Jelka Dumančić household

Jelka Dumančić household

Homemade products tastings ; sleeping in straw; hiking tours; traditional harvest

The family house of Jelka Dumančić is positioned next to the main road which leads through the Blidinje plateau. Her doors are always open to all intentional or accidental visitors. In and around her birth house she is usually occupied by different agricultural activities like gardening, making cheese, making fruit or medicinal herb products which she unselfishly treats her guests with. This humble woman shows deep fondness for nature of her native area in numerous ways. She is always ready to take her guests for a walk along mountain paths and show them the most beautiful viewing points of Blidinje area. If dark catches you coming back and you feel adventurous, you can stay over and experience sleeping in straw in her barn attic.

Address

Jelka Dumančić
Blidinje

Peasant Life in the Middle Ages

Decline of village communities and reduction of their land forced peasants to gradually occupy the land of the nobility which strengthened their subservient position. At the beginning, renting a nobelman’s land did not imply losing the freedom of movement (libertas migrandi), but during the late medieval period the class-serfdom developed and peasants or serfs were tied to the noblemen’s land and their freedom of movement was prevented. The serfs’ obligations included labour on the nobelman’s land, in their manor or serving in their army.

By | 2017-12-30T09:18:28+00:00 November 29th, 2017|Herzegovinian village in medieval period|