Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja
Author | An anonymous priest in Duklja (presbyter Diocleas) |
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Country | Republic of Venice Republic of Ragusa Kingdom of Serbia |
Language | Latin |
Subject | history, hagiography |
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The Chronicle of the Priest of Dioclea or Duklja (
It contains some semi-mythical material on the early history of the Western South Slavs. Historians have yet to discount the work as based on inaccuracies and fiction. The postulates are there that Slavs lived in the Balkans from the 5th- to the 12th-century.[2][3] It recounts the history of Dalmatia and nearby regions from the 5th to the mid-12th century.[4] The section "Life of St. Jovan Vladimir", is believed to be one of the local traditions integrated into the narrative.[5]
Authorship and date
The work was traditionally ascribed to an anonymous "priest of Duklja" (presbyter Diocleas, known in Serbo-Croatian as pop Dukljanin). The work is preserved only in its Latin
According to its recent editor, Tibor Živković, the chronicle, written in Latin, was completed in two versions between 1295 and 1301 in the towns of
Chapters 1–33 of the chronicle are based on oral traditions and its author's constructions; these are largely dismissed by historians.[15][16] However, the next three chapters possess invaluable historical data about this time period.[17][18] Despite its hagiographic nature, Chapter 36 (on Saint Jovan Vladimir), a summary of an older hagiography dating between 1075 and 1089 (when the Vojislavljević dynasty endeavored to obtain the royal insignia from the Pope, and to elevate the Bar Bishopric to an archbishopric), contains considerable historical data that has been found to be reliable.[15] Chapters 34 and 35, which deal with Vladimir's father and uncles, are likely based on the prologue of this 11th-century hagiography.[16]
Other obsolete and refuted theories include that the author lived in the second half of the 12th century.
Content
Regnum Sclavorum (1601) can be divided into the following sections:[22]
- Introduction (Auctor ad lectorem)
- Libellus Gothorum, chapters I–VII
- Constantine's Legend (or "Pannonian Legend"), chapters VIII and beginning of IX
- Methodius (Liber sclavorum qui dicitur Methodius), rest of chapter IX
- Travunian Chronicle, chapters X–XXXV, in two parts
- The Life of St. Jovan Vladimir, chapter XXXVI
- History of Dioclea, chapters XXXVII–LXVII
The author attempted to present an overview of ruling families over the course of over two centuries — from the 10th century up to the time of writing, the 12th century.[citation needed] There are 47 chapters in the text, of different sizes and varying subject matter.
Folklore and translations
The work is actually a number of separate but similar manuscripts, stemming from an original source that does not survive but assumed to have been written by the Priest of Duklja himself (or other monk-scribes giving a helping hand).
It has been generally agreed that this Presbyter included in his work
The chronicle was also added to by a bishop of Bar intent on demonstrating his diocese' superiority over that of
In 1986, the chronicle was translated from the Croatian into Ukrainian by Antin V. Iwachniuk.[24] The translation was financed by the Iwachniuk Ukrainian Studies and Research Fund at the University of Ottawa.
Assessment
Historical value, fiction
Various inaccurate or simply wrong claims in the text make it an unreliable source. Modern historians have serious doubts about the majority of this work as being mainly fictional, or
The work describes the local Slavs as a peaceful people imported by the Goth rulers, who invaded the area in the 5th century, but it doesn't attempt to elaborate on how and when this happened. This information contradicts the information found in the Byzantine text De Administrando Imperio.
The Chronicle also mentions one
The priest's parish was located at the seat of the
Further, it mentions
The archbishop of Bar was later named Primas Serbiae. Ragusa had some claims to be considered the natural ecclesiastical centre of South Dalmatia but those of Dioclea (Bar) to this new metropolitan status were now vigorously pushed especially as the Pope intended Serbia to be attached to Dioclea.
In his 1967 reprint of the work, Yugoslav historian Slavko Mijušković stated that the chronicle is a purely fictional literary product, belonging to the late 14th or early 15th century.[21]
Region of Bosnia
The region of Bosnia is described to span the area west of the river
The location of this Pine mountain is unknown. In 1881, Croatian historianReferences
- ^ Živković 2009: 379.
- ^ Kaimakamova, Miliana (13 September 2016). "Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja". Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle.
- ISBN 9780295800646.
- ^ Kaimakamova, Miliana (13 September 2016). "Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja". Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle.
- ^ Živković 2009: 381.
- ISBN 978-0-521-81530-7.
- ^ a b S. Bujan, La Chronique du pretre de Dioclee. Un faux document historique, Revuedes etudes byzantines 66 (2008) 5–38
- ^ Zarij M. Bešić (1967). Istorija Crne Gore: od najstarijih vremena do kraja XII vijeka. Pedakt︠s︡ija za istoriju t︠s︡rne gore. p. 423.
- ^
Requested by you, my beloved brethren in Christ and honorable priests of the holy Archbishopric See of the Church in Duklja, as well as by some elders, but especially by the youth of our city who find pleasure not only in listening to and reading about the wars but in taking part in them also, to translate from the Slavic language into Latin the Book of Goths, entitled in Latin Regnum Sclavorum in which all their deeds and wars have been described...
- ^ a b Živković 2009, p. 379.
- ^ Živković 2010, p. 172.
- ^ Živković 2009, p. 279.
- ^ Živković 2009: 379.
- ^ Živković 2009: 379-380.
- ^ a b Živković 2006, pp. 66–72.
- ^ a b Živković 2009, p. 260.
- ^ ISBN 9789536132584.
I Pop Dukljanin, najvjerovatnije Grgur Barski (v. PERI- ČIĆ, 1991) je u Kraljevstvu Slovjena (Regnum Sclavorum) donio i podatke o postojanju Bijele h(o)rvatske.
- ^ a b Hrvatski obzor. Eticon. 1996.
Općenito se pretpostavlja da je u Ljetopisu nepoznati autor (E. Peričić naziva ga Grgur Barski) nastojao uzveličati starinu dukljanske crkve i države. Barska je, naime, nadbiskupija bila ukinuta 1142., pa se time nastojalo obnoviti nadbiskupiju, ...
- ^ Živković 2009.
- ISBN 978-953-151-103-2.
Anonimni svećenik iz Bara, Pop Dukljanin ili - prema nekim istraživanjima - Grgur Barski, u drugoj polovici 12. stoljeća piše zanimljivo historiografsko djelo poznato kao Libellus Gothorum ili Sclavorum regnum (Ljetopis Popa Dukljanina), ...
- ^ ISSN 0081-0029.
- ISBN 978-0-8204-8135-7.
- ^ Đorđe Sp. Radojičić (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. p. 110.
- ^ "Літопис Попа Дукляніна – Найдавніша південнослов'янська пам'ятка" [Chronicle of Pop Duklianin - the oldest South Slavic monument]. Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies. 2019-02-22. Archived from the original on 2019-02-23. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
- ^ "Ljetopis popa Dukljanina pred izazovima novije historiografije, Zagreb, 3. ožujka 2011. godine" (in Croatian). Historiografija.hr. 2011-07-11. Archived from the original on 2013-10-09. Retrieved 2012-11-21.
- ISSN 1986-6895. Archived from the originalon 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
- Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts: 36. 1881. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
- ISSN 0350-7165. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
- ^ a b Mrgić-Radojčić 2004, p. 52–53.
- ^ Vladimir Ćorović, Teritorijalni razvoj bosanske države u srednjem vijeku, Glas SKA 167, Belgrade, 1935, pp. 10-13
- ^ Niko Županič, Značenje barvnega atributa v imenu „Crvena Hrvatska". Lecture at the IV Congress of Slavic geographers and ethnographers, Sofia, 18 August 1936.
- ISSN 0351-4536. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
- ^ D. Mandić, Državna i vjerska pripadnost sredovječne Bosne i Hecegovine. II. edition, Ziral, Chicago–Rome 1978, pp. 408–409.
Sources
- Šišić, Ferdo, ed. (1928). Letopis Popa Dukljanina (Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja). Beograd-Zagreb: Srpska kraljevska akademija.
- Kunčer, Dragana (2009). Gesta Regum Sclavorum. Vol. 1. Beograd-Nikšić: Istorijski institut, Manastir Ostrog.
- Živković, Tibor (2009). Gesta Regum Sclavorum. Vol. 2. Beograd-Nikšić: Istorijski institut, Manastir Ostrog.
Bibliography
- ISBN 0472081497.
- Slavko Mijušković (1967). Ljetopis popa Dukljanina.
- Mijušković, S., ur. (1988) Ljetopis popa Dukljanina. Beograd: Prosveta
- Nikola Banašević (1971). Letopis popa Dukljanina: i narodna predanja. Srpska književna zadruga.[ISBN missing]
- Mrgić-Radojčić, Jelena (2004). "Rethinking the Territorial Development of the Medieval Bosnian State". Istorijski časopis. 51: 43–64.
- Orbini, Mauro (1601). Il Regno de gli Slavi hoggi corrottamente detti Schiavoni(in Italian). Pesaro: Apresso Girolamo Concordia.
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External links
- Paul Stephenson. "Chronicle of the priest of Duklja (Ljetopis' Popa Dukljanina)". Archived from the original on 2012-04-18.
- The Latin version of the Chronicle (in Serbocroatian)
- The Croatian version of the Chronicle