Istraživanja – Journal of Historical Researches
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Istraživanja – Journal of Historical Researches is dedicated to publishing the best academic ideas regarding all aspects of socio-political processes and events primarily in the region of Central and South East Europe, as well as the Eastern Mediterranean. However, the geographical focus is not strict since the studies of all phenomena and processes which occur elsewhere but are relevant for mentioned geographical area are welcomed. Since the University of Novi Sad is located in the part of the world where different civilizations, cultures, religions and peoples have met and intertwined for millennia, Istraživanja especially emphasizes the critical research of the impact and significance of these mutual interactions and entanglements. The Journal greatly values an interdisciplinary approach, which is why it publishes not only the papers that study “typical” political history, but also works which critically analyze social and cultural life in the past (material culture, political thought, literature, religion, etc.) and come from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, ethnology, art history and classical studies. However, Istraživanja - Journal of Historical Researches does not publish "rough" unanalyzed materials, field, questionnaires and interviews reports, pure linguistic analyses or any kind of contributions limited to bare reproduction of data and uncritical synthesis of previous scholarship.
ISSN: 0350-2112
eISSN: 2406-1131
UDC: 94(082)
COBISS.SR-ID: 17763584
doi: 10.19090/i
Published by: University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Philosophy, Journal website
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- METHODOLOGICAL AND MOTIVATIONAL BASIS OF HISTORY TEXTBOOKS FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN THE KINGDOM OF YUGOSLAVIA (1918-1941)
- This paper analyzes the textbooks and curricula of history classes for primary schools in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and in Serbia. The results indicate that their methodological and motivational basis relies on the functionalization of history in accordance with the political and ideological objectives of the Yugoslav state, primarily nationally-integrative and patriotic. The paper is based on archival research, published historical sources, periodicals and historiographical literature.
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- MUNICIPAL REGULATION OF ENTERTAINMENT IN INTERWAR BELGRADE
- Between the two World Wars, and especially after 1929, the state’s Belgrade City Authority was held to the task of policing the Yugoslav capital. Entertainment was an easy target of surveillance because popular imagination linked it with a slew of illegal activities such as gambling and prostitution. I argue that the urban administration played a significant role in defining and redefining the place of entertainment in Yugoslavia and its capital though the management of time, movement, and spatial use. The City Authority interpreted and implemented state agendas through the management of closing times, entertainers’ residence permits, and public behavior. Regulation, however, did not succeed in controlling proprietors, performers, or patrons in the city; instead, it was oftentimes only successful at tempering the visibility of entertainment itself. I demonstrate that municipal regulation of entertainment in interwar Belgrade was largely ineffective due to its inconsistent implementation and resistance from the urban classes.
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- NATURAL CONDITIONS AS A FACTOR OF URBANIZATION OF THE LOWER POSAVINA IN THE MIDDLE AGES
- The paper analyzes the influence of the natural environment on the emergence and development of urban settlements located on the lower reaches of the Sava River in the Middle Ages. Medieval people were much more dependent on natural conditions than they are today and, therefore, relief, climate, hydrography, fertility of land and natural resources were of great importance for the formation and development of towns. These factors were extremely important both for their strategic location and for supplying the towns with basic things, either through direct production or trade. That is why it is important to learn about and explain these factors, which comprise the basic preconditions for the locations of settlements and to analyze the opportunities and aggravating circumstances that the lower course of the Sava River provided for the life of the town.
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- NIĆIFOR PERIĆ METROPOLITAN OF RAŠKA-PRIZREN AND SKENDERIJA (1901–1911)
- The paper presents biographical data on Nićifor Perić, Metropolitan of Raška-Prizren and Skenderija. It analyzes his role of a religious leader, who also had jurisdiction in the marital and partly hereditary law. A special focus is put on his work concerning the establishment of important church institutions and funds. The paper explains his relationship towards education and one part focuses on the issue of the monastery of Visoki Dečani, especially when the foundation of the Committee for debt settlement and stay of Russian monks there is concerned. The paper also explains the nature of the Metropolitan’s misunderstandings both with the Ottoman authorities and the authorities of the Kingdom of Serbia, because he did not yield in his firm attitude concerning the preservation of church privileges, including the authority over schools. Another focus is on the relationship of the Great Church (Ecumenical Patriarchate) with Metropolitan Nićifor and the events that took place during his rule in the Raška-Prizren and Skenderija Metropolitanate.
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- O ИМЕНИМА СТАРИХ СРПСКИХ ЛЕТОПИСА
- Studies of old Serbian letopis chronicles have not included sufficient explanations for the titles assigned to certain manuscripts. To enable easier use and identification of such texts, this work seeks to examine and explain certain facts from the field, to indicate overlooked characteristics, and to expand on previous scholarship regarding letopis chronicles. Following the most significant editions, primarily those of Lj. Stojanović, attention is paid to discussion and changes in the lengthy process of assigning titles and codifying such texts, as well as to the leading roles of Stojanović and Šafarik in that process. Motifs in designations for the texts and lesser known reasons for individual titles are identified.
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- ODGOVOR DUBROVAČKOG VEĆA NA PISMO KRALJA ŽIGMUNDA OD 9. XI 1427
- If the later transcripts of the original documents could be trusted, the agreement in Tati, from May 1426, which was reached between Stefan Lazarević and Sigismund of Luxembourg, obliged the Serbian despot to promise, among other things, to confer Belgrade to the king of Hungary after his death, in order to recognize Đurađ Branković for his legal heir and the future landlord of rather big despot’s territories in Hungary. After taking over the city, which was the future important military stronghold and rampart for the further progress of Turks, Sigismund tried to inhabit it with the Catholic population, transferring it to an important trade center. With that purpose, he sent the letter to the Dubrovnik Senate Chamber on 9 November 1427, urging the local merchants and artisans to come in large numbers with their goods to Belgrade. The paper presents a genuine text of the letter-response of the Senate Chamber to the Hungarian king, and its translation into Serbian. It was found out that Dubrovnik inhabitants were not able to immediately respond to Sigismund 's requirements: most merchants and artisans were isolated, being in danger within the walls of Novo Brdo and Prizrenac, where they defended the mentioned villages of persistent Turkish invasion together with Serbs since the beginning of 1427. The paper contains a detailed lexical, and morphological and syntax analysis of the text as a typical sample of Latin influence in the late middle age, with all the very specific characteristics of the Dubrovnik area.
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- OLD-NEW ENEMIES IN HUNGARIAN AND YUGOSLAV CARICATURES AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR (1945–1947)
- In this paper I analyse caricatures of Hungarian and Yugoslav comic papers (Jež, Ludas Matyi, Új Szó, and Pesti Izé) between 1945 and 1947. I chose this source since the analysis of caricatures can demonstrate the functioning of communist propaganda. After the presentation of sources and goals of the paper, I analyse the depiction of war criminals, the perception of democracy and the Western states, and the representation of democrats and German enemies within the country in Hungary. Then I analyse the depiction of the self of the communists and finally, before the conclusions, the Peace Treaty of Paris in caricatures. The analysed propaganda caricatures documented well the views and propaganda methods of the Communist Parties regarding the above-mentioned topics.