Susan Mosher Stuard 
A State of Deference 
Ragusa / Dubrovnik in the Medieval Centuries

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press’s distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Table of Content

Preface
1- Introduction: An Ancient Town
2- The Old Republic
3- The Noble Circle
4- Women in Ragusa
5- Ragusan Households
6- Community
7- Fortunes
8- Fame
Appendices
1-Timeline
2- The Later Centuries of the Republic of Ragusa
3- Text of 1377 Law Establishing a Trentino
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Susan Mosher Stuard is Professor of History Emeritus at Haverford College and author of Gilding the Market: Luxury and Fashion in Fourteenth-Century Italy, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.