The Dynamics of Byzantine–Serbian Political Relations

The purpose of this paper is to present the general lines of development of Byzantine–Serbian political relations, taking into consideration their dynamic component, as an introduction to the chapters that follow, which are dedicated to a more detailed analysis of the archeological aspects of the cultural spreading of Byzantine civilisation, also in its variable space, a spreading that marked the long medieval period in Serbia, with influences that survived in the times which followed. Political relations, complex in their syndromic and synergic nature, due, understandably, to the limited space of the volume, have been constrained to the exposition of the main elements concerning relations between the states and rulers in the field of political practice and political conceptions, as well as to the important events from state and church history. For the same reason, the bibliography has been reduced to the more recent historiographical production in which older references and the knowledge of previous generations have been incorporatedPublished on the occasion of the 23rd international congress of Byzantine studie