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Dubrovnik: Civitas et Acta Consiliorum 1400–1450. Mapping methodology and data analysis

The aim of our paper is to present and discuss the data that were collected and the methodology that was used within the research project “Dubrovnik: Civitas et Acta Consiliorum. Visualizing Development of the Late Medieval Urban Fabric”. The State Archives of Dubrovnik keeps the volumes of the unpublished records of the three Dubrovnik’s governing bodies – the Great Council, the Minor Council, and the Senate - that are systematically investigated in order to gather and publish the deliberations concerning urban spaces and buildings. All the information about the physical changes of the urban tissue, the use of different spaces and buildings and the aspects of governmental control over them, as well as the management of related processes, are regarded as relevant and so far collected. These deliberations are presented in the form of the fully transcribed texts. They are available at the project web pages: the front-page map gives the basic information on the content of each segment ; when clicked, the segment gets magnified ; every blue dot/spot inserted on a segment is linked to a separate page containing all the deliberations related to that part of the city. The methodology of mapping comprised the use of any kind of spatial-related information and its obstacles and limits are going to be furtherly explained and discussed. However, even deliberations containing the data that cannot be mapped are organized in special thematic strands and also available at the webpages. The collected data will be furtherly analysed, presenting the wide range of problems and processes which could be researched in the studies of the urban development of Dubrovnik, but also, as comparative material, in urban research of other cities and towns.

mapping methodology, city councils' deliberations, medieval, Dubrovnik

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