{"title":"Baptism and Marriage Witnesses of the Catholics of Dubrovnik (1870-1871)","authors":"Ariana Violić-Koprivec, Nenad Vekarić","doi":"10.21857/Y6ZOLB311M","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Based on the data from parish registers, this article analyses godparents and marriage witnesses among the Catholics of the City Parish of Dubrovnik in 1870 and 1871. Also examined is the time gap between birth and baptism, proportion of emergency baptisms due to the infant’s weak state of health, weekly distribution of the marriage ceremony, number, gender structure, residence and social status of godparents and marriage witnesses, proportion of kin-based godparenthoods, criteria for the selection of godparents, incidence of godchild―godparent name-sharing, as well as multiple godparenthood.","PeriodicalId":37889,"journal":{"name":"Dubrovnik Annals","volume":"21 1","pages":"97-137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Dubrovnik Annals","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21857/Y6ZOLB311M","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Based on the data from parish registers, this article analyses godparents and marriage witnesses among the Catholics of the City Parish of Dubrovnik in 1870 and 1871. Also examined is the time gap between birth and baptism, proportion of emergency baptisms due to the infant’s weak state of health, weekly distribution of the marriage ceremony, number, gender structure, residence and social status of godparents and marriage witnesses, proportion of kin-based godparenthoods, criteria for the selection of godparents, incidence of godchild―godparent name-sharing, as well as multiple godparenthood.
期刊介绍:
Dubrovnik Annals is an English language annual published by the Institute for Historical Sciences of CASA in Dubrovnik. The journal has been created in order to present the most important results of scholarship on the Republic of Dubrovnik (Ragusa) to the international audiences. The Annals publish studies pertaining to various humanities and social sciences, as well as reviews of books, providing an overview of the international scholarship dedicated to the history of Dubrovnik.