AD MESTRIS LOCUM. WHERE WAS THE MONASTERY FOUNDED BY ST. ADALBERT LOCATED? (Ad Mestris locum. Gdzie znajdowal sie klasztor zalozony przez sw. Wojciecha?)

• Authors: Jurek Tomasz
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article is devoted to identification of the mysterious Mestris where St. Adalbert during his last journey from Saxony to Poland (at the turn of 996 and 997) supposedly founded a monastery. The story is told by the early 11th century Passion of St. Adalbert. In older literature the monastery was localized in Poland (usually in Miedzyrzecz, sometimes, but based on very poor arguments, also in Trzemeszno or Leczyca). For over half a century, however, it has been unanimously accepted that Mestris is identical to the Hungarian abbey of Mons Ferreus (Pécsvárad). That hypothesis is difficult to accept, so a Polish localization must be reconsidered. Mestris is most probably Miedzyrzecz in Western Great Poland.The existence of an abbey there is confirmed by the chronicle of Thietmar of Merseburg under the year 1005. If such identification of Mestris is accepted, it is necessary to undertake once again the search for the hermitage of the Five Brethren Martyrs (so far usually localized in Miedzyrzecz) and to reconsider the views about the journey of St. Adalbert to Poland and across Poland.

Keywords

EN

HAGIOGRAPHY; MONASTERY; POLAND (10 C.); ST. ADALBERT

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Journal: Roczniki Historyczne
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 75
• Pages: 7-24
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jurek Tomasz

• Tomasz Jurek, Instytut Historii PAN, Pracownia Slownika Historyczno-Geograficznego Wielkopolski w Sredniowieczu, ul. S. Mielzynskiego 27/29, 61-725 Poznan, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA08241