Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; Influence politique et pouvoir économique à Dubrovnik (Raguse) du XIIIe au XVIe siècle; Developed autonomy: the Patricians in Dubrovnik and Dalmation cities; Ser Basilius de Basilio - a less than commendable Ragusan Patrician (1361?-1413); L’abolition de l’esclavage à Dubrovnik (Raguse) au XVe siècle - mythe ou réalité?; Images of urban life: contributions to the study of daily life in Dubrovnik at the time of humanism and the Renaissance; Dubrovnik’s struggle against fires (13th-15th centuries); Abominandum Crimen: punishment of homosexuals in Renaissance Dubrovnik; The attitude of 15th-century Ragusans toward literacy; Miscellanea from the cultural life of Renaissance Dubrovnik; Gli ebrei a Ragusa nel cinquecento; Venetians in Dubrovnik (Ragusa) and Ragusans in Venice as real estate owners in the 14th century; Le rôle de Dubrovnik (Raguse) dans la navigation des mundae vénitiennes au XIVe et XVe siècle; La navigation ragusaine entre Venise et la Méditerranée orientale aux XIV et XVe siècles; Le port de Dubrovnik (Raguse), entreprise d’état, plaque tournante du commerce de la ville (XIVe-XVIe siècle); Ragusa (Dubrovnik) e il mare: aspetti e problemi (XIV-XVI secolo); Death in Crete: a Ragusan will from 1475 and its aftermath; Dubrovnik as a pole of attraction and a point of transition for the hinterland population in the late middle ages; On the Latino-Slavic cultural symbiosis in late medieval and Renaissance Dalmatia and Dubrovnik; Index.

About the Author

Barisa Krekic, Emeritus Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Reviews

'A wide-ranging examination of medieval and Renaissance Dubrovnik/Ragusa by the city-republic’s leading scholar.' Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. LI, No. 1 'By gathering those related articles into a single volume, Krekic achiever his goal: he has provided his appreciative readers with a unified picture of a great civilization on the Adriatic coast.' Marianna D. Birnbaum, University of California, Renaissance Quarterly.