The Bosnian Church: A New Interpretation (Fine, East European Monographs, 1975)

John V. A. Fine Jr. was a historian of the medieval Balkans. This 1975 monograph re-examined the Bosnian Church's own charters, testaments and other surviving records and argued against the long-standing view, dating to Franjo Racki's nineteenth century work, that it was Bulgarian Bogomilism transplanted into Bosnia; Fine found a native monastic and ascetic body whose surviving documents show no clear dualist theology. Its limit is that it argues chiefly from what the Church's own scanty records say and do not say, and the identification it rejects has never fully disappeared from later writing, including some scholarly writing, as later surveys of the debate note.