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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... , law, cultural and American studies, religion, American history, anthropology, politics, criminology, media and communication, literary studies, and psychology. Heavenly Serbia Heavenly Serbia From Myth to Genocide Branimir Anzulovic.
... 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 state to a stateless ...
... political entity. The Serbs became second-class subjects of the sultan. This condition lasted from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, during which time the Serbs assiduously cultivated myths of their great past and a great future ...
... political issues seemingly to a higher degree than any other Christian church. The brief second chapter deals with the impact of the Turkish conquest on Serbian national consciousness. It was manifested not only in the myth of Heavenly ...
... political powers one finds a strikingly different attitude toward the enemy. I frequently use comparisons between Serbia (or Montenegro) and Croatia in this study to highlight the differences between Eastern and Western Christian ...
Contents
The Dilemmas of Modern Serbian National Identity | |
Pagan War | |
A Vicious Circle of Lies and Fears | |
The Outsiders MythCalculations | |
Conclusion | |