Age, Marriage, and Politics in Fifteenth-Century Ragusa

'Based on comprehensive analysis of archival data... A rich and detailed picture of the genealogical connections and social characteristics of the ruling elite emerges from the analyses' -Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteThis book combines the insights of history and anthropology with innovative techniques such as computer simulation to investigate the relationships between politics, kinship, and marriage in the late-medieval city-state of Ragusa (present-day Dubrovnik). At its heart is a reconsideration of `office' and the ways in which ties of kinship and marriage were mobilized to build electoral success.