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

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

In this highly original and influential book, Catherine Wendy Bracewell reconstructs and analyzes the tumultuous history of...
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Uskoks of Senj: Piracy, Banditry, and Holy War in the Sixteenth-Century Adriatic by Bracewell, Catherine Wendy

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

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

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

$214.98
Author: Catherine Wendy Bracewell
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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.



Author: Catherine Wendy Bracewell
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 04/21/1992
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.50w x 1.42d
ISBN: 9780801426742
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author

Catherine Wendy Bracewell is a Reader in Southeast European History at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. She is coeditor most recently of Balkan Departures: Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe (as Wendy Bracewell).




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