MILOS CIRIC
CHRONICLES OF SYMBOLS
World and Serbian countries / Heraldry 3

The CHRONICLES OF SYMBOLS
consist of five volumes, format 20 x 24 cm, about 500 pages each, 2.500 pages in total. The books have over 10.000 illustrations – black and white drawings, pictures, maps and graphs, followed by explanations, and captions of the most important historical events of the time. The material is collected by the author in the course of the last 20 years.

The CHRONICLES OF SYMBOLS
covers the times from the cosmogony period up to the year 2000, century by century, and for the later period year by year. It is a history of mankind from the beginnings until today – shown through visual symbols. The development of all kinds and types of symbols is registered, covering all continents and almost all nations and countries. After the appearance of Slavs and later the Serbs, Serbian regions and their symbols become a major topic of the book – but always in parallel with other nations and the most important historic events in the world.

The CHRONICLES OF SYMBOLS
registers the symbols of all Serbian rulers before Stefan Nemanja, and covers the Nemanjic Dynasty, the period under the Turks and Serbian history until today. Thus practically all existing examples of Serbian symbols are collected and presented in one place. The term ’Serbian regions’ include Serbia (Raska) and Montenegro (Duklja, Zeta) and wider: Macedonia, Bosnia, Russia, Turkey etc., i. e. all the areas where Serbs left some trace in the form of symbols.

The CHRONICLES OF SYMBOLS
has a completely different concept in comparison to other books on symbols published worldwide, and which dealt with a certain historic period or a particular type of symbol. This one covers all types of symbols everywhere, with an accent on one nation. Most countries already have some publications on this subject, as extremely important to explain human civilization, its development and communication standards with relation to culture. When some publications evoke symbols of other countries, Serbs are rarely mentioned, and examples are very limited.

The CHRONICLES OF SYMBOLS
sets in parallel the development of heraldry from its origins in the Crusades (1096) until today. Heraldry is, in all human history, the richest and the best organised symbolic system, which lasted, uninterrupted, for 900 years. Apart of numerous heraldic figures, Serbs are particularly connected to representations of eagles, single- and double-headed, the book has special tables showing the development and use of eagles in world heraldry, at the end of each Century’s chapter.


The rewiev of the projected book by Prof. Dr Smiljan Lazin states:
"The ’Chronicles of Symbols’ is, in its field, a capital work and of general significance. It is, be it by its all-inclusive nature, by the organisation, presentation and interpretation in national /international scope, the work without anything comparable even in literatures of the nations with highly developed symbolism and more extensive cultural tradition."



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