دانلود کتاب The Myth of Dubrovnik (Ragusa): Civic Identity of an Adriatic City-State in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period

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INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................9 The Problem: History of a Collective Auto-portrait...................................9 The Context: Renaissance Ragusa and Its Patriciate................................. 11 Methodology: Identity and Discourse.......................................................... 18 CHAPTER 1: THE DISCOURSE ON ORIGIN.......................................... 23 Introduction: The Relevance of Origin in Medieval and Renaissance Culture................................................................ 23 The Foundation of Ragusa in Medieval Tradition..................................... 26 The Foundation of Ragusa in Renaissance Historiography..................... 31 Creating an Illustrious Predecessor: Changes in Epidaurus’ Image.......................................................................... 37 The Origins of the City and the Origins of the Patriciate........................ 51 Roman Past, Slavic Present: Discomfort in Ragusan Culture................. 61 Projecting Independence and Christian Religion into the Founding Moment............................................................ 69 Conclusion: The Ragusan Discourse on Origins in Comparative Perspective........................................................ 73 CHAPTER 2: THE DISCOURSE ON STATEHOOD.............................. 83 Introduction: The Patriciate and Its Libertas.............................................. 83 The First Articulations of Independence: Ragusa and the Hungarian Kingdom........................................................... 86 A Most Embarrassing Relationship: Ragusa as an Ottoman Tributary State.......................................................104 “The Liberty Given by God’’: Ragusa as a Fully Independent Republic....................................................121 The “Purest” of Aristocracies: Representations of the Ragusan Political System.....................................144 Conclusion: The Ragusan Discourse on Statehood in Comparative Perspective.......................................................162 CHAPTER 3: THE DISCOURSE ON THE FRONTIER......................169 Introduction: A City “In-between”.............................................................169 Ragusa as a Christian Frontier Guard in the Medieval Tradition.........171 “Shelter, Shield, and Firm Bastion of the Entire Christian Republic’’: The Representations of Tributary Status in Ragusan Renaissance Diplomacy............................................................177 Infidel Slavery or Defense of Faith: References to the Frontier in Ragusan Renaissance Culture...........................................194 Conclusion: The Ragusan Discourse on the Frontier in Comparative Perspective....................................................210 CONCLUSION: CIVIC DISCOURSES IN THE BROADER IDEOLOGICAL CONTEXT........................................221 EPILOGUE: RAGUSAN ECHOES................................................................227 BIBLIOGRAPHY..................................................................................................243 Archival Sources..............................................................................................243 Published Sources............................................................................................245 Secondary Literature......................................................................................253