‘Imagining’ Babylon - geography and hagiography in St Sava of Serbia’s middle eastern itinerary

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Savić, A. Z. (2015). ‘Imagining’ Babylon - geography and hagiography in St Sava of Serbia’s middle eastern itinerary, (52), 291-312. Retrieved from http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?id=0584-98881552291S
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Title

‘Imagining’ Babylon - geography and hagiography in St Sava of Serbia’s middle eastern itinerary

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Author

Aleksandar, Z, Savić

Journal

Zbornik radova Vizantoloskog instituta

Volume
Issue

52

Start page

291

End page

312

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http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?id=0584-98881552291S

Date

2015-2020/03/09/21:35:39

Abstract

Of all the places St Sava of Serbia had allegedly visited during his second voyage to the East, the attention of scholars was particularly drawn to those which the author of his first vita, Domentijan, designated as ‘Great Babylon’ and ‘Great Egypt’. The article presents a new hypothesis on how this segment of Sava’s itinerary was (re)constructed on the literary plane, i. e. how the perspective of his hagiographer, a hieromonk of the Hilandar monastery, was influenced and shaped by geographical knowledge, personal experience, and finally, by the general conventions of the vita genre.

Keywords

hagiography, хагиографија, St Sava of Serbia, Доментијан, ‘Great Babylon’, ‘Great Egypt’, „Велики Вавилон”, „Велики Египат”, constructing sacred space, Domentijan, the Three holy youths, изградња посвећеног простора, свети Сава Српски, Тројица светих младића