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ST. PETER IN THE WOODS IN EARLY MODERN TIMES (17th – 19th CENTURIES)
Slaven BERTOŠA
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Settlement St. Peter in the Woods, in the hinterland of the Limska draga, situated at 341 meters above sea level, consists of 27 scattered villages named after families that live there. The settlement was named after the monastery, which was founded by the Benedictine monks in the twelfth century. In the period 1459 and 1782 the Pauline order inhabited the monastery, and henceforth monastery church was turned into a local parish church, while the rest of the monastery became a private property. During the early modern times the Pauline monks renovated the entire monastery, while the present-day church together with other monastery’s edifices around the cloister were built by the end of the seventeenth
and during the eighteenth century. Pauline monk Šimun Bratulić started renovation of the church of Ss. Peter and Paul, and by the 1755 the church was increased and finished. The old abbey was named de Silva (de Sylva, Subsilva, in Silva, in Silvis, in Selve) because of the dense oak forest in the surroundings, and the monastery itself was placed on an elevated position. The Pauline monks were tightly connected with Austrian cultural circle, and consequently they developed a frim cultural and enlightenment activities. Moreover, one should not forget that during the 1780s this monastery hosted a pharmacy because the Pauline monks
practiced medicine. One of the most prominent persons of the ecclesiastical history of this monastery, but also very important character in the political and public life in the Kingdom
of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia, was Šimun Bratulić (born in Glavica, around 1550 and died in Ižakovci near Čakovec in 1611). Many early modern writers and historiographers, like Giacomo Filippo Tomasini, Prospero Petronio and Johann Weickhard Valvasor, have mentioned and described the monastery of St. Peter in the Woods.
By the same token, local records of city of Pula can serve as a good primary source in the reconstruction of migrations of the population of St. Peter in the Woods. All the recorded inhabitants of St. Peter in the Woods are related only to one family. Some of them are
recorded in the seventeenth century without stating their surnames, and this was common at that time. Though people from this settlement are recorded in a smaller number comparing to the inhabitants of other places of Istria, they represent a sample that forms a certain pattern according to which we can deepen our knowledge about the history of Istria hinterland.
Ključne riječi
St Peter in the Woods; Istria; history of the early modern times; parish records; social history; demographic history
Hrčak ID:
151858
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Datum izdavanja:
18.12.2015.
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