Gabriel Hunčaga and Miroslav Huťka, Žobravé rehole a stredoveké mestá. Pôsobenie mendikantov v stredovekom urbánnom prostredí (VERBUM Vydavateľstvo Katolíckej univerzity v Ružomberku, 2022)

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The success of mendicant orders stemmed from offering a modern and convincing religiosity together with pastoral activity. But mainly, in the urban environment they greatly contributed to the acceleration of the “pastoral revolution” as Innocent III envisioned it. In addition to their religious activities, they helped to intensify urban processes in cities, where they decided to build their own infrastructure. Apart from flourishing cities, newly established universities and the social rise of elites such as merchants and intellectuals, The High Middle Ages saw a significant influence of the mendicants, who left a permanent mark on the urban environment.It is no accident that both phenomenons – the medieval urban environment and the mendicant orders – influenced each other. At the same time, we need to emphasize that a kind of symbiosis that existed between European medieval cities and religious institutions that resided in them was not an original innovation of the High Middle Ages, and mendicants were not the first representatives of this historical connection.