This article analyzes the “De Bellis Gothorum,” a long neglected and misunderstood history of the ancient Goths written in 1472–73 by Nicholas of Modruš, the leading Croatian-Illyrian bishop at the papal curia. By placing the work in its proper context, this article reconstructs a previously unknown episode in the political history of the fifteenth-century Adriatic. It is argued that the “De Bellis Gothorum” was in fact a national history that was meant to provide a trans-Adriatic network of Croatian and Bosnian nobles and churchmen with support from Naples and the papacy for their border wars against the Ottomans and reestablishment of their national kingdom.
meaningful order across a wide range of manuscript books with diverse and therefore miscellaneous contents. Miscellaneous Order deserves a place with the great monographs on early modern English manuscripts by Beal, Love, Hobbs, Marotti, and Woudhuysen. Given the focus of its closing chapters, it will be required reading for anyone working on Sir Hugh Plat (and his intriguing "network of notebooks") or Francis Bacon, "the pivotal figure in this book's larger history of miscellany culture, manuscript practice, and the organization of knowledge" (160, 223). Yet beyond manuscript studies and Bacon studies, Vine's book also deserves attention throughout the study of early modern English literature and history, where it could introduce readers to the order that they can find even in the most miscellaneous original sources. If it were to receive the broad attention it deserves, this book would challenge and improve the study of early modern English literature and history.
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