Lexicography, Politics, and Religion in Croatian Culture

From the moment of their Christianization in the ninth century and down to the present, the Croats have maintained a firm confessional unity. The history of their culture, in contrast, presents an image of unusual diversity, best illustrated by the variety of languages they used for literary activity: Croatian, Croatian Church Slavic, Latin, Italian, German, and Hungarian. After the Croatian dynasty came to an end (King Petar died in 1097) the Croats lived from 1 102 in personal dynastic union with the Hungarians and then for centuries under the Habsburg dynasty. Resisting both Magyarization and Germanization, they

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