The collection “Bulgarian folk songs” as a Croatian phenomenon

So far the research on the Croatian attitude to the Miladinov Brothers’ collection has been trditionally focused on the decisive role and importance of bishop Josip Strossmayer. 

This artice argues that the edition is an integral part of the Croat public and intellectual life for it was actively accepted, used or analysed by the Catholic church in the Croat lands, by the People’s Party structures and by the emerging professional scholar community. 

Particular attention is devoted to the interest to the collection in the faraway peninsula of Istria that was articulated by the bishop of Poreč and Pula Juraj Dobrila.