Contractual relations between Serbia and Dubrovnik (Doct.)

Pre-requisites: The corresponding year of studies, ie semester, regular attendance, active participation in the work on the sources and fulfillment of the planned pre-registration obligations.

Course objectives: Introduction to the problem of arranging the relations of Serbian medieval countries with Dubrovnik from the end of the 12th to the middle of the 15th century, and mastering the most important sources for this topic.

Course description: Theoretical teaching: Through lectures, students are introduced to the economic and political circumstances of this period, the various stages in the development of contractual relations between Serbian medieval countries with Dubrovnik and the characteristics accompanying them. Practical teaching: On the basis of previous knowledge and acquired skills in critical approach to sources, students learn and thoroughly analyze the most important sources for understanding the contractual relationships between Serbia and Dubrovnik in the Middle Ages.

Learning Outcomes: Acquiring knowledge about contractual relations between Serbia and Dubrovnik in the late Middle Ages and skills in critical analysis of historical sources on a given topic.

Literature/Reading:

• K. Jireček, Važnost Dubrovnika u trgovačkoj povijesti srednjeg vijeka, Dubrovnik 1915.
• K. Jireček, Istorija Srba I-II, Beograd 1952 (ili neko od kasnijih izdanja).
• Istorija srpskog naroda I-II, Beograd 1981-1982 (ili neko od kasnijih izdanja).
• M. Kos, Dubrovačko-srpski ugovori do sredine XIII veka, Glas SKA 123 (1927) 1-65.
• M. Dinić, Dubrovački tributi. Mogoriš, Svetodmitarski i Konavaoski dohodak i Provižiun braće Vladkovića, Glas SKA 168 (1935) 205–256 (= isti, Iz srpske istorije srednjega veka, Beograd 2003, 711-755).
• T. Taranovski, Istorija srpskog prava u Nemanjićskoj državi I-IV, Beograd 1930-1935.
• S. Ćirković, Istorija srednjovekovne bosanske države, Beograd 1965
• A. Veselinović, Država srpskih despota, Beograd 2006.
• J. Tadić, Istorija Dubrovnika do polovine XV veka, IČ 18 (1971) 13-44.