Abstract:This paper examines the narrative strategies of the oldest two medieval Eastern Adriatic historical accounts regarding the emergence of the Early Medieval gentes in local history. Seen through the framework of Othering, these accounts display complicated images within images rather than a linear narrative. At the same time, two categories of the Other seem to appear in them -the present, preferable Other, and the past, undesirable Other. By employing such strategies, the two histories depict all the gentes in … Show more
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