Anonymous Zećanin Explained

Anonymous Zećanin (; 11th century) was a Serbian writer.

Literary work

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]

Further reading

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

Notes and References

1. Book: Furunović, Dragutin. Enciklopedija štamparstva. Encyclopedia of Printing. 2. 1169. February 20, 1996. D. Furunović. Croatian. Google Books.
2. Book: Bogdanović, Dimitrije. 1980. Srpska književna zadruga. Belgrade. sr. History of Old Serbian Literature. 890600471. pripada martirološkom žitijnom žanru sa izvesnim specifičnostima zapadnoevropske, latinske hagiografije. Dimitrije Bogdanović.