Serbian culture has made significant strides in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Dositej Obradovic, Vuk Karadzic (1787-1864), and other scholars have accelerated a national renaissance.

Obradovic had spread the Enlightenment to the Serbs through his translations and autobiography.

Collections of Serbian folk songs and poems edited by Karadzic in the 1820s and 30s have awakened pride in national history and traditions.

Karadzic, having also overcome clerical opposition to reform the Cyrillic alphabet and the Serbian literary language, translates the New Testament in 1847.

His work widens the concept of Serbian nationhood to include language as well as religious and regional identifications.