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Good neighbourliness was a guiding ideal in premodern European communities. Rooted in Christian teaching yet widely accepted as a broader, secular moral code, it was a fundamental and praiseworthy virtue that governed everyday life, particularly in small, face-to-face communities, where “everyone knew everyone”. It was not merely about preventing conflict but about seeking reconciliation when […]

Since its very beginnings, oral history has been an open, dialogical process that includes different voices, negotiates meanings, and co-creates interpretations of the past. In the process of collecting oral history, the researcher does not obtain ‘pure facts,’ but rather a story that emerges in the dialogue between the narrator and the listener. Unlike archival

In the rugged landscapes of the Montenegrin and Northern Albanian highlands, where the mountains rise like fortress walls and the valleys hold stories older than writing itself, communities once governed themselves through custom, kinship, and memory. These societies — bound not by decrees from distant capitals, but by the obligations of family and honor —