Redrawing of the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and within that framework the history of medieval Bosnia as well, has taken a new momentum with the dissolution of Yugoslavia and has continued to this day, said the Bosnian historian Dubravko Lovrenović.
“Redrawing of the history of B&H, and within that framework the history of medieval Bosnia as well, has taken a new momentum with the dissolution of Yugoslavia and has continued to this day. Destructive consequences of that obscure discipline are already being felt by the generations of young people from B&H, completely disoriented and without any positive relations towards their country and homeland”.
This was stated by the BH historian Dubravko Lovrenović, after the Cardinal Vinko Puljic said that “the mass has gathered in the royal town of Bobovac to pray for the homeland and all people who live in it” on Saturday, October 24, in Bobovac, at the time of the marking of the day when the penultimate Bosnian Queen Katarina died.
“The triple ethno-confessional division of B&H is accompanied by a triple ethno-nationalistic mythomania and efforts to determine one’s own roots in as par as possible historical ‘antiquity’. In this context, Cardinal’s statement about the “Croatian Bobovac” is possible, although Bobovac, as the capital of the Bosnian Kingdom and a place where the crown of Bosnia has been preserved, never was. It is not crucial in this case whether that is a consequence of a lack of information or bad intentions”, Professor Lovrenović believes.
Lovrenović added what is crucial is that this and such rewritings of the past of medieval Bosnia are not reconcilable with the proclaimed Cardinal’s intention to pray “for the homeland and all peoples who live in it” in Bobovac.
“He cannot allegedly honestly ‘pray’ in the atmosphere of the Croatisation of the Bosnian Bobovac. Truth is, the Cardinal did not precise what he means under the term ‘homeland’ – Croatia or B&H”, Lovrenović concluded.
(Source: novovrijeme.ba)
