Becoming Slav, becoming Croat identity transformations in post-Roman and early medieval Dalmatia - ǅino, Danijel 1971- (Brill, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-260) and index
Croat origins in the Croatian imagination -- Theoretical framework and the scholarship -- Identities before the Slavs -- Illyricum and Dalmatia, 378-600 : a very brief overview -- Written sources on the Slav migration in the 6th and 7th centuries in western Illyricum and Dalmatia -- The "Dark Ages" : 7th and 8th century in post-Roman Dalmatia I (cemeteries) -- The "Dark Ages" : 7th and 8th century in post-Roman Dalmatia II (becoming Slavs) -- The ninth century : Chroati ex machina -- Appendix: List of Dalmatian rulers
Drawing on the new ways of reading and studying ancient and early medieval sources, this book explores the appearance of the Croat identity in early medieval Dalmatia