The Era of Dusan's Code
Апстракт
Drawing on the structure and contents of the extant manuscripts of Dusan's Code, this paper attempts roughly to outline the history of its application and changes from the time of its promulgation in 1349 and revision in 1353-1354, a process that continued to the end of the 18th century. The scarce evidence about the application of the Code has been preserved in some charters issued by the emperors Dusan and Uros, but since the 15th century the only evidence about its application is found in new copies or in the changes in its structure and in the phrasing of certain stipulations. The production of copies similar to the original version continued simultaneously with the revisions, with all sharing a single trait: the coalescence of Dusan's Code with its codicological environment, whose first and fixed layer included the abbreviated Syntagma of Matthew Blastares and the so-called Code of Justinian. Along with these, other ecclesiastical-legal compositions were also copied, which suggest...s that the extant copies of Dusan's Code were used in ecclesiastical courts or for the clergy's everyday service needs. The signs suggesting that the Code was gradually adapted to suit different legal and social conditions are as follows: the exclusion of stipulations which were no longer up to date; a new systematization of stipulations according to subject matter; changes in penalties and sanctions; amendments and clarifications of some stipulations; and the modernization of the document's language and legal terms. At a point no earlier than the second half of the 17th century, a separate recension of Dusan's Code was created in order to facilitate the adaptation and use of its legal material for the regulation of those legal relations that the Serbian ecclesiastical hierarchy or the local self-governing authorities had kept within their own jurisdictions under foreign rule. The majority of the copies of this new, younger recension was created and enacted in the circle of the Serbian ecclesiastical hierarchy and the subjects of the Habsburg monarchy after the Great Exodus. Not only did the Code provide positive legal material, but its mere existence and authority also helped the efforts of the Serbian hierarchy in the Habsburg monarchy to emphasize the tradition of Serbian statehood, as well as its tendencies toward a renewal of state independence.
Извор:
Slovene-International Journal of Slavic Studies, 2015, 4, 2, 119-146Издавач:
- Russian Acad Sciences, Inst Slavic Studies, Moscow
Институција/група
Istorija / HistoryTY - JOUR AU - Bubalo, Đorđe PY - 2015 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1910 AB - Drawing on the structure and contents of the extant manuscripts of Dusan's Code, this paper attempts roughly to outline the history of its application and changes from the time of its promulgation in 1349 and revision in 1353-1354, a process that continued to the end of the 18th century. The scarce evidence about the application of the Code has been preserved in some charters issued by the emperors Dusan and Uros, but since the 15th century the only evidence about its application is found in new copies or in the changes in its structure and in the phrasing of certain stipulations. The production of copies similar to the original version continued simultaneously with the revisions, with all sharing a single trait: the coalescence of Dusan's Code with its codicological environment, whose first and fixed layer included the abbreviated Syntagma of Matthew Blastares and the so-called Code of Justinian. Along with these, other ecclesiastical-legal compositions were also copied, which suggests that the extant copies of Dusan's Code were used in ecclesiastical courts or for the clergy's everyday service needs. The signs suggesting that the Code was gradually adapted to suit different legal and social conditions are as follows: the exclusion of stipulations which were no longer up to date; a new systematization of stipulations according to subject matter; changes in penalties and sanctions; amendments and clarifications of some stipulations; and the modernization of the document's language and legal terms. At a point no earlier than the second half of the 17th century, a separate recension of Dusan's Code was created in order to facilitate the adaptation and use of its legal material for the regulation of those legal relations that the Serbian ecclesiastical hierarchy or the local self-governing authorities had kept within their own jurisdictions under foreign rule. The majority of the copies of this new, younger recension was created and enacted in the circle of the Serbian ecclesiastical hierarchy and the subjects of the Habsburg monarchy after the Great Exodus. Not only did the Code provide positive legal material, but its mere existence and authority also helped the efforts of the Serbian hierarchy in the Habsburg monarchy to emphasize the tradition of Serbian statehood, as well as its tendencies toward a renewal of state independence. PB - Russian Acad Sciences, Inst Slavic Studies, Moscow T2 - Slovene-International Journal of Slavic Studies T1 - The Era of Dusan's Code EP - 146 IS - 2 SP - 119 VL - 4 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_1910 ER -
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Bubalo, Đ.. (2015). The Era of Dusan's Code. in Slovene-International Journal of Slavic Studies Russian Acad Sciences, Inst Slavic Studies, Moscow., 4(2), 119-146. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_1910
Bubalo Đ. The Era of Dusan's Code. in Slovene-International Journal of Slavic Studies. 2015;4(2):119-146. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_1910 .
Bubalo, Đorđe, "The Era of Dusan's Code" in Slovene-International Journal of Slavic Studies, 4, no. 2 (2015):119-146, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_1910 .