Original scientific paper

MONASTERIUM DE S. PETRI IN MONTE ZLAT

Tajana Pleše

Abstract

Th e Pauline Monastery of St. Peter on Zlat (Petrova gora)
was established in 1303 or 1304 by Father Gerdas (Gerardo,
Grdoš). Th e monastery complex sustained damage
the first time during Ottoman raids in roughly 1451, and
its monks sought refuge in the safer location of Kamensko.
Th e Pauline monks returned to Zlat at around 1495,
but due to increasingly frequent Ottoman incursions, the
monastery was permanently abandoned between 1545
and 1558. After the Paulines abandoned the estate, the
walls of the collapsed nave were used as the foundation
upon which a watchtower (chardak) was constructed,
while a wooden portico was raised on the foundations of
the chancel walls. At the beginning of the nineteenth century,
the Orthodox Temple of the Descent of the Holy Spirit
was erected on the foundations of the church's chancel. It
had a rectangular bell-tower along the eastern section of
the southern façade. The Zlat monastery is, for now, the
only entirely researched (1987-1988, 2006-2007) late medieval
Pauline monastery in the territory of contemporary
Slavonia.

Keywords

Zlat (Petrovac); Late Middle Ages; Pauline monastery

Hrčak ID:

75454

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/75454

Publication date:

30.12.2011.

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