Monastery Church, Sighișoara
The Monastery Church, also known as the Church of the Dominican Monastery (Romanian: Biserica Mănăstirii Dominicane), is a Gothic church formerly part of a medieval Dominican monastery in Sighişoara, Romania The church was erected in 1289.[1][dubious – discuss] The Monastery was dissolved during the protestant reformation in 1523[2] and demolished in 1888.[1] The monastery was one of a network planned by Paulus Hungarus (Paul the Hungarian) throughout the Kingdom of Hungary to act as a bulwark against heresy.[3] Saxon nobleman Leonard Barlabassy gave the church an endowment.[4]
References
- ^ a b Mallows 2012, p. 189.
- ^ Sighisoara - Biserica Manastirii (www.visittransilvania.ro)s
- ^ Spinei 2012, p. 420.
- ^ Crăciun 2011, p. 64.
Bibliography
- Crăciun, Maria (2011). "Mendicant Piety and the Saxon Community of Transylvania, c. 1450-1550". In Crăciun, Maria; Fulton, Elaine (eds.). Communities of Devotion: Religious Orders and Society in East Central Europe, 1450 - 1800. Ashgate. pp. 29–71. ISBN 978-0754663126.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Mallows, Lucinda (2012). Transylvania. Bradt Travel Guides. ISBN 978-1841624198.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Spinei, Victor (2012). "The Cuman Bishopric—Genesis and Evolution". In Curta, Florin (ed.). The Other Europe in the Middle Ages: Avars, Bulgars, Khazars and Cumans ( (Volume 2 ed.). BRILL. pp. 413–456. ISBN 978-9004163898.
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