CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Kinde, Anna |
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| Title | The Function of Cathedral Spaces in Late Medieval Central Europe (1300-1563) |
| Summary | The cathedrals examined in depth in this dissertation came from the core medieval kingdoms of the Central European region, Hungary, Poland and Bohemia. From the 1300s until the Council of Trent (1545-1563), these spaces flourished and were home to varied liturgical practices as well as housing some of the peak artistic productions of the Late Middle Ages. Eight cathedrals are investigated: Prague, Gniezno and Esztergom, the archbishoprics of the three kingdoms and prominent sites with useful sources: Poznań, Kraków, Eger, Várad and Zagreb. By researching the standing buildings, or in the case of abandoned projects and destroyed cathedrals, the archaeological findings, information from analogous medieval churches as well as written sources both descriptive (chronicles and inventories) and prescriptive (statutes, commenda prescriptions and liturgical books such as ordinals and breviaries), reconstruction of the Late Medieval sacred topographies of several Central European cathedrals was possible. Next, by employing a functional approach, the reasons for modifying parts of the church or constructing new parts were investigated, and the way in which the already existing spaces were used was analyzed. This study has demonstrates, through researching larger scale changes in the cathedral space first and then advancing to smaller projects, that single actors like kings and bishops cannot be regarded as the sole decision makers for the large-scale projects and the choices regarding the extension or rebuilding of significant portions of the cathedral spaces always reflected the much less concrete needs of the cathedral chapter. |
| Supervisor | Szakács, Béla Zsolt |
| Department | Medieval Studies PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/kinde_anna.pdf |
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