Dowry Increase and Increments in Wealth in Medieval Ragusa (Dubrovnik)
利用1235年至1460年拉古萨的嫁妆数据，研究长期财富积累，发现社会凝聚力和内婚制使贵族商人通过嫁妆重新分配财富，促进经济增长。
Certain data from the familial world have value as a means for charting increments in wealth over the long term. Dowries from medieval Ragusa (Dubrovnik), 1235 to 1460, provide such evidence where other surviving records prove inadequate. Social cohesion and endogamy allowed the noble merchant citizenry to utilize dowries to redistribute personal fortunes broadly, thereby creating broad-based wealth. Comparisons with Italian towns indicate dowry increase was widespread but often served different social and economic purposes. Analyzing dotal strategies at Ragusa allows a glimpse of the means a cohesive elite could employ to promote economic growth.