ABSTRACT
With the preceding chapter, we have placed the reform of the Körmend cloister within the long-term process of growing lay agency in church affairs. More specifically, we have concluded that the religious reform of the friary in Körmend was shaped decisively within a dynamic of communal and seigniorial needs whose spiritual and political aspects were inseparable. Moreover, we attributed the initial success of implementing reform to the overlaps of the above agendas. In other words, subsequent lords of the town deemed it advisable to take charge of religious reform initiated by energy that came “from below”, but which served at the same time their own political interests of restoring peace and stabilizing power structures. The final failure of reform stemmed, in turn, from the divergence of communal and seigniorial action.
