Professional paper

Drawing Boundaries of East and West: Antemurale Christianitatis and Conceptualization of National and Symbolic Identity of Croatia

Nikolina Rajković ; Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Abstract

This paper examines the content and relationship of political and cultural iconography of contemporary Croatia. Its purpose is to study the meanings of the myth of antemurale christianitatis from the perspective of political, cultural and scientific elites which have constructed, modified and perpetuated the myth through history each in its own way. The paper assumes that political and cultural iconography of contemporary Croatia meet in the myth of antemurale christianitatis through reference points in politics, literature and history textbooks, thus creating a self-image within the scope of Christian, civilization and cultural European circle.

Keywords

antemurale christianitatis; Christian civilization circle; Ottoman Muslim element; anti-Turkish rhetoric; political and cultural iconography of Croatia; socialism; history textbooks

Hrčak ID:

77473

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/77473

Publication date:

8.2.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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