Sacred and profane topography in a medieval Serbian parish - an outline
This article presents a basic research scope of the social importance of microtoponyms and topographical features of villages and their precincts, which in the Middle Ages were organized as parish communities. The social space of the rural environment is segmented by different entities impo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Bulgarian |
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Institute for Byzantine Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
2013-01-01
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| Series: | Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0584-9888/2013/0584-98881302013B.pdf |
| Summary: | This article presents a basic research scope of the social importance of
microtoponyms and topographical features of villages and their precincts,
which in the Middle Ages were organized as parish communities. The social
space of the rural environment is segmented by different entities important
for the social and religious life of the local community, such as a parish
church with its yard, a cemetery, other churches and chapels in the fields
and groves, freestanding crosses, certain bodies of water or some marked
trees, typically the oak. The issue of the methods of analysing medieval
sources of different provenience and fragmented data is of major importance.
In order to understand the sources properly, we have to be aware of the
social segmentation of a medieval society, from which diverse interpretation
and functions of the cultural artefacts and performances (rituals,
festivities) originated. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br.
177032: Tradition, innovation and identity in the Byzantine world] |
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| ISSN: | 0584-9888 2406-0917 |