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„Praising the King, Honouring the City: Ragusan civic and religious ceremonies in honour of king Sigismund of Luxemburg (1387-1437)”

The paper deals with the relation between Dubrovnik and king Sigismund of Luxembourg (1387- 1437). The citizens of Dubrovnik showed greatest respect to the king, engraving him as a symbol in city's collective memory. The image of a good king Sigismund who protected his loyal subjects in the free city of Dubrovnik (Ragusa) became a part of the symbolical package that the ruling urban aristocracy created as a part of its political ideology. This all was visualized in rituals. Urban processions were held to celebrate King's acceding to the throne. After the news about his death spread in the city a memorial service was held in the cathedral. Distinguished humanists made speeches, praising Sigismund’s enormous merit for the city Although all of this was the usual custom to praise the king, it was interesting to find such strong support of the royal power in the city which was, in the same time, becoming an independent republic. This interplay between royal and republican and its visualization in the urban ceremonies was the focus of the paper.

ceremonies; rituals; politics; Sigismund of Luxemburg; Dubrovnik

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