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THE 10th CENTURY CROATIAN CULTURE WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE EUROPEAN CULTURAL MEDIUM OF THAT TIME
Andre Mohorovičić
; Zagreb
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The crisis of the world of antiquity in the middle of the first millenium of our time reckoning led to the disintegration of the antique culture and to the transformation of the harmonic and idealized creative concept of that time into a reduced and schematically stylized creative vision. In the Mediterranean region, however, the figurative theme continued to be primary; it is present in the literary theme; clearness dominates in the musical expression; exact construction is evident in the ralization of architecture in stone. In the wide expanses of the continental Eastern European wooded plain, on the other hand, an opposite conception of vision of abstract ornament was developed – a life of endless wandering reflected in ballads, polyphonons choral musical expression, and charasteristic dwelling-houses built of wood and mud in the course of formation of settlements.
The early Slavs – the Croats – reaching the region they live in at present during the transition period between the 6th and 7th century A. D., have continued to develop many elements of their specific culture created during the process of forming of their own ethnogenesis, accepting gradually, quite understandably, new elements of the Mediterranean forms of cultural life, particularly in the process of sudden Christianization.
During the 10th century, i.e. at the time of the definite forming of their own affirmation as state and society, the essential character and profile of the cultural constellation in the life of the Croats was still strongly bound to the continuity of their own cultural tradition. This is particularly reflected in the lasting afigural abstract orientation of the plastic art, in the maintaining of the oral literal tradition during the migrations of the clans, in the development of free versions in the realization of the adopted stone construction, and specially in the stubborn struggle for the preservation of their own language and the Croatian Glagolitic alphabet in opposition to the Latinity of the European oecumenae
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Datum izdavanja:
23.12.1980.
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