Prethodno priopćenje
Peasants and the Peasant World of the Late Middle Ages described by Croatian Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Writers
Filip Novosel
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Sažetak
Being one of the three parts of medieval society, the peasantry has become a rather important topic in historiography in the last couple of decades. However, Croatian historiography mostly lacks that kind of investigation, and thus historians still have both a lot of space and material to deal with when it comes to research into the peasantry in the Croatian context. The main subject of this article is the peasantry of the Dalmatian coast in the Late Middle Ages. Modelled on the results of Western European and American literature on this topic, the article analyses Croatian Renaissance literature, most of all pastorals and comedies, those of Marin Držić in the first place, but also the works of Petar Zoranić, Martin Benetović and some others.
After a theoretical review of the achievements of Croatian and Western historiography on the subject of the medieval peasantry, the main part of the article focuses on the Dalmatian late medieval peasantry from the characteristic point of view of Croatian fifteenth- and sixteenth-century intellectuals. Therefore this view is divided into two parts. In the first part, the idealistic picture is presented, while the other part discusses the everyday life of peasants, from their labour, interaction with a city, and gender relationships, to their diet and, at the end, the influence of the Ottoman invasion on their life. The last part of this article is dedicated to a comparison of Croatian and Western medieval views on peasants.
Ključne riječi
the Middle Ages; Renaissance; peasantry; Croatian literature; pastoral literature; comedy; Marin Držić
Hrčak ID:
95090
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Datum izdavanja:
28.12.2012.
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