Participation in the international workshop The Sale of Governance in Pre-Modern Europe and the Mediterranean (1100–1600) in Vienna

From June 18 to 20, 2026, the international workshop The Sale of Governance in Pre-Modern Europe and the Mediterranean (1100–1600) was held in Vienna, organized by the University of Vienna’s Institute of Austrian Historical Research. The workshop brought together researchers from across pre-modern Europe and the Mediterranean to explore the market for governance in its broadest geographical and methodological dimensions, drawing on a wide range of archival, visual, and literary sources.

Project team members Dr. Antun Nekić and Assistant Professor Luka Špoljarić, PhD, jointly presented a paper entitled How to Buy and Maintain a Viceroyalty under the Hungarian Crown? The Frankapani as Bans of Croatia-Dalmatia, 1426–1436. Their participation formed part of the planned activities of the Croatian Science Foundation project The Formation of the Territorial State in Late Medieval Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia: Socio-Political and Administrative Transformations (CroDaSTrans, IP-2025-02-4345), led by Professor Ivan Majnarić, PhD, and carried out at the Catholic University of Croatia.