Paralelna historiografija
Parallel historiography

Summary/Abstract: Through several examples from the paper of Siniša Mišić, which is a part of the monograph entitled The Land of Hum in the Middle Ages one can easily see a certain neglect for the true values of the proper prod cedure of research in the use of sources and an unsuccessful evaluation of literature. Detected deviations give rise to numerous dilemmas confronting current historiography, whereas, even though this general conclusion relatd ing the quality of this paper may seem too strict, hypercritical, yet it is quite certain that it is well founded and that it contains a warning visdàdvis our current loose understanding of scientific work. The overall methodologid cal presentation in this monograph gives fictitious findings, a hybrid and superficial compilatory expression of arbitrary science, completely aliend ated from the body of original sources that should always be the sole point of departure for every true researcher. Offering a parallel dimension of historiography, it creates something that turns into its own negation. The examples we have analysed here give a very negative impression of the findd ings offered by this paper to the contemporary historiography.

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