The Team
PROJECT MEMBERS
Aleksandar Z. Savić (1991) is Teaching Assistant at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy (Department of History) from which he graduated (2014) and obtained his MA degree (2015). He has recently completed his doctoral dissertation entitled Conceptualising the Holy Land in the Orthodox Milieu of South-Eastern Europe (13th–16th C.). He is a member of the Serbian National Committee for Byzantine Studies and Secretary of the Centre for Theory of History at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy. His main area of research is cultural history of the Middle Ages; he has published several articles and chapters on medieval hagiography, pilgrimage, cultural transfers in the Eastern Mediterranean, and Christian-Muslim relations.
Bibliography (a selection):
- Slovenska književnost i vizantijska apologetika/polemika protiv islama: Prilozi čitanju Žitija Konstantina-Ćirila i Zakonopravila svetog Save [Slavonic Literature and Byzantine Apologetics/Polemics against Islam: Some Remarks on the Vita Constantini-Cyrilli and the Nomocanon of St Sava], Initial 7 (2019) 23–61.
- • Athos – Jerusalem – Sinai: Peregrinations and Identities in the Lives of St Sava of Serbia, South-Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, ed. I. Feodorov, Brăila 2020, 23–52.
- A Sea of Miracles: Reflections on Narrative Space in Medieval Serbian Hagiography, Зборник радова Византолошког института 58 (2021) 39–71.
- “A Most Splendent Path to Jerusalem”: Remembering the Holy Land in Medieval Serbian Hagiography, Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World, edd. R. Bleier, B. Coleman, C. Fletcher, Oxford etc. 2022, 67–84.
