Original scientific paper
Tracing the Patricians of Bar in Venice (End of 14th C. – 16th C.)
Lovorka Čoralić
Abstract
The central research interest of the article focuses on the exploration of the fundamental elements that are related to the process of migration and the activities of the patricians of Bar in Venice during the period from the end of the 14th century to the middle and the second half of the 16th century. On the basis of original material from the central Venice State Archive (Archivio di Stato di Venezia) the article describes the process (time frame) of their mention in documents and their activities in Venice, the manner they were registered in documents, the places where they lived in the parts of the city and its parishes, the forms of their professional activity and economic possibilities as well as their relations with the Venetian church institutions and church figures. Special attention is given to the reading and the analysis of the forms of the association of the Bar patrician immigrants with other members of the Bar immigrant community as well as with the Croatian diaspora in Venice as a whole. In addition, the frequent reference to homeland church institutions in the last wills of this part of the Bar immigrant community points to the high level of their economic standing, to their unbroken ties to their place of origin but also – in an indirect manner – it reveals a series of data from the cultural and the church history of Bar and the Bar archbishopric regarding which extant data in historiography is scarce. Finally, the concluding segment of the article emphasizes that, according to all fundamental features, many times confirmed in archival sources, the expatriate patricians of Bar were a constituent part of the Croatian trans-Adriatic diaspora in Venice.
Keywords
Bar; Venice; Venetian Republic; Bar archbishopric; migration; patricians; 14th–16th C
Hrčak ID:
11887
URI
Publication date:
5.9.2006.
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