Hey OP!

I just wanted to drop a line here - I've noticed that you've asked this question quite a number of times and unfortunately you've had no luck here so far. Is there anything the mod team might be able to do to assist? It's rough that AskHistorians hasn't been able to help so far and if there's anything we could do, that'd be great - I've pinged a couple of flaired users familiar with the pre-20th century Balkans with this question in the past, but it unfortunately appears that we don't have any specialists on your topic.

Hey,

i will help as much as i can, but this isn't really my area

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First i have few questions: can I recommend books written in croatian/serbian/bosnian? Also what kind of books do you really want? Maybe you are thinking more of a book on genealogy and heraldic (so maybe something like this? ), or maybe something more descriptive of nobility in general without going to details of individual families?

I am now browsing the inventory of local library, as far as i see, there are no books encompassing all of nobility even just in croatia, let alone one that includes bosnia and serbia. Not surprising, 1500-1900 is a long time ,and the area is huge and diverse, and the Ottoman empire caused a lot of turmoil. Most of the books that pop up either follow a family, or an arbitrary local region. Maybe you would like some of those?

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I am also browsing the syllabuses of local History course at University of Zagreb. I am checking the referenced books.

There is a course called (my translation) Nobility in Croatian Early Modern area in regional and European context (Plemstvo na hrvatskom ranonovovjekovnom prostoru u regionalnom i europskom kontekstu) warning Word .doc link This file has a lot of (poorly formated ) references.

This one referenced book looks promising if you want some general basics about feudal relations and system in place in Croatia (language is croatian)

Josip Adamček - Agrarni odnosi u Hrvatskoj od sredine XV do kraja XVII stoljeća (Agrarian relationships in Croatia from middle of 15th to end of 18th century)

Some of the more relevant ones in egnlish or german seem to be

Scott, H.M. The European Nobilities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Western Europe. Vol. 1. & The European Nobilities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. Vol. 2. London-New York, 1995;

and

Bojničić, Ivan. Der Adel von Kroatien und Slavonien Zagreb, 1995 (Nürnberg, 1899.); - which i am not sure is same as this?

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There are other courses in the university which might be relevant like Nobility of "Ban" Croatia of 19th century

Also another course called Medieval Nobility (so little before what you wants) and one called Nobility of medieval Dalmatian towns (caution another word link)

It's not much, but hope it helps a bit

OP, the question you've asked is very broad. Is there any specific topic or more restricted time period you are interested in?

Also, do you need the books to be in English?