Robert Kurelić, Daily Life on the Istrian Frontier: Living on a Borderland in the Sixteenth Century. Studies in the History of Daily Life (800-1600), 7. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019, 230 p

• Published in: Mediaevistik 2019-01, Vol.32 (1), p.307-310
• Main Author: Luchitskaya, Svetlana
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0934-7453
• DOI: 10.3726/med.2019.01.39

It is ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity that lends originality to the Istrian peninsula. Istria is known to be one of the most interesting multicultural European regions where states, languages, and religions meet. Here is another contribution to the study of this fascinating part of Europe. Though the history of Istria has been researched in detail beginning with the works of the eminent Istrian historian Camillo de Franceschi, who emphasized the Italian nature of the Istrian Peninsula, there are still a few works of Croatian or Slovenian historians written in "understandable" languages. One of them is precisely the book 'Daily Life on the Istrian Frontier written in English by the Croatian historian Robert Kurelič who teaches at the University of Pula. The author's merit consists in making the medieval history of Istria as well as its rich multi-language historiography accessible to the widest range of researchers. What is equally important is that the work of Kurelić is surely a thorough academic investigation free of any political and ideological influence meaning?.