Code of project: 019-0190611-0593
Leading researcher: dr. sc. Lovorka Čoralić
Registration number at MZOS: 176044
E-mail: lovorka@isp.hr
Status of project: project within the program
Program: Razjedinjena Hrvatska Kraljevina u europskom civilizacijskom kontekstu 16.-18. st.
Affiliation: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Department: Odjel za novovjekovnu povijest
Duration of project: 5 years
Summary:
History of Croatian part of East Adriatic coast in the Early Modern Age, particularly regarding the fact that this area was included in the political system of the Republic of Venice, is one of the least researched areas of Croatian historiography. Equally important is the fact that this topic is today studied in Croatia only by an insufficient number of scholars. Main researcher and other researchers in the past years dedicated significant attention to the different aspects of that problem and this project grows from their former research. Areas under the administration of Venice (as well as other areas of the East Adriatic) from the North of Istria to the towns of present-day Albania. In the future research, based on the former knowledge and new results, in this project particular attention will be dedicated to some important elements of history of areas and cities/towns on the East Adriatic Coast in the context of their belonging to the Republic of Venice, as well as in the context o0f their integrative role in Croatian historical processes. During the next project period, the research of following problems and themes providing as results monographs, source collections, studies and articles is planned: 1) work on the source material from the state Archive of Venice, collection “Reports of the Venetian rectors (the podesta) of the cities of Dalmatia and Boka kotorska (the gulf of Kotor) to the Venetian central institutions (the Council of Ten) (Consiglio dei Dieci: Lettere Rettori ai Capi); 2) Research in the military history of the cities of Dalmatia and Boka; 3) Research of particular aspects of the history of Boka and Venetian Albania in the early Middle Ages; 4) Research of Croatian migrations to the West Adriatic, in the first place to Venice; 5) Editing of archival sources regarding social history of Istrian cities in the beginning of the Early Modern Age; 6) Editing and critical analysis of the source material regarding the history of Istria and Boka in the first half of the nineteenth century; 7) Research of urban history of Dalmatian cities in the Early Modern Age; 8) Research of the Dalmatian clergy in the beginning of the early Modern Age. The importance of the project is in its holistic approach to the study of basic elements of the history of Croatian littoral area in the Early Modern Age and in its inclusion into the totality of Croatian Early Modern history and integration processes of Adratic, Mediterranean and Europe.
Key words:
Croatian history, Early modern Age, Eastern Adriatic Coast, Venetian Republic, primary sources
- dr. sc. Lovorka Čoralić, leading researcher
- Maja Katušić, prof.
Collaborators:
- dr. sc. Irena Benyovsky Latin
- dr. sc. Marino Manin
- dr. sc. Jadranka Neralić
Visiting researcher:
- Domagoj Madunić
