T. GALOVIĆ, Combating Corruption in Croatia in the Middle Ages... Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Rijeci, vol. 40, br. 2, 869-897 (2019) 869 COMBATING CORRUPTION IN CROATIA IN THE MIDDLE AGES: AN EXAMPLE OF CROATIAN LEGAL DOCUMENTS – THE LAW CODE OF VINODOL (1288) AND STATUTE OF THE ISLAND OF KRK/VRBNIK (1388) 1 Doc. dr. sc. Tomislav Galović* UDK: 316.654:343.352 https://doi.org/10.30925/zpfsr.40.2.9 Ur.:13. veljače 2019. Pr.: 3. lipnja 2019. Pregledni znanstveni rad Summary The Croatian medieval lands were encompassed by Western European civilization and its culture, language and script, collectively referred to as orbis Latinus, but they were also lands in which there was a notable infuence of different legal systems. In this paper, we will discuss combating corruption in Croatia in the Middle Ages: an example of Croatian legal documents – the Law Code of Vinodol (1288) and Statute of the island of Krk (1388). The frst part of this paper is a general introduction, which defnes history and legal history of Vinodol. The Law Code of Vinodol is in many ways a vital historical source, not only for legal history and linguistics, but also for knowledge of social structures in medieval Vinodol, the organization of the Church, and the ethnographic and cultural heritage. In the second part of this paper the focus will be on the Statute of Krk or Vrbnik, which is chronologicaly the second codex/statute written in the Croatian language and Glagolitic script. It is formally only a century younger than the Law Code, or Codex, of Vinodol from 1288, and was composed in the same year as the Latin-language Statute of Senj. Keywords: Croatian legal documents; Croatian medieval lands; legal systems; combating corruption; Croatia; Middle Ages; Law Code of Vinodol (1288); Statute of the island of Krk (1388). * Tomislav Galović, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of History and Institute of Croatian History, tgalovic@ffzg.hr. 1 One part of this paper is based on the lecture held at international conference Good Old Laws. The Tradition of Combating Corruption in Croatia, organized by European Parliament, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, Brussels, Belgium, October 14, 2015. Modifed Croatian version (without footnotes) of this lecture is available in Galović, T. et al., Suzbijanje korupcije u Hrvatskoj u srednjem vijeku, Z. A. Petrović (ed.), Zagreb, Udruga Kultura i etika, 2016., chapter: Vinodolski zakon, pp. 10-22; Hrvatskoglagoljski Krčki ili Vrbanski/Vrbnički statut, pp. 62-75.