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Legacies pro anima and ad pias causas in European historiography. Comparison with the wills from Dalmatian communes

Zoran Ladić


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Abstract

The author in the first chapter speaks about achievements of recent European historiography in the research of medieval last wills focusing on the problems of piety and everyday life. The basic methodological directions established by European historians (French, English, American, German, Austrian and Central European) are presented. In the second chapter author focuses on the fields of research by using wills as the main source material: everyday life, history of mentality, historical demography, religiousity, piety etc. In the paper author uses the published and unpublished wills from the medieval Dalmatian communities (Dubrovnik, Zadar, Trogir, Kotor). He also makes an comparative analysis of medieval Dalmatian and European cities regarding the above mentioned fields of research.

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15834

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/15834

Publication date:

1.3.2000.

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