Abstract
Category: 1.01 Original scientific paper Language: Original in Slovenian (Abstract in Slovenian and English, Summary in English) Key words: vengeance, enmity, feud, vendetta, nobility, Carniola, Styria, Istria, Radovljica, Dovje, Bled, Fram, Slivnica, Vurberk, Ravno polje, Voličina, Ptuj, Koper/Capodistria, seventeenth century Abstract: With cases of conflicts among nobility in seventeenth-century Carniola, Styria, and Istria, this paper outlines the long survival of vengeance as the customary system of conflict resolution and presents its adaptation to social, political, and legal changes in the early modern period. The primary focus is on the most noticeable and most infamous stage of the custom of vengeance, namely, the state or relationship of enmity. In customary conflict resolution, enmity sanctioned the limited used of violence (including retaliatory homicide), with the intention of forcing the offending party to provide satisfaction, settle an injustice or give in to certain demands. This paper is focused on conflicts among nobility.
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