Original scientific paper
The echo of the fall of fort of Acre in 1291 in Croatia (The crusade as a form of pilgrimage)
Zoran Ladić
Abstract
The medieval Croatian sources contain some interesting data concerning the crusades in the Holy Land. This article is based on the analysis of last wills of the inhabitants of medieval Dalmatian communities (Zadar, Trogir, Dubrovnik and Kotor) and three Pope's letters from the end of the thirteenth century.
In the first chapter author considers the pious and military dimensions of medieval crusades (crusade as a peregrinatio religiosa)while in the second he analysis the 23 legates from last wills. First he deals with the letters written by Pope Nicholas IV and Boniface VIII at the end of the thirteenth century and addressed to the Franciscans in Dalmatia. The letters are connected to the propaganda of crusade in Holy Land and Bosnia (against Bosnian Christians).
Later he analysis the bequeaths of the inhabitants of Dalmatian communities. Usually the testators, since most of them were ill, left money to some person who would go to the Holy Land instead of them. There were only two cases when testators personally went in subsidium Terre Sancte.
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15911
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Publication date:
1.3.1999.
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