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FROM THE PAST OF THE ISTRIAN FRATERNITIES: THE BOOK OF THE ST. ROCH’S FRATERNITY (ST. CATHARINE AND ST. BLAISE) IN BOLJUN (1595-1663)
Mirjana SLADONJA
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This article is an analyses book of St. Roch’s fraternity in Boljun. At the beginning author delivers a survey of the existing literature about fraternities in Croatia, as well as their significance and role that they had in the daily life. Moreover, author also delivers a brief sketch of the historical events in the region of Istria during the sixteenth century. Then author starts with a thorough analysis of this glagolitic text, which is presently kept in the Archives of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb. This book was a business book of this fraternity and it is containing various records about its incomes and expenses. Book also contains data about the wages and prices of some goods. The most frequent re-cords are those about appointment of new and dismissal of old patrons. The book contains also interesting notes about landing of the fraternity’s property, therefore it can be used as a valuable source for social and economic history of Boljun and Istria. Moreover, this book can be used as a source in investigation of development of glagolitic script. At the end of this work, author delivers several examples of transliteration, a list of the patrons, a list of rare expressions and a list of measures used in the book.
Ključne riječi
Istria; Boljun; confraternities; Early Modern Age; ecclesiastical history
Hrčak ID:
12056
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Datum izdavanja:
10.12.2003.
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