Anonymous Zećanin (Serbian: Непознати Зећанин, romanizedNepoznati Zećanin; fl. 11th century) was a Serbian writer.

Literary work edit

He was the author of the first original Serbian biography, Žitija svetog Jovana Vladimira [Life of St. Jovan Vladimir], which is preserved only in a Latin excerpt in the Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja (or the so-called Bar genealogy).[1] The author of this biography probably suffered from the influence of the Slavic biographies of Cyril and Methodius, but basically the biography "belongs to the martyrological biography genre with certain specifics of Western European, Latin hagiography".[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Furunović, Dragutin (February 20, 1996). Enciklopedija štamparstva [Encyclopedia of Printing] (in Croatian). Vol. 2. D. Furunović. p. 1169 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Bogdanović, Dimitrije (1980). Istorija Stare Srpske Književnosti [History of Old Serbian Literature] (in Serbian). Belgrade: Srpska književna zadruga. OCLC 890600471. pripada martirološkom žitijnom žanru sa izvesnim specifičnostima zapadnoevropske, latinske hagiografije[page needed]

Further reading edit

  • Mihailović, Dejan (2009). Vizantijski krug: mali rečnik ranohrišćanske književnosti na grčkom, vizantijske i stare srpske književnosti [Byzantine Circle: Small Dictionary of Early Christian Literature in Greek, Byzantine and Old Serbian Literature] (in Serbian). Belgrade: Zavod za udžbenike [Institute for Textbooks]. p. 139. ISBN 978-86-17-16011-9. OCLC 1166778281.