Historical Journal, Vol. 36 , 1983.
Original scientific paper
LUKA VLADMIROVlC AND HIS CIRCLE
Josip Ante Soldo
Abstract
The author tried to analyze the work and writings of Fra Luka Vladmirović (1718—1788), one of the most active forger of medieval Bosnian documents in Venetian Dalmatia, but also to place him within modern aspirations on the Neretva coast. With his falsifications, which quite often misled the historians, among them Franjo Rački too, he expressed a general aspiration of all the inhabitants of the coastal region: to raise to nobleness with simultaneous economic strengthening and frequently with military and civil services. In such a milieu glorious history was created, in which predecessors used to get an important and honorary position. Therefore they added to the attests and the ducals, acquired through their loyalty to Venice, also the transcripts of badly composed charters, mostly by Bosnian rulers, in order to enter the privileged layer and become respectable members of society. Vladmirović was the boldest among them. He spent much time and effort for that purpose, unfortunately to no avail for the science.
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Publication date:
1.4.1983.
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