Momčilo Spremić (; born August 29, 1937) is a

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n historian and member of the

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. He is professor of General history of the Middle Ages at the

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. Spremić specialized in the

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, Italy and Spain in the

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Life and career

Spremić was born in Donja Badanja village near

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, in what was then the

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. He graduated from the

in 1961 and received his magister in 1965. Spremić received his PhD in 1969, from

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with the

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''Dubrovnik i Aragonci 1442–1495'', which was later published in 1971 in Serbian and in 1986 in Italian. He is a member of many professional societies, a member of the board of SIHMED (Société internationale des historiens de la Méditerranée) and a member of the

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of the European Society of Culture (Société européenne de culture). The issue of

Vuk Branković Vuk Branković ( sr-Cyrl, Вук Бранковић, , 1345 – 6 October 1397) was a Serbian medieval nobleman who, during the Fall of the Serbian Empire, inherited a province that extended over present-day southern and southwestern Serbia, enti ...

's treachery during the

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in 1389 was the subject of a series of studies by Spremić. Despite the consensus of modern historiography in

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that

was not a traitor during the battle, Spremić emphasized that there is a possibility that Vuk really betrayed his Serbian allies. On November 5, 2009 he was elected a member of the

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. Spremić received numerous awards which include: Svetosavska povelja 2009, Čuvari baštine, Zlatni ključ grada Smedereva (Golden key of city of Smederevo), Nagrada Vukove Zadužbine za nauku (Vuk's Endowment Award for Science) for his work ''Despot George Branković and his times'', Nagrada fonda Dušana Baranina (Award of the Dušan Baranin Foundation),

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(5th Class / Knight), bestowed by the

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and Oktobarska nagrada Grada Beograda (October Award of the City of Belgrade).

Selected works

Spremić published about two hundred scientific works which include: * ''Turski tributari u XIV i XV veku, 1970.'' * ''Dubrovnik i Aragonci 1442–1495, Beograd 1971. (Dubrovnik e gli Aragonesi 1442–1495,

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1986)'', OCLC Number: 443358657 * ''Despot Đurađ Branković i mačvanska banovina, Istorijski časopis 23, 1976.'' * ''Dubrovačka trgovačka društva u despotovini Đurđa Brankovića, Zbornik Filozofskog fakulteta u Beogradu'' * ''Gli Slavi tra le due sponde adriatiche, Annali dell Istituto italiano per gli Studi Storici 4, 1979.'' * * * * * ''Srbija i Venecija (VI-XVI vek), 2014.''

References

External links

Biography on the website of SANU

{{DEFAULTSORT:Spremic, Momcilo 1937 births People from Loznica 20th-century Serbian historians Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Academic staff of the University of Belgrade University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy alumni Living people 21st-century Serbian historians