Prilog poznavanju socioekonomskoga razvoja ivanečkoga i viničkoga kraja (prostora nekadašnjega Gornjeg polja) u srednjem i ranom novom vijeku
Contribution to the understanding of the socio-economic development of the areas of Ivanec and Vinica (former Gornje polje) in the Middle Ages and the early modern period

Author(s): Hrvoje Petrić
Subject(s): Economic history, Local History / Microhistory, Modern Age, Economic development, 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Ivanec; Vinica; Gornje polje; the Middle Ages; the early modern period;
Summary/Abstract: This article provides a contribution to the understanding of the socio-economic development of the areas which gravitated to the market towns of Ivanec and Vinica in the period of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, and in those periods this area was known as Gornje polje. Special emphasis is given to various demographic indicators. The author has tried to reconstruct the connections of the socio-economic developments with central functions of the each settlement. Hence, he argues that the main central settlement of that area in the earlier period was Vinica, but the central functions of the settlement were also shared with Ivanec and Lepoglava. It was not before the end of the 18th century, when the Pauline monastery in Lepoglava was abolished, when this settlement has lost most of its central functions. Moreover, it was in the beginning of 19th century when the city of Ivanec had, for the first time, more inhabitants than Vinica, and it was in that period when Ivanec has become the main central settlement of that area as it is today. Central settlements of the lower level in the period of the Late Middle Ages and the early modern period were centres of Roman Catholic parishes such are Križovljan, Voća, Maruševec, Bela (Margečan), Višnjica, Kamenica and Bednja. After the reforms of the Joseph II Habsburg of 1789, these settlements were accompanied by Nadkrižovljan, Cvetlin i Klenovnik.

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