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

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Author / Creator:Bracewell, Wendy.
Imprint:Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Description:1 online resource (348 pages)
Language:English
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1501702858
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Summary: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 on raiding the Ottoman hinterland, Venetian possessions in Dalmatia, and shipping on the Adriatic. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including the archives of the Dalmatian communes under Venetian rule and military frontier records, Bracewell provides the first comprehensive analysis of the uskoks as a social phenomenon, examining their origins, their military and social organization, their plunder economy, their mental world, and their relations with other groups in this borderland between three empires. The uskoks lived on the Christian-Muslim frontier, and they invoked Europe's struggle against Islam to justify their often bloody deeds. As Bracewell demonstrates, however, their actions were also shaped by the maze of local political and economic rivalries, social conflicts, and confessional antagonisms. In a book that tests the concept of the social bandit, the author analyzes the motives that guided the uskoks and distinguishes these from the factors that impelled various elements of the local population to support them.
Other form:Print version: Bracewell, Catherine Wendy. Uskoks of Senj : Piracy, Banditry, and Holy War in the Sixteenth-Century Adriatic. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2015 9780801426742

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505 0 |a THE USKOKS OF SENJ; Contents; Illustrations and Maps; Acknowledgments; Conventions and Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; The Uskoks of Senj between Three Empires; Approaches to the Uskoks; Sources; 2. The Borders and Border Military Systems; The Impact of Ottoman Invasion; Conflict and Community on the Borders; Border Military Systems; Klis and Senj in the Military Frontier; 3. Origins and Motives of the Uskoks; Origins and Numbers; Why Become an Uskok?; 4. The Raiding Economy; Military Frontier Subsidies; The Economics of Raiding; Trade as a Function of Plunder. 
505 8 |a 5. Military Authority and RaidingSenj Citizens and Uskoks; Uskok Rank-and-File: Venturini and Stipendiati; Uskok Commanders; Captains of Senj; The Habsburgs and the Military Frontier Administration; 6. Legitimating Raiding: The Uskok Code; The Uskok antemurale Christianitatis; Honor and Vengeance; Solidarity and Conflict; 7. Allies and Victims; Relations with the Infidel; Uskoks and Ottoman Christians; Christian Neighbors: Venice and Dubrovnik; Merchants and Cities; The Rural Population of Dalmatia; 8. The Final Decades; Deteriorating Relations with Venice; Rabatta's Commission in Senj. 
505 8 |a Dissent over the Limits of RaidsThe Peace of Zsitvatorok and Conflict with the Hofkriegsrat; Popular Support for the Uskoks; Vlatkovic's Trial: The End of the Independent Vojvodas; Toward War with Venice; 9. The Dispersal of the Uskoks; Appendix I: Chronology; Appendix II: Glossary; Bibliography; Index. 
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