Daily Life on the Istrian Frontier Living on a Borderland in the Sixteenth Century - Kureli?
Living on a Borderland in the Sixteenth Century
KORTE INHOUD
The sixteenth century Istrian peninsula was a land divided between two great powers: Venice, a declining and decadent sea power jealously protecting its Adriatic Empire, and Austria in ascendancy with the Habsburg's firm grasp of the Imperial Crown and the beginnings of hegemony in Central and Eastern Europe. The collision course seemed inevitable and two great wars were fought to determine whether the Serenissima's maritime supremacy could be broken. In the shadow of these great powers and their ceaseless maneuvering, the inhabitants of Istria had to live with malaria, plague, famine, banditry, war and each other. Sharing a common ethnic and cultural identity, the predominantly Slavic subjects in the rural hinterlands of Istria had to balance their everyday struggle for survival with political allegiances resulting from the presence of the frontier. The microcosm of Istria was riddled with tensions and disputes over imprecise boundaries that failed to delineated vital forests and pastures, leading to frequen...
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2019Uitgever: , Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2019Taal: EngelsISBN-10: 2503551866ISBN-13: 9782503551869Koop dit boek tweedehands
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The Istrian peninsula, located at the head of the Adriatic Sea, has long been a land of divisions. Shared today between the modern-day countries of Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia, the region during the sixteenth century was divided between an urban coastline dominated by the Republic of Venice and a rural inland that fell under the sway of the Austrian Habsburgs. The subject populations of the peninsula ? predominantly Slavic Croatians and Slovenians ? thus found themselves split between these rival powers, d...
