CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Cuculic, Marta |
|---|---|
| Title | COMMUNITY PROBLEMS IN RIJEKA: A STUDY ON THE LIBER CIVILIUM SIVE NOTIFICATIONUM (1437-1453) |
| Summary | The medieval period of Rijeka is not well represented in contemporary Croatian historiography. The reasons are a lack of sources and outdated historiography. In this thesis I concentrate on the problems within the community, based on the documents from the Liber Civilium sive Notificationum, the oldest preserved notary book from Rijeka. The criminal cases and problems within the community of medieval Rijeka have not been studied before, and thus the results presented in this thesis should be a good basis for further research of the topic. The research covers the years of the mandate of James Raunacher, the captain of Rijeka, that is, the period from 1437 to 1453. In overall representing 1493 documents, 140 of them are concerning problems within the community. Of these 140 documents, thirty-nine recorded a problem that happened within the trade business. Other documents regarding community problems there are confiscations, thefts, testimonies, a false testimony, verbal insults, tresspassings, violations of labor contracts. The role of women and strangers in the problems within community is also researched in this thesis. The lack of documents regarding problems within a community do not show Rijeka was peaceful town. Comparing the documents with the Statute of Rijeka from 1530, as well as statues from the other communes of the East Adriatic coast, I concluded that in the fifteenth-century Rijeka there must have been more books where town affairs were recorded, which have not survived or still wait to be found. |
| Supervisor | Jaritz, Gerhard |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/cuculic_marta.pdf |
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