CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Rojas Molina, Grabiela |
|---|---|
| Title | A Model To Decode Venetian Senate Deliberations: Pregadi Talk on Albanian Territories (1392???1402) |
| Summary | This dissertation proposes a model to classify the entries preserved in the volumes of the miscellaneous and secret Deliberazioni of the Venetian Consiglio dei Pregadi (“the Council,” later called Senate). During this period, the Senate was Venice’s most important organ of power, yet no attempt has been made to produce a systematic account of the conventions whereby scribes codified the discussions resulting from the pregadi’s meetings. I propose that, irretrievable in any other way, some aspects of the pregadi’s “talk” (the Senate’s decision making-process) became codified in the Deliberazioni. The proposed model suggests that scribes consistently used the entries’ incipit as classification tool. More than 99.9% of the total of 4,871 extant individual entries for the period between 1392 and 1402 can be placed into one of the discrete categories I identified. I analyzed entries belonging to the three discrete realms of Council activity which codified the most important matters of state. I used the Venetian progressive control of four Albanian cities (Shkodra, Drisht, Lezhë, and Durrës) from 1392 to 1402 as main case study to exemplify how recording practices codified such importance. |
| Supervisor | Gerhart Jaritz, Katalin Szende |
| Department | Medieval Studies PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/molina_grabiela.pdf |
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