Danilo is traditionally credited with several liturgical compositions, including offices for
Saint Sava,
Saint Simeon,
Saint Milutin, and the
Slovo o knezu Lazaru (Narration about Prince Lazar). As a retrospective writer, he incorporated concrete details, dramatic scenes, and dialogues. The
Slovo o knezu Lazaru was written shortly after the
Battle of Kosovo (1389) and it represents a report of an eyewitness or at least a contemporary of
Lazar of Serbia. It includes many details concerning the situation in
Raška and the Battle of Kosovo. It was written in 1392 by Danilo III, who was both an eye-witness and a close friend of the royal family. However, the authorship of the
Slovo has been questioned by some literary historians, who ascribe it to an anonymous monk from the monastery of
Ravanica. Danilo III's
Slovo knezu Lazaru is commonly identified as one of the most important historical orations within a cycle of roughly a dozen shorter, largely poetic–rhetorical texts about Prince Lazar composed in the first decades after the Battle of Kosovo. This corpus also includes works such as
Jefimija's embroidered "Encomium to Prince Lazar" and is often noted for thematic affinities with the Kosovo cycle of epic songs. His Office of St. Milutin is written in the tradition of Orthodox hymnography. ==Works==