GEOPOLITICS SVETOSAVLJA AS RATIONAL SYNTHESIS OF CULTURAL AND POLITICAL INFLUENCE OF THE EAST AND THE WEST

Abstract

This paper will try to show not only hagiographic testimony about the life and activity of St. Sava, but primarily to investigate and define the context in which he acted and that was fraught with political, religious, theological, geopolitical, cultural and many other important factors which determined, in a large segment, the meaning and the guidelines of life in medieval Serbian state and church. We will try to reconstruct the geopolitical vectors of encounter and collision of two centers of Medieval Christianity, Constantinople and Rome, torn and conflicted over the question of denominational and political power and primates. In such a defined context we will try to mark the main determinants of so-called geopolitics of Svetosavlje, as an attempt to define both state-building and the church content of independence of the Serbian people at the same time, forever crucified between two vectors of collision of Christian world.