Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.21857/mjrl3uwp29
Kingdom’s Rights, Kingdom’s Elite: The Case of Prothonotary George Plemić (1690-1713)
Ivana Jukić
orcid.org/0000-0003-2025-8490
; Hrvatski studiji, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Josip Kasalo
orcid.org/0000-0003-0450-6212
; -
Sažetak
This article analyses the socio-political circumstances within the Kingdom of Croatia between 1690 and 1713, focusing on Prothonotary Juraj Plemić and his political influence as a case study, to illustrate the main thesis that the kingdom’s rights enabled notaries, nobility judges, vicecomites, treasurers, prothonotaries and vice-bans to create a strong political system and to have a monopoly over decision-making in the Croatian Diet, the Sabor, in the aforementioned period. The prothonotary’s political potential and power are explained by the authorities and privileges of prothonotary function as well as the “networking” of parliamentary officials, all of whom belonged to the middle and lower nobility. Consequently, this estate became the privileged negotiation partners within the Kingdom of Croatia for the royal court circles, whereas the magnates’ political activity was severely curtailed. The story of the Samobor copper mine, “the 1708 incident” and the cooperation between the prothonotary and the bishop of Zagreb in legitimising the succession of Habsburg female line all best illustrate the aforementioned influences and “networking” of parliamentary officials, and prove that Prothonotary Plemić was the key political figure of the Croatian estates at the turn of the seventeenth and the eighteenth century. The article emphasises the need for further research into the parliamentary functions and the persons who performed these offices, in order to create new interpretations of early modern Croatian history.
Ključne riječi
kingdom’s rights; privileges; political elites; prothonotary; George Plemić; Croatian Diet (Sabor)
Hrčak ID:
179594
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.12.2016.
Posjeta: 1.531 *