Contemporary wars in the Dalmatian literary culture of the 17th and 18th centuries

Dukić, Davor. (2003). Contemporary wars in the Dalmatian literary culture of the 17th and 18th centuries. Narodna umjetnost: hrvatski časopis za etnologiju i folkloristiku, 40(1). pp. 129-157. ISSN 0547-2504

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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

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