Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15291/sic/2.11.lc.2
The Others and the Croats in Early Medieval Eastern Adriatic History
Ivan Majnarić
; Catholic University of Croatia, Croatia
Abstract
This paper examines the narrative strategies of the oldest two medieval Eastern Adriatic historical accounts regarding the emergence of the Early Medieval gentes in local history. Seen through the framework of Othering, these accounts display complicated images within images rather than a linear narrative. At the same time, two categories of the Other seem to appear in them – the present, preferable Other, and the past, undesirable Other. By employing such strategies, the two histories depict all the gentes in an almost identical manner, and in accordance with the established images, with only some layers of actual historical background.
Keywords
Middle Ages, Eastern Adriatic, medieval historians, Others, Croats
Hrčak ID:
259166
URI
Publication date:
16.6.2021.
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