Aspekti recepcije antičkog nasleđa u životu despota Stefana Lazarevića Konstantina Filosofa

Abstract

Recepcija nasleđa antičke knjige u Žitiju despota Stefana Lazarevića Konstantina Filosofa (Kostenečekog) zapažena je kroz upadljive reminiscencije na klasičnu starinu, ali se ona manifestuje i kroz primenu antičkih književnoumetničkih postupaka i kroz piščevu visoku ocenu dostignuća prethrišćanske grčke misli. Konstantin u prva dva vida klasicizma nadmaša druge srednjovekovne srpske pisce, a u poslednjem je jedinstven među njima, pa je njegovo oslanjanje na antičko predanje u ovom delu rezultat i literarnih konvencija uslovljenih izborom žanra svetovne biografije i njegove pripadnosti najliberalnijem krilu hrišćanskih intelektualaca srednjega veka.

The reception of the classical book heritage in the Biography of Despot Stefan Lazarević of Constantine the Philosopher (of Kostenec) is noticed through the conspicuous reminiscences on classical antiquity, but it is also manifested through the use of artistic procedures of classical literature and the author's high estimate of the accomplishment of pre-Christian Greek thought. In the first two types of classicism Constantine surpasses other medieval Serbian writers, while in the third he is unique among them, so his relying on classical tradition in this work is the result both of literary conventions caused by the choice of the genre of secular biography and of his belonging to the most liberal section of medieval Christian intellectuals.