PROCES UDEĽOVANIA FARSKÉHO BENEFÍCIA VO VIDIECKYCH FARNOSTIACH VRCHOLNE STREDOVEKÉHO UHORSKÉHO KRÁĽOVSTVA AKO PRÍKLAD KOMUNIKÁCIE MEDZI CIRKEVNOU A SVETSKOU MOCOU

The study focuses on the process of granting a parish benefice in rural areas within the High Medieval Kingdom of Hungary. It examines charters, preserved in the so-called Levoča or Spiš rotulus, which deal with the valid course of this process. Their limited quantity does not diminish their high evidential value. They were intended to confirm the valid bestowal of the parish benefice and the office of the parish priest. They also shared a similar structure and have been used as evidence in a dispute between the Provost of Spiš and the Bishop of Eger in the 30th of the 14th century. Therefore, it can be inferred that they encompassed all the contemporary requirements that had to be fulfilled for the possession of the benefice to be indisputable. The work is divided into two parts and aims to clarify progress of granting parish benefices and the forms of communication among the participants in the process. The first phase was associated with the lay patron. There can observe the process of selecting a new parish priest, forms of presentation, and other related aspects, including the participation of parishioners. The second part belonged to the ordinary and was supposed to consist of three steps: proclamatio, investiture, introductio. In the analysed documents, only the investiture can be discussed and studied.