Summary
Zagreba lexicon I - II
Editors: Josip Bilić, Hrvoje Ivanković
For the first time the name of Zagreb appears in cultural memory in the same way as in the title of this book, as an adjective form for something important related to it: almost a thousand years ago it was a diocese, and now it is a lexicon. According to the medieval document of an Ostrogonian prelate, it can thus be concluded that the inhabitants of the settlements around the diocese that was founded in one of them at the end of the 11th century. century, they did not distinguish them from those who now live in the same city: they considered themselves Zagreb residents. There were much fewer of them, both inhabitants and settlements, we don't know what they were called, we can only assume what they were doing, but Zagreb held its own on that chronometer of European civilization not only as an objective, historical point, but also as a fateful corner of a great collective biography that melted in the touches of the real and the imaginary. The Lexicon about Zagreb is not so much the first Zagreb lexicon, just as the diocese was Zagreb's before it was written down as such: many lexicons have been Zagreb's in different ways. Its lexicographic uniqueness is not based on the primacy or privilege of the subject, its scale with Zagreb shares the risk of the criteria that inspired it, made it possible and according to which it will be evaluated, used and inherited.
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