Format - 24 cm
Povez - Tvrd
Pismo - Latinica
Izdavač: Prometej, Novi Sad
Autor: Luka Mičeta
EAN: 9788651520368
This biographical work about the Nanjićes, dear Reader, has been written with an aspiration to reach the word, nearly the prayer, of the anonymous Mileševa monk from the 13th century: Clarify my language, my Saviour. Also, it has been an attpt to preserve from once fierce fire, as a poet has said, a sparkle which still smoulders as we hope it does.

The Nanjićes, the saints-yielding Serbian dynasty, ruled Serbia for somewhat more than two centuries from the enthronent of Stefan Nanja in 1166 until the death of Emperor Uroš V in 1371.

All of the ruling Nanjićes were personalities of outstanding stature who soberly looked upon political relations, personalities with a vision regarding the development of their state which had not come into being from selfish or vain motives. They boldly walked toward their destiny. And Serbia was not the sole arena of their heroic deeds.

Nanja, Stefan and Sava as well as all the Nanjićes who lived after th wisely wavered between Rome and Constantinople, Hungary and Venice, Epirus and Nicaea Having opted for Orthodoxy, they respected the power and influence of the Catholic world. Although part of the Byzantine Commonwealth, they also sought a place for Serbia
beyond it in an integrated European community of Christian peoples. Having turned to the East, they did not separate Serbia from the West.

The Nanjićes were men of uncommon spirit, religious, learned, art lovers, passionate, strong-willed, of great ambitions, brave, but also rulers who could be ruthless. They were unique personalities of their age an age of great sinners yet also of fervent faith, not distanced from either. Despite reckoning with heavenly heights and gifts, they would sometimes oversee earthly measures. For, the encounters of divine and human reasons and standards are always difficult.