The pre-national Balkans : a view without hindsight bias : three variations on the theme of religion and ethnicity Ghent University
Among the many entities people in the past could identify with and feel loyal to, the ethnic group appears to have been far less important than the religious community, the social class, the local community and the clan. Ascribe to ethnic consciousness the same feelings of loyalty people socialized in contemporary nation states experience toward their national community obviously is a projection of a modern mental make-up into the past. Under ...