Dubrovnik annals, No. 21, 2017.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/yl4okf7e69
Informal Power Structures and Godparent Networks of the Ragusan Nobility in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
Irena Ipšić
orcid.org/0000-0002-4692-0027
; University of Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Ivana Lazarević
orcid.org/0000-0001-7958-3269
; Institute for Historical Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Vedran Stojanović
orcid.org/0000-0002-9469-3738
Abstract
This article examines the impact of clan division within the Ragusan noble rank on the choice of godparents in the latter half of the eighteenth century. The here established clan affi liation of the baptised children and godparents elucidates as to what extent informal social divisions manifested through the institution of godparenthood, and to what point, if any, clan affi liation spilt from the political domain over into that of inter-family relations based on godparenthood.
Keywords
Dubrovnik; 18th century; nobility; clan; baptism; godparents; social networks
Hrčak ID:
185846
URI
Publication date:
23.8.2017.
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