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Towns and Cities of the Croatian Middle Ages Image of the Town in the Narrative Sources: Reality and/or Fiction?
Notes on Contributors Stanko Andrić is a research advisor at the Croatian Institute of History, Department for the History of Slavonia, Syrmia and Baranja, in Slavonski Brod. He works primarily on the medieval history of north-eastern Croatia, with a special interest in church history, cultural history, historical topography, and history of noble families. Ivan Basić is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. His research interests include the late antique and medieval Adriatic, church history, urban history, historical geography, Early Christian and medieval art and architecture. Sandra Begonja is a senior research assistant at the Department of Medieval History, Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb. Her academic research interests include medieval urban and military history in the Eastern Adriatic (especially Zadar), urban social topography, and the development of the urban nobility (also medieval Zadar). Irena Benyovsky Latin is a research advisor at the Department of Medieval History, Croatian Institute of History. Her research focuses on medieval urban history in the Eastern Adriatic (especially Trogir and Dubrovnik), urban social topography, and the development of medieval urban institutions. Donal Cooper is Senior Lecturer in History of Art and a Fellow of Jesus College at the University of Cambridge. His principal research interest is the ecclesiastical art and architecture of the medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean, especially the artistic patronage of the Franciscan Order and the material and spatial configurations of church interiors. Marija Karbić is a senior research fellow at the Department of History of Slavonia, Syrmia, and Baranya of the Croatian Institute of History. Her research interests include history of nobility, urban history, family and gender history in the Late Middle Ages, mainly focusing on the history of the area between the Sava, Drava, and Danube rivers. Zoran Ladić is a research coordinator at the Department of History of the Institute of Historical and Social Sciences in Zagreb, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is dealing with daily life and piety in medieval Eastern Adriatic communes. He is