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https://doi.org/10.21857/y26kec4589
Property Ownership Structure and Social Relationships on the Island of Lastovo According to the Land Register of 1660
Irena Ipšić
; Sveučilište u Dubrovniku, Dubrovnik, Hrvatska
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Based on the land register of the Island of Lastovo of 1660 known as Bracciatura (Misurazioni dei Campi) di Lagostaand the list of tax obligations on plots of agricultural land, certain aspects of ownership and property structure, along with social relationships and economic potential of the island have been examined. Private property, confraternity property, in addition to individual
shares in the taxation of agricultural land have been analysed. Publicly owned pieces of land (per beni di publico) were not large, and the tax assessed valued at around 2.5 ducats, or approximately 1.4 % of the overall land tax obligations. Therefore, the bulk of land on the island was privately owned, while the largest landowners were to be found among the descendants of old Lastovo lineages,
such as Fulmiz, Toljenović, Dragošević, Nikolić, Dražinić, and others. To a greater extent, land ownership rested in male hands. Of 218 entries of private persons in the land fiscal register merely 11 were women (5%). The amount of tax obligations in which women are mentioned in some way or another is even smaller, merely 1.3 % or a total of slightly more than two ducats. The reason
may be sought in the absence of women in the inheritance system essentially designed to preserve the family estate, while at marriage the girls usually received a dowry consisting of movable possessions and/or money. Apart from family estates, also examined is the land owned by confraternities, constituting around 10% of the overall tax obligations. The Confraternity of Corpus Christi
may be singled out as the largest landowner, valued at 24% of the overall tax obligations of all confraternities on the island. The total land-based revenue amounted to 182 ducats and 2 and a half grossi, which was primarily used to cover the salary costs of the count of Lastovo.
Ključne riječi
Lastovo; Dubrovnik Republic; ownership; land register; catasto; taxation; 17th century
Hrčak ID:
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Datum izdavanja:
1.12.2021.
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