{"title":"From the written witnesses of the Serbian verse prolog to the localisation of the translation","authors":"Lora Taseva","doi":"10.2298/zrvi2158185t","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/zrvi2158185t","url":null,"abstract":"The article studies the preserved to this day copies of the Serbian translation of the Byzantine Verse Synaxarion. The sparse data about their origin and/or their later locations are analysed with the view to outlining the region in which this rare version of the Slavonic Verse Prolog appeared and to making assumptions about its possible localisation.","PeriodicalId":53859,"journal":{"name":"Zbornik Radova Vizantoloskog Instituta","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80367498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the relationship between titles and spaces: A case study on Macedonia under King and Emperor Stefan Dusan (1331–1355)","authors":"Mihailo Popović, Vratislav Zervan, Toni Filiposki","doi":"10.2298/ZRVI2057061P","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ZRVI2057061P","url":null,"abstract":"The article focuses on historical-geographical aspects of the Serbian medieval Kingdom and Empire and its relation to Byzantium in Macedonia during the 14th century. It is structured in four parts: The first is an introduction to the subject, in which the possible existence of a medieval Serbian Oecumene in addition to the Byzantine Oecumene is addressed. After that this hypothesis is discussed in detail in the second part by introducing a rich variety of Greek, Roman and Byzantine texts, which are outlining the Roman/Byzantine perception of space and definition of the borders of the Roman/Byzantine Empire. In the third part of the article the titles and related geographical entities in the intitulations as well as signatures of the Serbian King and Emperor Stefan Uros IV Dusan (1331-1355) in Serbian charters are analysed in order to understand and reconstruct the perception of space in the expanding Serbian realm during the first half of the 14th century. Historical regions, which are mentioned in the charters, are put in relation to the expansion in Byzantine Macedonia. In the fourth and last part the source-based evidence is connected to the toponymy of Byzantine Macedonia. Toponyms, which are containing “Car” (i.e. “Emperor”), have been identified and localised in order to discern a pattern of imperial power and presence in the region. Although there are strong indications that some of them might refer to the Serbian Emperor Stefan Dusan, it cannot be excluded that many could be based on the presence of Byzantine Emperors and Bulgarian rulers in the region. Therefore, the fourth part is to be understood as a fresh and novel approach towards toponomastic aspects in the region, which shall stimulate further research in the near future.","PeriodicalId":53859,"journal":{"name":"Zbornik Radova Vizantoloskog Instituta","volume":"6 1","pages":"61-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81594214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Depictions of St. Mark of Ephesus in post-Byzantine art","authors":"Miloš Živković","doi":"10.2298/ZRVI2057143Z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ZRVI2057143Z","url":null,"abstract":"The paper discusses the visual representations of St. Mark of Ephesus, under-researched in previous scholarship, which have survived in several monuments of post-Byzantine wall painting in the Balkans. These depictions are analyzed as visual testimonies of the veneration of Mark of Ephesus in the period under consideration, i.e. as important indicators of the presence, continuity and dissemination of his cult a long time before his official canonization in the 18th century. The paper also offers an overview of the different iconographic versions of the images of St. Mark of Ephesus. Finally, it examines the possible reasons for the emergence of images representing this famed anti-Unionist metropolitan in the discussed monuments. In this context, the images of Mark of Ephesus are considered through the prism of their placement in a given iconographic program; wherever possible, the role of the ktetor and artist in their creation is examined.","PeriodicalId":53859,"journal":{"name":"Zbornik Radova Vizantoloskog Instituta","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81262549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some examples of treason in the 13th-century Serbia","authors":"Ivana Komatina","doi":"10.2298/ZRVI2057021K","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ZRVI2057021K","url":null,"abstract":"The paper observes examples of treason, that is, infidelity in the 13th-century Serbia. The author intends to show how this procedure was sanctioned by common law, since the punishments for such crimes appeared in the Serbian medieval written law only from the 14th century, all that with the aim of getting to know as closely as possible the social context of medieval Serbia.","PeriodicalId":53859,"journal":{"name":"Zbornik Radova Vizantoloskog Instituta","volume":"70 1","pages":"21-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86670764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the first marriage of King Milutin","authors":"P. Komatina","doi":"10.2298/ZRVI2057045K","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ZRVI2057045K","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with the problem of the first marriage of the Serbian king Stephen Uros II (Milutin), mentioned by the Byzantine author George Pachymeres, with the aim to reinforce the existing thesis that it was a marriage with a Serbian noble Helen, concluded in the 1270-ies, but divorced soon after he came to the Serbian throne in 1282. It also provides an overview of the nature and character of that marriage and the possible reasons why it was dissolved and declared invalid.","PeriodicalId":53859,"journal":{"name":"Zbornik Radova Vizantoloskog Instituta","volume":"85 1","pages":"45-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88510196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gennadios Scholarios and the Church of the Holy Apostles","authors":"Nicholas Melvani","doi":"10.2298/ZRVI2057117M","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ZRVI2057117M","url":null,"abstract":"The article tests the established view that Gennadios Scholarios, the first patriarch of Constantinople after the 1453 Conquest, used the church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople as the seat of the Patriarchate for a few months in 1454 before moving to the building complex of the Pammakaristos monastery. After pointing out that all the sources that narrate the story of the installation of the Patriarchate in the famous Byzantine church date from the 16th century or later, the author examines sources contemporary with the events, including texts written by Scholarios himself. The aim of the article is to show that Scholarios officiated occasionally in the Holy Apostles and managed to salvage some of the relics it once held, but this does not mean that the church functioned as the official seat of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.","PeriodicalId":53859,"journal":{"name":"Zbornik Radova Vizantoloskog Instituta","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89143680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Was the later emperor Nikephoros Botaneiates the dux of Branicevo and Nis in the 1050s?","authors":"Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt","doi":"10.2298/ZRVI2057007W","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ZRVI2057007W","url":null,"abstract":"The mystery concerning a seal type erroneously interpreted in the past, could be solved with the help of a new parallel piece. The legend presents Nikephoros Botaneiates (who later became emperor) as magistros, bestes, bestarches , and doux of Nisos and Edesos for the middle of the 11th century (surely before 1061). This is the earliest mention of Nisos’ upgrading from a strategis to a doukate (because of increasing difficulties with the kingdom of Hungary, the Pechenegs, and the archon of Diokleia). It is impossible to identify Edesos with one of the known toponyms of Edessa. We prefer to interpret Edesos as an (ephemeral?) Greek name of Branichevo (or esp. of its fortress). This town was the center of the northern part of the doukate of Nish, which reached till the Danube, and was of enormous strategic value. Two more seals mention Edesos as the seat of a topoteretes (the deputy commander of the doux) and of a metropolitan (perhaps of southern Hungary, during a period when Branichevo belonged to this kingdom). Finally some others seals from the region of Morava and Branichevo are discussed to illuminate the historical importance of this territory during the 11th and 12th centuries.","PeriodicalId":53859,"journal":{"name":"Zbornik Radova Vizantoloskog Instituta","volume":"41 1","pages":"7-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84403059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Saint Luke of Steiris in the exonarthex of the church of the Treskavac monastery and his cult and representation in the middle ages","authors":"Tatjana Starodubcev","doi":"10.2298/zrvi1956171s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/zrvi1956171s","url":null,"abstract":"The study investigates the portrayal of St. Luke of Steiris in the exonarthex of the church of the Treskavac Monastery (between 1334 and 1343), identified as St. Loukas the Stylite in earlier literature. Based on the extant representations, it is noticed that St. Luke of Steiris had a clearly defined appearance of face and clothing, but also that he was not often portrayed. A review of the development and expansion of his cult is provided by comparing artistic evidence and written sources. Finally, the paper asks from which of the major Byzantine centers of culture and art the practice of representing St. Luke of Steiris, with all the features common in his iconography, came to be accepted in the Serbian milieu, which seems to have occurred in the time of King Milutin (1282-1321).","PeriodicalId":53859,"journal":{"name":"Zbornik Radova Vizantoloskog Instituta","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79935863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Procopius de aedificiis: κουμαρκίανα, a fortress in Macedonia","authors":"Jasminka Kuzmanovska","doi":"10.2298/zrvi1956007k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/zrvi1956007k","url":null,"abstract":"The name of the fortress ??????????? is one of the only here witnessed place-names in Prokopius? Buildings. This fact, certainly, leads to a more difficult interpretation of linguistic origin of the toponym and its identification, as well. Consequently, the main part of the article examines the probable etymology of this unique name. Contrary to the prevailing view that it belongs to a large and productive group of Latin place-names with personal Latin name and specific suffixes -iana / janon, our thesis is different. Although unusual for this type of names, we assume that its basis is an appellative, Latin noun commercium which in the Greek language from a later period was taken over as ???(?)?????? and ??????????? with the meaning of ?customs station, customs?. Further, in close relation with the meaning, consideration of localization of Prokopius? fortress is followed.","PeriodicalId":53859,"journal":{"name":"Zbornik Radova Vizantoloskog Instituta","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91052344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}