This scientific project represents an extension, in terms of collaborators and topics involved, of the earlier project “Medieval history of Slavonia, Srijem and Baranya” (code number: 0019061). The present project includes four main research subjects which are mutually coordinated. They will be studied by the project coordinator and three collaborators. The four main research units are: political, ethnographic, and cultural history of the land between the Drava and the Sava rivers from the Late Antiquity up to the consolidation of the common Hungarian-Croatian state (4th-12th centuries); history of nobility and urban societies in the Central and Later Middle Ages; history of the religious orders, primarily Cistercians, canons regular and military orders, from the 12th through the 16th centuries; and administrational, economic, cultural and church history of the town of Požega (the main urban center of the eastern part of the Drava-Sava interamnium) and the Požega county in the Later Middle Ages. The chronologically earlier (late antique and early medieval) component of the project will bring into the Croatian historical science a much needed systematic discussion with international historiography relevant to this topic. The three components which chronologically belong to the second half of the medieval millennium will considerably improve the currently available knowledge (for the greater part schematic and scanty), both by the study of hitherto unused source material and by applying fresh research questions and approaches. Besides the study of these subjects, the project will give important contributions to the history of settlements, historical topography and prosopography of the north-eastern parts of Croatia, especially in the later medieval period. On the whole, the project’s aim is to ascertain which fundamental social processes took place in the present-day North-Eastern Croatia after the collapse of the late antique Roman order, and what were the characteristic social, political-administrative, economic, cultural and religious conditions on that land in the second, more transparent half of the Middle Ages. The concrete objective is to write and publish at least 6 books on the topics mentioned above, as well as at least 20 scientific review articles and several dozens of biographical and genealogical reference-book articles. The goal is also to provide essential contributions for the future synthesis of the medieval history of Croatia’s North-East.
Leading researcher:
- dr. sc. Stanko Andrić
Researchers:
- dr. sc. Marija Karbić
- dr. sc. Dino Mujadžević
- dr. sc. Borislav Grgin – visiting researcher (University of Zagreb)
- dr. sc. Hrvoje Gračanin - visiting researcher (University of Zagreb)
