Croatia between the Myths of the Nation-State and of the Common European Past
Croatia between the Myths of the Nation-State and of the Common European Past

Author(s): Neven Budak
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Social Sciences
Published by: Central European University Press
Keywords: Croatia;myth;politics
Summary/Abstract: If we examine the narratives of the Croatian past as they have been recorded throughout history, we notice that in all periods, from the earliest attestation of the ethnonym “Croatian” in the ninth century until the most recent times, mythology played an important role in the creation of Croatian national memory and thus in conceptualizing Croatian self-identity.The first two such myths, regarding the very origins of Croats, were written down by Byzantine authors, particularly Constantine Porphyrogenitus in his "De administrando imperio (Porphyrogenitus 1949, 122–153)". Others were composed later, in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, while several were the result of nineteenth-century professional historiography.

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