Daniel II, the Archbishop of Serbia

The article deals with the Serbian hierarch Daniel II (c. 1274–1337), whose life led him from being the Abbot of the Hilandar monastery to becoming the Archbishop of Pech. He proved himself a prolific hagiographer, writing many works that were combined in the collection Lives of kings and archbishops of Serbia . It contained hagiographies of King Urosh and King Dragutin, Queen Helena and King Milutin, Archbishops Arseny I, Ioaniky I, and Eustathius I. Later, it also included the Life of Daniel himself, written by his disciple after the death of his teacher. The Lives of kings and archbishops of Serbia created by Daniel are related in content and composition. As a collection, they represent a kind of typological predecessor of the Book of the Degrees of Royal genealogy, a monumental collection created in the Moscow state about two and a half centuries later. In addition, Daniel was the author of hymnographic works and, according to the opinion of scholars, took part in the drafting of the Charter of King Milutin to the Hilandar monastery.