Abstract

This study investigates encounters in the early modern Adriatic, in particular focusing on the Venetian possessions. The predominantly Catholic Dalmatian cities were incorporated into the Venetian maritime state around the turn of the fifteenth century and were home to small but bustling communities of merchants, companies of sailors, and soldiers. During the sixteenth century, Dalmatia was both the frontline of Catholicism and a valuable turnover hub for goods, ideas, and people. As the Ottomans continued their advance, life within the crammed fortifications, threatened by bandits, disease, and pirates was tenuous at times. Despite these conditions, cooperation across the many fault lines dividing early modern Europe never ceased. The study uses a microhistorical approach to source material from the rich Croatian State Archive in Zadar and presents selected examples of cooperation, the bending of norms, and everyday life.

Highlights

  • Rad istražuje sukobe na Jadranu u ranome novom vijeku, s osobitim obzirom na mletačke posjede

  • This study investigates encounters in the early modern Adriatic, in particular focusing on the Venetian possessions

  • The study uses a microhistorical approach to source material from the rich Croatian State Archive in Zadar and presents selected examples of cooperation, the bending of norms, and everyday life

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Introduction

“Ne može se živjeti uz Turke, a da im se ne postane neprijateljem”,1 napisao je u 17. stoljeću mletački državnik i povjesničar Battista Nani. This study focuses on the Venetian Adriatic around the mid-sixteenth century, in particular focusing on the regional turnover hub of Zadar, the capital of the Republic’s Dalmatian and Albanian possessions and home to a considerable number of artisans, merchants, and soldiers from all over the Adriatic basin, and discusses the various interactions between its local and ‘foreign’ inhabitants. This and the rich but underused archival holdings render Zadar eminently suitable for such an undertaking.. As the origin of the notarial source material makes clear, the thematic focus rests on the city’s population and aims to study those aspects of everyday life that were written down in the protocol books. While historiography established the existence of more than ‘just’ one Dalmatia—the other(s) being the Ottoman hinterlands as well as the frontier areas

11 Izvori
11 Sources
Venice and the Adriatic
Tenenti 1973
Conflict
Suživot
Coexistence
Cooperation
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