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Curia Maior Ciuilium - The Oldest Preserved Register of Civil Court Cases in Medieval Zadar (1351-1353)
Gordan Ravančić
Abstract
The Autor the transcription of the oldest extant register of civil court cases of Medieval Zadar, datng from the mid fourteenth century (1351-1353). In the short introduction he emphasizes the importance of this type of sources for various historical investigations and researches. The fact that this register dates from the period after the Black Death had devastated the city of Zadar reveals that this source should be interesting to a great number of researchers of the history of Medieval communes on the eastern Adriatic coast. Namely, these civil court cases provide data (though fragmentary) about the population of the city and its district after the plague – the register reveals the names of the people involved in the case, and often contemporaneous genealogies of their families as well.
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12173
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Publication date:
19.10.2001.
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