COL UMB I A UNI VERSI T Y SLA VONI C S TUDI ES O L I V . EARLY JUGOSLAV LITE RATURE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS SALES AGENTS N E W Y O RK LEM C KE BUECHNER — 3 0 3 2 EA ST 2 0TH STRE E T L ONDO N HUM PHREY M I LF ORD AMEN CO RNE R , E . C . SHANGHA I SO NS L TD . EDWAR D EVANS 8: . 3 0 NO RTH SZE CHUE N R O AD EARLY JUGOSLAV L IT ERAT URE ( 1 000- 1 800) I OY S STANOYEVI CH PH D M I L V . , . fish) 90th COLUMB IA UNIVERS ITY PRESS 1 92 2 All rights res erved C 1 22 opyright , 9 By COL UMB I A UNI VE RSI TY PRESS nt d fro m t e . Publ shed anuar 1 2 2 Pri e yp i J y . 9 C O NT ENT S CHAPT E R PAGE vu— viii FI RST PERIOD THE ORIGINS I Old Slavonic Language e I I . Old Slavonic Literatur SECOND PERIOD THE AGE O F RENAI SSANCE i D and the I I I . Republ c of ubrovnik Renaissance h h 1 h IV . T e Poets of t e st Century L ric s D he 1 6 V . y and rama of t th Century ’ nd lic: 1 h VI . Gu u and his Times ( 7t Century) TH I RD PERIO D THE AGE O F DECLI NE h VI I . T e Acade mies and Societies Th n VI I I . e Moralists a d M inot Authors IX . Epilogue PREFACE Th e the e e e e e the e e obj ct of pr s nt tr atis , as indicat d by titl fi ien l e h it ee s uf c t e e . t e given to , may s m y compr h nsiv I n small space allotted to me i t has o nly been possibl e to cover the main facts of the subj ect W ithout professing to b e ex h u s tive . I e e e e e e a But trust that v n th s outlin s , scanty as th y are e u s e e e the e , will b of as giving som id a of historical cours of I e e e e literary evolution , and hop that at som futur tim they The may be more adequately filled out . actual facts presented m h The here have been c hiefly drawn fro t e original source s . e n the o ld MSS . and publish d works of i dividual authors , in e m e l e fo rm the larg r European and A rican ibrari s , basis upon I e e e e . e e I e W hich hav r li d in pr paring this study How v r , hav also made u s e of much of what has already been writte n in the monogra phs of many Slavo nic historians and in several Jugo i slaV publications indicated n the footnotes and bibliography . With respect to the orthography and transliteration of the ' u s e e e e the e e the Slavonic words , is mad h r of syst m adopt d by J u gos lovens ka A kademija Z nanos ti i Umetnosti (The Jugoslav e e e m e : Acad my of Sci nc s and Arts) , na ly C— é ti oh e t for English or in tune , lit ra ure (5- 6 tc h ts h tc tc wa h, di h s s i s h s si fis h pa on , — 2 Si zh si z e Vi on , a ur D — d di d d e d e y uk , un — lli l lli l e L l y mi on , fai ur N— n n n n ni n g y mig on , pi o C— d d e e g g g bri g , stag I o we much more than is apparent in these pages to the e e ee e e D . e kindn ss of my st m d friends Prof ssors J . Princ and . B . F e e U e e e e J l tch r , of Columbia niv rsity , who hav sugg st d to me verbally at some length many valuable hints as to the EARLY JUGOSLAV L I TE M TURE n i ge neral treatme t of the subj ect . Withou t th eir u nflagg ng in terest and encouragem e nt this volume wou ld not have bee n a d ue . C . A . wri tten . My gratitude is lso to Dr Manning for e e e the his sp cial t chnical h lp , and to librarians of Columbia , Y e and the the New Y Harvard , al Slavonic Division of ork e e e me e Public Library , who hav nabl d , in almost all cas s , to - write from a firs t hand acqu aintance with the lite rature . M . S . S . EARL Y J UG O SL AV L I T ERAT URE I N T ROD UCT I O N The history of a language is the history of the people who speak i t or have spoken it. Virtually it is the history of many f e e e ee . e h tribes , di f r nt in origin , mann rs , and sp ch Wh n t e people of anothe r powerful race succeeded in crushing these e e e the e e trib s , th y usually took poss ssion of conqu r d land , and allowed the othe rs to live only on condition of being quie t and he . e e e doing all t work I t is to th s conqu sts , kept up through h e e the out t e M iddl Ag s , that maj ority of European nations o we their ge ographical limits and even their present names . Their establishmen t has been mainly the result of greed and e e e military power . N w soci ties have b en formed out of the he e e e e e e wrecks of t old r on s which w re viol ntly d stroy d , but in the work of reconstruction they have always retained some thing of their previous existence in their internal constitution and especially in their language . n e e e e e La guag s , lik nations , hav th ir p riods of growth , ma tu rit e e e -ten the y , and d cay , but whil nin ths of vocabulary of a in t rat r ee he e pe ople lives the li e u e and sp ch of t cultur d classes , the remainder has a robust life in the daily usage of the sons of e e e the toil . This limited but mor p rsist nt portion of national speech neve r fails to include the names of those obj ects which h e e . a re are the most familiar and t e most b lov d Such , for e he e e e e e e instance , the nam s of t n ar st r lativ s , fath r , moth r , ee the ne e l e brother , two or thr of commo r m ta s , tools , w apons , the e the cereals , domestic animals ; hous and most striking features in the landscape ; the mountain peaks and ranges ; the the the n the the valleys , lakes and rivers ; sun , moo , stars , sky A e e e e the and the clouds . t all tim s and in v ry r gion of e e the e e e -defined world , these nam s hav had sam cl ar and w ll meanings ; their visible forms stand as a sort of material lexi h e e con , explaining t e mor archaic forms of living languag s that have ceased to b e vernacular . 2 EARLY JUGOSLAV LITERA TURE n e e e e Many natio s hav l ft no writt n r cords , and their history b e e e s o e e n o t a would a blank volum , or n arly , w r it th t in the ‘ places where they have soj ourned they have left traces of their migrations s u ffic iently clea r to enable u s to reconstruct the ne e . T he the e outli s of th ir history hills , vall ys , and the rivers are the o nly writing-tablets on which u nl e ttered nations have ee e n e e nn a nd e e b n abl to i scrib th ir a als , th s may be read in the e the e e n nam s that still cling to sit s , and oft n co tain the records of a class of even ts about which written history is for the most part silent . These connotations which originally had a e e e e the d scriptiv import , r f rring mostly to physical features of the e e en the n e e the m n n land , hav v adva tag ov r com o ames of ’ a nation s speech of being less subj ect to the process of phone tic e e e e d ecay .