The king’s body in Serbian hagiography

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Marjanović-Dušanić, S. (2013). The king’s body in Serbian hagiography: Meaning and function of the corpus invictissimus topos, (50), 693-704. Retrieved from http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?id=0584-98881302693M
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Title

The king’s body in Serbian hagiography

Subtitle

Meaning and function of the corpus invictissimus topos

Author

Smilja, Marjanović-Dušanić

Journal

Zbornik radova Vizantoloskog instituta

Volume
Issue

50-2

Start page

693

End page

704

ISSN
ISBN
DOI
URL

http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?id=0584-98881302693M

Date

2013-2020/03/08/21:32:13

Abstract

Conceptions of the holy in Serbian hagiography were deeply inspired by the translations of patristic, byzantine and, partly, chivalric literature. Whether the corporal is exalted or rejected, in the tradition of Serbian hagiography it is never an evaluatively neutral notion. Against the intellectual background, crucial for understanding the manner the Serbian medieval society conceived of the body, this paper gives an account of the “invincible body” topos, i.e. considers the rise of the chivalric idea of the hero, as well as the ideological and symbolic context of its formation. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177003: Srednjovekovno nasleđe Balkana - institucije i kultura]

Keywords

hagiography, хагиографија, chivalric literature, the kings’ body, витешка књижевност, краљево тело