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The study focuses on the issue of monastic enclosure in St. George's Abbey at Prague Castle. It gathers sources related to the contacts of Prague Benedictine nuns with the outside world and examines how their separation from the world evolved from the beginnings of the convent in the 10th century to the enforcement of strict enclosure in the first third of the 17th century, which was accompanied by extensive architectural modifications influenced by the Council of Trent. Special attention is given to the visitation of the monastery by Cardinal Guido in 1143, which may have resulted in the initial tightening or introduction of enclosure, though not comparable to later regulations. Based on this finding, it newly interprets the account of the siege and fire of Prague Castle in 1142 from the addition to the Annals of the so-called Vyšehrad Canon as an effort to legitimize monastic reforms through miracles associated with the relics of the abbey's patron saint, St. Ludmila. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Parish priests’ activities in the second half of the 19th and early 20th century were quite varied and demanding and they can be explored through a variety of historical sources. One of them is a set of visitation documents which the parish priests themselves drew up as they were responsible for their handling and filling. By responding to questions in the visitation questionnaires they reported on the status of their parish to the higher echelons of the church administration. They did not send in only reports on their parishes but also on their duties, opinions and work. The present study aims to show the great variety of duties that had to be performed by the parish priests by analysing the visitation protocols from the territory of the Volyně vicariate from the period 1853–1918. In addition, using the answers to the questionnaire questions, it endeavours to uncover something from the personal sphere of their life; for example, whether they were cultured, whether they used to have personal hobbies in their free time, or which genre of literature they preferred.

Parish priests' activities in the second half of the 19th and early 20th century were quite varied and demanding and they can be explored through a variety of historical sources. One of them is a set of visitation documents which the parish priests themselves drew up as they were responsible for their handling and filling. By responding to questions in the visitation questionnaires they reported on the status of their parish to the higher echelons of the church administration. They did not send in only reports on their parishes but also on their duties, opinions and work. The present study aims to show the great variety of duties that had to be performed by the parish priests by analysing the visitation protocols from the territory of the Volyně vicariate from the period 1853-1918. In addition, using the answers to the questionnaire questions, it endeavours to uncover something from the personal sphere of their life; for example, whether they were cultured, whether they used to have personal hobbies in their free time, or which genre of literature they preferred. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]