U radu se analizira utjecaj klanovske podjele unutar vlasteoskog staleža na odabir krsnih kumova u drugoj polovici 18. stoljeca. Utvrđena je klanovska pripadnost krstenika i kumova, na temelju cega se doslo do zakljucka u kojoj mjeri su se neformalne drustvene podjele ocitovale kroz institut kumstva i je li se prilikom odabira kumova primjenjivala stroga unutarklanovska politika, odnosno koliko se pripadnost određenom klanu s politicke sfere prelila i na međuobiteljsko povezivanje kumskim vezama.
{"title":"Informal Power Structures and Godparent Networks of the Ragusan Nobility in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century","authors":"Irena Ipšić, I. Lazarević, V. Stojanović","doi":"10.21857/yl4okf7e69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21857/yl4okf7e69","url":null,"abstract":"U radu se analizira utjecaj klanovske podjele unutar vlasteoskog staleža na odabir krsnih kumova u drugoj polovici 18. stoljeca. Utvrđena je klanovska pripadnost krstenika i kumova, na temelju cega se doslo do zakljucka u kojoj mjeri su se neformalne drustvene podjele ocitovale kroz institut kumstva i je li se prilikom odabira kumova primjenjivala stroga unutarklanovska politika, odnosno koliko se pripadnost određenom klanu s politicke sfere prelila i na međuobiteljsko povezivanje kumskim vezama.","PeriodicalId":37889,"journal":{"name":"Dubrovnik Annals","volume":"21 1","pages":"31-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43941711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Godparents and Marriage Witnesses in Istria from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century","authors":"Danijela Doblanović, M. M. Crljenko","doi":"10.21857/Y7V64TWOEY","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21857/Y7V64TWOEY","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37889,"journal":{"name":"Dubrovnik Annals","volume":"21 1","pages":"9-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46962067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article addresses the issue of marriage witnesses in the Catholic parish of Ravno in the Ottoman-controlled hinterland of Dubrovnik of the nineteenth century. In this rural community, witnesses at marriage were awarded an important role in establishing and sealing social networks. Based on the data of 233 marriages, i.e., 466 male witnesses, the article elucidates the reasons that guided the choice of marriage witnesses, along with their relationships with the bride and groom in terms of natural and spiritual kinship. Apart from the role traditionally assigned to the marriage witness by the Church, the article casts light on a less familiar customary role of kum at marriage.
{"title":"Traditional Marriage and the Role of Witnesses in the Parish of Ravno in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century","authors":"Marinko Marić, Rina Kralj-Brassard","doi":"10.21857/MOXPJHOXLM","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21857/MOXPJHOXLM","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the issue of marriage witnesses in the Catholic parish of Ravno in the Ottoman-controlled hinterland of Dubrovnik of the nineteenth century. In this rural community, witnesses at marriage were awarded an important role in establishing and sealing social networks. Based on the data of 233 marriages, i.e., 466 male witnesses, the article elucidates the reasons that guided the choice of marriage witnesses, along with their relationships with the bride and groom in terms of natural and spiritual kinship. Apart from the role traditionally assigned to the marriage witness by the Church, the article casts light on a less familiar customary role of kum at marriage.","PeriodicalId":37889,"journal":{"name":"Dubrovnik Annals","volume":"21 1","pages":"73-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45871991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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.
{"title":"Baptism and Marriage Witnesses of the Catholics of Dubrovnik (1870-1871)","authors":"Ariana Violić-Koprivec, Nenad Vekarić","doi":"10.21857/Y6ZOLB311M","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21857/Y6ZOLB311M","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":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42245671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Over the past centuries, the island of Lastovo was a closed and isolated community in which the institution of godparenthood played a cohesive role. Based on the fi eldwork conducted in September 2015, this article investigates and analyses spiritual kinship on the island of Lastovo in the nineteenth and twentieth century in terms of the choice of godparent, confi rmation sponsor and marriage witness as well as the role of godparenthood in everyday life. The analysis reveals that lower natality, pursuit of education outside the island and depopulation had a greater impact on the centuries-old type of the institution of godparenthood and the social role of godparents than the island’s isolation due to the permanently stationed military troops.
{"title":"Spiritual Kinship on the Island of Lastovo in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century","authors":"M. Rašica, Ljiljana Marks","doi":"10.21857/yq32ohqoq9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21857/yq32ohqoq9","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past centuries, the island of Lastovo was a closed and isolated community in which the institution of godparenthood played a cohesive role. Based on the fi eldwork conducted in September 2015, this article investigates and analyses spiritual kinship on the island of Lastovo in the nineteenth and twentieth century in terms of the choice of godparent, confi rmation sponsor and marriage witness as well as the role of godparenthood in everyday life. The analysis reveals that lower natality, pursuit of education outside the island and depopulation had a greater impact on the centuries-old type of the institution of godparenthood and the social role of godparents than the island’s isolation due to the permanently stationed military troops.","PeriodicalId":37889,"journal":{"name":"Dubrovnik Annals","volume":"21 1","pages":"139-175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41346639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parrains et voisins? Espace et parrainage en banlieue parisienne au XIXe siecle","authors":"Vincent Gourdon","doi":"10.21857/MJRL3UWE29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21857/MJRL3UWE29","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37889,"journal":{"name":"Dubrovnik Annals","volume":"7 1","pages":"47-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68484253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The head reliquary of Saint Blaise in Dubrovnik, made in 1694 by the Venetian goldsmith Francesco Ferro, has long been thought to replicate an earlier version that was mentioned in the 1335 inventory of Dubrovnik cathedral. The article examines the history of the head relic and the assumption that it may have replicated or connoted a shape of the Byzantine imperial crown, a kamelaukion. From the available evidence such reading has been rejected. Instead, it is proposed that it resembled the dome-shaped reliquary such as that of Saint James in Zadar dated to the end of the eleventh or beginning of the twelfth century. Furthermore, it is proposed that group I enamels that adorn the reliquary were not made in Constantinople, but in Dubrovnik between 1164 and 1180, given that they show a number of non-Byzantine stylistic and iconographical features and inscriptions in Beneventan script incompatible with enamel production in Constantinople.
{"title":"Deconstructing the Myth of Byzantine Crown: The Head Reliquary of Saint Blaise in Dubrovnik","authors":"A. Munk","doi":"10.21857/MNLQGCJEJY","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21857/MNLQGCJEJY","url":null,"abstract":"The head reliquary of Saint Blaise in Dubrovnik, made in 1694 by the Venetian goldsmith Francesco Ferro, has long been thought to replicate an earlier version that was mentioned in the 1335 inventory of Dubrovnik cathedral. The article examines the history of the head relic and the assumption that it may have replicated or connoted a shape of the Byzantine imperial crown, a kamelaukion. From the available evidence such reading has been rejected. Instead, it is proposed that it resembled the dome-shaped reliquary such as that of Saint James in Zadar dated to the end of the eleventh or beginning of the twelfth century. Furthermore, it is proposed that group I enamels that adorn the reliquary were not made in Constantinople, but in Dubrovnik between 1164 and 1180, given that they show a number of non-Byzantine stylistic and iconographical features and inscriptions in Beneventan script incompatible with enamel production in Constantinople.","PeriodicalId":37889,"journal":{"name":"Dubrovnik Annals","volume":"20 1","pages":"7-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68484903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Based on the documents from the State Archives of Dubrovnik, this article examines the office of executioner in the period between the fourteenth and the late eighteenth century. Introduction of professional executioner is being correlated with the process of the expansion of state “services” managed by professionals, with distinctive features of the penal system and the symbolic role of executioner in the rituals of power, while the abolishment of permanent office is accounted by the changing criminality trends in the mid-eighteenth century. Through the elements of execution, the ideal of “good death” is elucidated, along with the executioner’s intermediary role between the worlds of the dead and living. Further analysed is the attitude of Ragusan society towards the executioner, attention being drawn to certain ambivalent aspects, with a conclusion that in Dubrovnik, unlike elsewhere in Europe, less stigma was attached to this profession: executioner was generally perceived as an “official” who performed an unattractive though essential service to the benefit of the community.
{"title":"The figure of executioner in Dubrovnik between social acceptance and rejection (fourteenth to eighteenth century)","authors":"Nella Lonza","doi":"10.21857/YVJRDCN1LY","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21857/YVJRDCN1LY","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the documents from the State Archives of Dubrovnik, this article examines the office of executioner in the period between the fourteenth and the late eighteenth century. Introduction of professional executioner is being correlated with the process of the expansion of state “services” managed by professionals, with distinctive features of the penal system and the symbolic role of executioner in the rituals of power, while the abolishment of permanent office is accounted by the changing criminality trends in the mid-eighteenth century. Through the elements of execution, the ideal of “good death” is elucidated, along with the executioner’s intermediary role between the worlds of the dead and living. Further analysed is the attitude of Ragusan society towards the executioner, attention being drawn to certain ambivalent aspects, with a conclusion that in Dubrovnik, unlike elsewhere in Europe, less stigma was attached to this profession: executioner was generally perceived as an “official” who performed an unattractive though essential service to the benefit of the community.","PeriodicalId":37889,"journal":{"name":"Dubrovnik Annals","volume":"20 1","pages":"93-108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68495124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article focuses on the circumstances surrounding the outbreak and spreading of the last urban plague that struck the area of Dubrovnik in 1691. Attention is given to the main sources of the disease in the city, adoption of plague control measures, as well as the persons who took part in the defence against plague. Some plague victims have been identified, and their social networks reconstructed. Noble families who were isolated on suspicion of the disease have been identified. Also examined are the conflict situations that occurred as consequence of the implementation of the plague control measures in the city. Lastly, governement expenditures related to the anti-epidemic measures are analysed, along with the representation of the epidemic conditions in the several letters of the Senate.
{"title":"A City Facing The Plague: Dubrovnik, 1691","authors":"Rina Kralj-Brassard","doi":"10.21857/YRVGQTPLW9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21857/YRVGQTPLW9","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the circumstances surrounding the outbreak and spreading of the last urban plague that struck the area of Dubrovnik in 1691. Attention is given to the main sources of the disease in the city, adoption of plague control measures, as well as the persons who took part in the defence against plague. Some plague victims have been identified, and their social networks reconstructed. Noble families who were isolated on suspicion of the disease have been identified. Also examined are the conflict situations that occurred as consequence of the implementation of the plague control measures in the city. Lastly, governement expenditures related to the anti-epidemic measures are analysed, along with the representation of the epidemic conditions in the several letters of the Senate.","PeriodicalId":37889,"journal":{"name":"Dubrovnik Annals","volume":"20 1","pages":"109-148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68494541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article highlights the letter that Pietro Metastasio, poet laureate to the imperial court of Vienna and librettist, wrote to the Ragusan scientist Ruđer Bošković, in which the name of the composer Luka Sorkočević is mentioned. In fact, it is the earliest traceable data on Sorkočević’s arrival in Vienna, dispatched by the government of the Dubrovnik Republic upon a diplomatic mission to the court of Joseph II, shortly after the death of Empress Maria Theresa. The letter provides details on Luka’s accommodation, but also on his manners and qualities. It affords new insights into his sojourn in Vienna, notably in the light of the hitherto known entries of his Vienna diary.
{"title":"Useful Liaisons: Luka Sorkočević – Ruđer Bošković – Pietro Metastasio","authors":"V. Katalinić","doi":"10.21857/M16WJCP7W9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21857/M16WJCP7W9","url":null,"abstract":"This article highlights the letter that Pietro Metastasio, poet laureate to the imperial court of Vienna and librettist, wrote to the Ragusan scientist Ruđer Bošković, in which the name of the composer Luka Sorkočević is mentioned. In fact, it is the earliest traceable data on Sorkočević’s arrival in Vienna, dispatched by the government of the Dubrovnik Republic upon a diplomatic mission to the court of Joseph II, shortly after the death of Empress Maria Theresa. The letter provides details on Luka’s accommodation, but also on his manners and qualities. It affords new insights into his sojourn in Vienna, notably in the light of the hitherto known entries of his Vienna diary.","PeriodicalId":37889,"journal":{"name":"Dubrovnik Annals","volume":"20 1","pages":"149-158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68482582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}