Becoming Slav, Becoming Croat

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Dzino D.

Becoming Slav, Becoming Croat

Identity Transformation in Post-Roman and Early Medieval Dalmatia

BRILL, Leiden (The Netherlands) 2010

Scheda a cura di: Dzino D.

Collana: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450


Late antique identities from the Western Balkans were transformed into new, Slavic identities after c. 600 AD. It was a process that is still having continuous impact on the discursive constructions of ethnic and regional identities in the area. Building on the new ways of reading and studying available sources from late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, the book explores the appearance of the Croats in early medieval Dalmatia (the southern parts of modern-day Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina). The appearance of the early medieval Croat identity is seen as a part of the wider process of identity-transformations in post-Roman Europe, the ultimate result of the identity-negotiation between the descendants of the late antique population and the immigrant groups.


A cura di Giulia Tarquini