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Female rhetoric before the court and its representatives in the Dubrovnik Republic (18th century)

The history of everyday life deals with the interpretation of the man's world and his environment on the basis of the local events and selected phenomena. Hence the centuries-old Dubrovnik Republic (1358-1806), as a tiny state with a developed and stable administrative structure, legal system and an officially established notary office since the thirteenth century, offers a wealth of valuable data related to the history of diverse social groups and phenomena. On the samples of various notary genres filed in the archives of the Dubrovnik Republic it is possible to trace the social phenomena and to focus on the category of privacy which manifested differently in diverse cultures throughout the past, but also on the experience of the marginalised groups based on their understanding of reality, on their personal fortunes and misfortunes, as well as on the picture of their time and society. Although I have used a variety of archival documents, the most exhaustive and insightful source for the study of everyday life are the records of the Criminal Court of the Republic from the second half of the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth century.

History of everyday life; Criminal Court of the Republic of Dubrovnik; female rhetoric; marginals

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