Perceptions of Jews in the Bosnian Franciscan Literary Tradition: From Anti-Judaism To Anti-Semitism?

The literary opus of the Bosnian Franciscans is interesting in many ways from imagological point view: both concerning self-perceptions and hetero-perceptions, which were constructed based on importance religion as an element community identity. Analyzing imagotype potential religious ethnic divisions, paper reconstructs controversies between Christianity Judaism, well linguistic elements, folk customs, contemporary reality. At source Franciscan literature, at beginning 17th century, we find Divković, who, often case pre-modern culture, relates Other to Other. This tradition continued by 19th century’s chroniclers (Lastrić, Benić, Bogdanović), while Martić, Jukić, Knežević, who stepped into era rebirth Croatian Illyrianism, can trace various normative implications relationship political, ethnic, racial Since that time, remember ecclesiastical intellectual elite among Catholic population Bosnia, imagotypical statements about Jews their works reflect Christian heritage through history Eurocentric view Others. Therefore, reconstructing Franciscans’ perceptions ideas Different is, same genesis narrative Other, i.e., social stereotypes prejudices, continuity talking oneself Different.