Open AccessLast years in the last century of the Serbian Byzantine relationships
Author(s) -
Sima M. Ćirković
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
zbornik radova vizantološkog instituta/zbornik radova vizantološkog instituta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0917
pISSN - 0584-9888
DOI - 10.2298/zrvi0643025c
Subject(s) - byzantine architecture , sorrow , serbian , ancient history , battle , liturgy , history , islam , art , empire , literature , philosophy , archaeology , linguistics
Since the Battle of Marica (1371), there has been in the Serbian literature an increasing tendency to recognize "signs" of the fulfillment of pristine prophecies that the Ismaelits would subdue the Christians, that all liturgy would come to an end and such suffering ensue that the living would envy the dead. Prophecies originating from the time of the spread of Islam regained topicality at the time of the spread of the Ottoman power and the breakdown of the Christian states headed by the Byzantine Empire. This pessimistic tenor was only intensified by the belief in the 84 "last years", the years of suffering and sorrow, between the thirteenth 532-year Great Paschal Cycle (6916 = 1st September 1407 — 31st August 1408) and the year 7000 (1st September 1491 — 31st August 1492).