Piety in Practice
Majorossy, Judit (University of Vienna)
This study of religion in the everyday life of late medieval Pressburg (historical Posonium/Pozsony, present-day Bratislava) shows what bequests for the souls of the dead can tell about the religious thinking of fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century inhabitants, and how overlapping religious and secular communities were active in memorial activities. Due to its geographical position, Pressburg was always an important cultural crossroads. Adja...