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Banditry and the Clash of Powers in 14th-Century Thrace: Momcilo and his Fragmented Memory

Medievalists.net — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 01:54:59 +0000

In the 14th century, a time of civil wars, religious and dynastic strifes, epidemics, natural disasters and miserable living conditions for the wider strata in the cities and the countryside that increased migratory movements, banditry, an indigenous phenomenon in the Balkan mountainous regions, intermingled with the intensified political struggles.

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Holy rulers and the integration of the medieval Serbian space

Medievalists.net — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 01:04:35 +0000

This paper proposes a new line of analysis of the rich body of medieval Serbian royal hagiography.

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The last Serbian queen: Helena Palaiologina (1431- 1473)

Medievalists.net — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:43:49 +0000

Serbo-Byzantine marriages had occurred many times in the past years, when the Empire was still vast and powerful.

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Delivering stability: Primogeniture and autocratic survival in European monarchies 1000-1800

Medievalists.net — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 04:14:53 +0000

Although the dominating position of primogeniture at the end of the period might seem natural given primogeniture's many advantages for the monarch and the ruling elite it was first rather late in history that the principle came to dominate Europe.

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Reflection of European Sarmatia in Early Cartography

Medievalists.net — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:50:25 +0000

While looking for the origins of the state of Lithuania, it is the study of old maps that helps solve a number of riddles, so far weighing on the history of our nation. Historical data, traced in maps and their images, unrestricted by any political, religious or pseudo- scientific taboos, allow us to cast a broad view on the dim and distant past of our state.

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Economy of Ragusa, 1300 – 1800: The Tiger of Mediaeval Mediterranean

Medievalists.net — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:15:52 +0000

An economist is indeed tempted to think of Ragusa as the “Adriatic Tiger “ of yesteryear, an early example of a small open economy with strong fundamentals, and to hypothesize further that, in analogy to the current consensus about what it takes to minimize the impact of external crises, these strengths also allowed Ragusa to mitigate the effects of the many external shocks and financial crises in Medieval Europe.

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The legal aspects of the Stefan Dušan`s involvement in the civil war in Byzantium 1341-1354

Medievalists.net — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:34:47 +0000

The problem of the legal aspects is consisting mainly of the measure of influence of contemporary concepts of what was legitimate and legal towards the sequence of events during the civil war which started a few months after the death of the Emperor Andronikos III (died 15 June 1341) and lasted with certain periods of a relative peace until his son John V finally succeeded to take the sole rule of an Emperor (after 10 December 1354).

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Late medieval Tombstones (stecci) in the area of Zabljak (Montenegro)

Medievalists.net — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:13:32 +0000

Although stećci have been investigated for more than a century and thousands of them have been found many questions still arise. Many monuments have been only been registered as existing, with no excavation; most of them have not been excavated archaeologically.

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Types of physical exercise in Medieval Serbia (XII-XIV century)

Medievalists.net — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 17:55:15 +0000

It is often said of a nation that it is as rich as its history. All the efforts and desire to get to the roots of our past lead us inevitably to the Middle Ages and connect us to the spirit of the rule of the House of Nemanjić. A profound influence this dynasty exerted on the history of the people of Serbia points out their greatness and significance. Serbian army from the period of the Nemanjić reign was famed for its bravery, agility, endurance, persistence, wisdom and skillfulness varying by the type of warfare. Brave voivode and warriors were the apple of Serbia’s eye, which in turn caused heroism to become a lifestyle.

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Braşov (Kronstadt) in the Defence against the Turks (1438–1479)

Medievalists.net — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 18:23:40 +0000

Confrontation with Ottoman expansion began for Braşov at the end of the 14th century with the treaty with Mircea the Elder in the year 1395 which was part of King Sigismund of Luxembourg’s anti-Ottoman policy and was signed in Braşov.

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