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Becoming Slav, Becoming Croat
Identity Transformations in Post-Roman and Early Medieval Dalmatia
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Danijel Dzino
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2010
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Late antique identities from the Western Balkans were transformed into new, Slavic identities after c. 600 AD. It was a process that is still having continuous impact on the discursive constructions of ethnic and regional identities in the area. Building on the new ways of reading and studying available sources from late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, the book explores the appearance of the Croats in early medieval Dalmatia (the southern parts of modern-day Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina). The appearance of the early medieval Croat identity is seen as a part of the wider process of identity-transformations in post-Roman Europe, the ultimate result of the identity-negotiation between the descendants of the late antique population and the immigrant groups.
Author / Editor information
Danijel Dzino, Ph.D. (2006) in Classics, University of Adelaide, is an Australian Research Council Australian Postdoctoral Fellow at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has published works on ancient/early medieval Illyricum, including: Illyricum and Roman Politics, 229 BC - AD 68 (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
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eBook published on:
August 3, 2010
eBook ISBN:
9789004189386
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Main content:
272
eBook ISBN:
9789004189386
Keywords for this book
Illyricum; South Slavs; Constantine Porphyrogenitus; Early Byzantium; Bosnia; Herzegovina; late antiquity
Audience(s) for this book
All those interested in medieval history, Slavic literatures, epigraphics, the culture of South-eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Byzantine and Eastern Mediterranean history.
