Original scientific paper

Brick Romana's destiny

Helena Miljević ; Rijeka, Croatia

Abstract

By revealing the destiny of brick Romana the author is trying to point out the destinies of similar sailing vessels that navigated the seas in the middle of 19th century. The intention of this paper is also to throw some light on naval history of the town of Rijeka in the same period. To do so the case study method, descriptive, comparative, statistical and methods of analysis and synthesis were used. Special attention was dedicated to the votive painting and newspaper article – fonts of historical knowledge with all their possibilities and limitations. It was established that newspaper article based on reliable source can contain many different information about things such as route, cargo, cargo management, consular service, causes and details of accident. But, while the newspaper information can considerably differ in quantitative and qualitative way, information from 19th century votive paintings are far more homogenous because of their standardized structure. They, besides accident details (when, where, how), are always the evidence of the ship’s origin and appearance, captain, bad weather navigation, language, as well as the votive practice and the appearance of ex voto.

Keywords

votive painting; ex voto; historical fonts; Rijeka’s 19th century naval history

Hrčak ID:

38368

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/38368

Publication date:

29.6.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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