The research of folk culture in the Middle Ages requires a special
methodological approach which includes both defining the notion of ?folk
culture? and the question of the existing sources and their use. This study
demonstrates the importance for the Skazanie o pismeneh by Constantine the
Philosopher Kostenecki, as a source for the folk culture of medieval Serbia
and Southeastern Europe at the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th
century. Although this work is well-known in scholarly circles, so far it
has not been considered in the context of the said domain of research. In
order to correctly understand the data contained in the Skazanie, it was
examined not only in relation to similar data but also in very close
connection with the motives for the creation of the work and the cultural
concepts advocated by its author, which had little affinity for folk
culture.
Skazanie o pismeneh by Constantine the philosopher Kostenecki as a source of folk culture in the middle ages