This master thesis named The Status and role of the women in the Republic of Dubrovnik is about archival stories from The Criminal court, ligations, defamations and many other accusations where stories about unknown and known women, their acts and behavior were telling about the status and the position of the women in Republic of Dubrovnik. In this paper, lives of all kinds of women, no matter the class affiliation, age, marital status or profession were studied. Their life road is explained, as well as the obstacles they had to face to accomplish life goal – marriage. By researching women in the family and their family position, role of a mother and wife is pointed out. Analyzing women’s activities outside of their private life, her’s role in a society has been tried to define. Concepts of female honor and morality had been questioned, as well as the lives of women from the bottom of the Dubrovnik’s society; women engaged in prostitution and criminal activities, addicted to alcohol and other urges, who loudly contradict to the authorities and the law. Through the books of Dubrovnik’s writers, a diverse image of many different women is seen. Even from the shadow, they still have shown their presence and activity in everyday life. All different, in the end they have become women of equal characteristics and manners resulted by male-female relations and the society of that time.