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CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ACTIVITIES OF CLERGY FROM HVAR IN VENICE (15TH-18TH CENTURIES)
Lovorka ČORALIĆ
Abstract
During the past centuries, and especially during the Venetian domination over the major part of the eastern Adriatic coast, native groups of Croatian immigrants in Venice played significant role linking and intertwining the two neighboring Adriatic shores. Among these immigrants, besides those from the Dalmatian major cities (Zadar, Split, Šibenik, Trogir, Kotor), the newcomers from Hvar stood out by their number and social status. In some previous studies this author has investigated the immigrants from Hvar but in this contribution she discusses in detail destiny of the clergy from the city of Hvar and the diocese of Hvar that has been recorded in the Venetian sources as permanent or temporary immigrants. Author has based her investigation on the results of the historiography, as well as, on the archival sources that are kept in the State Archives in Venice (testaments and the records of the Venetian inquisition), and records from the Confraternity of St. George and St. Triphon (annual revenue and expenditure of the confraternity). On the basis of these
documents author has tried to reveal activities and influence of the Hvar clergy in Venice. Moreover, author points out some cases of the Venetian inquisition involving Hvar clerics, as well as, destinies of some significant immigrants from Hvar and their involvement in
the work of the Padua University.
Keywords
Venice; Venetian Republic; Hvar; Hvar diocese; clergy; migrations; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Period; ecclesiastical history
Hrčak ID:
74296
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Publication date:
21.6.2011.
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