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Combating Corruption in Croatia in the Middle Ages: an Example of Croatian Legal Documents – the Law Code of Vinodol (1288) and Statute of the island of Krk/Vrbnik (1388)

The Croatian medieval lands were encompassed by Western European civilization and its culture, language and script, collectively referred to as orbis Latinus, but they were also lands in which there was a notable influence of different legal systems. In this paper, we will discuss combating corruption in Croatia in the Middle Ages: an example of Croatian legal documents – the Law Code of Vinodol (1288) and Statute of the island of Krk (1388). The first part of this paper is a general introduction, which defines history and legal history of Vinodol. The Law Code of Vinodol is in many ways a vital historical source, not only for legal history and linguistics, but also for knowledge of social structures in medieval Vinodol, the organization of the Church, and the ethnographic and cultural heritage. In the second part of this paper the focus will be on the Statute of Krk or Vrbnik, which is chronologicaly the second codex/statute written in the Croatian language and Glagolitic script. It is formally only a century younger than the Law Code, or Codex, of Vinodol from 1288, and was composed in the same year as the Latin-language Statute of Senj.

Croatian legal documents ; Croatian medieval lands ; legal systems ; combating corruption ; Croatia ; Middle Ages ; Law Code of Vinodol (1288) ; Statute of the island of Krk/Vinodol (1388)

Sažetak: Suzbijanje korupcije u Hrvatskoj u srednjem vijeku: na primjeru pravnih spomenika na hrvatskom jeziku – Vinodolski zakon (1288.) i Krčki-Vrbnički statut (1388.) ; Zusammenfassung: Korruptionsbekämpfung in Kroatien im Mittelalter am Beispiel der kroatischen Gesetzesdokumente, des Gesetzes Von Vinodol (1288) und des Statuts der Insel Krk/Vrbnik (1388) ; Riassunto: La lotta alla corruzione in Croazia nel Medioevo: un esempio di documenti legali croati – il Codice di Vinodol (1288) e lo Statuto dell’isola di Veglia/Vrbnik (1388). One part of this paper is based on the lecture held at international conference Good Old Laws. The Tradition of Combating Corruption in Croatia, organized by European Parliament, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, Brussels, Belgium, October 14, 2015. Modified Croatian version (without footnotes) of this lecture is available in Galović, T. et al., Suzbijanje korupcije u Hrvatskoj u srednjem vijeku, Z. A. Petrović (ed.), Zagreb, Udruga Kultura i etika, 2016., chapter: Vinodolski zakon, pp. 10-22 ; Hrvatskoglagoljski Krčki ili Vrbanski/Vrbnički statut, pp. 62-75.