“The fate” of the manuscripts of Vladimir Ćorović (review of part of the manuscripts with topics from medieval history)

Abstract

In this scientific work discussed the “fate” of a part of Vladimir Ćorović’s manuscripts in which the author discussed topics from medieval history, which were found after his death (1941) and later published in the form of shorter or longer scientific documents and articles. We also mentioned those manuscripts by Ćorović that unscrupulous individuals published or tried to publish under their own names, and which also relate to the above-mentioned issue. We did not discuss the manuscripts that were published as books, whose text content also refers to topics from medieval history, and we “left” their analysis for some future research. In the first part of the scientific work, we looked at the “shorter path” that Ćorović’s manuscripts “took”, starting with their “falling into the hands” of the German army, until the final return of the manuscripts to his family, while we are in the second part of the scientific work, as mentioned above, discussed his published, but also unpublished manuscripts that contain topics from medieval history, which Ćorović, among other things, studied in his rich scientific oeuvre. In support of this, we also mentioned numerous editors of his manuscripts such as Rade Mihaljčić, Ćorović’s grandson Nenad Ljubinković, Irena Arsić, Borivoje Marinković, Mirjana D. Stefanović, Svetlana Tomin and many others, as well as their comments on the manuscripts they prepared.