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A Cultural History of Serbia: Tradition and Change

A Cultural History of Serbia: Tradition and Change

Norris, David A.

Paperback

Series: Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe

Eastern European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1032703792
ISBN13: 9781032703794
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 29 2025
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 community's changing historical circumstances. Tradition and change are two sides of the same coin which Serbia, in its many different incarnations, has experienced over the centuries, protecting its national heritage while borrowing and adapting intellectual and other trends from Byzantine, Ottoman and Western sources. Outside influences have been imposed as a direct result of foreign rule or through more friendly channels of communication, leading to a complex relationship between autochthonous and alien elements in Serbian society and culture. This book argues that the division between the national and international frameworks has often been a false dichotomy, with outside features embedded in domestic symbolic capital and Serbian culture simultaneously determined on local, national, regional and global levels.

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