Marija Vasiljević, PhD (research associate, Institute for Balkan Studies SASA), leads the FORMIDOX project. Her research focuses on studies of collective memory, inherent to the phenomena such as the cults of saints and historiographical writings, in late medieval and early modern Central Balkans. She is the author of the book Kultovi svetih na centralnom Balkanu u vreme osmanskih osvajanja [Saints’ Cults in the Central Balkans at the Time of the Ottoman conquests], Belgrade 2021. Throughout this project, she will analyse texts written for the veneration of saints and commemoration of the past in the Patriarchate of Peć in order to glean information about layered identities nurtured and (re)shaped between the middle of the 15th and the middle of the 17th century.
(Trans-)Formation of Identities: Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Balkans (c.1450-c.1750)