COMBATING CORRUPTION IN CROATIA IN THE MIDDLE AGES

AN EXAMPLE OF CROATIAN LEGAL DOCUMENTS – THE LAW CODE OF VINODOL (1288) AND STATUTE OF THE ISLAND OF KRK/VRBNIK (1388)

Authors

  • Tomislav Galović University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of History and Institute of Croatian History, Zagreb, Croatia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30925/zpfsr.40.2.9

Keywords:

Croatian legal documents; Croatian medieval lands; legal systems; combating corruption; Croatia; Middle Ages; Law Code of Vinodol (1288); Statute of the island of Krk (1388)

Abstract

The Croatian medieval lands were encompassed by Western European
civilization and its culture, language and script, collectively referred to as orbis Latinus, but they were also lands in which there was a notable influence of different legal systems. In this paper, we will discuss combating corruption in Croatia in the Middle Ages: an example of Croatian legal documents – the Law Code of Vinodol (1288) and Statute of the island of Krk (1388). The first part of this paper is a general introduction, which defines history and legal history of Vinodol. The Law Code of Vinodol is in many ways a vital historical source, not only for legal history and linguistics, but also for knowledge of social structures in medieval Vinodol, the organization of the Church, and the ethnographic and cultural heritage. In the second part of this paper the focus will be on the Statute of Krk or Vrbnik, which is chronologicaly the second codex/statute written in the Croatian language and Glagolitic script. It is formally only a century younger than the Law Code, or Codex, of Vinodol from 1288, and was composed in the
same year as the Latin-language Statute of Senj.

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Published

2020-09-30

How to Cite

Galović, T. . (2020). COMBATING CORRUPTION IN CROATIA IN THE MIDDLE AGES: AN EXAMPLE OF CROATIAN LEGAL DOCUMENTS – THE LAW CODE OF VINODOL (1288) AND STATUTE OF THE ISLAND OF KRK/VRBNIK (1388). Collected Papers of the Law Faculty of the University of Rijeka, 40(2), 869–894. https://doi.org/10.30925/zpfsr.40.2.9

Issue

Vol. 40 No. 2 (2019): Collected papers of the Law Faculty of the University of Rijeka

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ARTICLES

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