„Una chasa in la zitade de Antivari “: patricijski rod Zupan (Župan )
„Una chasa in la zitade de Antivari ”: the patrician lineage Zupan (Župan )

Summary/Abstract: Based on archival evidences and historiography, considered is the patrician lineage Zupan (Župan) of Bar, during the fifteenth and sixteenth century. Members of the lineage are followed through a network of social relations, interest groups, cognatic and agnatic kinship, through architectural heritage, transfer of tradition, the prerogatives of class cohesion and spiritual community, patrimony conservation strategies and a renewal of memories. The source material contains extremely valuable toponomastic and onomastic information, as well as the details according to which may be reconstructed the lifestyle of that time. Available data indicatethat the lineage, previously enriched by trade, at the beginning of the sixteenth century played a significant role in partition of the functions in town’s administration. In addition, its representatives concentrated judicial and military powers, proving, nothing less, spiritual vocations. However, while in the second half of the sixteenth century it was one of the richest lineages, with a large land holdings in the district of Bar, the number of its members is precipitously reduced, and with that its social impact. Therefore, the last Zupan’s offsprings, relying on fideicommissum as a guarantee of maintaining the social status and material stability, were turning to memories and sacred heritage, in order to preserve the class mentality and awareness of aristocratic continuity.

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