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The examples of last wills and testaments of noble and commoner women during neoclassical period in Trogir
Fani Celio Cega
orcid.org/0000-0003-3918-6992
; Muzej grada Trogira, Trogir, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Last wills and testaments have always been an indispensable factor not only in legal history and the history of society of a country, but also in the history of everyday life. Having this in mind, we can analyse the last wills and testaments written in Neoclassical period. The City of Trogir Statute, which was, albeit written in Medieval times, still in force during the Neoclassical period, defined the rights and obligations of the testator and everybody else involved in making of the last will and testament. The examples of last wills and testaments of noblewomen married to commoners and the ones written by commoner women analysed in this paper were all, without exception, written in accordance to this Statute. What each citizen had in common, regardless of his or her social class, were their obligations toward the Church and the Hospital of the Holy Spirit, the desire to settle all their debts in order to find peace in afterlife, their Roman Catholic faith being indisputable. Among the analysed last wills and testaments in this paper is the one made by Anastazija, neè Quarco, who was, judging by her last will, not quite wealthy, especially taken into account that she was a member of the once powerful nobility of Trogir, and that her husbands were commoners. Regardless of these facts, she resided in the eastern part of the city where mostly wealthy commoners and nobility lived. The second analysed last will and testament belongs to Franka, neè Grančić, another woman of noble birth married to a commoner, not rather wealthy, but also residing in the older part of the city. The remaining three last wills and testaments were made by commoner women. Although Ivanica, neè Šurija, lived in Prigrađe; burgus also known as Pasike where mostly poorer layers of society lived, judging by her last will and testament, she nevertheless owned real estate. The remaining two, Franka, neè Slade, and Antonija (Antica), neè Vlašić, lived on Čiovo, in the area called Balan and were not well off. Based on the analysis of this selection of last wills and testaments originating from the period of permeation of Neoclassical ideas to the city at the end of the 18th century, one cannot help thinking that they do not contain significant legacy, and that the turbulent social changes at the end of the 18th century greatly contributed to the pauperisation of Trogir nobility, let alone the other social classes. However, they continued to live according to their birth and ancestry, and on separate locations.
Ključne riječi
Trogir; Neoclassicism; everyday life; last will and testament
Hrčak ID:
149982
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Datum izdavanja:
26.10.2015.
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