Byzantium's Apt Inheritors: Serbian Historiography, Nation-Building and Imperial Imagination, 1882-1941
Abstract
Between the second half of the nineteenth and middle of the twentieth century, Serbian national historiography developed a complex understanding of relationships between medieval Serbia and the Byzantine Empire. On the one hand, Serbia was seen as a cultural offspring of Byzantium and its most appropriate successor; on the other, historians dissociated the nation from Byzantium, elaborating on its cultural authenticity. Consequently, the position of Byzantium became rather ambivalent, being simultaneously seen as a 'national legacy' and the nation's political adversary and cultural obstacle. This article shows that the complex historiographical elaboration of Serbian-Byzantine relationships was part of a wider ideological structure which was crucial for justifying the nation's cultural exceptionalism, territorial expansionism and imperial ambitions.
Source:
Slavonic and East European Review, 2016, 94, 1, 57-Publisher:
- Modern Humanities Research Association
DOI: 10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.94.1.0057
ISSN: 0037-6795
WoS: 000368252800003
Scopus: 2-s2.0-84962129308
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Arhitektonski fakultetTY - JOUR AU - Ignjatović, Aleksandar PY - 2016 UR - https://raf.arh.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/238 AB - Between the second half of the nineteenth and middle of the twentieth century, Serbian national historiography developed a complex understanding of relationships between medieval Serbia and the Byzantine Empire. On the one hand, Serbia was seen as a cultural offspring of Byzantium and its most appropriate successor; on the other, historians dissociated the nation from Byzantium, elaborating on its cultural authenticity. Consequently, the position of Byzantium became rather ambivalent, being simultaneously seen as a 'national legacy' and the nation's political adversary and cultural obstacle. This article shows that the complex historiographical elaboration of Serbian-Byzantine relationships was part of a wider ideological structure which was crucial for justifying the nation's cultural exceptionalism, territorial expansionism and imperial ambitions. PB - Modern Humanities Research Association T2 - Slavonic and East European Review T1 - Byzantium's Apt Inheritors: Serbian Historiography, Nation-Building and Imperial Imagination, 1882-1941 VL - 94 IS - 1 SP - 57 DO - 10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.94.1.0057 ER -
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Ignjatović, A.. (2016). Byzantium's Apt Inheritors: Serbian Historiography, Nation-Building and Imperial Imagination, 1882-1941. in Slavonic and East European Review Modern Humanities Research Association., 94(1), 57. https://doi.org/10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.94.1.0057
Ignjatović A. Byzantium's Apt Inheritors: Serbian Historiography, Nation-Building and Imperial Imagination, 1882-1941. in Slavonic and East European Review. 2016;94(1):57. doi:10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.94.1.0057 .
Ignjatović, Aleksandar, "Byzantium's Apt Inheritors: Serbian Historiography, Nation-Building and Imperial Imagination, 1882-1941" in Slavonic and East European Review, 94, no. 1 (2016):57, https://doi.org/10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.94.1.0057 . .