Ognjen Krešić, PhD (research associate, Institute for Balkan Studies SASA), is the coordinator of two work packages of the FORMIDOX project: “Bibliography and Corpus“ and “Research”. He is an historian whose main research topics concern legal position and cultural, religious and social practices of non-Muslims in the Ottoman Balkans (16th–18th centuries), with a special focus on the Christian Orthodox monasticism and monastic economy. He is the author of a monograph titled Манастир Хиландар и источни Балкан у XVIII веку: културне и економске везе [Hilandar Monastery and Eastern Balkans in the 18th Century: Cultural and Economic Ties], Belgrade 2021. In the project his task will be to research the processes of the (trans-)formation of identities by analysing the relations between monks and Ottoman authorities and their multi-layered ties with their coreligionists using mainly the Ottoman administrative documents.
In the project his task will be to research the role of monasteries in the processes of the (trans-)formation of identities of Orthodox Christians by analysing the relations between monks and Ottoman authorities and their multi-layered ties with their coreligionists using mainly the Ottoman administrative documents.