The Poverty, the poor and charitable care in medieval towns of eastern Adriatic: comparative examples of Zadar and Dubrovnik

Tema rada su siromaštvo i siromasi kasnosrednjovjekovnih gradova Zadra i Dubrovnika te karitativna skrb za siromahe od strane crkvenih i laičkih institucija. Rad se temelji na oporukama i oporučnim legatima pobožnih stanovnika dvaju gradova kao i na pravnim odredbama gradskih statuta, pomoću kojih se može rekonstruirati dio društvene povijesti. Cilj rada je temeljem komparacije dva kasnosrednjovjekovna grada Zadra i Dubrovnika, vidjeti odnos gradskoga društva prema siromasima i siromaštvu te istražiti opseg i načine skrbi za njih. U radu se analiziraju oporučitelji pobožnih donacija usmjerenih prema siromasima te se utvrđuje spolna struktura oporučitelja, vrsta oporučnog legata namijenjenih siromasima te primatelji oporučnih legata.The topic of the thesis are poverty and the poor of late medieval towns of Zadar and Dubrovnik and charitable care for the poor by church and lay institutions. The work is based on the last wills and the legacy of pious inhabitants of the two cities, as well as on the legal provisions of the city statutes, by which we can reconstruct a part of social history. The aim of paper is based on comparison of the two medieval cities of Zadar and Dubrovnik to see the attitude of the city society towards the poor and poverty and to explore the scope and ways of care for them. The paper analyzes the testators of pious donations directed towards the poor and determines the gender structure of testators, the type of testamentary legacy intended for the poor and the recipients of testamentary legacies