THE WILLS OF DALMATIAN PHYSICIANS AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS FROM 14TH AND FIRST DECADE OF 15TH CENTURY
THE WILLS OF DALMATIAN PHYSICIANS AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS FROM 14TH AND FIRST DECADE OF 15TH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes ten wills of Dalmatian physicians and their family members from 14th and fi rst decade of 15th century that were preserved in State archive in Zadar and State archive in Dubrovnik. Physician’s wills are valuable source forstudy of different aspects of social life within communities, but also produce certain insights important for history of science and medicine. Content of those wills enables apprehension of social and material status of physicians and their family members and purposes for which they directed their assets. At the same time, it is possible to notice that physicians, as did other citizens of that time, followed socially acceptable form in distribution of estate. Authors in the paper also analyzed part of inventory of Šibenik physician Antun from Spilimberg regarding the list of important medical books mentioned physician possessed, for they witness that such medical literature was present in libraries of certain physicians and was used in Dalmatian communities.

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