The Mobility of Serbs in Early Modern Times. Some Remarks on the Margins of Ilona Czamańska’s New History of Serbia. Ilona Czamańska, Historia Serbii. Od pojawienia się Serbów na Bałkanach do 1830 roku [History of Serbia. From the Arrival of the Serbs in the Balkans to 1830], vol. I, Wydawnictwo ... (original) (raw)

Serbian National Awakening and Enlightenment as Inspired by the West Ukrainian Cultural Centres – Transmitted through the Hungarian Kingdom in the 18th Century -New: the entire paper is now available here uploaded!!

New: the entire paper is now available here uploaded!! ""Foldvari’s abstract for the “National Question in Central Europe” to be held at King Sigismund College in Budapest, 23 March 2013 Földvári, Sándor Sandor Foldvari, research fellow; cell-phone +36-30-6709134 Debrecen Univ. Baltic Studies; - home: H-2119 PECEL, P.O.B. 36. E.mail: alexfoldvari@gmail.com Professional: http://unideb.academia.edu/SandorFoldvari Private: http://www.facebook.com/Alex.Foldvari Serbian National Awakening and Enlightenment as Inspired by the West Ukrainian Cultural Centres – Transmitted through the Hungarian Kingdom in the 18th Century It is a false commonplace the ideas of enlightenment and national awakening in the 18th century came to the Slavic peoples of the Habsburg Empire only as result of the impacts on the cultural life made by the thinkers, artists and scientists in Vienna, whose activities were inspired and provided by the royal court, too. This statement is only partly true but not wholly. Though the West European cultural influences also political ideas came through Vienna (e.g. Dositej Obradović, Jernej Kopitar), this was one of the ways of transmission but not the only one. The role and importance of the contacts between the various Slavic peoples in the Habsburg Empire are not able to be studied in the shadows of the overvaluation was given to the impacts of Vienna. Especially are of great importance the researches made by the Institute of Ukrainian Studies named Krypiakevich in Lviv in the last two decades, mainly the findings of later chair Isaievich, Iaroslav Dmitrovich, member of the Academy of Sciences. His investigations lead to new results in the history of the typographies and book-trade as the belles-lettres as well, therefore it became necessary to rethink the contacts between the Western territories of the recent Ukraine (i.e. then parts of Polish Kingdom) and the Slavic peoples of the Hungarian Kingdom, even their brothers on the Balkans. Moreover, investigations made by the author of this paper on the old printed liturgical books of the Byzantine rite, being held in various Church libraries in Hungary, gave enough matter to came to the conclusion that the book-trade was an important factor in the transmission of those impacts of early enlightenment which came from Poland across Ukraine to the Serbs living in Hungary and on the Balkans, too. Mita Kostić has already paid attention to the book trade but this very significant work of him remained forgotten in spite of the very respect was given to the findings of this great Serbian historian. The Russian Orthodox impacts on The Serb and interfering into the affairs on the Balkans became stronger later, after the turn of the 18/19 cc, and in results of more political than religious causes. Although it was being highlighted that Russia provided the Orthodox Serbs, it was of more political rhetoric than real activity. Russia provided those Serbs were oppressed by the Greek Phanariots i.e. Orthodox ones. It was not taken into consideration the the Serbian Church suffered and was almost destroyed by the Greek Orthodox Clergy. The latter replaced the Serbian language with the Greek in the service, the education and the administration, since the Church leaders represented The Christian toward the Ottoman Porta. Consequently, the aim of this paper is to demonstrate the contacts between the Serbs and Ukrainian territories, as it has been evidenced by the book-trade between these peoples and areas, and to give some new insides into the church and national relations on the Balkans. Keywords: Serbs, Ukrainians, Habsburg_Empire, Hungarian_Kingdom, book_trade, Balkans The short bio of the author:  next page ""

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Serbian Historiography and the Modern State

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In the end, we may conclude with several considerations. First, there is a ﬁrm correlation between the transformations of the Serbian state and Serbian historiography from its very beginning until today. During the relatively short existence of a medieval Serbian state the ﬁrst works of historiographical character or that used historiographical data – such as hagiographies, chronicles, annals and eulogies – appeared. Parallel to the fall of Serbian state and the coming of Turkish rule Serbian historiography vanished for almost three centuries.Te rebirth of Serbian historiography is connected with the Great Migration of Serbs into Hungary, i.e. the Habsburg monarchy in 1690. In their new homeland Serbs found themselves in a political, social and cultural environment that stimulated their cultural and political activity.According to the tradition of Austro-Turkish conﬂict, in this early phase of develop-ment Serbian historians considered possible the creation of some sort of Southern Slavic state in connection with the Habsburg monarchy. After the Serbian uprisings they abandoned that idea and gradually accepted the concept of trying to free the Serbs under foreign authorities and forming a strong, centralized national state with broadly extended borders by means of Serbian state politics. Tis plan partly coincides with the concept of the Illyrian Movement promoted by Croat liberal politicians from the 1830s. Yet, for the Serbian political and intellectual elite the main goal was to unify the Serbs and strengthen their own state, not to create a Southern Slav state in the framework of Serbian-Croatian political collaboration.In this era, national emancipation and liberation had the highest priority for all Serbs irrespective of the state to which they belonged. Accordingly, Serbian historiography,until the last decades of the 19th century, was dedicated ﬁrst and foremost to the goals of a national renaissance and the formation of a Serbian state – so Serbian historiography was characterized by national romanticism, not by a scientiﬁc approach. Only after Serbian independence was obtained in 1878, and the Serbian state consolidated, could Serbian historiography enter an era of steady progress in which the bases of scientiﬁc historiography research were laid down. That period was ended not for professional historiographical reasons, but under the pressure of state politics and the transformation of Serbian state to a Yugoslav state after Balkan Wars and World War I. Te turbulent events of the 20th century, the un-certainties of Yugoslav relations and Yugoslav uniﬁcation, as well as the contradictions of the socialist era, halted the straight forward development of Serbian historiography for decades. Its goals, methods, interpretations and ﬁelds of interest were seriously inﬂuenced by actual state transformations and ideologies. In addition it seems that the events of the 20th century acquired such dynamics and intensity that they were beyond what Serbian historiography was able to investigate, process and interpret. For these reasons Serbian historiography has several serious lacunae: above all a lack o published historical sources and adequate research on the Turkish period; the history of the 20th century is insuﬃciently explained, especially the period after World War II. Yet, as we have seen above, even under the diﬃcult circumstances we have mentioned,Serbian historiography has experienced signiﬁcant progress – and if it is to enjoy a longer period of in a stable political environment it will be able to enjoy a new phase of progress

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