Středověké studijní nadace v Čechách

The submitted article, which is based on the study of official and literary sources, concentrates on educational foundations in medieval Bohemia. Alongside establishment of new schools, their components (colleges) or support of the existing educational institutions, they represented the second most frequent form of educational patronage in all Europe of the western Christian circle. The main purpose of those foundations was material support of the students during their studies. It was not necessarily paid in the form of scholarship; it was also provided indirectly in the form of ensuring of meals, lodging, clothing, payment for medical treatment in case of an illness, purchase of textbooks, etc. Most importantly, it did not concern a one-time subsidy, which we often encounter in the Middle Ages, but support of a permanent character. The study monitors educational foundations that emerged in certain Latin parish schools, or later municipal schools, especially in the so called royal towns, as well as foundations established by the individual benefactors who came from the nobility and other classes of the then society under Prague University. Besides these, the authors also concentrate on foundations supporting students from the Czech lands during their studies at foreign universities (foundation of Adalbertus Ranconis de Ericinio being the best known in this context).