Hungarian-Croatian water-painting: The richness of nuance in the image of Hungarians in the Croatian public imagination from the 16th century to the 19th
This paper presents the image of Hungarians in the Croatian lands from the 16th century to the 19th on the basis of examples from literary (fictional) and journalistic (non-fiction) texts in Latin, Croatian and German. The image was very complex. It varied from an extremely positive perception — in the first centuries of the period under consideration — to clearly expressed negative perceptions and intolerance — that were most prominent during the revolutionary years 1848–1849, and most frequently, one can encounter a combination of positive and negative stereotypes existing in different ratios and with numerous transitional nuances
