Dubrovnik: A Mediterranean Urban Society, 1300–1600 (Paperback)

Contents: Introduction; Influence politique et pouvoir economique A? Dubrovnik (Raguse) du XIIIe au XVIe siecle; Developed autonomy: the Patricians in Dubrovnik and Dalmation cities; Ser Basilius de Basilio - a less than commendable Ragusan Patrician (1361?-1413); L’abolition de l’esclavage A? Dubrovnik (Raguse) au XVe siecle - mythe ou realite?; Images of urban life: contributions to the study of daily life in Dubrovnik at the time of humanism and the Renaissance; Dubrovnik’s struggle against fires (13th-15th centuries); Abominandum Crimen: punishment of homosexuals in Renaissance Dubrovnik; The attitude of 15th-century Ragusans toward literacy; Miscellanea from the cultural life of Renaissance Dubrovnik; Gli ebrei a Ragusa nel cinquecento; Venetians in Dubrovnik (Ragusa) and Ragusans in Venice as real estate owners in the 14th century; Le rA´le de Dubrovnik (Raguse) dans la navigation des mundae? venitiennes au XIVe et XVe siecle; La navigation ragusaine entre Venise et la Mediterranee orientale aux XIV et XVe siecles; Le port de Dubrovnik (Raguse), entreprise d’etat, plaque tournante du commerce de la ville (XIVe-XVIe siecle); Ragusa (Dubrovnik) e il mare: aspetti e problemi (XIV-XVI secolo); Death in Crete: a Ragusan will from 1475 and its aftermath; Dubrovnik as a pole of attraction and a point of transition for the hinterland population in the late middle ages; On the Latino-Slavic cultural symbiosis in late medieval and Renaissance Dalmatia and Dubrovnik; Index.