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The Making of a Nation: Identities of the Croatian Nobility during the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century
The Making of a Nation: Identities of the Croatian Nobility during the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century

Author(s): Ivan Majnarić
Subject(s): Cultural history, Ethnohistory, Political history, Social history, 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century
Published by: Pécsi Tudományegyetem
Keywords: 14th and 15th centuries; Kingdom of Croatia; nobility; nation; identity; corporate groups;

Summary/Abstract: During the 14th century, the state and governmental development brought forward the need to simplify a complex social reality. The management of this complexity eventually led to the formation of more tightly connected social groups, some of which can be considered as corporate groups. At the same time, different identities became clearly visible. Both processes can be observed in the Kingdom of Croatia during the Angevin reorganization of their dominions. The paper argues that these processes, among other things, nurtured the emergence of a pre-modern Croatian nation.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 127-144
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English
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