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Variations on Nobility in Central and South- Eastern Europe. An Introduction

The text describes results of eleven young researchers about certain lifestyles, strategies, and activities of social elites/nobility in Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, and Hungary from the mid-thirteenth to the late fifteenth century. The contributions by eleven young historians and archaeologists tackle, through well researched examples based on the analysis of written and non-textual primary sources, all those issues that were essential for the social distinction that the nobility boosted with: ownership of land on larger or smaller scale, performing military duties, holding offices in the governance and jurisdiction of a smaller or larger area, gaining access to diplomatic circles, which are, by the beginning of the 15th century, being dominated by highly-educated individuals, as well as being patrons of churches and monasteries – all this, in addition to the descent from particular lineages or kinships.

Nobility, Central and South-Eastern Europe, Secular Power, Sacral Authority, Middle Ages

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