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: "Etymological atlas" of human body in Hodegos of Anastasios of Sinai; `Oδηγόζ (The Guide) is the most famous work of Anastasios of Sinai, the theological writer from the 7th-8th century. It is some sort of a handbook for fighting the heresies, in the first place Monophysitism and Monotheletism. Anastasios is discussing the terms, i.e. the categories, which the believer should use if he wants to be orthodox. In the second chapter Anastasios brings the definitions of theological technical terms which he will be using in his polemics. To strengthen his argumentation he quotes more than 120 etymologies of different words. Among them are 17 etzmologies of the names of the parts of human body. We are talking about some of them in this work. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 1777032: Tradicija, inovacija i identitet u vizantijskom svetu]

: "Lines of royal red"; The paper discusses the presence and patterns of use of red ink in the documents of Serbian rulers belonging to the Nemanjid dynasty (cca 1170-1371). Adopted from Byzantium as a means of emphasizing the ruler’s immediate involvement in the creation of his documents, in Nemanjid usage this practice developed and permanently kept some characteristic traits, encompassing not only elements of royal representation, but also those whose purpose was text decoration and organization. With regard to the scope and forms in which it was applied, three distinct phases can be observed - the first covers the 13th century from the time when the Nemanjid rulers took the title of king, the second was inaugurated by King Milutin’s rapprochement with Byzantium in the early 14th century, and the third by Stefan Dušan’s assumption of the imperial title in 1346. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 177029: Srednjovekovne srpske zemlje (13-15. vek): politički, privredni, društveni i pravni procesi]

: 'Drugi' u iskazu srpskih hagiografa - primer Teodosijevih žitija; (francuski) Dans cet article on essayera de définir le champ de l'altérite chez les auteurs de Moyen Age, en s'intéressant a un seul aspect de la réalité de l'autre dans le monde médiéval: celui qui apparait dans les hagiographies. Pour illustrer le phénomène de l'altérite dans le genre hagiographique, on a choisi d'analyser les Vies de Théodose, écrites au sein du monastère de Chilandar au début du XIV siècle. Le but de recherche est de répondre ici a deux questions: Qui est 'l'autre' dans les témoignages de l'hagiographie serbe? Quel est le rapport de l'auteur du récit hagiographique au domaine de l'altérite?. .

: 'Nicolaus Notarius Parserini'; The sources that refer to nomiks, the notaries of medieval Serbia, are scarce. Therefore, any new item of information discovered about them is invaluable. (All the known data about the nomiks and their documents have been collected and analyzed in the study by Đ. Bubalo, The Serbian Nomiks Special Editions of the Institute for Byzantine Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Bk. 29, Belgrade 2004) A document in Latin from Kotor (1368), which I obtained through the kindness of academician Sima Ćirković, mentions Nicolaus notarius Parserini and his instrumentum publicum. The instrumentum of Nikola the 'notary' is a court ruling pronounced by the Serbian king, Vukašin, in a dispute between two inhabitants of Kotor regarding an unpaid debt. The verdict was pronounced in Prizren on November 1, 1367. In Latin and Italian sources, there is only one instance of a Serbian nomik being called a notary, in a Dubrovnik document dating from 1403 - notar de Nouaberda. Nicolaus notarius Parserini would be the other known case. It is very likely that Nicolaus notarius Parserini was the same person as the Namikâ Nikolañd Matéré Božií prizrénâské (nomik Nikola of the Blessed Virgin of Prizren), known to scientific circles from 1872, when the only surviving document by him was published. The fact that the name, the town and the period are identical, and that the person was a notary, supports this assumption. Nikola was the nomik of the Prizren Metropolitanate. The data in the Kotor document indicates that church nomiks wrote out documents dealing with legal affairs not only connected with the Church but also where the participants were laymen. Before the discovery of this document, by analogy with the competences of the Byzantine church nomiks, the aforesaid was only assumed to be a possibility. The people of Kotor were strictly forbidden by their city statute to take their mutual disputes to the court of the Serbian ruler. That is why the person found guilty in the court of King Vukašin presented a lawsuit against his compatriot in Kotor. The principal evidence of culpability was the verdict pronounced by the court of King Vukašin, which was written in Prizren by the nomik, Nikola. It is known that the documents of the Serbian nomiks had no weight as evidence in the Adriatic coastal communities, where the western type of notary prevailed. Similarly, the people of Kotor were forbidden in their mutual disputes to present Serbian documents as the means of proof. The use of a document written by a nomik, as evidence in the dispute between the two inhabitants of Kotor, did not represent a violation of this ban. The ruling by the court of King Vukašin in this case, did not serve the party in the dispute to prove his rights. Here, it was a kind of corpus delicti, 'an object' that proved culpability.

: 'Низовата' книжнина през XIII век; (bugarski) V statijata se razgleždat v sravnitelen plan sbornici ot XIII i ot XIV v. ot sr'bskata i ot b'lgarskata r'kopisna tradicija, v koito preobladavat apokrifi. Očertavat se tendenciite za preantologizirane na proizvedenija i cikli ot 'nizovata' knižnina, s'zdadeni prez po-rannite epohi (X v. i osobeno XI-XII v) i s'zdavaneto na novi kompilativni, prevodni i originalni tvorbi. Specialno mjasto se otdelja na istoriko-apokaliptičnite s'činenija, aktualni za XIII v. Sr'bskite i b'lgarskite r'kopisi svidetelstvat, če v prod'lž enie na vekove apokrifite sa se vključvali sred dušepoleznite četiva za izv'nbogoslužebna upotreba, bez da se pravi razlika meždu kanonično i nekanonič no. T. nar. parabiblejska literatura (v obščohristijanski aspekt), pritež ava za balkanskite knižovnici ne po-malko značenie i dostojnstvo ot učitelnata hristijanska literatura.

: A Chalkokondyles fragment from the Vaticanus Graecus 1890; The aim of the present paper is to examine the text of a Chalkokondyles’ fragment preserved in Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1890, and to propose minor critical notes on these passages. The authoritative printed edition reveals a number of further divergences from the text of the Vatican fragment; unfortunately, the manuscript tradition does not confirm Darko’s choices in the majority of all cases.

: A contribution to the biography of Great Voivode Mihailo Angelović; The paper discusses data provided by a charter of the Hungarian estates, issued on March 13, 1450, which resulted from a litigation instituted by John Hunyadi against László Pataki, the familiaris of Serbian despot Đurađ Branković. According to the presented accusations, Despot Đurađ captured Hunyadi after the defeat on the Kosovo field in 1448, acting upon the persuasion of his wife, sons, „Michaelis vayvode Chelnek dicti de Uhad” and four of his Hungarian familiares. Based on this document and other known data on Mihailo Angelović, the author concludes that the aforementioned voivode Michael is no other than this Serbian nobleman of Byzantine origin. A noble title „de Uhad” shows that Mihailo Angelović had possessions in Hungary in 1450. This possession is most likely identical with the settlement Ohbd (Ohbt) near Ghilad in the Romanian Banat. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177029: Srednjovekovne srpske zemlje (13-15. vek): politički, privredni, društveni i pravni procesi]

: A contribution to the issue of the Byzantine legacy in the area of Lower Syrmia (Sirmia Citerior); Historiography has long debated the issue of the rule of a former Byzantine Empress Maria, Margaret Árpád and her sons over the area of Upper Syrmia (Sirmia Ulterior) - lands South of the river Sava, after Margaret’s return to Hungary (around 1222). This area is usually connected with Margaret’s dowry. It is also well known that Margaret received from her brother, Andrew II of Hungary, a significant number of properties in the South of Hungary. Among these were also the properties located in Lower Syrmia (Sirmia Citerior), where, at the time, the institution of the Duchy of Syrmia had already been established. The author of this paper explores the character of Margaret’s family’s rule in the area of South Hungary, specifically Lower Syrmia and the County of Kovin. Their rule in Lower Syrmia can be indirectly confirmed by means of comparative archontological data kept in Hungarian royal charters. It is acceptable to assume that the entire Duchy of Syrmia was, as a particular honor, in the possession of the family. The author believes that it is quite possible that the title Dominus Sirmii/Syrmie, which Margaret’s son John Angelos bore, referred not only to Upper, but also to Lower Syrmia.

: A contribution to the topography of Byzantine Belgrade in the 11th and 12th centuries; The focus of the paper is the stone fragment of a Byzantine architectural element discovered in Belgrade several decades ago. It has served as a basis for reconstructing the original appearance of the element which has been identified as the plinth of a chancel screen column. The plinth, which flanked the north side of the central templon door, is decorated in low relief on three sides, and has been dated by style to the 11th century. It presumably formed part of the templon of Belgrade’s cathedral church, of which no remains have survived. Based on analogies, the church might have been a three-aisled basilica, probably located in the urban zone of 11th- and 12th-century Byzantine Belgrade. Archaeological excavations indicate that this urban zone was situated within the walls of the former Roman castrum.

: A cracked mirror?; During the first half of the 13th century both Byzantine Empire and the image of its ideal ruler had to undergo a transformation. By applying mostly the narratological analysis to the parenetic texts written in the two successor states of the Empire, the paper sheds light on the dynamic ‘negotiations’ within the Roman elites of the place that the Emperor should have inside the symbolic order, and suggests a possible model of approach to other Byzantine texts and periods. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177015]

: A generation gap or political enmity?; The paper analyses the political tendencies of the first half of the long reign of Emperor Manuel Komnenos, and his relationship with the members of the educated elite. It is argued that Manuel Komnenos made a conscious effort to free himself from the influence of the prominent intellectuals with whom he could not establish satisfying cooperation or from whom he was unable to command sufficient political obedience, since there was a significant generational difference between them, which also led to a political differentiation between the men of the old regime, and Manuel, and his surroundings.

: A hypothesis about the origin and administrative status of the Vardariōtai in the Byzantine empire; The paper presents the results of research on some segments in the history of the Vardariōtai. Starting from the generally accepted premise of their Hungarian roots, the author attempts to answer the questions of when and how the Vardariōtai made their way to the Byzantine Empire. The text also proposes a hypothesis about the evolution of the administrative status of the Vardariote community in the Empire from the early 10th century (the first reference to them in the sources) to the early 13th century, when the district they inhabited was unambiguously confirmed as an imperial province/theme. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 177032: Tradicija, inovacija i identitet u vizantijskom svetu]

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