Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.21857/yl4okf7e69

Informal Power Structures and Godparent Networks of the Ragusan Nobility in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century

Irena Ipšić orcid.org/0000-0002-4692-0027 ; University of Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Ivana Lazarević orcid.org/0000-0001-7958-3269 ; Institute for Historical Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Vedran Stojanović orcid.org/0000-0002-9469-3738

Abstract

This article examines the impact of clan division within the Ragusan noble rank on the choice of godparents in the latter half of the eighteenth century. The here established clan affi liation of the baptised children and godparents elucidates as to what extent informal social divisions manifested through the institution of godparenthood, and to what point, if any, clan affi liation spilt from the political domain over into that of inter-family relations based on godparenthood.

Keywords

Dubrovnik; 18th century; nobility; clan; baptism; godparents; social networks

Hrčak ID:

185846

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/185846

Publication date:

23.8.2017.

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