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Author(s): John V. A. Fine
ISBN(s): 9780472114146, 047211414X
Edition: First
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Year: 2006
Language: english
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Author: John V. A. Fine

“This is history as it should be written. In When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans, a logical advancement on his earlier studies, Fine has successfully tackled a fascinating historical question, one having broad political implications for our own times. Fine’s approach is to demonstrate how ideas of identity and self-identity were invented and evolved in medieval and early-modern times. At the same time, this book can be read as a critique of twentieth-century historiography-and this makes Fine’s contribution even more valuable. This book is an original, much-needed contribution to the field of Balkan studies.”
-Steve Rapp, Associate Professor of Caucasian, Byzantine, and Eurasian History, and Director, Program in World History and Cultures Department of History, Georgia State University Atlanta

When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans is a study of the people who lived in what is now Croatia during the Middle Ages (roughly 600-1500) and the early-modern period (1500-1800), and how they identified themselves and were identified by others. John V. A. Fine, Jr., advances the discussion of identity by asking such questions as: Did most, some, or any of the population of that territory see itself as Croatian? If some did not, to what other communities did they consider themselves to belong? Were the labels attached to a given person or population fixed or could they change? And were some people members of several different communities at a given moment? And if there were competing identities, which identities held sway in which particular regions?

In When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans, Fine investigates the identity labels (and their meaning) employed by and about the medieval and early-modern population of the lands that make up present-day Croatia. Religion, local residence, and narrow family or broader clan all played important parts in past and present identities. Fine, however, concentrates chiefly on broader secular names that reflect attachment to a city, region, tribe or clan, a labeled people, or state.

The result is a magisterial analysis showing us the complexity of pre-national identity in Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia. There can be no question that the medieval and early-modern periods were pre-national times, but Fine has taken a further step by demonstrating that the medieval and early-modern eras in this region were also pre-ethnic so far as local identities are concerned. The back-projection of twentieth-century forms of identity into the pre-modern past by patriotic and nationalist historians has been brought to light. Though this back-projection is not always misleading, it can be; Fine is fully cognizant of the danger and has risen to the occasion to combat it while frequently remarking in the text that his findings for the Balkans have parallels elsewhere.

Table of contents:

1. The Historical Context: Slavic and Croat Migrations and the Medieval Western Balkans
An overview of the medieval history of the Western Balkans, focusing on the migrations of Slavic and Croat peoples.

2. Croats and Slavs up to 1102: Historical Overview and Sources
A brief historical summary including an examination of primary sources available for the Western Balkans before 1102; linguistic issues; early reports about King Zvonimir’s death; a collection of mainly domestic documents; and concluding remarks up to the year 1102.

3. Slavonia, Dalmatia, and “Velebitia” from 1102 Onwards
Description of the significant events in 1102; the history of Slavonia between 1102 and 1400; Dalmatia and “Velebitia” up to around 1340; the developments in Dalmatia, Croatia, and Slavonia from the mid-14th century, including Venetian-Hungarian conflicts leading up to the Ottoman conquest; linguistic considerations regarding the languages spoken in Dalmatia and “Velebitia” between 1102 and 1500; and conclusions covering the period 1102-1500.

4. Identity Perceptions: Slavs, Illyrians, and Croats from 1500 to 1600
A concise historical summary; exploration of the “Croat” identity faction; examination of the “Slav,” “Illyrian,” or “Dalmatian” identity groups; and overall reflections on the 16th century.

5. Identity Perceptions in Dalmatia, Dubrovnik, and Croatia Proper from 1600 to 1800
Introductory comments; dominant Slavic and Illyrian identity groups; terminology used by foreigners when referring to Dalmatia; and terms employed by the church hierarchy and religious orders.

6. Slavonia in the 17th and 18th Centuries
An overview of the 17th-century setting; the role of Jesuits; South Slavs studying at the University of Graz during the 18th century; the Osijek School under governmental oversight; the Croatian College in Vienna; church and religious terminology in Slavonia; notable figures such as Juraj Rattkay, Paul Ritter Vitezović, Juraj Habdelić, Andrija Jambres̆ić, Ivan Belostenec, Matija Petar Katanc̆ić, Antun Ivanos̆ić, Matija Antun Reljković; discussion of secular Slavonians; the town of Petrovaradin; language issues in Slavonia; debate on Joakim Stulli’s dictionary; Habsburg-era terminology and figures including Baltazar Adam Krc̆elić, Tito Brezovac̆ki, Ignjat Martinović; relations with the Orthodox Church and Serbian Church; foreign visitors to Slavonia; labels in early Latin-letter proto-Serbo-Croatian publications; concluding thoughts.

7. Final Conclusions

8. Monarchs of Croatia until 1800
By Ian Mladjov, covering the rulers of Croatia up to the 19th century.

9. Simplified Genealogy of the Frankapan, Šubić, and Zrinski Families
A genealogical overview of three important Croatian noble families.

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