Life of St. Sava (by Teodosije)

The Life of St. Sava
1739 transcript
Also known as	Hagiography of St. Sava
Type	hagiography
Date	1292–1300
Place of origin	Kingdom of Serbia
Language(s)	Old Serbian
Scribe(s)	Teodosije the Hilandarian
Dedicated to	Saint Sava

The Life of St. Sava (Serbian: Žitije Svetog Save/Житије Светог Саве) was the second biography of Saint Sava (1169–1236), the first Archbishop of Serbs (s. 1219–1235), written by Serbian monk Teodosije the Hilandarian (1246–1328), after the first biography written in 1254 by monk Domentijan.

See also

• List of medieval Serbian literature

Further reading

• Teodosije (1988). "Житије Светог Саве". Српска књижевна задруга, Projekat Rastko.
• Ivanović, Miloš (2019). "Serbian hagiographies on the warfare and political struggles of the Nemanjić dynasty (from the twelfth to the fourteenth century)". Reform and Renewal in Medieval East and Central Europe: Politics, Law and Society. Cluj-Napoca: Romanian Academy, Center for Transylvanian Studies. pp. 103–129.