Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/y7v64t577y
Correspondence of Šimun Milinović and Josip Juraj Strossmayer as Historical Source
Zoran Grijak
orcid.org/0000-0001-5817-1249
; Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article analyses correspondence between Šimun Milinović and Josip Juraj Strossmayer as a relevant historical source, equally for research of mutual relations of those two prominent persons of Croatian ecclesiastical and political life of the second half of the nineteenth and the first decade of the twentieth century, as well as for the analysis of the agency of Milinović after the concordat between the Principality of Montenegro and the Holy See was concluded and Milinović appointed as the archbishop of Bar in 1886. Particular research attention is directed towards the support of those two prelates for obtaining confirmation of privileges and extending of use of Old Church Slavonic liturgy within the liturgy of the Catholic church in Croatian lands and for the defence of Croatian rights on the Institute of St. Jerome in Rome, during the so called Saint-Jeromian Affaire in the beginning of the twentieth century, within the scope of wider agency of Croatian episcopate and Croatian ecclesiastical and secular elite for that purpose. The aforementioned problems were thematic axes of the Milinović-Strossmayer correspondence, besides the description of contemporary political, sanitary and social conditions in the Principality of Montenegro. The emphasis is placed on the analysis of segments of the correspondence relevant for Croatian historiography, but, taking into the account that the correspondence directly or indirectly cuts also into the sensitive issues of relations between great powers, particularly Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Russian Empire, and their confrontation in the areas of the Balkans, Central Eastern Europe and Mediterranean, within the scope of Russian attempts of arrival on the warm seas via Montenegro, the article also underlines its importance in the wider context of European historiography.
Keywords
Archbishop Šimun Milinović; Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer; Montenegro; the Triune Kingdom; Austro-Hungarian Monarchy; Russian Empire; Holy See; Montenegrin Concordate; union of Churches; Glagolytics; Saint-Jeromian Affaire
Hrčak ID:
220287
URI
Publication date:
27.12.2018.
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