Sacralizing the Nation through Remembrance of Medieval Religious Figures in Serbia, Bulgaria and Macedonia

Stefan Rohdewald, Ph.D. (2005), University of Zurich, is Professor (Chair for Eastern and Southeastern European History) at the University of Leipzig. He has published monographs and many articles on the area, most recently focusing on its "Transottoman" entanglements with the Middle East.

• List of FiguresVolume 11 Introduction1 Historiographical Context, Question, and Outline2 State of Research3 Sources2 Holy Teachers, Rulers, and Capitals – Religious Memory-Figures up to the 18th Century1 “Educators and Teachers of the Slavs” Constantine-Cyril and Methodius2 Scholars, Patron Saints, and Miracle Workers – Clement of Ohrid and Naum3 Saints as Pillars of Bulgarian Rule in the New City of the Tsars4 Excursus: Ioakim, Gavriil, and Prohor – Slavic-Byzantine Saints between Bulgarian and Serbian Dominion5 Holy Rulers of Rascia or Serbia6 “Pro patria mori” – The Battle of the Field of Blackbirds, Lazar, and St. Vitus’s Day7 Serbian and Bulgarian Holy Princes of the Church8 Holy Branković Despots – The Continued Invention of the Holy Dynasty in Hungary9 Review – Religious Memory-Figures up to the 18th Century as Media of Homogeneous “National Denominational Cultures”?3 The Invention of European, Christian Nations to Overcome the “Asian Yoke” in the Long 19th Century1 Clergy as National Saints: Sava’s Ascent to “Savior” and “New Creator”2 Clergy as National Saints: Ivan as “the Only All-National Saint” and His Monastery of Rila3 Clergy as National Saints: The Rediscovery of Cyril and Methodius as “Geniuses” between Transnational Pan-Slavism and Nationalism4 Clergymen as National Saints: From Archbishop and “Ohridian Babalŭk” to “Savior of Slavdom” and “Smith of the Bulgarian Nationality” – Clement in Ohrid and Bulgaria5 The Controversial National Myth – the Battle of the Blackbird Field and St. Vitus’s Day as National Myth Nexus6 Holy Serbian Rulers – Stefan the First-Crowned and the Other Nemanjids in Sava’s Shadow7 Holy Bulgarian Rulers – Boris as “Creator of the Bulgarian Nationality”8 The “Bulgarian God,” the Serbian “Holy Land,” as Well as Monasteries and Regions – Spatial Designs through Religious-National Memory9 Interim AssessmentVolume 24 Mobilization and Sacralization of the Nation through Religious Remembrance (1918–1944) 1 From Myth to “Ideology” – the Field of Blackbirds and Vidovdan in the SHS State2 Clergy as National Saints: The Discursive and Geographical Expansion of Sava’s Cult in the “Battle of Ideologies”3 Cleric as National Saint: Clement between Serbia, Macedonia, and Bulgaria4 Clerics as National Saints: Cyril and Methodius5 John of Rila’s Holiday as the “Day of the National Awakeners”6 Clergymen as National Saints: The “Holy Leader” Ivan of Rila and His Monastery7 Holy Ruler – Boris as the “God-Sent Leader”8 Holy Rulers – the Karađorđević family in the Nemanjids’ Footsteps?9 “Holy Homeland” and National Gods – Bulgaria, Serbia, and Macedonia as Religious-National Spaces of Remembrance10 Interim Assessment5 Conclusion1 Transethnic Missionaries, Miracle Workers, Tsarist Cities, and Dynasties – Religious Memory-Figures in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era2 Religious Memory-Figures between Politics and Nation – Setting the Course in the “Long 19th Century”3 Religious Memory-Figures as Media of the Blueprints of Modern Mass Societies and the Sacralization of the Nation (1918–1944)4 Recapitulation within the European Framework5 Religious Memory-Figures in a Diachronic View between “longue durée” and Discontinuity6 OutlookBibliographyIndex