Medieval Bosnia as a cultural otherness of east and west

Abstract

Starting from the hypothesis that the specificity of Bosnian cultural identity finds its origin in the medieval culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the paper problematizes the culturalidentity representations of medieval Bosnia and confirmation of the cultural-identity specificity of Bosnia and Herzegovina in some medieval correspondence, documents and historiographical records. In order to point out the historically continuous perception of Bosnia as a cultural anomaly, an (internal) enemy and a threat to the historically and socio-culturally dominant cultural-civilizational systems of which it is a (formal) part, the paper analyzes the significance and role of heteroimages in the historical process of cultural positioning of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the intermediate space of large cultural-civilizational systems.