o:31245 The Land that Never Was Liminality of Existence and the Imaginary Spaces in the Archbishopric of Karlovci en Abstract: The realm of the Orthodox Archbishopric of Karlovci in the Austrian Habsburg Empire was like no other founded on the concept of liminal-ity. Established in 1690, the archbishopric was, from its outset, a highly peculiar space-in-between. This Orthodox domain in the Catholic Empire was never truly its own master and constantly threatened to be dissolved into the Catholic majority. The archbishopric had to perpetually re-invent itself and forge new legitimacies that were as ephemeral as its transient glory. Its liminal existence emerged saliently in ceremonial spaces, staged to celebrate the domain’s fragile power. From liminal landscapes depict-ing forlorn glory, to processions staged upon its cities’ disowned spaces, the archbishopric’s political propaganda was deeply marked by spatial ambiguities. Key words: The Archbishopric of Karlovci, ephemerality, fluidity, liminality, imaginary spaces 1552099 10.5117/9789463720809_ch04 1552100 9789048542925 2023-10-18T15:44:38.538Z 44 no 46 Jelena Todorović Fakultet likovnih umetnosti u Beogradu 0000-0002-8299-2458 application/pdf 210742 https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:31245 no yes 1 70 1556235 111A02 The Home, Nations and Empires, and Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces: 1750‒1918 113 132 2021