Naslov
Mars wandering the city: foreign soldiers in the service of the Republic of Venice garrisoned in the city of Zadar during the War of Crete (1645–1669)

Autori
Novosel, FIlip

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, ostalo

Knjiga
The City and the Process of Transition from Early Modern Times to the Present

Urednik/ci
Magdalena Gibiec, Dorota Wiśniewska, Leszek Ziątkowski

Izdavač
Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Grad
Newcastle upon Tyne

Godina
2019

Raspon stranica
28-64

ISBN
1-5275-3817-6

Ključne riječi
urban history, military history, early modern period, The Republic of Venice, Dalmatia, Zadar, The War of Crete

Sažetak
During almost 400 years of Venetian governance in Dalmatia, the city of Zadar was a cultural, administrative, economic and military capital of the province. Therefore, apart from the residents and people from the city district, the city attracted all kinds of people of various professions from all over Europe. Among others, one significant professional group was omnipresent in the city, especially in times of war – the military. Although it was never directly besieged by the Ottoman army, mostly thanks to its modern fortifications, the city was constantly endangered by military operations in the hinterland in the period leading up to the War of Crete. Thus, the presence of soldiers on the streets of Zadar was a part of its daily life, and since the Republic of Venice recruited troops not only from its possessions, but also from many diverse European lands, ethnic and cultural differences were highly visible. This variety can be clearly seen in public notarial acts, among other sources, where soldiers acted as constant participants in all kinds of businesses. Therefore, the main goal of this paper is to show, primarily through the analysis of the aforementioned sources, which ethnic military groups or individuals were present in Zadar and to what extent, what the soldiers' modes of interaction with civilian residents were, together with the level of their acceptance in local circles, and in which economic and social ranks they were present in the city. The mapping of soldiers within the material consisting of almost 2500 documents produced by the Zaratine notaries active in the period of interest has shed some new light on the complex picture of ethnic, social and cultural groups which formed a city situated on one of the European early modern borderlands, to a large extent influenced by military affairs and frequent warfare.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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