1st Edition

A Cultural History of Serbia Tradition and Change

By David A. Norris Copyright 2024
256 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction

1. Society and Culture in the Middle Ages

2. The Serbian Enlightenment

3. The Long Revolution (1804–1842)

4. The Kaleidoscope of Modernization (1842–1903)

5. Revising Serbia’s Cultural Heritage (1903–1918)

6. Serbia in Royalist Yugoslavia (1918–1945)

7. Serbia in Socialist Yugoslavia (1945–1991)

8. Serbia in Transition

Biography

David A. Norris taught Serbian and Croatian Studies at the University of Nottingham for many years. He has published widely on modern Serbian culture and literature and has also authored language textbooks. His books have been translated into German, Polish and Serbian.