A Cultural History of Serbia
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A Cultural History of Serbia

Tradition and Change

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eBook - ePub

A Cultural History of Serbia

Tradition and Change

About this book

This volume focuses on Serbia's need to manage change while preserving community identities, a narrative that avoids the common depiction of Serbian culture as a hostile struggle between modernizers supporting foreign models and traditionalists advocating forms of national cultural patrimony.

Traditions only function if they are allowed to bend to the necessary modifications demanded by a community's changing historical circumstances. Tradition and change are two sides of the same coin which Serbia, in its many different incarnations, has experienced over the centuries, protecting its national heritage while borrowing and adapting intellectual and other trends from Byzantine, Ottoman and Western sources. Outside influences have been imposed as a direct result of foreign rule or through more friendly channels of communication, leading to a complex relationship between autochthonous and alien elements in Serbian society and culture. This book argues that the division between the national and international frameworks has often been a false dichotomy, with outside features embedded in domestic symbolic capital and Serbian culture simultaneously determined on local, national, regional and global levels.

David A. Norris's approach offers a new perspective to students, academics and general readers interested in the history of Serbia's participation in the broad networks of cultural exchange.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781138344013
eBook ISBN
9780429797972
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. A Note About Language
  9. Maps
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Society and Culture in the Middle Ages
  12. 2 The Serbian Enlightenment
  13. 3 The Long Revolution (1804–1842)
  14. 4 The Kaleidoscope of Modernization (1842–1903)
  15. 5 Revising Serbia’s Cultural Heritage (1903–1918)
  16. 6 Serbia in Royalist Yugoslavia (1918–1945)
  17. 7 Serbia in Socialist Yugoslavia (1945–1991)
  18. 8 Serbia in Transition
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index