Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to GenocideNYU Press, 1999 M03 1 - 256 pages Traces Serbia's nationalist and expansionist impulses to the legendary battle of Kosovo in 1389 |
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... Serbian culture and politics. The 1389 battle with the Ottoman Turks on the Field of Kosovo still exerts a powerful influence on the Serbs, who see it as the pivotal moment of their plunge from a prosperous, sovereign medieval Balkan ...
... Serbs. Not only did Serbia lose the status of a regional power, it completely disappeared as a political entity. The Serbs became second-class subjects of the sultan. This condition lasted from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century ...
... Serbs at the close of the twentieth century. The study concentrates on the following features of Serbian historical experience that nourished these myths and contributed to the recent violent attempt to create a Second Serbian Empire ...
... Serbs took their earthly empire with them for a future that will come after the purification.”6 Myth and history, the eschatological and the temporal, are intertwined in the legend of Kosovo, as another modern Serbian intellectual ...
... Serbs.”9 Each of the three groups engaged in the wars that marked the disintegration of Yugoslavia (disregarding the very brief one in Slovenia) is characterized by a different religion. This fact has led some observers to believe that ...
Contents
The Dilemmas of Modern Serbian National Identity | |
Pagan War | |
A Vicious Circle of Lies and Fears | |
The Outsiders MythCalculations | |
Conclusion | |