The Beginnings of the Independent Czech Provincialate of the Augustinian Eremites Order in the Saint Thomas Monastery from 1604 to cca 1650

Annotation/Abstract: This thesis has aim to express and define circumstances the establishment of the independent Bohemia province of the order of St. Augustin in 1604 and its development to the end of Thirty Years War. The main emphasis will be put in the constructing of adminstration of new province and in personality of Jan Svitavský z Bochova, the first adminstrator. In view, that residence of the provincialate was the St. Thomas convent in Malá Strana, is necessary to point out the importance of this order convent and describe its dual role: first like seat of administrator, the second like the most important convent among other Augustinian convents of Land of the Crown of Bohemia with respect for its political and cultural significance. The author concentrates on relationships between administrator and convent of St. Thomas in Prague, and particular convents with their priors. Among important aims of thesis will be the discovery, how large autonomy of Augustinian convents was in Czech province and what their relation was with administrator, then detect relationships of administrator to general prior in Rome and papal curia. The establishment of independent Czech province in 1604 has of course connections with first re-Catholization attemps and with the position of St. Thomas convent in complicated..