Trade Agreements between Serbia and Dubrovnik (Master)

Pre-requisites: The corresponding year of studies, ie semester, regular attendance, active participation in the work on the sources and fulfillment of the planned pre-registration obligations.

Course objectives: Introduction to the problems of regulating the economic and political relations of Serbian medieval countries with Dubrovnik from the end of the 12th to the middle of the 15th century, and mastering the most important sources for this topic.

Course description: Theoretical teaching: Through lectures, students are introduced to the economic and political circumstances of this period, the various stages in the development of contractual relations between Serbian medieval countries with Dubrovnik and the characteristics that accompanied them. Practical teaching: On the basis of previous knowledge and acquired skills in critical approach to sources, students learn and thoroughly analyze the most important charters that regulate trade relations between Serbia and Dubrovnik in the Middle Ages.

Learning Outcomes: Acquiring basic knowledge of contractual relations between Serbia and Dubrovnik and trade relations in the late Middle Ages.

Literature/Reading:

• K. Jireček, Važnost Dubrovnika u trgovačkoj povijesti srednjeg vijeka, Dubrovnik 1915.
• K. Jireček, Istorija Srba I-II, Beograd 1952 (ili neko od kasnijih izdanja).
• T. Taranovski, Istorija srpskog prava u nemanjićkoj državi I-IV, Beograd 1931-1935.
• Istorija srpskog naroda I-II, Beograd 1981-1982 (ili neko od kasnijih izdanja).
• M. Dinić, Dubrovački tributi. Mogoriš, Svetodmitarski i Konavaoski dohodak i Provižiun braće Vladkovića, Glas SKA 168 (1935) 205–256 (= isti, Iz srpske istorije srednjega veka, Beograd 2003, 711-755).
• M. Kos, Dubrovačko-srpski ugovori do sredine XIII veka, Glas SKA 123 (1927) 1-65.
• J. Tadić, Istorija Dubrovnika do polovine XV veka, IČ 18 (1971) 13-44.
• Leksikon srpskog srednjeg veka, priredili S. Ćirković i R. Mihaljčić, Beograd 1999.