Манастири у Дробњаку
Monasteries in Drobnjak

Author(s): Žarko Leković
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, History of Church(es), Eastern Orthodoxy, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: Monastery; Drobnjak; Bijela; Podmalinsko; Dobrilovina
Summary/Abstract: Church represented very important part of the social and political development of Drobnjaks. Especially very intensive activities of the monasteries Bijela, Dobrilovina and Podmalinsko, which even without some bigger estates in their possession, but protected by inaccessbility of the terrain and thanks to privileged position of the residents there, they succeded in developing its full potential and fulfilling their job in the most difficult period of slavory under Otoman empire. The influence of these monasteries on the residents and surrounding areas was very evident and very significant. Their influence was evident in whole Hercegovina and monks from these monasteries reached even the farthest serbian areas. Special role and respect belong to the transcribers from the monasteries whose books are very valuable and wanted from many exceptional and important people's leaders (leaders from the populus). Due to the activities of these monks from the monasteries, they were target of Turks attacks. The Turks attacks significantly damaged these monasteries but local citizens after each attack would rebuild and reconstructed the monasteries again, making them even more glorious and magnificient.

• Details
• Contents