Živjeti krstjanski pod turskim gospodstvom. Osmansko Carstvo u djelima bosanskih franjevaca 18. stoljeća
Living in the Christian Way under Turkish lordship. The Ottoman Empire in the Works of Eighteenth-Century Bosnian Franciscans

Author(s): Vjeran Kursar
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Croatian Literature, 18th Century, The Ottoman Empire
Published by: Franjevačka teologija Sarajevo
Keywords: Franciscan chronicles; 18th century; The Ottomans; Bosnia; Confessionalization;
Summary/Abstract: The eighteenth century was the golden age of Bosnian Franciscan chronicles.The most famous among them are the chronicles of the monastery of Fojnica, written by Fr. Nikola Lašvanin, the chronicle of the monastery of Kraljeva Sutjeska, written by Fr. Bono Benić, and the chronicle of the monastery of Kreševo, written by Fr. Marijan Bogdanović. Another work of historiographic character, “A Survey of Antiquities of the Bosnian Province”,penned by Fr. Filip Lastrić, should be added to the group as well. Possible reasons for the blossoming of the chronicle genre might be found in global trends, such as increased literacy, the emergence of the Catholic revival, that is, the post-Tridentine Church reform, and the process of confessionalisation, which necessitated affirming and protecting minority identity threatened by assimilation within a dramatic framework of war and its aftermath, turmoil and instability. The key bearers of the Catholic reform in Bosnia were the Franciscans, the only members of the Catholic Church who had official status and the right to work in areas under Ottoman rule.

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