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Age, Marriage, and Politics in Fifteenth-Century Ragusa

David Rheubottom · Oxford University Press · 2000

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Book
Author
David Rheubottom
Identifier
DOI 10.1093/oso/9780198234128.001.0001
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2026-09-01
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Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; ISBN 0198234120. Chapter abstracts on Oxford Academic.

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EstablishedRagusa's Great Council comprised all adult male nobles, became hereditary after its closing in 1332, and elected the officials of the republic, including a Senate, a Minor Council and, after 1358, a rector whose term lasted one month.EstablishedIn fifteenth-century Ragusa only legitimate sons of a patrician father and a patrician mother could sit in the Great Council, and kinship and marriage ties were mobilised to win elections; the marriage system helped keep any single casata from dominating government.