Сталешки статус и географско порекло пренумераната на Историју разних славенских народов Јована Рајића
CLASS STATUS AND GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGIN OF THE SUBSCRIBERS TO JOVAN RAJIĆ’S HI­STORY OF VA­RI­O­US SLA­VIC NA­TI­ONS

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes and studies the lists of subscribers to Jovan Rajić’s four-volume History of Various Slavic Nations, especially the Bulgarians, the Croatians, and the Serbs (Vienna, 1794–1795). The life and entire work of Archimandrite Jovan Rajić are presented in basic outline, as well as his book whose subscribers occupy the central part of this work. The class status of the subscribers is described, which will give the readers a picture of the hierarchical relations and social composition in the Serbian society of that time. On a scientific basis, an analysis of the inhabited places from which the subscribers originated was carried out, and in this way, a map of Serbian cultural centers from the end of the 18th century was created on a kind of micro level through Rajić’s book. Also, the paper briefly presents the historical development and importance of renumbering as a specific way in which Serbian books were printed from the end of the 18th to the end of the 19th century. The phenomenon of subscriptions in Serbian literature and national history is the subject of interest of the long-term project of Matica srpska “Subscribers to Serbian books”.

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