Mendikanti v začátcích urbanizace českých zemí

The study of towns and medieval urbanization in general cannot avoid the questions associated with the spread of the mendicant orders, first of the Minorites, Dominicans and their female counterparts. The mendicants comprised a small but distinctive class of the urban population from the beginning of the creation of the network of urban municipalities of Bohemia and Moravia, namely from the 1220s. Their hospitalities were located in the walls of larger and economically stronger royal towns; later, the cloisters of the mendicants also took root in the smaller towns and townships.