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Umfang: 1 online resource (348 pages) : , illustrations, maps

ISBN: 9781501702853 (e-book)

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Bracewell, Wendy. Uskoks of Senj : piracy, banditry, and holy war in the sixteenth-century Adriatic. Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, c1992 ISBN 9780801426742

Sprache: Englisch

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ISBN: 9781501702853

Inhalt: In this highly original and influential book, Catherine Wendy Bracewell reconstructs and analyzes the tumultuous history of the uskoks of Senj, the martial bands nominally under the control of the Habsburg Military Frontier in Croatia, who between the 1530s and the 1620s developed a community based on raiding the Ottoman hinterland, Venetian possessions in Dalmatia, and shipping on the Adriatic.Drawing on a broad range of sources, including the archives of the Dalmatian communes under Venetian rule and military frontier records, Bracewell provides the first comprehensive analysis of the uskoks as a social phenomenon, examining their origins, their military and social organization, their plunder economy, their mental world, and their relations with other groups in this borderland between three empires. The uskoks lived on the Christian-Muslim frontier, and they invoked Europe’s struggle against Islam to justify their often bloody deeds. As Bracewell demonstrates, however, their actions were also shaped by the maze of local political and economic rivalries, social conflicts, and confessional antagonisms. In a book that tests the concept of the social bandit, the author analyzes the motives that guided the uskoks and distinguishes these from the factors that impelled various elements of the local population to support them.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations and Maps -- , Acknowledgments -- , Conventions and Abbreviations -- , CHAPTER ONE.Introduction -- , CHAPTER TWO .The Borders and Border Military Systems -- , CHAPTER THREE. Origins and Motives of the Uskoks -- , CHAPTER FOUR. The Raiding Economy -- , CHAPTER FIVE. Military Authority and Raiding -- , CHAPTER SIX. Legitimating Raiding: The Uskok Code -- , CHAPTER SEVEN. Allies and Victims -- , CHAPTER EIGHT. The Final Decades -- , CHAPTER NINE. The Dispersal of the Uskoks -- , APPENDIX I. Chronology -- , APPENDIX II.Glossary -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.7591/9781501702853

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501702853

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Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (348 pages)

ISBN: 9781501702853

Inhalt: THE USKOKS OF SENJ -- Contents -- Illustrations and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions and Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- The Uskoks of Senj between Three Empires -- Approaches to the Uskoks -- Sources -- 2. The Borders and Border Military Systems -- The Impact of Ottoman Invasion -- Conflict and Community on the Borders -- Border Military Systems -- Klis and Senj in the Military Frontier -- 3. Origins and Motives of the Uskoks -- Origins and Numbers -- Why Become an Uskok? -- 4. The Raiding Economy -- Military Frontier Subsidies -- The Economics of Raiding -- Trade as a Function of Plunder -- 5. Military Authority and Raiding -- Senj Citizens and Uskoks -- Uskok Rank-and-File: Venturini and Stipendiati -- Uskok Commanders -- Captains of Senj -- The Habsburgs and the Military Frontier Administration -- 6. Legitimating Raiding: The Uskok Code -- The Uskok antemurale Christianitatis -- Honor and Vengeance -- Solidarity and Conflict -- 7. Allies and Victims -- Relations with the Infidel -- Uskoks and Ottoman Christians -- Christian Neighbors: Venice and Dubrovnik -- Merchants and Cities -- The Rural Population of Dalmatia -- 8. The Final Decades -- Deteriorating Relations with Venice -- Rabatta's Commission in Senj -- Dissent over the Limits of Raids -- The Peace of Zsitvatorok and Conflict with the Hofkriegsrat -- Popular Support for the Uskoks -- Vlatkovic's Trial: The End of the Independent Vojvodas -- Toward War with Venice -- 9. The Dispersal of the Uskoks -- Appendix I: Chronology -- Appendix II: Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780801426742

Weitere Ausg.: Print version Bracewell, Catherine Wendy The Uskoks of Senj : Piracy, Banditry, and Holy War in the Sixteenth-Century Adriatic Ithaca : Cornell University Press,c2015 ISBN 9780801426742

Sprache: Englisch

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