Original scientific paper
The Urbar (Feudal Law Regulation on Serfdom Duties and Obligations) of the Pauline Convent Streza in 1477
Mira Kolar Dimitrijević
orcid.org/0000-0002-6050-5700
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb – Full Professor (retired)
Abstract
Around the year 1370, a Pauline convent was established in Streza. Starting off at first as a king’s donation, and later on supported by legates from well - established citizens and other legacies, this convent became a center of a huge church estate. Thanks to a decree of its prior Paul in 1477, an urbar (feudal law regulation on serfdom duties and obligations) was drafted, which regulated almost all relations between the convent’s inhabitants and the convent’s leaders. This regulation is the most important and precious source of historic data for northern Croatia from the second half of 15th century. This regulation helps us learn of other relations from those unsettling times, when the Ottomans endangered peaceful land farming of the region.
Keywords
Pauline order; Streza; church estate; Podravina
Hrčak ID:
79089
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Publication date:
1.6.2003.
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