STEFAN DUAN

also called Stefan Uro Iv, English Stephen Dushan, or Stephen Uro Iv born 1308 died Dec. 20, 1355 king of Serbia (133146) and Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks (134655), the greatest ruler of medieval Serbia, who promoted his nation's influence and gave his people a new code of laws. Additional reading The chapter on Duan in Constantin Jirecek, Geschichte der Serben I (1911), is well documented. Based on Jirecek are the following English accounts: H.W.V. Temperley, History of Serbia (1917, reprinted 1970); and William Miller, The Medieval Serbian Empire, Quarterly Review, 226:488507 (1916). In the short summary, The Balkans, 10181499, in The Cambridge Medieval History, vol. 4, pt. 1, pp. 537541 (1966), M. Dinic utilized results of more recent Serbian scholarship. Duan has been treated in G. Ostrogorsky, Geschichte des byzantinischen Staates, 3rd ed. (1963; History of the Byzantine State, rev. ed., pp. 499533, 1969), with selected bibliography. Very useful also is G. Soulis, Tsar Stephen Duan and Mount Athos, Harvard Slavic Studies, 2:125139 (1954).