Medieval Serbian literature

Medieval Serbian literature or Old Serbian literature (Serbian: Стара српска књижевност) refers to medieval literature of the Serbs, thus encompassing earliest periods in the history of Serbian literature. Main works of literature in Medieval Serbia were written in the Serbian Church Slavic language, a local recension of the common Church Slavic language, that was used as both liturgical and literary language among the Serbs, while the vernacular forms of the medieval Serbian language were used in various forms of practical literacy (letters, inscriptions, documents). Traditions of the Serbian medieval literature were also continued into the early modern period, up to the beginning of the 18th century.