Srednjevekovna srpska država: izabrani izvori

The book was prepared by the young historian Sima Ćirković (then at the beginning of his career), and is intended for high school students in socialist Yugoslavia as a practical teaching aid for the subject of history.

It is a collection of selected primary sources (charters, chronicles, diplomatic documents, Byzantine and Ragusan documents and other materials) covering the period from the emergence of the Serbian medieval state through the Nemanjićs, Dušan's empire to the Despotate. The goal was to enable students to work directly with the original material, develop critical thinking and better understand the political, social, economic and church life of medieval Serbia.

Ćirković accompanied the texts with short introductions and explanations adapted to the school curriculum. The book represents the early work of one of the most important Serbian medievalists of the 20th century. It was published in Zagreb for the needs of the Yugoslav educational system, which is typical of that period when national histories were treated within a common Yugoslav framework.

Today it is valuable as a pioneering school publication of original material and a testimony to the historiography of the 1950s in Croatia/Yugoslavia. Useful for history students, teachers and researchers interested in medieval Serbian statehood and the educational literature of that time.