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https://doi.org/10.21857/y26keclj69
Decisions of the Council of the Commune of Poreč from 1396/1397
Marino Martinčević
; Zavičajni muzej Poreštine, Poreč, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Council as the highest governing body of the Commune of Poreč was passing decisions on all important matters regarding life of the commune of Poreč and its district. Even though the registers of the conclusions, that is decisions, of the communal council which survived from the early modern period are relatively well preserved, for earlier periods such sources are rather scarce. Only a transcript of the conclusions of sessions of the Council of the Commune of Poreč from 1486-1487 has been hitherto published. The fragments to be published here are the oldest source of this type for the history of the Commune of Poreč extant now. Particular value of this source is in the fact that it contains lists of communal officers with noted temporal duration of their mandates, which enables an insight into different aspects of life of the Commune of Poreč at the end of the fourteenth century, the period which is less researched and evaluated in the historiography exactly because of the scarcity of sources for it. In the introductory study, an overview of mentions of conclusions of the sessions of the Communal Council of Poreč in previous scholarship has been given, and particular attention is awarded to communal officers as carriers of the executive power within the commune (judges, treasurers, communal chancellor, cataveri, supervisors of measures, estimators), whose role and authorities are explained with their mentions in the statutory legislation of the communal Statute. In addition to our better knowledge of organisation of communal administration in practice, this source will be unavoidable for hitherto poorly researched topics of organisation of communal educational system, and it will provide also a valuable contribution for creating a clearer picture of agrarian economy of medieval Poreč.
Ključne riječi
Istria; Poreč; medieval East Adriatic communes; communal officers; communal council
Hrčak ID:
302111
URI
Datum izdavanja:
17.5.2023.
Posjeta: 306 *