Summary
Isidora Bjelica: The path to the heart of the Kosovo myth: Vuk Branković - hero or traitor
A book of discoveries that fundamentally changes the understanding of the Kosovo myth. The path to the heart of the Kosovo myth is the result of Isidor Bjelica's seven-year work on an unbiased research of archival material about the Kosovo color from Latin, German, Greek and Turkish sources. Like perhaps no other book, it contains rare quotations and faithfully transmitted excerpts from the works of many important historians of the last century and the one before that. Unpretentiously separating the historical perspective from the mythical and confronting the fantasy of the epic with the simplicity of the facts, this book introduces the reader to the secrets and possible readings of the epochal story through the exciting narration of a curious and amazed researcher. Its heroes - Prince Lazar, Vuk Branković, Princess Milica, Miloš Obilić, Sultan Bajazit, despot Stefan Lazarević and many others - devoid of epic petrification grow into credible characters of their time, and one great drama that gave birth to the most notorious name in Serbian history receives a rare credible interpretation. And while the seventh century has come a long way after the fateful Vidovdan, The Path to the Heart of the Kosovo Myth excitingly interprets the once sacrilegious, but today easily acceptable thought about Vuk Branković as betrayal, not as a traitor, showing how liberation from national passions and delusion is the way out of the dungeon of ignorance, hatred and exclusivity.
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