The General Novitiate Question within the Dominican Province of Bohemia in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century. A Case Study on a Matter in the Background of the Thirty Years’ War

Abstract

The account deals with the novitiate(s) of the Dominican province of Bohemia in the first half of the 17th century. It was the time when no novitiate existed and when the highest superiors at Rome, as well as the King of Bohemia were thinking of possibilities where and how to establish a novitiate or novitiates within the Bohemian province.