[MGSA-L] Princeton Hellenic Studies Lecture: March 10, 2015

Dimitri H. Gondicas gondicas at Princeton.EDU
Tue Mar 3 09:08:38 PST 2015



PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies





Lecture





Writing a First Modern History of Medieval Serbia: Rethinking a 'National' History


Vlada Stankovic

University of Belgrade; Institute for Advanced Study



The history of medieval Serbia remains one of the least known and most poorly explored subjects within the broader field of medieval studies, representing a proverbial black hole in the scholarship of the Middle Ages. Writing A History of Medieval Serbia, a first such overview after more than a century, poses therefore a series of methodological and historiographical challenges that will be explained and examined in detail, in an attempt to offer a new approach to the history of medieval Serbia that goes beyond the simple notion of 'national' history, placing it in a broader context of the medieval Balkans, a complex region whose past, and the scholarly opinions of its past, are in constant need of reassessment.


Vlada Stanković is Associate Professor in Byzantine Studies at the University of Belgrade and currently Willis F. Doney Member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He earned his degrees at the University of Belgrade and specialized in Vienna and in Athens, teaching also at the University of Ioannina and at the Open University of Cyprus. He is founder and director of the Centre for Cypriot Studies at the University of Belgrade, directing a multidisciplinary project "Christian Culture in the Balkans in the Middle Ages." He has recently finished editing a collective volume Before and After the Fall: The Balkans and Byzantine World Before and After the Capture of Constantinople in 1204 and 1453 (forthcoming, 2015) and is currently writing, among other things, A History of Medieval Serbia for Brill's series East-Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.





Tuesday, March 10, 2015

4:30 p.m.

Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103





Supported by the Christos G. and Rhoda Papaioannou Modern Greek Studies Fund

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