Korčula: Ländliche Lebenswelten und Gemeinschaften im venezianischen Dalmatien (1420–1499)

Fabian Kümmeler

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Korčula

Ländliche Lebenswelten und Gemeinschaften im venezianischen Dalmatien (1420–1499)

Korčula: Rural Life and Communities in Venetian Dalamtia (1420–1499)

Fabian Kümmeler

Volume 165 in the series Südosteuropäische Arbeiten

Overview

About this book

This book provides a microhistorical reconstruction of rural ways of life and communities of farmers and shepherds in the Venetian Dalmatia of the fifteenth century, specifically on the island of Korčula. This anthropologically inspired analysis is made possible due to archival sources that are unusually rich for the epoch – even compared with the Mediterranean region as a whole – relating to local Venetian administrative and legal practices.

Author / Editor information

Fabian Kümmeler, Institute for Balkan and Habsburg Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria.

Reviews

"Overall, Kümmeler offers an engaging journey into the world of a fifteenth-century island society.
His concluding remarks point to wider comparative potential, be it with other areas along the Dalmatian
coast (such as Poljica, where feudal structures lingered more strongly), the terraferma around Venice or case
studies even further afield. Anyone interested in concepts of community, rural economies and town-country
interactions will find Korčula a stimulating read." Beat Kümin in: Agricultural History Review, 2022

Topics

(Deutsch)

Language: German
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pages
- Main content: 516
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 8
- Maps: 3
Keywords: Mediterranean; Croatia; rural history; microhistory; everyday history

Hardcover

Published: March 22, 2021
ISBN: 9783110738933