ODRODZENIE NAMYSŁOWSKIEGO KLASZTORU FRANCISZKAŃSKIEGO W XVII WIEKU W ŚWIETLE PIERWSZEGO ROZDZIAŁU KRONIKI KONWENTU

Abstract

The goal of this study is, on the one hand, to outline the circumstances leading to formation of the convent of Reformed Franciscans in Namysłów in 1675, and on the other hand, to show the way of conducting historiographical narrative in the chronicle sources of Reformed Franciscans. This issue is particularly interesting in the context of repossession activities, which have been conducted by the St. Wenceslaus’ Czech province of Reformed Franciscans since the beginning of the 17th century, aiming at the return of observance monasteries confiscated in the era of the Reformation and, in this way, rebuilding the structures of the province. The goal of systematized vision of the past was, on the one hand, to consolidate the young province, on the other hand, to demonstrate historical rights of Czech Reformed Franciscans to particular monastic houses. An example of such narrative, coordinated by one of the provincials, Fr Bernard Sannig, is a chronicle of the convent of Reformed Franciscans in Namysłów, which was, with 9 other monasteries, a Silesian part of Czech province.