The funerary church of the monastery of Zica

The paper revisits the little-examined remains of the funerary church discovered in the vicinity of the monastery of Zica in 1938. It takes a look at the analogous examples of this type of buildings, notably the remains discovered at the monastery of Studenica of Hvosno and the ossuary at the monastery of Bachkovo. It also looks at the rules for monastic burial laid down in the surviving typika of the eleventh/twelfth century, and at different monastic burial practices in the area of the autocephalous Serbian Church. It puts forward the assumption that the funerary chapel formed an integral part of the original complex of the monastery of Zica, that it was built in the 1220s, and that it lost its original function sometime in the fourteenth century

Ancient history · Art · Art history · Byzantine architecture · Chapel · Eleventh · Middle Ages · Serbian · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Balkan and Eastern European Studies · Byzantine Studies and History · Classics · History · Philosophy