Kształtowanie się sieci parafialnej w prepozyturze kieleckiej w czasach średniowiecza

The article Formation of the parish network in the Kielce provostry in the Middle Ages is dividedinto two parts. The first part focuses mainly on examining the development of the churchnetwork and defining the age of the sacred institutions that functioned in the area of theKielce prepostry in the Middle Ages. The second part of the article attempts to recreate theextent of the particular parish districts on the basis of selected sources. In order to do that,tables that list villages which comprised particular pastoral centres were created. It allowedfor observing differences in the historical records about the formation of the parishes. Otherwritten certificates that confirm the earliest existence of a particular village were compiled inan additional column. It allowed for verifying the diligence of the medieval authors who wrotedown the composition of the parishes as the research confirmed the existence of villagesthat they did not mention. The article contains information not only about the formation ofecclesiastical administration in the northern part of the Krakow archdiocese in the MiddleAges; the conclusions also pertain to the progressive process of settling down that took placein the area of Kielce prepostry.