ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1976.
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

The Mountains of Serbia: Travels Through Inland Yugoslavia / Anne Kindersley


London, Velika Britanija 1976. Tvrd povez, zaštitni omot, ilustrovano, engleski jezik, XVIII + 286 strana + strane sa fotografijama.
Knjiga je odlično očuvana.
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Serbia is one of the least-known regions in Yugoslavia and one of the most fascinating, for among its inhabitants are gipsies, Vlachs and Moslem Albanians. In this reflective travel-book, the author explores country and city life north and south of the Danube. The Serbs themselves are a talkative people: here hermits, Abbesses, painters and farmers express in their own words their character and culture. Two short historical sketches provide a background for the main narrative, which begins in a 12th-century monastery built in the royal hunting forests and ends in present-day Belgrade. The Serbian landscape, whether mountainous, thickly wooded or open plain, is full of surprises, among them the great Byzantine churches whose wall-paintings are described in some detail. The book can be used as a companion guide to them based on recent research by Yugoslav art historians. The whole text is enriched by quotations which bear out the author`s own experience of Serbia. Country people bring to mind folktales and proverbs, frescoes recall ancient chronicles and hymns and the Orthodox liturgy, while epic poems mirror the heroic spirit of the Serbs, which goes back to the feudal warriors of a medieval Empire and to the peasant leaders of 19th-century Uprisings against the Turk. The reader is left with an impression of the Serbs` nobly traditional attitude to life.



Anne Kindersley was educated in England, Wales and France. She read English at Cambridge and returned there to work on 19th century literature, becoming a Bye-Fellow of Girton College. She has taught Cambridge undergraduates and London school girls and lectured for the British Council in Belgrade. She has also broadcast and reviewed books on 19th century England, and published articles on travelling in France and Russia, as well as on Serbian history.

She is married to Richard Kindersley, author of The First Russian Revisionists, and an ex-diplomat now a Fellow of St Antony`s College, Oxford. They lived for three years in Belgrade, and revisit Yugoslavia frequently.







Sadržaj:
Foreword
First and Second Impressions
I THE OLD SERBIA
Historical Background
1 Studenica and the Ibar Valley
2 St Sava`s Cave: the Hermit Raphael
3 Ziča: Archbishop and Abbess
4 Through the Sandiak
5 Saints` Day at Sopoćani
6 The Mountains of Golija
7 The Patriarchate of Peć
8 The Road to Dečani
9 Prizren: the Emperor`s Town
10 Gipsies at Gračanica
11 From Novo Brdo to Kossovo Field
12 Morava: Prince Lazar and Princess Milica
13 The Court of Despot Stephen at Manasija
14 Down the Danube
15 Among the Vlachs
II THE NEW SERBIA
Historical Background
16 The Frankish Hills and the Hungarian Plain
17 Soldiers, Patriarchs and Traders
18 Šumadija: the Wooded Land
19 Slava at Cikote
20 The Changing Fortunes of Belgrade
21 Life in the Serbian Capital
Appendices
I Further places to visit
II Serbian Heroic Poetry
III Serbian Dynasties
Notes Further Reading
Glossary
Index