The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek and the Province of the Glagolitic Third Order Franciscans in Zagreb jointly published the book »Selected Topics from the Early Modern and Modern History of Croatian Glagolitism« by Assistant Professor Vera Blažević Krezić, PhD, from the Department of Croatian Language and Literature and the Chair of Croatian Language History and Croatian Dialectology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek, and Mirko Mišković, a doctoral student enrolled in the University Doctoral Study Programme in »Linguistics« at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek and a Glagolitic Third Order Franciscan from the Monastery of Saint Francis Xavier in Zagreb.
The book examines selected topics from four centuries of the early modern and modern history of Croatian Glagolitism. The sixteenth century is represented by a philological analysis of the two earliest printed Croatian Glagolitic primers (1527 and 1530) and by the edition of »Meštrija dobra umrtija«, published by the Senj Glagolitic printing house in 1507 or 1508. The chapter dedicated to the seventeenth century provides a Latin-script transcription and philological analysis of the Glagolitic primer »Azbukividnêk slovinskiĵ« (1629) by the Franciscan Rafael Levaković. The eighteenth-century section draws on the research of Marko Japundžić (1914–2000), a Glagolitic Third Order Franciscan, and sheds light on the role of Matej Karaman (1700–1771) in the process of East Slavicisation, that is, the Ukrainianisation of Croatian Glagolitic liturgical books. The final chapter profiles philologists who contributed to the revival of the Croatian Cyrillo-Methodian heritage in the second half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, particularly through the preparation of the Croatian New Church Slavonic Missal printed in the Glagolitic script (1893, 1896 and 1905). Through the interpretation of archival materials and lesser-known secondary sources, the chapter presents the work of Ivan Radetić (1835–1914), Vatroslav Jagić (1838–1923), Ivan Berčić (1824–1870) and Dragutin Antun Parčić (1832–1902).
The book was reviewed by Academician Stjepan Damjanović, Professor Milica Lukić, PhD, and Associate Professor Tanja Kuštović, PhD. The editorial work was overseen by Mirko Mihaljević and Patrik Mežnarić.
The cover features a stylised representation of the dedicatory cross from the monastery church of the Glavotok complex of the Glagolitic Third Order Franciscans on the island of Krk.
