title: Tsar Stefan Dušan the Mighty as a patricide and a lawbreaker: negative points in the image of the ruler in Serbian historical memory of the 14th – 21st centuries
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metadata.value: Chernykh, Tatyana G.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-08-21T09:15:18Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-08-21T09:15:18Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu19.2017.107
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/7093
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Stefan Dušan is one of the most famous heroes of Serbian medieval history. He is brilliant
  statesman, conqueror, legislator, monastery founder and the most powerful representative of Nemanjich
  dynasty. He made a lot of effort for the development of Orthodoxy in his state and he established the
  Serbian Patriarchate. Nevertheless, Dušan turned out to be one of the few from his dynasty who are not
  canonized. The author of this article analyses views of the authors of the 14th – 21st centuries on the two
  most contradictory moments of Dušan’s biography, and either can be reasonable enough for Dušan to stay
  as faithful tsar and being not canonized. First moment is his struggle with his father, Stefan Dečanski, for
  supreme power in the country and sudden death of the latter. Second subject comprises the establishment
  of the Serbian Patriarchate and Dušan’s imperial coronation without the approval of Byzantine empire and
  Constantinople Patriarchate. These events eventually resulted in the pronounce an anathema against Dušan
  and Serbian church in general and in the long breaking between Serbian and Byzantine church which was
  over only in 1375, twenty years after Dušan’s death. Studying medieval sources and works of historians
  and literary men of the 17th – 21st centuries, the author shows several different ways of looking into both
  subjects and deals with the reasons of all evaluations of Dušan’s actions. The author comes to the conclusion
  that Serbian authors still have undying interest in the personality of Serbian tsar as well as in the reasons
  opposing to his canonization. Apparently, although both moments in question can be crucial for the denial
  of becoming a saint for Dušan, it does not diminish neither his achievements as a ruler nor his value as
  a symbol of the greatness of medieval Serbia.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This article was prepared with the support of the Russian Science Foundation, project № 16-18-10080
  «Mobilized Middle Ages»: appealing to medieval images in discourses of nation-building and state-building
  in Russia and the Central-Eastern Europe and Balkan countries in Modern and Contemporary time.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Issue 1(21)
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Stefan Dušan the Mighty
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Serbian empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Middle Ages
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: anathema
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Stefan Dečanski
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: patriarchate
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Tsar Stefan Dušan the Mighty as a patricide and a lawbreaker: negative points in the image of the ruler in Serbian historical memory of the 14th – 21st centuries
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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