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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... brutality, and collaboration with the conqueror of his country. Ruse has been used by many famous heroes ever since Ulysses devised the famous horse, and some of them are occasionally very cruel, but none match Marko in the scope of his ...
... brutally maimed. The protagonist of “The Sister of Leka Kapetan,” the beautiful and outspoken Rosanda, enrages Marko by rejecting his offer of marriage: Liever had I remain unwed, In this our realm of Prizren Than go to Prilep castle ...
... brutally attacked: Marko raged and was wroth out of wit, One step he made and a mighty spring, And by the hand he seized the damsel, He drew the sharp dagger from his girdle, And cut off her right arm; He cut off her arm at the shoulder ...
... brutal and more patriotic, so that both Marko and Obilić were seen as heroes of Serbian resistance against the Turks. Serbian Patriarch Gavrilo (1881–1950) embraced the two heroes (together with a few other characters equally associated ...
... brutal, the high degree of violence endemic to some parts of the Balkans is not entirely the fault of the Turks either. Historical records do not indicate that the Ottoman army was more cruel than other armies at the time. The worst ...
Contents
The Dilemmas of Modern Serbian National Identity | |
Pagan War | |
A Vicious Circle of Lies and Fears | |
The Outsiders MythCalculations | |
Conclusion | |