Matija Nenadovic as an active witness of Serbian real re-historization

Abstract

In the following article, the authors will explore Matija Nenadovic in order to highlight the importance of one of the leaders of the First Serbian Uprising in the process of Serbian returning to the historical scene, after falling into centuries-long slavery under the Ottomans. Nenadovic is important in many ways for understanding the problem of Serbian real rehistorization - as regaining the capacity for historical action of Serbs - both as an actor and a witness, but also as someone who appears to seek to reflexively appropriate and authoritatively shape the emerging Serbian history. It turns out that the transition from Ottoman, non-European premodernity to own-statehood-substantitated modernization in freedom can be taken as the red thread of integrally observed unity of Nenadovic?s actions and reflections.