This is the Power Point Presentation from the Centre for Advanced Medieval Studies in Belgrade (SRB) shown to the ICARUS consortium at the ICARUS-Meeting #14 in Colmar (FR) as new member of ICARUS.

1. ЦЕНТАР ЗА НАПРЕДНЕ СРЕДЊОВЕКОВНЕ
СТУДИЈЕ
CENTRE FOR ADVANCED
MEDIEVAL STUDIES

2. CENTRE FOR ADVANCED MEDIEVAL
STUDIES
BELGRADE

3. CENTRE FOR ADVANCED MEDIEVAL
STUDIES
BELGRADE

4. CENTRЕ FOR ADVANCED MEDIEVAL
STUDIES
• Established in 2011
• Founders are Belgrade medievalists employed at the
Institute of History, Institute for Balkan Studies of the
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for
Byzantine Studies of the Serbian Academy of
Sciences and Arts, the Faculty of Philosophy and the
National Library of Serbia

5. FOUNDING PRINCIPLES
• The Centre is a non-party, non-government, non-profit
citizens’ association
• Its basic goals are to develop, advance and
popularize academic research of medieval historical
and cultural heritage in the wide area of South-East
Europe and the Mediterranean, with emphasis on
interdisciplinary approach, international cooperation
and use of modern technology

6. MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
• Devising and carrying out scientific projects dealing with
medieval history of South-East Europe and the
Mediterranean, by recruiting experts from the various
fields of humanities
• History and auxiliary historical sciences, theology,
philology, philosophy, ethnology and anthropology,
archaeology, sociology, art history, digital humanities…

7. ADVANCEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE
• Hosting, independently or in cooperation with other
organizations, professional and scientific gatherings,
councils, seminars, lectures, and other forms of
professional improvement in the field of medieval
studies
• Realisation of seminars for history teachers entitled
“Middle Ages in the Teaching of History” as a part of
the programme of continuous professional training
for elementary and high school teachers in the
Republic of Serbia

8. DISSEMINATION AND POPULARISATION OF
KNOWLEDGE
• Publication of scholarly monographs, source editions,
journals and other sorts of academic material from
the aforementioned scientific fields
• Founding of the Initial – A Review of Medieval
Studies (end of 2011) and publishing of the first two
issues (2013 and 2014)

9. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
• Regular scholarly exchange of information with the
Croatian State Archives (since 2012)
• Two joint projects with the Department of Byzantine
Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
– The Phenomenon of the Chancery in South East Europe from
the 12th to the 15th Centuries (thematic collection of
papers)
– Document-making Practice of the Byzantine
Commonwealth (thematic session of free communications
at the 23rd ICBS)

11. LAUNCHING OF THE JOURNAL
• Established in December 2011 as the official organ of
the Centre
• International Editorial Board of 15 members from
nine European countries constituted in April 2012
• The first volume appeared in May 2013 and the
second in early July 2014
• The third volume should be published by the end of
June 2015

12. JOURNAL’S PROFILE
• International multidisciplinary medieval annual
• Contributions (papers, source materials, reviews, etc.)
from all scholarly fields pertaining to the area of
Southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean in the
Middle Ages (late 3rd – late 16th Century)
• At this moment the only multidisciplinary review of the
widest spectrum in the South East Europe devoted
exclusively to the medieval research

13. PUBLISHING PRINCIPLES
• Originality
• Multilinguality – papers in Serbian (and other South
Slavic languages), English, French, German, Italian,
and Russian
• Double-blind peer review policy

14. INITIAL 1 (2013)
• 13 papers, 4 book reviews and 2 scholarly activity
reports
• Authors included scholars from five different
countries writing in four different languagues

15. INITIAL 2 (2014)
• 13 papers, 5 book reviews and 3 scholarly activity
reports
• Authors from ten different countries writing in six
different languagues

16. NOTICE FOR POTENTIAL COLLABORATORS
Information about ongoing activities is regularly posted
via Centre’s account on Academia.edu
Submission deadline each year is October 1st
All published volumes are accessible through
www.ceeol.com

17. FURTHER PLANS
• Application for the project „ClAp! – Claustra Aperta“
(as a member of ICARUS)
– Researching the Serbian Medieval Monastic Legacy: A
New Approach (workshop)
– Serbian Monasteries: A Meeting Point of both Cultural
Patterns of Medieval Europe (internat. conference)
– The Use of New Technologies in Presenting of the Medieval
Heritage (seminar for history teachers)
– Publication of various scholarly monographs/papers about
Serbian medieval monasteries
• Completion of the aforementioned projects with the
Austrian partners

18. CENTRE FOR ADVANCED MEDIEVAL
STUDIES
BELGRADE

19. CENTRE FOR ADVANCED MEDIEVAL
STUDIES
BELGRADE

20. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!