Making of the St. Jovan Vladimir Cults

Emil Hilton Saggau is a Danish church historian working as a research fellow at the Department for Church History at Lund University, Sweden. He holds a PhD (2020) and Dr. habil (2025) from University of Copenhagen. His main interest is history and religion in Southeastern Europe, with publications including Nationalisation of the Sacred: Orthodox Historiography, Memory, and Politics in Montenegro (Peter Lang, 2024) and Saints in the Slavic Christian World Assessing Power, Religion and Language in Religious Literature (Peter Lang, 2025). He is a member of the Balkan History Association.

• List of Figures - Foreword - Notes on Language - Introduction - Part I Making the Vladimir Cult - Chapter 1 Traces of the Early Tradition - Chapter 2 The Shaping of a Saint in the Latin Tradition - Chapter 3 The Greek Tradition of Vladimir - Chapter 4 Painting a Gallery of Personas - Chapter 5 Mapping Sites and Remains - Chapter 6 Rising Illyrian Ideology and Orthodox Defence - Part II Claiming the Vladimir Cult (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries) - Chapter 7 Recreating a Slavic Catholic Image - Chapter 8 The Enlightenment Orthodox Image of Vladimir - Chapter 9 Rediscovering the Vladimir Cult - Chapter 10 Cultural Imagination – Vladimir at the Theatre - Chapter 11 Answering the Question of National Identity – Modern Historiographical Assessment of Vladimir - Chapter 12 From “Yugoslavism” to the Communist Deadlock in the Twentieth Century - Part III The Return of the Vladimir Cult after 1989 - Chapter 13 Vladimir Revitalized as a Serbian Saint in Montenegro - Chapter 14 Vladimir of Duklja – A Montenegrin Counter-Proposal - Chapter 15 The Albanian Bones – Shën Gjon of Elbasan - Chapter 16 Vladimir as a Muslim and National Holy Person – Islamic Bektashi Belief and Practice - Chapter 17 The Waning Remembrance of Vladimir - Chapter 18 Concluding Thoughts on the Shaping of Churches and Nations in Southeastern Europe - Bibliography