Title: Vrijeme sazrijevanja, vrijeme razaranja: Hrvatske zemlje u kasnome srednjem vijeku [Time of development, time of destruction: Croatian lands in the late Middle Ages]. Edited by Marija Karbić. Biblioteka Povijest Hrvata 3. Matica hrvatska: Zagreb, 2019. pp. 637.
Abstract: Vrijeme sazrijevanja, vrijeme razaranja is the third volume in the series Biblioteka povijest hrvata, published by Matica hrvatska in 2019.This series eventually will consist of seven volumes in Croatian covering the history of Croatia and the Croatian lands from late antiquity until the late twentieth century.The first volume was published in 2015 and the third, which covers the period of the late Middle Ages, in 2019.The third volume of the series has twenty-three authors (five more than the first one), who are the most prominent scholars in their fields, which include history, legal history, economic history, church history, and historiography, and the authors belong to the younger or middle generation of Croatian historians.The volume begins with a preface written by editor Marija Karbić, who highlights that the book covers a turbulent period of the Croatian history characterized by integration and disintegration.This period included the rise of Venetian authority in the coastal territories, continuous conquests by the Ottoman Empire, and turbulent periods when some of the Croatian lands were part of the Kingdom of Hungary.According to Karbić, the volume aims to follow the path of the first book in the series in its structure and topics.She also highlights that the volume follows the path of two previous Croatian history projects, "Hrvatska i Europa" and "Povijest Hrvata."This volume, like the first volume of the series, thematically can be divided into three parts.The first part is a general overview which offers different perspectives on and approaches to the history of Croatia and the Croatian lands.It also deals with fields that are usually less frequently discussed, and it offers new approaches alongside the traditionally popular topics.The first two studies, which were written by Borislav Grgin, give an overview of the political history of Croatia in the late Middle .They are followed by Ante Birin's chapter on the history of the Croatian nobility (pp.39-54).Damir Karbić then discusses the characteristics of the late medieval Croatian peasantry (pp.55-61).The last chapter, which is about the general social history of the Croatian lands, was written by Gordan Ravančić, who offers a look at urban communities and society (pp.63-77).Following these discussions of social topics,