New books about Croatian history by Dr Danijel Džino

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New books about Croatian history by Dr Danijel Džino

Dr Danijel Džino has recently published two books on the history of Croatia and Croatians. They are both a valuable contribution to the activities of the Croatian Studies Centre, Macquarie University and to the research on ancient and medieval Dalmatia.

*Liburnians and Illyrian Lembs: Iron Age Ships of the Eastern Adriatic* explores the origins of two types of ancient ship which appear in the written sources connected with the protohistoric eastern Adriatic area: the ‘Liburnian’ (*liburna* or *liburnica*) and the southern Adriatic (Illyrian) ‘lemb’. The relative abundance of written sources suggests that both ships played significant roles in ancient times, especially the Liburnian, which became the main type of light warship in early Roman imperial fleets and ultimately evolved into a generic name for warships in the Roman Imperial period and Late Antiquity. The book provides an extensive overview of written, iconographic and archaeological evidence on eastern Adriatic shipbuilding traditions before the Roman conquest in the late first century BC / early first century AD, questioning the existing scholarly assumption that the *liburna* and lemb were closely related, or even that they represent two sub-types of the same ship. The analysis shows that identification of the Liburnian *liburna* and Illyrian lemb as more or less the same ship originates from the stereotypical and essentially wrong assumption in older scholarship that the prehistoric indigenous population of the eastern Adriatic shared the same culture and, roughly, the same identities. The main point made in the book is that two different terms, *liburna* and lemb, were used in the sources depicting these as two different kinds of ship, rather than being interchangeable terms depicting the same ship type.

https://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/displayProductDetail.asp?id={7B8577BD-6203-4ED0-8D70-5B85A4237967}

*From Justinian to Branimir* explores the social and political transformation of Dalmatia between c.500 and c.900 AD. The collapse of Dalmatia in the early seventh century is traditionally ascribed to the Slav migrations. However, more recent scholarship has started to challenge this theory, looking instead for alternative explanations for the cultural and social changes that took place during this period. Drawing on both written and material sources, this study utilizes recent archaeological and historical research to provide a new historical narrative of this little-known period in the history of the Balkan peninsula.

https://www.routledge.com/From-Justinian-to-Branimir-The-Making-of-the-Middle-Ages-in-Dalmatia/Dzino/p/book/9780367280048

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