Byzantine Ideas of "Serbian" Kingdom

Pre-requisites: Enrollment in the first semester of masters academic studies or the appropriate semester for other programs.

Course objectives: Introducing students to the roots and development of different currents in serbian politics which led to the pronouncement of its being a Kingdom and the reality following that pronouncement.

Course description: Defining the Byzantine Kingdom as a roman-christian creation with universal effects. Introducing students to other, similar or competing phenomena in christian Europe of the time(Germany, Bulgaria, various byzantine forms after the year 1204 within the kingdom). Defining the concept of serbian independent statehood. Connecting that idea to the byzantine tradition. The development of conditions for creating a Kingdom in Serbia (King Milutin). Inception, development and fall of the Kingdom(Dusan and Uros). Abdicating the Kingdom model.

Learning Outcomes: Defining "Kingdom" as a civilizational phenomena in serbian medieval history and its effects in the balkan and european world of the time.

Literature/Reading:

• G. Ostrogorski, Istorija Vizantije, Beograd 1959. (i potonja izdanja)
• B. Ferjančić – S. Ćirković, Stefan Dušan, kralj i car, Beograd 2005.
• Lj. Maksimović, Srpska carska titula, Glas SANU 384 (1998) 173-196.
• Lj. Maksimović, L’Empire de Stefan Dušan: genèse et caractère, Travaux et mémoires (Mélanges Gilbert Dagron) 14 (2002) 415-428.
• Lj. Maksimović, Sučeljavanje i prožimanje dvaju svetova, ZRVI 43 (2006) 11-23.
• Lj. Maksimović, Makedonija u politici srednjovekovne Srbije, Glas SANU 404 (2006) 29-50.
• Lj. Maksimović, Kralj Milutin i carica Irina: praskozorje ideje o Carstvu kod Srba: Manastir Banjska u doba kralja Milutina, Niš – K. Mitrovica – Man. Banjska 2007, 13-18.
• Lj. Maksimović, Srbija i ideja univerzalnog Carstva, ZRVI 44/2 (2007) 371-379.