Format:
1 Online-Ressource (348 pages)
ISBN:
9781501702853
Content:
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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801426742
Additional Edition:
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
Language:
English
