Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/m16wjcnpn9
The origins and the re-contextualization of the 1319 account of papal investigation in Trogir
Tomislav Popić
orcid.org/0000-0002-4728-7729
; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Croatian Studies, Department of History, Zagreb, Croatia
*
Ante Bećir
; Zagreb, Croatia
* Corresponding author.
Abstract
The paper presents the written fragments of a papal investigation conducted in June 1319, following the destruction of the Trogir Franciscan monastery in May 1315. The incident led to the reordering of religious communities in the city to accommodate the Franciscans. While these fragments have been sparingly used in previous papers, they have never been fully explored as separate written traces of the past. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to recontextualize the circumstances surrounding their creation and provide a qualitative analysis of the text within the broader political and cultural framework of the time. To accomplish this, it was necessary to reconstruct the political context in Trogir, as the text directly derives from it. The paper emphasizes the exceptional value of these fragments and argues that they were originally part of a much larger record, of which a copy might still exist in the papal archives. Additionally, considering the alleged tyranny of Trogir podestà Matej Zorijev, the fragments are also examined as product of late medieval political discussions on just and unjust (tyrannical) governance. Finally, the article includes the transcription of the surviving fragments of the papal investigation from the written legacy of Ivan Lučić along with some other corresponding documents.
Keywords
medieval Trogir; papal investigation; abstract procedure; tyranny; Matej Zorijev; ban Mladen II
Hrčak ID:
312802
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2023.
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