Baština (Jan 2012)
Stefan Decanski in Camblak's lives and service
Abstract
Writings on Stefan Decanski by Grigorije Camblak, as per the author’s view, were assessed as the most poetic oeuvres of the Serbian medieval literature. By its poetic images, numerous rhetorical parts and wealth either at semantic or at morphological level, Lives and Service to Stefan Decanski confirmed the artist Camblak as the glorifier of light and the writer of subtle sound. His Stefan Decanski, contrary to the tradition, from sinner and usurper became the biggest martyr among saints, isihast and miracle worker. He was presented as triple martyr: he is suffering from his father, king of Milutin, Brother Konstantin, and son Dusan. The qualification like this conditioned a turning point at genre’s level from biography to martyrium, where the topos of sin and God’s punishment has great importance. Each act or deed of Stefan Decanski is measured in the relationship toward the other, and his conspicuous figure of the victim became a cause for dramatization of some oeuvres of the contemporary Serbian literature.
