Naslov
The Myth of Ragusa: Discourses on Civic Identity in an Adriatic City-State (1350-1600

Autori
Kunčević, Lovro

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Ocjenski radovi, doktorska disertacija

Fakultet
Department of Medieval Studies

Mjesto
Budimpešta

Datum
19.04

Godina
2012

Stranica
255

Mentor
Jaritz, Gerhard

Ključne riječi
Ragusa (Dubrovnik); identity; self-representation; Renaissance; foundation myth; liberty; frontier; republicanism

Sažetak
The goal of this study is to investigate how medieval and Renaissance Ragusans spoke about themselves as a community, developing a set of recognizable ways of characterizing their city-state. The various utterances made regarding Ragusa during this period can be classified into three major discourses on identity. Defined by specific themes and a characteristic group of common-places (topoi), these three discourses are: the discourse on origin, statehood, and frontier. In other words, in the vast majority of cases when Ragusans spoke about their city-state they did one of the following: they either thematized its origin and formative first centuries, reflected on its political independence and republican constitution, or described its perilous position and specific missions on the frontier with Orthodoxy and Islam. The thesis reconstructs the gradual formation of each of these discourses on identity, from their appearance in the fourteenth century until their elaboration in the flourishing culture of the Renaissance Ragusa. Taking into account extremely varied sources, the thesis analyses Ragusan self-representation in different cultural genres, from historiography, diplomacy, literature, all the way to ritual and visual arts.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest

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