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Digital Mapping of the Elites’ Estates in Dubrovnik’s burgus in the 13th Century

This paper presents a “digital mapping” work-in pogress, focusing on the estates of Dubrovnik’s noble families in the city’s 13th-century burgus. In this period, the area outside the old city walls experienced significant modifications in terms of space, function, and property structure. Intense urban planning (construction of additional streets and the new city wall, which now included the suburbs) took place simultaneously with dynamic social, demographic, and legal processes. Using all the available written sources (fed into a relational database), the relevant results of archaeological research, and art-historical and spatial analyses, we have reconstructed the position of Dubrovnik’s noble estates outside the area surrounded by the old city walls and traced their spatial evolution during the 13th century. “Digital mapping” makes it possible to follow with great accuracy property structures, as well as the size and continuity of family estates in the suburbs, seen in the social and familial context of the time. The basis of our digital map consists of the vector cadastre map of Dubrovnik, ground plans from 1972, and topographic maps, to which we have added data from various earlier cartographic and visual sources, relevant results of previous spatial analyses, and the research results of the our research. Our research is based on linking all the available data on urban real estates and their owners/users (largely from the notarial records) with the locatio in the present-day cadastre map of Dubrovnik. Digital mapping is an important part of this research process, as well as the interpretation, visualization, and presentation of its results.

Dubrovnik, medieval, digital mapping, social topography, urban history

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