| Abstract (croatian) | Članak prati epidemijski val kuge koji je krenuo 1679. iz austrijske prema slovenskoj
Štajerskoj te preko Ptuja i Varaždina dalje pravcima prema Podravini i Hrvatskome
zagorju stigao do Markuševca i drugih sela na zagrebačkome području. Opis bolesti
i njeno razorno djelovanje u ptujskom kraju donosi se preko jedinstvenoga sačuvanog izvora, pjesme o kugi hajdinskog župnika Jurija Hauptmaniča. Fokusirajući se
zatim na zagrebačku situaciju u ljeto i jesen 1682. te početak 1683, članak analizira
isusovačke i franjevačke izvore, banska pisma, odluke gradečkog magistrata kao i
gospodarske pokazatelje te zaključuje da je pravilnim kriznim upravljanjem izbjegnut prodor epidemije u grad. Članak pritom ispravlja neka dosadašnja mišljenja u
historiografiji, prema kojima bi bolest bila prisutna i u Gradecu. Izvori, međutim,
pokazuju da je ona ostala ograničena na franjevački samostan na Kaptolu te su jedine
žrtve četvorica tamošnjih fratara u kolovozu i rujnu 1682. |
| Abstract (english) | The paper follows the epidemic wave which spread in 1679 from Austrian
towards Slovenian Styria, and then, continuing through Ptuj and Varaždin, moved
in the directions of Podravina and Croatian Zagorje, reaching Markuševac and
other villages in the Zagreb region. A description of the disease and its devastating
impact on the Ptuj region is taken from a unique and preserved source, the Latin
poem about the plague by the Hajdina parish pastor, Jurij Hauptmanič. The paper
then focuses on the situation in Zagreb in the summer and autumn of 1682 and the
beginning of 1683, analysing Jesuit and Franciscan sources, the Croatian Viceroy’s
letters, decisions by the Gradec City Council, as well as economic indicators. The
paper concludes that the epidemic’s penetration of the city was avoided by proper
crisis management. In doing so, the paper rectifies certain hitherto expressed views
in historiography, according to which the plague was also present in Gradec.
Sources, however, show that it remained restricted to the Franciscan monastery
at Kaptol, and that the only victims were four friars in that very monastery, in August and September 1682. They were Franciscan students, sent to Varaždin,
where they were infected by the plague (or possibly during mendication in the
villages), and they died shortly after returning to the monastery at Kaptol. Some
of the Franciscans scattered whilst some stayed in the Kaptol monastery, but two
escaped to the Poor Clares’ convent at Gradec. On 4 September 1682, the Croatian Viceroy ordered that both the Monastery and the Convent be placed under
heavy guard. The doors of the Kaptol monastery were to be bricked up, and the
Gradec convent was to be locked, while ensuring the delivery of food and water.
The Gradec City Council implemented the Viceroy’s orders, but did not introduce
additional measures apart from ordering citizens to keep guard at the city gates
while they were open during the day, and that all vagrants and vagabonds be
immediately put to employment in the city or banished. The Viceroy left open the
city’s ports on the border river of Sava, with strict adherence to the precautionary
measures. The measures taken were adequate, because, apart from the Franciscan
victims, nobody got infected in either Gradec or Kaptol. The disease remained
restricted to a few surrounding villages. At the behest of the Jesuits, the Viceroy
ordered that schools could again be opened on 12 January 1683, which essentially
announced the end of the epidemic in the Zagreb region. |
