Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to GenocideHurst, 1999 - 233 pages Heavenly Serbia traces Serbia's expansionist impulses to Serbian national mythology. The dominant myth - that of "Heavenly Serbia" - appeared soon after the Battle of Kosovo in 1389. It attributed the Serb's defeat by the Turks and the loss of the medieval Serbian state to the Serb's preference for moral salvation over military victory. By emphasizing their commitment to the heavenly kingdom and promising an eventual restoration of the Serbian empire, this myth helped the Serbs to bear their centuries-long domination by a foreign power. Though they ultimately shed the Turkish yoke and regained statehood in the nineteenth century, the Serbs, according to Anzulovic, retained this central myth in the form of feelings of superiority to their neighbors, and a sense of destiny ordaining them to become the dominant power in the Balkans. The myth has been perpetuated by political and religious leaders, historians, novelists, and artists, and has found acceptance abroad as well. |
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... become tools of national ideology . A Montenegrin scholar points out the ideological metamorphosis of two such saints : Concrete historical personalities are elevated to mythic symbols , and an ideological substance ... is mostly ...
... become tools of national ideology . A Montenegrin scholar points out the ideological metamorphosis of two such saints : Concrete historical personalities are elevated to mythic symbols , and an ideological substance ... is mostly ...
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... become an empire again . The belief was just as strong during the centuries of Turkish domination as it was during the nineteenth- century struggle for independence , or in the late twentieth century , when the Serbs engaged in ...
... become an empire again . The belief was just as strong during the centuries of Turkish domination as it was during the nineteenth- century struggle for independence , or in the late twentieth century , when the Serbs engaged in ...
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... become a militant instrument of the dictatorial regime . This results mainly from the fact that the church has become , so to speak , an integral part of the state's administrative machinery . The king appoints the patriarch and the ...
... become a militant instrument of the dictatorial regime . This results mainly from the fact that the church has become , so to speak , an integral part of the state's administrative machinery . The king appoints the patriarch and the ...
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Dinaric Highlanders and Their Songs | 45 |
The Dilemmas of Modern Serbian | 69 |
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