Nada Miletić

Nada Miletić (1925 - 2002[1]) was a Bosnian medievalist, art historian and archaeologist, who was a scientific expert at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina and founded the study of the Migration Period in Bosnian archaeology.

Nada Miletić
Born1925
Died2002
Occupation(s)Archaeologist, medievalist, curator
Employer(s)National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Career
Medieval tombstones around National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Miletić worked at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina throughout her career.[2] As an archaeologist she established the study of the Migration Period and Early Slav period in Bosnia and Herzegovina, expanding the collections held by the museum.[2] As a medievalist, she worked on the history of medieval jewellery and art, and had a particular focus on the medieval tombstones known as stećak.[2] As part of the 75th anniversary celebrations of the museum, one of the special exhibitions made showcased Miletić's work on medieval jewellery.[3]

Miletić wrote the chapter on Bosnia in the Early Middle Ages for Kulturna istorija Bosne i Hercegovine od najstarijih vremena do pada ovih zemalja pod osmansku vlast, a foundational work that included contributions from historians of the region, such as, Alojz Benac, Đuro Basler, Borivoj Čović, Esad Pašalić and Pavao Anđelić.[4] She was also an expert on bogomilism, a tenth century Slavic sect.[5] As an excavator, she worked on many sites, including: the 800 graves from the Čipuljić site near Bugojno,[6] at Glasinac,[7] and worked on the site of Brijesnica,[8] and led excavations at Gomjenica.[9]

Miletić died aged 78 in 2002.[1] In her obituary, Lidija Fekeža described her as a member of "an exceptional generation of archaeologists".[1]

Legacy

In 2016 Stećak was placed on UNESCO List of World Heritage.[2]

Historiography

For Miletić the Middle Ages, began in the sixth century - dating that subsequent historians, such as Đuro Basler, have countered.[10] She and Alojz Benac dated the phenomenon of the stećak to the thirteenth century, but this dating has been debated, in particular by Šefik Bešlagić and Dubravko Lovrenović, who date the tombstones to the mid-twelfth century.[11]

Selected works
  • Umjetnost stećaka (Zemaljski muze, 1965)[12]
  • Nekropola u selu Mihaljevićima kod Rajlovca [13]
  • Miletić, Nada. "Reljefna ploča iz Carevog polja kod Jajca." Godišnjak Centra za balkanološka ispitivanja 32 (2002): 493–507.[14]

References
  1. Fekeža, Lidija. "Nada Miletić (1925-2002)." Godišnjak Centra za balkanološka ispitivanja 34 (2005): 309-310.
  2. "MuseumWeek in the National Museum of BH: #WomenMW". Zemaljski muzej Bosne i Hercegovine. 2018-04-23. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
  3. Nada Miletić: NAKIT U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI, izdanje Zemaljskog muzeja, Sarajevo, 1963, str. 106
  4. Buzov, Marija (1985-11-01). "Alojz Benac, Đuro Basler, Borivoj Čović, Esad Pašalić, Nada Miletić, Pavao Anđelić: Kulturna istorija Bosne i Hercegovine od najstarijih vremena do pada ovih zemalja pod osmansku vlast, "Veselin Masleša", Drudo prerađeno i dopunjeno izdanje, Sarajevo 1984., str. 589 + 207 slika (crteži, tlocrti, planovi i fotografije) + literatura + sažeci na engleskom i ruskom jeziku". Prilozi Instituta Za Arheologiju U Zagrebu (in Croatian). 2: 59–60. ISSN 1330-0644.
  5. BOGDANOVIC, Dejan. "Le Bogomilisme aujourd'hui." Europe 57.604 (1979): 197.
  6. Busuladžić, Adnan. "Antički kameni spomenik s lokaliteta Čipuljić kod Bugojna." Vjesnik Arheološkog muzeja u Zagrebu 48.1 (2015): 7-17.
  7. "Alojz Benac-Đuro Basler-Borivoj Ćović-Esad Pašalić-Nada Miletić-Pavao Anđelić - KULTURNA ISTORIJA BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE". Veselin Masleša, Sarajevo, 1966. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  8. Hadžimusić, Semir. "STEĆCI NA PODRUČJU OPĆINE LUKAVAC." Baština 7.7 (2014): 65-73.
  9. Tomičić, Željko (2007-12-10). "Beitrag zu Erkenntnissen uber die Chronoiogie des friihmittelalterlichen Graberfeldes Gornjenica". Starohrvatska Prosvjeta (in Croatian). III (34): 151–197. ISSN 0351-4536.
  10. Džino, Danijel. "Rethinking Periodization in Post-Roman Southeastern Europe: The Case-Study of Dalmatia." Archaeologia Bulgarica 25.1 (2021): 55-76.
  11. Begović, Azra (2020-09-06). "Echoes of the Culture of Remembrance in the Posthumous Memorialisation of the Bosnian Nobility". Südost-Forschungen (in German). 79 (1): 151–169. doi:10.1515/sofo-2020-790110. ISSN 2364-9321. S2CID 237506126.
  12. Miletić, Nada; Benac, Alojz (1965). Umjetnost stećaka: Zemaljski muzej Sarajevo (in Bosnian). Zemaljski muzej.
  13. Miletić, Nada. Nekropola u selu Mihaljevićima kod Rajlovca.
  14. Miletić, Nada (2002). "Reljefna ploča iz Carevog polja kod Jajca". Godišnjak Centra za balkanološka ispitivanja (in Bosnian) (32): 493–507. ISSN 0350-0020.
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