Books by Nada B. Zecevic
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe summarizes the political, social, and cultural med... more The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe summarizes the political, social, and cultural medieval history of Central Europe (c. ad 800–1600), a region long considered a “forgotten” area of the European past. The twenty-four cutting-edge chapters present up-to-date research about the region’s core medieval kingdoms—Hungary, Poland, and Bohemia—and also their dynamic interactions with neighboring areas. From the Baltic to the Adriatic, the Handbook includes reflections on modern conceptions and uses of the region’s shared medieval traditions. The volume’s thematic organization reveals rarely compared knowledge about the region’s medieval resources, its people and structures of power, social life and economy, religion and culture, and the images of its past.
Papers by Nada B. Zecevic
Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe, eds. Nada Zecevic and Daniel Ziemann, 2022
This Introduction deals with diverse definitions and perceptions of medieval Central Europe that ... more This Introduction deals with diverse definitions and perceptions of medieval Central Europe that developed over time, among which also its modern geopolitical uses. The chapter then points out the region’s medieval entanglements and the need to observe them in the broadest spatial terms and by comprehensive mutual interactions of the region’s societies and their neighborhood. By reflecting on the structure of the volume and scholarly contributions published in it, this chapter concludes acknowledging the importance of scholarly collaboration in providing comprehensive comparative accounts on medieval Central Europe
Temas medievales 29:2 ( La Edad Media en Europa central y oriental: aproximaciones y documentos): 1-19, 2021
Las propiedades que los gobernantes serbios tardomedievales tenían en el reino de Hungría no son ... more Las propiedades que los gobernantes serbios tardomedievales tenían en el reino de Hungría no son desconocidas para las historiografías nacionales modernas de Europa Central. Estas propiedades se encontraban principalmente en el sur, este y noreste de ese país y fueron inicialmente concedidas por el rey húngaro (y soberano del Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico) Segismundo de Luxemburgo. Este artículo explora las capacidades sociales del entorno “cosmopolita” del déspota serbio George Branković en sus dominios en Hungría (1427-1456) y considera cómo tales capacidades impulsaron el avance social de estos hombres pero también la interacción del déspota (escasa integración) con sus entornos húngaros, haciendo particular hincapié en sus relaciones con la corte regia. En este grupo híbrido “cosmopolita” y socialmente diversificado, se advierte cómo sus avances pudieron estar anclados en sus redes familiares, el conocimiento personal y sus habilidades o servicio militar y cortesano. No obstante, su característica más significativa era la lealtad extraordinaria, que todos los hombres y delegados del déspota –independientemente de su origen social, étnico o religioso– mostraron hacia su señor feudal. Por medio de ese recurso confirmaron sus patrimonios, así como lograron avances posteriores en su estatus, modificando la relación cercana con el déspota y provocando el cambio de una nobleza antiguamente marginalizada desde el punto de vista territorial hacia una nueva nobleza feudal.
Las propiedadesque los gobernantes serbios tardomedievales tenían en el reino de Hungría no son desconocidas para las historiografías nacionales modernas de Europa Central. Estas propiedades se encontraban principalmente en el sur, este y noreste de ese país y fueron inicialmente concedidas por el rey húngaro (y soberano del Sacro imperio Romano Germánico) Segismundo de Luxemburgo. este artículo explora las capacidades sociales del entorno “cosmopolita” del déspota serbio George Branković en sus dominios en Hungría (1427-1456) y considera cómo tales capacida-des impulsaron el avance social de estos hombres pero también la interacción del dés-pota (escasa integración) con sus entornos húngaros, haciendo particular hincapié en sus relaciones con la corte regia. en este grupo híbrido “cosmopolita” y socialmente diversificado, se advierte cómo sus avances pudieron estar anclados en sus redes fa-miliares, el conocimiento personal y sus habilidades o servicio militar y cortesano. No obstante, su característica más significativa era la lealtad extraordinaria, que todos los hombres y delegados del déspota –independientemente de su origen social, étnico o religioso– mostraron hacia su señor feudal. Por medio de ese recurso confirmaron sus patrimonios, así como lograron avances posteriores en su estatus, modificando la relación cercana con el déspota y provocando el cambio de una nobleza antiguamente marginalizada desde el punto de vista territorial hacia una nueva nobleza feudal.
The estates which late medieval Serbian rulers held in the Kingdom of Hungary are not unknown to the modern national historiographies of Central Europe. These estates were cored in southern, eastern and north-eastern Hungary, initially granted by Hungarian King (and Holy Roman emperor) Sigismund of Luxembourg. The paper explores the social capacities of the “cosmopolitan” entourage of Serbian Despot George Branković on his domains in Hungary (1427-1456) and seeks an answer to how these capacities operated in prompting these men’s social advancement but also Despot’s interaction (hardly integration) with his surroundings in Hungary, with a particular focus on his relations with the royal court. In this hybrid “cosmopolitan” and socially diversified group, one can notice as their advancement may have been grafted upon their familial networks, personal knowledge and skills or military and courtly service, but its most significant feature was an extraordinary loyalty which all Despot’s men and proxies –regardless of their social, ethnic of religious background– showed to their feudal lord. it is through this concept that they had their personal assets confirmed, as well as their further status advancements, close relationship with the Despot and change from an ‘olden’ territorial marginalised into the new feudal nobility.
Ciutats mediterrànies: la mobilitat i el desplaçament de persones = Mediterranean towns: mobility and displacement of people, ed. Flocel Sabaté, 2021
Biblioteca de Catalunya. Dades CIP Congrés sobre Ciutats Mediterrànies (3r : 2020 : Barcelona, Ca... more Biblioteca de Catalunya. Dades CIP Congrés sobre Ciutats Mediterrànies (3r : 2020 : Barcelona, Catalunya), autor Ciutats mediterrànies: la mobilitat i el desplaçament de persones = Mediterranean towns: mobility and displacement of people.-Primera edició.-(Publicacions de la Presidència. Sèrie major ; 10) Ponències i conferències presentades al Congrés Internacional "Ciutats Mediterrànies: mobilitat i desplaçament de persones" celebrat a Barcelona els dies 19-21 de febrer de 2020.-Referències bibliogràfiques.-Textos en català, italià, castellà, anglès i francès ISBN 978-84-9965-638-0 I. Sabaté, Flocel, 1962-editor literari II. Union académique internationale. III. Institut d'Estudis Catalans. IV. Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània. V. Títol: Ciutats mediterrànies: la mobilitat i el desplaçament de persones. VI. Títol: Mediterranean towns: mobility and displacement of people VII. Col•lecció: Publicacions de la Presidència. Sèrie major ; 10 1. Ciutats-Mediterrània, Regió-Història-Congressos. 2. Cultura mediterrània-Història-Congressos. 3. Mediterrània, Regió-Emigració i immigració-Història-Congressos. 911.375(4-13+6-17)(091)(063) 8(4-13+6-17)(091)(063) 314.7(4-13+6-17)(091)(063) Els textos han estat sotmesos a un procés d'avaluació externa revisat pel consell científic del projecte de recerca Les villes méditerranéennes: les facteurs de développement. Analyse diachronique, transversale et multidisciplinaire, de la Union Académique Internationale (UAI-85).
Ciuitats Mediterrànies: L’espai i el territori – Mediterranean Towns: Space and Territory. Ed. Fl... more Ciuitats Mediterrànies: L’espai i el territori – Mediterranean Towns: Space and Territory. Ed. Flocel Sabaté. Barcelona: Institut d’Estudis Catalans (=Publicacions de la Presidència, Sèrie Major, 6): 171-180
Radovi-Zavod za hrvatsku povjest 51:1, 2019
Reform and Renewal in Medieval East and Central Europe: Politics, Law and Society. Eds. Suzana Miljan, ÉvaB. Halász and Alexandru Simon, 2019
Minerva III. Acta Europaea, vol. 15, Studies in Russia and Eastern Europe, vol. 14. Cluj-Napoca ... more Minerva III. Acta Europaea, vol. 15, Studies in Russia and Eastern Europe, vol. 14. Cluj-Napoca – Zagreb – London: Romanian Academy – Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts – School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London: 277-304.
Translation to Serbo-Croat, with introduction and commentary of Gerhard Jaritz’s work “Excrement ... more Translation to Serbo-Croat, with introduction and commentary of Gerhard Jaritz’s work “Excrement and Waste,” as from Handbook of Medieval Culture: Fundamental Aspects and Conditions of the European Middle Ages, vol. 1, ed. Albrecht Classen, Berlin-Boston: de Gruyter, 2015: 406-414.
Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Historica 20, I (2016): 73-84.
Zbornik za percepciju naučnog rada i poznavanje rekvizita njegove ocene. Knjiga 1., eds. Jovan ... more Zbornik za percepciju naučnog rada i poznavanje rekvizita njegove ocene. Knjiga 1., eds. Jovan Ćirić - Luka Breneselović. Beograd: Institut za uporedno pravo, 2017: 58-70.
Одиссей: человек в истории, 2014: Imitatio Christi в религиозной культуре Средневековья и раннего... more Одиссей: человек в истории, 2014: Imitatio Christi в религиозной культуре Средневековья и раннего Нового времени (Институт всеобщей истории, Российская академия наук и издательство “Наука”, 2015): 387-401.
In Classics and Class: Greek and Latin Classics and Communism at School. Eds. David Movrin and El... more In Classics and Class: Greek and Latin Classics and Communism at School. Eds. David Movrin and Elzbieta Olechowska (Warsaw-Ljubljana: Faculty of Artes Liberales and Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, 2016), 141–166.
In The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and ... more In The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453, ed. Vlada Stanković (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2016): 185–198.
The paper focuses on a license which Pope Sixtus IV granted to Leonardo III Tocco on 10 September... more The paper focuses on a license which Pope Sixtus IV granted to Leonardo III Tocco on 10 September 1476. This license allowed the Tocco lord to found a Catholic church dedicated to St. Demetrios on the Ionian island of Lefkada. The research shows that the immediate motives for this endowment reflected wider political interests of the pontifical Curia which regarded Leonardo as one of its allies in the Crusade planned against the Ottomans. The stability of Leonardo's power was reinforced by the Curia's ambitions to strengthen Catholicism in his domain. The licensing of Leonardo's ipso iure patronage over the newly founded church, as well as the permission to dedicate the endowment to the popular Orthodox warrior-saint Demetrios, both appear in this document as distinctive methods of this papal policy. The paper also discusses the size of the church of St. Demetrios, its location, and chronology, as well as the paleo-diplomatic features of this pontifical license, providing also a transcription in which the document's significant vocabulary follows diplomatic standards of reading.
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Las propiedadesque los gobernantes serbios tardomedievales tenían en el reino de Hungría no son desconocidas para las historiografías nacionales modernas de Europa Central. Estas propiedades se encontraban principalmente en el sur, este y noreste de ese país y fueron inicialmente concedidas por el rey húngaro (y soberano del Sacro imperio Romano Germánico) Segismundo de Luxemburgo. este artículo explora las capacidades sociales del entorno “cosmopolita” del déspota serbio George Branković en sus dominios en Hungría (1427-1456) y considera cómo tales capacida-des impulsaron el avance social de estos hombres pero también la interacción del dés-pota (escasa integración) con sus entornos húngaros, haciendo particular hincapié en sus relaciones con la corte regia. en este grupo híbrido “cosmopolita” y socialmente diversificado, se advierte cómo sus avances pudieron estar anclados en sus redes fa-miliares, el conocimiento personal y sus habilidades o servicio militar y cortesano. No obstante, su característica más significativa era la lealtad extraordinaria, que todos los hombres y delegados del déspota –independientemente de su origen social, étnico o religioso– mostraron hacia su señor feudal. Por medio de ese recurso confirmaron sus patrimonios, así como lograron avances posteriores en su estatus, modificando la relación cercana con el déspota y provocando el cambio de una nobleza antiguamente marginalizada desde el punto de vista territorial hacia una nueva nobleza feudal.
The estates which late medieval Serbian rulers held in the Kingdom of Hungary are not unknown to the modern national historiographies of Central Europe. These estates were cored in southern, eastern and north-eastern Hungary, initially granted by Hungarian King (and Holy Roman emperor) Sigismund of Luxembourg. The paper explores the social capacities of the “cosmopolitan” entourage of Serbian Despot George Branković on his domains in Hungary (1427-1456) and seeks an answer to how these capacities operated in prompting these men’s social advancement but also Despot’s interaction (hardly integration) with his surroundings in Hungary, with a particular focus on his relations with the royal court. In this hybrid “cosmopolitan” and socially diversified group, one can notice as their advancement may have been grafted upon their familial networks, personal knowledge and skills or military and courtly service, but its most significant feature was an extraordinary loyalty which all Despot’s men and proxies –regardless of their social, ethnic of religious background– showed to their feudal lord. it is through this concept that they had their personal assets confirmed, as well as their further status advancements, close relationship with the Despot and change from an ‘olden’ territorial marginalised into the new feudal nobility.
Las propiedadesque los gobernantes serbios tardomedievales tenían en el reino de Hungría no son desconocidas para las historiografías nacionales modernas de Europa Central. Estas propiedades se encontraban principalmente en el sur, este y noreste de ese país y fueron inicialmente concedidas por el rey húngaro (y soberano del Sacro imperio Romano Germánico) Segismundo de Luxemburgo. este artículo explora las capacidades sociales del entorno “cosmopolita” del déspota serbio George Branković en sus dominios en Hungría (1427-1456) y considera cómo tales capacida-des impulsaron el avance social de estos hombres pero también la interacción del dés-pota (escasa integración) con sus entornos húngaros, haciendo particular hincapié en sus relaciones con la corte regia. en este grupo híbrido “cosmopolita” y socialmente diversificado, se advierte cómo sus avances pudieron estar anclados en sus redes fa-miliares, el conocimiento personal y sus habilidades o servicio militar y cortesano. No obstante, su característica más significativa era la lealtad extraordinaria, que todos los hombres y delegados del déspota –independientemente de su origen social, étnico o religioso– mostraron hacia su señor feudal. Por medio de ese recurso confirmaron sus patrimonios, así como lograron avances posteriores en su estatus, modificando la relación cercana con el déspota y provocando el cambio de una nobleza antiguamente marginalizada desde el punto de vista territorial hacia una nueva nobleza feudal.
The estates which late medieval Serbian rulers held in the Kingdom of Hungary are not unknown to the modern national historiographies of Central Europe. These estates were cored in southern, eastern and north-eastern Hungary, initially granted by Hungarian King (and Holy Roman emperor) Sigismund of Luxembourg. The paper explores the social capacities of the “cosmopolitan” entourage of Serbian Despot George Branković on his domains in Hungary (1427-1456) and seeks an answer to how these capacities operated in prompting these men’s social advancement but also Despot’s interaction (hardly integration) with his surroundings in Hungary, with a particular focus on his relations with the royal court. In this hybrid “cosmopolitan” and socially diversified group, one can notice as their advancement may have been grafted upon their familial networks, personal knowledge and skills or military and courtly service, but its most significant feature was an extraordinary loyalty which all Despot’s men and proxies –regardless of their social, ethnic of religious background– showed to their feudal lord. it is through this concept that they had their personal assets confirmed, as well as their further status advancements, close relationship with the Despot and change from an ‘olden’ territorial marginalised into the new feudal nobility.
The CHASE grant has been given for the project ‘Searching digital: Methods, tools and standards of research in digital humanities’ that will be implemented by Dr. Nada Zecevic at the Centre for the Study of the Balkans. Designed for doctoral students of UK’s CHASE institutions and drawn from the CHASE’s Cohort Development Fund, the project represents a capacity-building collaboration with UK and European experts, offering a series of focused training in specialised digital skills, procedures and standards currently being among the essential ones applied in the research of the humanities. Further information on the programme and applications will be circulated in early Spring 2021.
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska Curie grant agreement No 747 857
In this interview, the joint editors of the book, Nada Zecevic and Daniel Ziemann, discuss the process of creating a Handbook that consists of twenty-four chapters written by over fifty different scholars spread throughout the world. They discuss how the book’s style and content was created, how the boundaries of chronology and geography were defined and agreed upon, and how they managed the many challenges of such an extensive subject and ambitious project. Nada and Daniel also reflect on the final chapter of the Handbook and consider the use, and potential abuse, of medieval history and the role that historians should play in presenting medieval history.
This series yields the latest interdisciplinary scholarly research on the region’s past, its “construction,” its dynamics, and its perception during the Middle Ages (c. 500–1500 CE). Importantly, this series not only focuses on the “core” area of Central Europe (present-day Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland), but also on its history and the relationships this area developed and maintained with other regions of medieval Europe and its global entanglements, with particular attention to the European West and North, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, the Black Sea and beyond.
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