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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... army take Communion and prepare; your entire army will perish, and you, prince, will perish with it.2 The prince chose the heavenly kingdom, built a tent-church, “and called the Serbian patriarch / and twelve grand bishops, / and made ...
... army at Kosovo, for choosing the heavenly kingdom, even at the cost of defeat and slavery. On the other hand, the most admired hero of the Kosovo cycle—Miloš Obilić—is guided by a paganheroic rather than Christian ethic. Obilić is ...
... army at the service of the Turks and died in the Battle of Rovine on May 17, 1394, fighting for the sultan against the Wallachian Prince Mircea. The literary historian Svetozar Koljević states that Marko appears as an “ideal figure ...
... army. During the same period the Obilić legend was cultivated mainly in the south Slavic areas not conquered by the Turks and farther west. The Obilić cult was revived in Serbia when the tension between the Serbian raya (the poor non ...
... army by the order of the Byzantine emperor Basil II, nicknamed the Bulgar-slayer (every hundredth soldier was left with one eye so he could lead the others home), or the fate of many Byzantine rulers: Of the 109 sovereigns twenty-three ...
Contents
The Dilemmas of Modern Serbian National Identity | |
Pagan War | |
A Vicious Circle of Lies and Fears | |
The Outsiders MythCalculations | |
Conclusion | |