Ризница спасења. Култ реликвија и српских светих у средњовековној Србији

Abstract

Inaugurated in the state-building period of serbian history, in the time of stefan nemanja and sava of serbia (late 12th and early 13th century), the cult of the true Cross continued to be fostered, with a new energy and new ideological emphases, by the following generations of nemanjić dynasts. the continued relevance of its underlying ideas in the second half of the 13th century is evidenced by diplomatic and literary sources but also by the fact that king stefan uroš i (r. 1242–1276), like his dynastic ancestors, possessed a sumptuous staurotheke with fragments of the true Cross. another sumptuous reliquary encasing fragments of the relic was in the possession of his consort, queen helen, who donated it to the monastery of sopoćani, her husband’s foundation.