Projects / Programmes
Land of stečci: multiculturality of the medieval Herzegovina
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.02.00 |
Humanities |
Archaeology |
|
| Code |
Science |
Field |
| 6.01 |
Humanities |
History and Archaeology |
medieval archeology, Western Balkans, stećak, Herzegovina, continuity, cemetery, tombstones, medieval epigraphy, spatial studies, cultural heritage, plural society, multiculturality
Data for the last 5 years (citations for the last 10 years) on
April 24, 2024;
A3 for period
2018-2022
Data for ARIS tenders (
04.04.2019 – Programme tender,
archive
)
| Database |
Linked records |
Citations |
Pure citations |
Average pure citations |
| WoS |
57 |
1,075 |
990 |
17.37 |
| Scopus |
71 |
1,290 |
1,201 |
16.92 |
Researchers (7)
Organisations (1)
Abstract
Stećci are medieval (12th-16th C) tombstones dispersed throughout the western Balkans' landscapes, particularly Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). They characterise a specific funerary phenomenon and represent a unique interdigitation of traditions, religions, aesthetic expressions and languages. The number of these monuments is staggering; over 72,000 stećci are currently recorded in the Western Balkans, with more than 60,000 found in BiH alone. They embody the long-lasting cohabitation of local, diverse ethnicities, which simultaneously followed different religions: Orthodox Christianity, Roman Catholicism, the Bosnian Church (Christian, proclaimed heretical), and Islam. Remarkably, stećci are not attributed to any ethnic or religious group and have always been considered mysterious, lacking a clear, explicit belonging. The project will focus on stećci cemeteries in the south-eastern part of BiH, in the region of modern Herzegovina or medieval Zachlumia and Travunia, which bears many thought-provoking components of these enigmatic monuments. By locating associated settlement, examining the tradition of the medieval reuse of prehistoric burial locations and assessing social and individual identities, the project attempts to provide an understanding of overall stećci phenomenon and medieval lifeways in the Western Balkans. The Multiculturality of the medieval Herzegovina project is highly interdisciplinary, integrating perspectives and methods principally from archaeology, detailed landscape and spatial studies, epigraphy and heritage studies, but also anthropology, art history, history, iconography, and digital technologies. These disciplines are marshalled within a social archaeology global framework, which will provide a path for incorporating the medieval plural Balkan's heritage into European research.
