Pro tempore, No. 20, 2025.
Review article
The Kosovo Myth: The History of Misuse (Summary)
Ivan Mačukat
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to present and explain the phenomenon of the Kosovo myth using the method of reception analysis. Namely, the Kosovo myth has been used several times in Serbian history to mobilize wider layers of the Serbian people in achieving immediate political and other goals. Before that, it had to undergo a certain transformation from church texts, written relatively immediately after the Battle of Kosovo (1389), through folk traditions whose heroes and messages were conditioned by the circumstances of recognition, or resistance to the Ottomans. The paper presents details that are known from the sources and their transformation through other written sources and folk traditions until the 19th century, when they are evoked in the gradual independence of Serbia, territorial expansion in the Balkan Wars at the beginning of the 20th century, and finally in the early 1990s, during the breakup of Yugoslavia.
Keywords
The Battle of Kosovo; The Kosovo Myth; Prince Lazar; Vuk Branković; Miloš Obilić
Hrčak ID:
349378
URI
Publication date:
20.9.2025.
Visits: 0 *