Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 27 No. 3, 2007.
Review article
Vicko Kapitanović’s Contributions to Croatian Cultural History
Ljerka Schiffler
Abstract
The authoress presents a brief survey of father Vicko Kapitanović’s works. He is a well-known and highly regarded scholar, the Head of the Church History Department at the Catholic Theology Faculty of the Split University, and the director of the Archive of the Franciscan Province of the Most Holy Redeemer in Split. She also depicts the results of the author’s scientific-research work and expounds the various aspects, dimensions, and contributions to the entire Croatian cultural-spiritual and social history. These contributions are, in the first place, to the history of philosophy and to the history of the Church, and also to the art history, to archive administration, paleography, archeology, and diplomacy. Furthermore, there are the contributions to the discovery, catalogization, and codicological analysis of the hitherto unknown manuscripts, especially from the Franciscan heritage, sources from Croatian monasteries and libraries, from the most ancient period of the early Christian civilization to the more recent history. The author gained his huge inerdisciplinary knowledge in the domestic and also foreign universities (the Franciscan High Theology in Makarska, The Papal Atheneum Antonianum, University of Gregoriana, The Oriental Institute, The Vatican Secret Archives in Rome).
Keywords
Croatian cultural, philosophical, and Church history; Franciscan historiography; archive administration; paleography; philology; manuscript heritage
Hrčak ID:
18311
URI
Publication date:
7.12.2007.
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