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Angevin Rule and Legal Orders of the Eastern-Adriatic Cities

Among other things, the establishment of Angevin rule in Dalmatia during 1357/1358 also led to changes in local legal orders of certain eastern-Adriatic cities. In some of them, the local political elite focused on removing the Venetian name from statutory provisions (Dubrovnik), or readjusting the normative framework to the reorganization of municipal government (Zadar). In Trogir, however, the establishment of the king's authority was also followed by the decisive consolidation of social order resting on the (part of the) urban nobility's exclusive control of the decision-making process. This development was basically the last step of the century long process in the formation of the urban nobility and its real domination in the municipal government. Unlike Venice before and after the Angevin era, which was occasionally “flirting” with lower strata of urban society in order to maintain the equilibrium of its rule, the Angevin authority gave the impetus to the whole process with its general reliance on local nobilities as an instrument in the preservation of power. Thus, the presentation will try to recontextualize the transformation of Trogir's consilium generale as the exclusive holder of all the power in the city into officially designated consilium generale nobilium during the 1360s, which will also be associated with the changes in the legal order of the commune, and with several council decisions directed against municipal fraternities as places of (political) gathering of commoners.

Angevins, Statutes, Trogir, Middle Ages

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