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Resava school

The Resava school was a Serbian literary and scribal school of the early 15th century, centred on the Manasija monastery in the Resava valley founded by the despot Stefan Lazarević. Its scholars, among them Constantine of Kostenets, reformed the spelling of Serbian Church Slavonic and copied and translated many texts. Its influence spread across the Orthodox Balkans and Russia.

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