Original scientific paper

CONTEMPORARY WARS IN THE DALMATIAN LITERARY CULTURE OF THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES

Davor Dukić ; University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Commencing from the cultural dichotomy between rural hinterland
(Morlach) and urban coastal (Romano-Slavic) Dalmatia, the author
studies the similarities and diversities in the accounts of the then-
-contemporary Venetian-Turkish wars in the works of Dalmatian
writers of the 17th and 18th centuries. The analysed corpus of texts
is made up of: chronicles of the Makarska Franciscans (P.
Šilobadović, N. Gojak, P. Antulović); F. Divnić's historical account
of the Candian War in Dalmatia; and works by J. Kavanjin, F.
Grabovac and A. Kačić Miošić. The analysis focuses on: the
mechanisms used in explanation and contextualisation of the wars in
Dalmatia; evaluations of border area war strategy (pillaging and
enslavement); the conception of the enemy and inter-Christian
divisions (confessional, social, and the like). Finally, the accounts
of war in the texts in question (narrative sources) are compared with
published archive sources.

Keywords

Croatian literature of 17th and 18th centuries; war; the Other; borders; Morlachs; Venetians; Dalmatia

Hrčak ID:

33095

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/33095

Publication date:

9.6.2003.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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