Figures
1 Distribution of Franciscan friaries in East-Central Europe 10
2 Distribution of Dominican friaries in East-Central Europe 14
3 Distribution of Austin Hermit friaries in East-Central Europe 18
4 Distribution of Carmelite friaries in East-Central Europe 21
5 Number of mendicant friaries across the kingdoms of East-Central Europe
a) Austria; b) Bohemia; c) Hungary; d) Poland; e) Silesia 26
6 Number of mendicant friaries in East-Central Europe 29
7 Quarterly income (green) and expenditure (red) during two accounting periods 245
8 Proportion of alms granted to each order in Duke Sigismund Jagiellon’s account books (amounts in florins) 298
9 Development of the network of mendicant friaries in East-Central Europe 305
10 Mendicant friaries in the Kingdom of Hungary around 1500
(The size and proportions of the pie charts reflect the number of friaries) 306
Tables
1 Number of mendicant and Pauline monasteries compared to population in East-Central Europe 23
2 Cities with the highest number of mendicant friaries in East-Central Europe (c.1500) 27
3 Central areas at the end of the fourteenth century
(Jakabhegy: Pauline monastery) 41
4 Central areas at the end of the fifteenth century
(Buda: Franciscan friary taken over by the Observants; Oradea/Nagyvárad: newly founded Observant friary; Szentjeromos: Pauline monastery) 45
5 Chronological composition of the sources 71
6 Wine tithes of the Bistriţa/Beszterce Dominicans in 1413 (in akós) 104
7 Mentions of annual instalments owed in grape and wine in connection with mendicant friaries 112
8 Mills owned by mendicant friaries 122
9 Fishponds owned by mendicant orders 133
10 Townhouses and hides owned by mendicant friaries 141
11 Friaries most frequently mentioned in last wills 158
12 Chronological distribution of wills and similar donations
a) Excluding Pressburg/Pozsony; b) Including Pressburg/Pozsony 160
13 Horses and cattle in testamentary bequests 170
14 Mendicant friaries with indulgence privileges 210
15 Craftspeople listed in the register of the Transylvanian Dominicans (1520s) 216
16 Craftsmen listed among the lay brothers of Salvatorian Franciscan friaries (1535) 216
17 Sum totals in the Prešov/Eperjes account fragments 233
18 Income and outgoings of the Sopron friary (in Vienna denarii) 240
19 Percentage of income from wine sales by year 242
20 Number of confraternity charters issued by mendicant friaries 281
21 Types of estates owned by mendicant friaries 293
22 Alms granted to various mendicant orders in the account book of Duke Sigismund Jagiellon (amounts in florins) 299
23 Donations granted to mendicant orders by King Louis II in the first half of 1525 (amounts in florins) 304
24 Concordance of the place names used on the map 307