Age, Marriage, and Politics in Fifteenth-Century Ragusa

This 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.