The Uskoks of Senj : : Piracy, Banditry, and Holy War in the Sixteenth-Century Adriatic /

The Uskoks of Senj : : Piracy, Banditry, and Holy War in the Sixteenth-Century Adriatic / / Catherine Wendy Bracewell.

In this highly original and influential book, Catherine Wendy Bracewell reconstructs and analyzes the tumultuous history of the uskoks of Senj, the martial bands nominally under the control of the Habsburg Military Frontier in Croatia, who between the 1530s and the 1620s developed a community based...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Bracewell, Catherine Wendy,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 7 halftones and line drawings, 7 maps, 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations and Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • Conventions and Abbreviations
  • CHAPTER ONE.Introduction
  • CHAPTER TWO .The Borders and Border Military Systems
  • CHAPTER THREE. Origins and Motives of the Uskoks
  • CHAPTER FOUR. The Raiding Economy
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Military Authority and Raiding
  • CHAPTER SIX. Legitimating Raiding: The Uskok Code
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Allies and Victims
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. The Final Decades
  • CHAPTER NINE. The Dispersal of the Uskoks
  • APPENDIX I. Chronology
  • APPENDIX II.Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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