articles as well as other materials – everything to be downloaded free of charge.
Databases will be found under the “Knowledge Portal” tab and contact data – under the “Contact”
tab.
1.2. Knowledge Portal
The website www.kasaty.pl is also to serve as a platform for making available the information
collected in thematic databases, i.e. the so-called Knowledge Portal. Initially, work on the
Knowledge Portal was carried out simultaneously on two planes. The first concerned the
formulation of a concept for the whole portal as well as tests and corrections of the structures of
databases: of dissolved monasteries (March-May 2012), bibliography (March-May 2012), fate of
the monastics, printed materials, manuscripts, dissolution and post-dissolution archives, natural
heritage, ownership marks (April-May 2012), movables and architecture (June-July 2012) and
musical items (July-August 2012).
The second concerned strictly IT-related development. The main objective is to prepare a tool
making it possible to collect, search and publish information online. So far we have accomplished
the following:
- We have developed the concept of the database structure, designed and created it, and analysed
its user authority levels (April-June 2012);
- We have developed the concept of and designed database modules (June-July 2012);
- We have developed of the concept of the user interface for the databases and designed it (July
2012);
- We have designed and created the user interface with regard to database search (August 2012);
- We have developed the concept of the search module for the databases (August 2012);
The IT development activities also included preparation of Excel-based forms making it possible to
collect information on data storage devices (September 2012). The online forms will be launched
by the end of this year. The Excel-based forms will be used wherever access to the internet is
hampered or impossible.
2. Research
When it comes to its substance, the “launch” of the Project required a number of conversations
with coordinators, members of the research teams and individual collaborators in order to verify
the scope of the planned research and draw up its schedule. 12 research teams have already
started working.
2.1. Research teams
This year 12 research teams have carried out their work under the Project.
The first team, coordinated by Dr hab. Tomasz Ciesielski, professor at the University of Opole,
Director of its Institute of History (working in collaboration with Mgr Arleta Ciupińska, Institute of
History, University of Opole; Dr Vitaliy Holubovych, State Agrarian University in Grodno; Dr Witalij
Rosowski, Centre for the Study of the Polish Community Abroad and Its Ministry, John Paul II
Catholic University of Lublin; Dr Mariusz Sawicki, Institute of History, University of Opole; Dr Irena
Wodzianowska, Institute of History, Catholic University of Lublin; Mgr Raisa Zianiuk, Institute of
History, Belarusian Academy of Sciences) studies the heritage of monasteries dissolved in former
Polish territories incorporated into the Russian Empire. Presentation of the team, its objectives,
accomplishments and plans as well as report on preliminary research carried out by its members,
see HM 1, 2012, pp. 382-406.
The second team, coordinated by Dr hab. Piotr Oliński, Institute of History and Archive Studies,
Nicolaus Copernicus University of Toruń (working in collaboration with Dr Marta Czyżak, Nicolaus
Copernicus University Library; Dr Monika Jakubek-Raczkowska, Institute of Conservation and
Restoration Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University; Mgr Witold Konopka, doctoral student at the
Institute of History and Archive Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University of Toruń; Dr Sławomir
Kościelak, Institute of History, University of Gdańsk; Dr Rafał Kubicki, Institute of History, University
of Gdańsk; Dr Izabela Mazanowska, Institute of National Remembrance, Gdańsk; Dr Juliusz
Raczkowski, Institute of Conservation and Restoration Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University; Dr
hab., prof. UMK Waldemar Rozynkowski, Institute of History and and Archive Studies, Nicolaus
Copernicus University of Toruń), researches the heritage of dissolved monasteries in Pomerelia and
Chełmno Region. This year the team has published a monograph Źródła pokasacyjne klasztorów w
zaborze pruskim w XIX w. i w Polsce północnej po 1945 r. [Post-Dissolution Sources Concerning
Monasteries in the Territories Annexed by Prussia in the 19th Century and in Northern Poland after
1945]. Presentation of the team, its objectives, accomplishments and plans as well as report on
preliminary research carried out by S. Kościelak, see HM 1, 2012, pp. 407-410.
The third team, coordinated by Rev dr hab. Janusz Królikowski, professor at the John Paul II
Pontifical University in Kraków, Faculty of Theology, Tarnów Branch (working in collaboration with
Dr Anna Gąsior and Rev dr hab. Kazimierz Talarek), studies the heritage of dissolved monasteries in
the Diocese of Tarnów. Preliminary report, see HM 1, 2012, pp. 411-412.
The fourth team, coordinated by Dr hab. inż. Małgorzata Milecka, professor at the University of Life
Sciences in Lublin, Chair of Landscape Design and Conservation, Faculty of Horticulture and
Landscape Architecture (working in collaboration with her doctoral students, Mgr inż. Iwona
Brankiewicz and Mgr inż. Ewelina Widelska), studies the natural heritage of the dissolved
monasteries, namely their gardens and parks, primarily (though not exclusively) in the Małopolska
region. Presentation of the team, its objectives, accomplishments and plans as well as report on
preliminary research carried out by its members, see HM 1, 2012, pp. 413-417.
The fifth team, coordinated by Dr Marcin Jewdokimow, Institute of Classical and Cultural Studies,
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (working in collaboration with Dr Barbara
Markowska, Collegium Civitas in Warsaw), researches the memory of dissolved monasteries.
Research premises and report on field studies in Wierzbnik, see HM 1, 2012, pp. 418-422.
The sixth team, made up of six archivists from the Central Archives of Historical Records (AGAD)
and coordinated by Mgr Małgorzata Kośka (working in collaboration with Mgr Dorota
Lewandowska, Mgr Alicja Nowak, Mgr Inga Stembrowicz, Mgr Łukasz Truściński, Mgr Jarosław
Zawadzki), records sources relating to dissolved monasteries and kept in the AGAD.
These are the monasteries’ own documents as well as documents of institutions and official bodies
conducting the dissolutions and then managing the legacy of the former monasteries. The team
will start from documents kept in the following fonds: Zbiór Dokmentów Pergaminowych
[Parchment Documents], Centralne Władze Wyznaniowe Królestwa Polskiego [Central Religious
Authorities of the Kingdom of Poland], Warszawskie Archiwum Radziwiłłów [The Warsaw Archives
of the Radziwiłł Family], Dział VIII – Akta dotyczące duchowieństwa [Section VIII – Clergy Records].
Work plan, see HM 1, 2012, pp. 423-424.
The seventh team, coordinated by Dr Piotr Dymmel, Director of the State Archives in Lublin
(working in collaboration with Dr Anna Dymmel, Institute of Scientific Information and Library
Studies, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University; Dr Paweł Janowski, Centre for the Study of the Polish
Community Abroad and Its Ministry, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin; Dr Anna NowickaStruska, Institute of Polish Studies, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University), has begun to study and
edit 16 records documenting the seizure of monasteries in the Governorate of Lublin after the
January Uprising and kept in the State Archives in Lublin. Preliminary report, see HM 1, 2012, pp.
425-428.
The eighth team, made up of four librarians from the Early Printed Books Department, Warsaw
University Library, coordinated by Mgr Izabela Wiencek (working in collaboration with Mgr Elżbieta
Bylinowa, Mgr Marianna Czapnik, Dr Joanna Milewska-Kozłowska), has been surveying the early
printed books holdings at the Warsaw University Library since September 2012, compiling a
database, Libraries from dissolved monasteries: history, ownership marks, sources, that will form
part of the Knowledge Portal. Preliminary report, see HM 1, 2012, pp. 429-430.
The ninth team, coordinated by Prof dr hab. Tomasz Jasiński, Director of the Kórnik Library of the
Polish Academy of Sciences (working in collaboration with Mgr Łukasz Borowiak and Mgr
Małgorzata Potocka), has begun working on a catalogue of all historic manuscripts and printed
books from dissolved monasteries kept in the Kórnik Library. Preliminary report, see HM 1, 2012,
pp. 431.
In September 2012 the tenth team, coordinated by Mgr Urszula Bończuk-Dawidziuk, University of
Wrocław Museum (working in collaboration with Mgr Anna Jezierska and Dr Arkadiusz Wojtyła,
both from the Institute of Art History, University of Wrocław), began preparing an edition of Acta
manualia die Uebernahme der Bibliotheken, Kunstsammlungen & Archive in den aufgehobenen
Klöstern Schlesiens betreffend. Büsching. The sources will be published under the Project series;
preliminary report, see HM 1, 2012, pp. 432-433.
The eleventh team, coordinated by Dr Alina Mądry, Department of Musicology, Adam Mickiewicz
University, and Museum of Musical Instruments, branch of the National Museum in Poznań
(working in collaboration with Mgr Patryk Frankowski, Museum of Musical Instruments, and Dr
Magdalena Walter-Mazur, Department of Musicology, Adam Mickiewicz University), studies
musical items associated with ensembles from the monasteries in Otyń (Jesuits) and Strzelno
(Norbertine Sisters) kept in the Museum of Musical Instruments in Poznań, and musical items from
former monasteries kept in the Library of the Diocesan Seminary in Sandomierz, and works on an
inventory of musical instruments from monasteries dissolved in the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth and Silesia in the 18th and 19th centuries. Preliminary report, see HM 1, 2012, pp.
434-437.
The twelfth team, made up of four librarians from the Music Collection Department, Warsaw
University Library, and students, coordinated by Mgr Ewę Hauptman-Fischer (working in
collaboration with Mgr Magdalena Borowiec, Barbara Kalinowska, Mgr Ludmiła Sawicka, Music
Collection Department, Warsaw University Library; and Mgr Katarzyna Spurgjasz, musicology
student), is compiling an inventory of musical items kept in the Music Collection Department of the
Warsaw University Library. Presentation of the collection and ongoing research, see HM 1, 2012,
pp. 438-441.
2.2. Preliminary research conducted by the Project Office.
In May and June 2012 Mateusz Matuszyk, in collaboration with Anna Jezierska, compiled an initial
photographic inventory of buildings belonging to the dissolved monasteries in Wrocław. A report
will be published in HM, 2, 2013.
In June and July 2012 Mateusz Matuszyk conducted preliminary research at Österreichisches
Staatsarchiv in Vienna to identify sources relating to Josephinist dissolutions in Galicia. Report, see
HM 1, 1,2012, pp. 381.
2.3. Preliminary research and miscellaneous studies
Individual studies have also been conducted as part of the Project:
Dr Agnieszka Fluda-Krokos, Institute of Scientific Information and Library Studies, Pedagogical
University of Cracow, has compiled a preliminary inventory of the remnants of the library and
archives of the Monastery of the Augustinian Hermits in Książ Wielki preserved in the local parish
church as part of the first stage of salvage work on endangered remnants of book collections from
former monasteries. Report, see HM 1, 2012, pp. 442-447.
Mgr Grzegorz Joachimiak, Department of Musicology, University of Wrocław, is preparing an
inventory of manuscripts and printed material associated with the ensemble active in Monastery
of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre in Nysa as well as an inventory of items from the collection of
lute tablatures from the Cistercian Monastery in Krzeszów. Report, see HM 1, 2012, pp. 448-456.
Dr Olga Miriam Przybyłowicz, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
in Warsaw, has completed the first stage of preliminary research at the Archdiocesan Archives in
Gniezno concerning archival documents from dissolved Poor Clare monasteries. Report, see HM 1,
2012, pp. 456-462.
Dr Marek L. Wójcik, Institute of History, University of Wrocław, has carried out preliminary research
at the Prague archives (Närodni Archiv), report, see HM, 1, 2012, pp. 463-471, and has begun
working on an edition of 19th-century inventories of documents from former monasteries kept in
the State Archives in Wrocław and compiled by Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching, Johann Karl
Friedrich Jarick and Gustav Adolf Harald Stenzel.
In addition, plans for 2013 include the following books: Dr Jerzy Kaliszuk (Institute of Scientific
Information and Bibliological Studies, University of Warsaw), Manuscripta deperdita. Rękopisy
średniowieczne BN utracone w czasie II wojny światowej [Manuscripta Deperdita. Medieval
Manuscripts from the National Library Lost During the Second World War], vols 1-3; Rev Prof
Janusz Królikowski, Źródła do dziejów trynitarzy w epoce kasat oraz schematyzmy zakonne z epoki
kasat [Sources for the Study of the History of Trinitarians During Dissolutions] and Schematyzmy
zakonne z epoki kasat [Monastic Yearbooks from the Dissolution Period]; Prof Maria PidłypczakMajerowicz (Institute of Scientific Information and Library Studies, Pedagogical University of
Cracow, Książki zakonne z XV-XVIII wieku w zbiorach ossolińskich. Studium proweniencji; [Monastic
Books from the 15th-18th Centuries in the Ossoliński Collections. A Provenance Study];
Prof Tadeusz Trajdos, Ostatnie zachowane inwentarze opactwa benedyktynów w Starych Trokach z
1797 i 1799 [The Last Extant Inventories of the Benedictine Monastery of Stare Troki from 1797
and 1799].
2.4. Acquisition of source and iconographic material
Digitised material obtained in the course of the research mentioned above will be published in the
Knowledge Portal and the Hereditas Monasteriorum journal.
In addition:
For the needs of the project and the Knowledge Portal in June 2012 we acquired the copyright on
photographs, together with their descriptions, of paintings, sculptures and stained-glass windows
as well as other items from the Church of the Assumption in Lubiąż; in September 2012 we
digitised the Acta manualia die Uebernahme der Bibliotheken, Kunstsammlungen & Archive in den
aufgehobenen Klöstern Schlesiens betreffend. Büsching (Büsching Papers) from the University
Library;
in Wrocław in September 2012 we acquired copies of selected records of the President of the
Province of Poznań from the State Archives in Poznań as well as individual documents and archival
inventories. In addition, we purchased copies of 37 documents of the 1830 visitations of Basilian
monasteries, which are currently being edited.
2.5. Acquisition of literature
Between May and September 2012 the following books were purchased for the needs of the
Knowledge Portal:
M. AUGE, Formy zapomnienia [Les Formes de l’oubli], Polish translation by A. Turczyn, introduction
by J. Mikułowski Pomorski, Kraków 2009.
M. AUSZ, Szkoły pijarskie na Lubelszczyźnie w wiekach XVII-XIX [Piarist Schools in the Lublin Region
in the 17th-19th Centuries], Lublin 2006.
S. BEDNARSKI SJ, Upadek i odrodzenie szkół jezuickich w Polsce. Studium z dziejów kultury i
szkolnictwa polskiego [The Fall and Revival of Jesuit Schools in Poland. A Study Into the History of
Polish Culture and Education System], Kraków 1933; reprint in the Klasycy jezuickiej historiografii
[Classics of Jesuit historiography] series, 3, Kraków 2003.
P. BIANCHINI (cura), Morte e resurrezione di un Ordine religioso. Le strategie culturali ed educative
della Compagnia di Gesu durante la soppressione (1759-1814) (Storia / ricerche), Milano 2006.
M. DELL'OMO, Storia del monachesimo occidentale dal medioevo all'etä contemporanea. Il
carisma di san Benedetto tra VI eXXsecolo (Gia e non ancora, 493; Complementi alla Storia della
Chiesa diretta de H. Jedin), Milano 2011.
W. DRELICHARZ (ed.), Pomniki epigrafiki i heraldyki dawnej Rzeczypospolitej na Ukrainie
[Monuments of Epigraphy and Heraldry of the Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in
Ukraine], vol. 2: Dawne województwo podolskie [Former Province of Podolia], ed. P. Kuliszewicz,
Kraków 2005.
M. INGLOT SJ, La Compagnia di Gesu nell'Impero Russo (1772-1820) e la sua parte nella
restaurazione generale della Compagnia (Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana, Miscellanea Historiae
Pontificiae, 63), Roma 1997.
Katalog druków XVI wieku w zbiorach Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej w Warszawie [Catalogue of 16thCentury Printed Books in the Collection of the Warsaw University Library], ed. H. Mieczkowska, vol.
3: C-E; vol. 4: F-K (Acta Bibliothecae Universitatis Varsoviensis), Kraków 2007, 2011.
Kościoły i klasztory rzymskokatolickie dawnego województwa ruskiego [Roman Catholic Churches
and Monasteries in the Former Ruthenian Province], vols 1, 4-5, 7-8, 11, 13-16, 18 (Materiały do
dziejów sztuki sakralnej na ziemiach wschodnich dawnej Rzeczypospolitej [Materials for the study
of the history of religious art in the eastern regions of the former Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth], part 1, vol. 1, 4-5, 7-8, 11, 13-16, 18), Kraków 1993, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000,
2003, 2005-2008, 2010.
Kościoły i klasztory rzymskokatolickie dawnego województwa wileńskiego [Roman Catholic
Churches and Monasteries in the Former Province of Vilnius], vols 1, 4-5, 7-8, 11, 13-16, 3
(Materiały do dziejów sztuki sakralnej na ziemiach wschodnich dawnej Rzeczypospolitej [Materials
for the study of the history of religious art in the eastern regions of the former Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth], part 3, vol. 3), Kraków 2010.
P. T. KWIATKOWSKI, Pamięć zbiorowa społeczeństwa polskiego w okresie transformacji [The
Collective Memory of Polish Society in the Transformation Period], Warszawa 2008.
W. MALINOWSKI, Opisanie krótkie dziejów domu księży misjonarzy i seminarium diecezjalnego w
Krakowie na Stradomiu od roku 1817 miesiąca maja [A Short History of the House of the Vincentian
Missionaries and Diocesan Seminary in Cracow Since May 1817], edited and introduced by M.
Hałaburda, Kraków 2011.
R. PELCZAR, Szkoły parafialne na pograniczu polsko-ruskim (ukraińskim) w Galicji w latach 17721869 [Parish Schools in the Polish-Ruthenian (Ukrainian) Border Region in 1772–1869], Lublin 2009.
L. M. de SAN MARTÍN OSA (cura), Le soppressioni del secolo XIX e l’Ordine Agostiniano.
Congressodell'Istituto Storico Agostiniano, Roma 19-23 ottobre 2009 (Studia Augustiniana
Histórica, 17), Roma 2010.
I. STASIEWICZ-JASIUKOWA (ed.), Wkład jezuitów do nauki i kultury w Rzeczypospolitej Obojga
Narodów i pod zaborami [The Jesuits’ Contribution to Science and Culture of the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth and During the Partition Period], Kraków-Warszawa 2004.
A. STERNICKI, Henryk JACKOWSKI SJ, inicjator odnowy religijnej i społecznej Kościoła w Galicji.
Wspomnienie w stulecie śmierci 1834-1905 [Henryk Jackowski SJ, Initiator of the Religious and
Social Revival of the Church in Galicia. On the Centenary of His Death, 1834–1905], Kraków 2006.
3. Conferences and seminars
3.1. Conferences organised under the Project
12-15 July 2012, Rytwiany near Staszów: Losy klasztorów i zbiorów poklasztornych w okresie
represji po upadku powstania listopadowego w 1831 r. [The Fate of Monasteries and Former
Monastery Collections During the Period of Repression Following the Fall of the November Uprising
in 1831] (detailed conference report, see HM, 1, 2012, pp. 378-380, and on http://
www.kasaty.pl/wydarzenia.html). The papers delivered during the conference will be published as
part of the conference proceedings in 2013.
A section dedicated to the monastic economy in the dissolution period was held during the
international conference Klasztor w gospodarce średniowiecznej i nowożytnej [Monasteries in the
Medieval and Early Modern Economy], 8-21 October 2012, Wrocław, organised by the Wrocław
Friends of History Society, Institute of History of the University of Wrocław, and Institute of History
of the University of Opole.
3.2. Methodological seminars
The Project plans include a series of methodological seminars devoted to research into the cultural
heritage of the dissolved monasteries and addressed to humanities students. Their purpose is to
make young scholars familiar with research undertaken under the Project, show them possibilities
for collaboration and conducting their own research under the Project as well as the usefulness of
the databases created under the Project as research tools. By presenting the Project we also intend
to “educate” future Knowledge Portal users.
The first of these seminars was held on 16 October 2012 in the Institute of History, University of
Opole, following an invitation of Prof Tomasz Ciesielski. Upcoming seminars in the series are to be
held soon in Wrocław, Kraków and Warsaw.
3.3. Participation in conferences
Members of the Project team as well as our collaborators have taken part in several conferences
thematically linked to the Project:
22-24 March 2012, Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, Centre for the Study of the Book, How the
secularization of religious houses transformed the libraries of Europe, 16th–19th centuries, during
which Prof Marek Derwich (Wrocław) and Dr Oleh Duch (Lviv) presented a paper entitled: The
dissolution of monasteries in Silesia and Poland (with contemporaries Belarus, Lithuania and
Ukraine) and the fate of their libraries, 18th–19th centuries. Report on the conference, see HM, 1,
2012, pp. 329-333.
10-12 May 2012, Warsaw, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University of Warsaw, Warsaw University
Library: Przestrzeń klasztoru - przestrzeń kultury. Piśmiennictwo, książka, edukacja [Monastic Space
– Cultural Space. Writing, Book, Education], during which Prof Marek Derwich delivered a paper
entitled Klasztor a kultura przez wieki. Uwagi metodyczne i zarys problemu [Monasteries and
culture across centuries. Methodological remarks and an outline of the problem] and a
communication paper Nowe projekty i inicjatywy badawcze poświęcone dziedzictwu kulturowemu
klasztorów [New research projects and initiatives devoted to the cultural heritage of monasteries].
Report on the conference, see HM, 1, 2012, pp. 339-341.
22-23 May 2012, Warsaw, Editorial Research Society at the Institute of Historical Sciences, Cardinal
Stefan Wyszyński University of Warsaw: Kultura rękopiśmienna Polski wieków średnich. Skryptoria i
kancelarie kościelne [Manuscript Culture of the Polish Middles. Scriptoria and Church
Chancelleries], during which Mgr Piotr Szukiel (Wrocław) presented a paper entitled Liber
ordinarius opactwa NMP na Piasku w tradycji liturgicznej diecezji wrocławskiej [Liber Ordinarius of
the Abbey of Our Lady on the Sand Island in the liturgical tradition of the Wrocław diocese] . Report
on the conference, see HM, 1, 2012, pp. 341-342.
19-20 September 2012, Warsaw, Institute of Scientific Information and Bibliological Studies,
University of Warsaw: Zagarnięte - ukryte - poszukiwane - odzyskane [Seized, Hidden, Sought,
Recovered], during which Katarzyna Bock delivered a communication paper entitled Główne
założenia i cele oraz metody realizacji projektu Narodowego Programu Rozwoju Humanistyki pn.
„Dziedzictwo kulturowe po klasztorach skasowanych na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej oraz na
Śląsku w XVIII iXIX w.: losy, znaczenie, inwentaryzacjaˮ [Main premises, objectives and methods of
the National Programme for the Development of Humanities project “Cultural heritage of dissolved
monasteries on the territory of former Poland and in Silesia in 18th and 19th centuries: fate,
significance, cataloguingˮ]. Report on the conference, see HM, 1, 2012, pp. 350-353.
8-21 October 2013, Wrocław, Wrocław Friends of History Society, Institute of History, University of
Wrocław, Institute of History, University of Opole, under the honorary patronage of our Project:
Klasztor w gospodarce średniowiecznej i nowożytnej [Monasteries in the Medieval and Early
Modern Economy], during which Mateusz Matuszyk (Wrocław) delivered a communication paper
on the Project premises, objectives and methods, and during a special section dedicated to the
monastic economy in the dissolution period Project collaborators delivered the following papers:
Dr Sławomir KOŚCIELAK (Institute of History, University of Gdańsk), Majątek ruchomy i nieruchomy
brygidek gdańskich u progu rozbiorów i kasat pruskich oraz jego losy na przełomie XVIII i XIX w.
[Movable and immovable property of the Bridgettine Convent in Gdańsk on the brink of partitions
and Prussian dissolutions and its fate at the turn of the 19th century];
Dr Beata LORENS (Institute of History, University of Rzeszów), Stan gospodarczy męskich
klasztorów bazyliańskich w Galicji w przeddzień kasat oraz losy majątku poklasztornego. Zarys
problemu [The economic condition of male Basilian monasteries in Galicia on the eve of the
dissolutions and the fate of the property of the dissolved monasteries. An outline of the problem];
Dr Valentina LOS (Manuscript Institute, Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine), Gospodarka
bazyliańskich klasztorów żeńskich w świetle dokumentów klasztornych oraz reguł biskupów (Wołyń,
XVIII - początek XIX w.) [The economy of female Basilian monasteries in the light of monastery
documents and bishops’ rules. Volhynia, 18th–early 19th century];
Prof Roland PREJS OFMCap. (Institute of Church History and Patrology, Catholic University of
Lublin), Z doświadczeń kapucyńskich kwestarzy przełomu XIX i XX w. [The experiences of Capuchin
fund collectors from the late 19th and early 20th centuries];
Dr Witalij ROSOWSKI (Centre for the Study of the Polish Community Abroad and Its Ministry,
Catholic University of Lublin), Uposażenie klasztoru bernardynów w Janowie na Podolu w końcu
XVIII wieku oraz jego losy po kasacie klasztoru w 1832 r. [The endowment of the Bernardine
Monastery in Janów, Podolia, in the late 18th century and its fate after the dissolution of the
monastery in 1832];
Dr Irena WODZIANOWSKA (Institute of History, Catholic University of Lublin), Losy majątku
klasztoru bazyliańskiego w Zahorowie na Wołyniu po jego kasacie w 1839 r. [The fate of the
property of the Basilian Monastery in Zahorów, Volhynia, after its dissolution in 1839]
A conference report will be published in HM, 2, 2013.
4. Publications
4.1. Publications about the Project and about Hereditas Monasteriorum
Marek DERWICH, “Hereditas Monasteriorum. Zapowiedź nowego półrocznika” [Hereditas
Monasteriorum, a new biannual journal], Barok: Historia - Literatura - Sztuka, 19, 2012, 1 (37), pp.
255-257.
Marek DERWICH, L'héritage culturel laissé par les monastères dissous sur le territoire de l'ancienne
République de Pologne et en Silésie auxXVIII e etXIXe siècle: sort, importance, inventaire (Projet de
recherche du Programme National des Sciences Humaines n° 11H 11 021280), “Revue Mabillon”,
23, 2012, in press.
4.2. Information about the Project published on various websites
Hereditas Monasteriorum: Knowledge Portal and scholarly journal (http://www.rm.unina.it/index.
php?action=viewnews&news=1347517911, retrieved: 20 February 2012)
Hereditas Monasteriorum (history.org.ua/new.php, retrieved: 27 March 2012)
Patrimoine monastique et postmonastique, apple revue “Hereditas Monasteriorum”
(science.skytopic.org/35275363077-patrimoine-monastique-et-postmonastique-apple-revuehereditas-monasterio-rum, retrieved: 1 March 2012)
“Hereditas Monasteriorium - nowy półrocznik naukowy” (http://dolny-slask.org.pl/article.action?
view=&id=503768, dostęp: 28 March 2012)
Запускается новый научный журнал Hereditas Monasteriorum (http://medieval.hse.ru/news/
49375554.html, retrieved: 15 March 2012)
4.3. Hereditas Monasteriorum
Our publishing activities under the Project include the journal Hereditas Monasteriorum, the first
issue of which you are now holding. Its publication required first of all an editorial team as well as a
lot of concept work, including defining our research interests, formulating guidelines for authors,
designing a layout for the journal, as well as designing and creating its website, hm.kasaty.pl.
At the same time we tried to build up an academic committee, inviting Polish and international
specialists, reviewers for articles published in the journal and, most importantly, their authors.
You will find all information about the journal on the website mentioned above (description of the
journal, information for the authors, members of the academic committee and the editorial
board). The website also features the online version of the current issue.
Papers written under the Project are marked with an asterisk (*).