Serbian culture makes significant strides in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Dositej Obradovic, Vuk Karadzic, and other scholars accelerate a national renaissance.

Through his translations  and autobiography, Obradovic spreads the Enlightenment to the Serbs.

Collections of Serbian folk songs and poems edited by Karadzic awake pride in national history and traditions.

Karadzic also overcomes clerical opposition to reform the Cyrillic alphabet and the Serbian literary language, and he translates the New Testament.

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