Jugović brothers
The Jugovic brothers (
Jug Bogdan (Vratko Nemanjić), are popular mythological characters of Serbian epic poetry. In poems, the Jugović brothers and their blood brother Miloš Obilić fight to their death in the Battle of Kosovo (1389), dying as heroes.[1] This is based on mythology, in which Miloš Obilić and other knights lost their life "in glory as martyrs".[1] One of the earliest accounts of the battle was the Florentine chancellor Coluccio Salutati (died 1406) who described twelve Christian noblemen who broke through the Ottomans, one of whom killed the Sultan (in later accounts, that knight was identified as Miloš Obilić).[2]
The brothers have been depicted in the arts, such as by Croatian painter Mirko Rački,[3] Serbian painter Adam Stefanović, and on a mosaic in the Tronoša Monastery,[4] which is popularly associated with the Jugovići.[5]
The
Serbian Church awards an order[citation needed] to mothers of more than four children, named after the mother of the Jugović brothers.[6]
See also
- Safavid Empire
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7391-4865-5.
- ^ Emmert 1996; V. V. Makušev (1871), "Prilozi k srpskoj istoriji XIV i XV veka", Glasnik srpskog učenog društva 32, pp. 174–5
- ISBN 978-1-85065-663-0.
- ^ "Manastir Tronoša. Na izvoru koji otvara oči". October 2015.
- ^ Mladen Stojanović (1970). Socialist Republic of Serbia. Export-Press. p. 324.
- ISBN 978-0-7391-6261-3.
Sources
- Emmert, Thomas A. (1996), "Milos Obilic and the Hero Myth", Journal of the North American Society for Serbian Studies, 10, archived from the original on 2010-02-13