Jerotej Račanin
Jerotej Račanin (
Biography
At the time of the
From Szentendre, Jerotej Račanin settled at Velika Remeta, a cultural center of the Serbs in the 16th and the 17th centuries, and the home of a manuscript and book copying and illuminating school. Here Jerotej, who lived in this monastery in 1721, wrote "A Journey to Jerusalem", the first travel book in modern Serbian literature.
During the last years of the seventeenth century, Jerotej Račanin first settled in
In the Middle Ages, no European dynasty had such a strong connection with Jerusalem and the Holy Land as the Nemanjići and Saint Sava.[3] The number of pilgrimage works and records composed during the 10 centuries continues to increase. Some of these works are lavishly decorated, like the travelogue of Gavrilo Tadić, who visited the Holy Places in 1661, containing 34 colour miniatures depicting the most important temples.[4]
See also
- Gavrilo Stefanović Venclović
- Čirjak Račanin(1660–1731), Serbian Orthodox monk and writer
- Kiprijan Račanin (1650–1730), Serbian Orthodox monk and writer
- Teodor Račanin (1500–1560), Serbian Orthodox monk and writer
- Simeon Račanin (fl. 1676–1700), Serbian Orthodox monk and writer
- Hristifor Račanin (1595–1670), Serbian Orthodox monk and writer
- Prohor Račanin, Serbian Orthodox monk
- Grigorije Račanin (fl. 1739), Serbian writer
- Jefrem Janković Tetovac
References
- ^ David Bogdanović Pregled književnosti hrvatske i srpske 1932 Vol.1 p544 "Ovim se radom najviše istakoše kaluđeri Kiprijan Račanin i Jerotej Račanin. "
- ^ "Raca Monastery - SHORT HISTORY". uzice.net.
- ^ https://orthochristiantools.com/traces-of-serbian-saint-sava-in-the-holy-land-and-jerusalem/
- ^ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325188109_Srbi_poklonici_u_svetoj_zemlji
Sources
- Translated and adapted from Jovan Skerlić's Istorija nove srpske književnosti (Belgrade, 1914, 1921), pages 27–28
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