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Dragia Bojovi

THE HOLY SERVICE IN THE MEDIEVAL CITY

The Holy Service presents the most important cultural phenomenon in the
Middle Age. It is the very heart of the Church life and all medieval arts (music, literature
and painting) are directly connected to the Holy Service. The connection of the Serbian
medieval literature with the Holy Service has two aspects. The Serbian medieval
literature is by itself an indispensible part of the Holy Service and within the literature
there exist a double testimony to the Holy Service in the medieval Serbian Countries
there we find descriptions of the Holy Service as well as fragments of the Sacred Hymns
within the hagiographic texts.
The Holy Service in the medieval Serbian Countries is very dynamic in
monasteries as well as in village parishes, but we cannot neglect its presence in the city

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churches, about which we possess testimonies presented in this essay. The city in the
Middle Age is not only a reflection of the secular power and superiority, but it also
presents some kind of the blessed space due to the Holy Service performed in the city
churches. According to the available historical sources, to the dynamic of the economic,
commercial or cultural life in the medieval cities we must add the dynamic of the Holy
Service in order to grasp the complexity of the city life in the Middle Age.
This essay discusses the presence of the Holy Service in the Serbian medieval cities
from the 12th to the 15th century. The hagiographic and other written sources are for us
the most important testimony to the magnificent medieval city churches, which were
destroyed by Turks. In these sources we find abundant testimonies about the rhythm of
the Holy Service in the Serbian medieval cities. Its a paradox that this important subject
was largely ignored in the science.

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