Dusa, Joan
The Medieval Dalmatian Episcopal Cities

Development and Transformation.

This book explores how the nobility in the episcopal cities on the Dalmatian coast during the middle ages removed the church hierarchy from positions as magistrates, judges, tax collectors and lard holders in the process of communal transformation into self-government. The author evaluates how the internal development of the cities and international pressures, in the ambitions of the papacy, Byzantium, Hungary and Venice, forced the communes to secularize in defense of their political autonomy. XV,157 Seiten, gebunden (American University Studies. Series IX: History; Vol. 94/Peter Lang Verlag 1991) Mängelexemplar/near mint