Jovan of the Holy Mount

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Jovan

1598
Nationality| Serbian
Citizenship| Serbia
Occupation| Monk-scribe at Mount Athos

Jovan of the Holy Mount (fl. 1598) was a Serbian monk-scribe at Mount Athos.[1]

Jovan was a monk of Agiou Pavlou monastery (St. Paul Monastery) at Mount Athos. At the time that he was copying a work of St. John Chrysostom in 1598, he included in his report the suffering of people in Hungary and Serbia which was inflicted by the Tartars, who at that time invaded parts of Hungary and Serbia. He was an eyewitness to the suffering. Jovan also wrote an "Afterword" in verse (poetry) which he included in the manuscript he was transcribing.

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* Church Slavonic text published in ZIJK, I (1902), p. 257. Serbian translation published in Djordje Sp. Radojičić's Antologija stare srpske književnosti: XI-XIII veka, Beograd: Nolit, 1960.

## References[edit]

1. ↑ Matejic, Mateja; Matejić, Mateja; Milivojevic, Dragan D. (March 2, 1978). "An Anthology of Medieval Serbian Literature in English". Slavica Publishers - via Google Books.

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