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BROTHERHOOD AND FRATERNITIES IN 1561. AT GROHOTE

Nevenka Bezić Božanić


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Abstract

The oldest St. Stephen's brotherhood known until now at Grohote on the island of Solta has a well preserved book of rules (Matricula) from 1561. It is written in Croatian but using Italian orthography. It contains 19 capitula (chapters) plus 7 ones later added in a different handwriting, and a list of 37 fraternities. The capitula refer to the mutual behaviour in the fraternities, common obligations regarding the religious rites and church holidays, mutual help in sickness and death, election of the district prefect, and other items needed in the life of the community. Generally, the brotherhoods were a significant factor in the past of Dalmatia and a valuable supplement to the knowledge of the clerical and non-clerical lives developing in these regions through centuries.

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Hrčak ID:

111120

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/111120

Publication date:

3.2.1997.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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