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- Title
VOJNIČKI ŽIVOT U POZADINI RATOVANJA: SVAKODNEVICA MLETAČKIH VOJNIKA U ZADRU ZA VRIJEME KANDIJSKOG RATA (1645.-1669.) KROZ ANALIZU SPISA ZADARSKIH BILJEŽNIKA.
- Authors
Novosel, Filip
- Abstract
The early modern military history already has a long tradition in European historiography. Since Croatian lands in the aforementioned period were a part of the universal European borderland entitled „Antemurale Christianitatis", many topics in contemporary Croatian historiography are concerned with the research on military issues as well. However, for a long time the focus of Croatian (and Yugoslav) historians was on the history of warfare, and some other topics not directly concerned with battles or simply chronology of wars became a matter of reaserch only recently. The aim of this paper was exactly to analyse one of the problems not dealt so far extensively in Croatian military history. More concretely, the members of Venetian army in Zadar during the war of Crete (1645-1669) were taken as a case study for a research of a soldiers' daily life in an urban settlement, on the basis of the notarial acts of Zaratine notaries of that time as the mayor archival source. In this 25 years long period these notaries have produced almost 2500 documents af all kind of contracts concerning everyday business divided into following categories by the notaries themselves: Istrumenti (agreements of all kinds, buying and selling contracts, rents, dowrys, donations), Proccure (procurements), Carte varie (sketches of documents), Estimi (estimations), Processi et Sentenze arbitrali (juridical documents and lawsuits), Inventarii (inventories) and Testamenti (testaments). Finally, the paper has shown that the presence of soldiers of all ranks and geographical origin was continous in all kinds of cases in Zadar. As a result of the analysis, the conclusion was made that this professional group was clearly one of quite important human factors in the overall appearance of the urban society, engaged in all kind of daily enterprise not directly conected to military affairs. Yet, it must be pointed out that there was no any trace of organized militarization of the urban civil society itself. Rather, from the given material it is clearly visible how members of the military and civilian population interacted extensively, living in mostly peaceful cohabitation with only ocasional frictions common for the society in general.
- Subjects
ZADAR (Croatia); EUROPEAN historiography; MILITARY history; MILITARISM; CIVIL-military relations
- Publication
Acta Histriae, 2018, Vol 26, Issue 2, p369
- ISSN
1318-0185
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.19233/AH.2018.15