THE “FATHERLAND” OF THE SERBIAN KINGS MILUTIN AND DEčANSKI OR SOME ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS ON THE “MEDIEVAL SERBIAN OECUMENE” Текст научной статьи по специальности «История и археология»

УДК 930.85; ББК 63.3(4); DOI https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu19.2022.102 M. St. Popovic, V. Zervan

THE «FATHERLAND»

OF THE SERBIAN KINGS MILUTIN AND DECANSKI OR SOME ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS ON THE «MEDIEVAL SERBIAN OECUMENE»*

Introduction

Five years ago an article «The "Medieval Serbian Oecumene" — Fiction or Reality?» was published1. The author analyzed part of the medieval Serbian written sources in order to address the research question, whether a «Medieval Serbian Oecumene» existed during the reigns of the Serbian Kings Stefan Uros II Milutin (1282-1321) and Stefan Uros III Decanski (1321-1331) as well as the Serbian Emperor Stefan Uros IV Dusan (1331-1355). Amongst others, the author came to the following conclusion: «Having in mind the reign of Stefan Uros IV Dusan, both of his predecessors, Stefan Uros II Milutin and Stefan Uros III Decanski, were establishing their own 'small Serbian Oecumene' besides the 'huge Byzantine Oecumene', in which I [scil. M. St. Popovic] a parallel local concept and not an attempt to substitute the universal Byzantine concept. A new quality to the described Serbian approach was given by king Dusan, because he used the then recently formed 'Medieval Serbian

* This article derives from scholarly results achieved within the FWF—Austrian Science Fund project entitled «Byzantino-Serbian Border Zones in Transition: Migration and Elite Change in pre-Ottoman Macedonia (1282-1355)» (FWF Austrian Science Fund, project P 30384-G28) at the Institute for Medieval Research (Division of Byzantine Research) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria). Cf. on the project in detail: https://tib.oeaw.ac.at/sub_projects/borderzones. The authors are indebted to the aforesaid Institute as well as to the FWF — Austrian Science Fund for their support. The first part of our article, i.e. the Introduction and «A Self-Contained «Medieval Serbian Oecumene»?», was written by M. St. Popovic, the second one, «On the Semantics of the Slavic Equivalents of the Greek Word «oiKou^evq» and the Own Concepts of Territoriality in Serbian Medieval Literature», by V. Zervan.

1 Popovic M. St. The «Medieval Serbian Oecumene» — Fiction or Reality? // Byzantine Heritage and Serbian Art I. Process of Byzantinisation and Serbian Archaeology. Belgrade, 2016. P. 37-43.

© M. St. Popovic, V. Zervan, 2022

Oecumene' in the power politics of his time with the clear aim to take over the 'Byzantine Oecumene' and replace the emperor in Constantinople as emperor of Serbs and of Greeks»2.

Our joint article seizes this very aspect once again and aims at addressing new ideas and thoughts by analysing additional Serbian written sources from the period of the reigns of both Serbian Kings as well as other selected sources, which were written after their deaths until the 15th century. Before we go into detail regarding our topic of inquiry, we should be aware of the fact that the perception of «land» and «landscape» was quite different in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period than it is today. This is emphasised, for example, by the British historian Ian Mortimer in his book The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England: «Indeed, it is only at the very end of the Elizabethan period, in the late 1590s, that people start to use the term 'landscape' to describe a view. Before this, they do not need such a word, for they do not see a 'landscape' as such — only the constituent elements that mean something to them: the woods, fields, rivers, orchards, gardens, bridges, roads, and, above all else, the towns. Shakespeare does not use the word 'landscape' at all; he uses the word 'country' — a concept in which people and physical things are intimately bound together»3.

The manifold meanings of «land» and related terms as well as their constituent elements in medieval Serbian sources were excellently analysed by Viktor Savic4. Even in the lyrics of Yugoslav pop music of the 20th century we may find constituent elements, here of landscape, for example in the song «Zivela Jugoslavija!» from 1985, which mentions the fatherland's sea, rivers and mountains5.

These preliminary thoughts are of the utmost importance, when it comes to trying to address the potential existence of a «Medieval Serbian Oecumene» in the times of the Kings Milutin and Stefan Decanski. Recently, we have undertaken a significant step into this very direction in our project «Byzantino-Serbian Border Zones in Transition: Migration and Elite Change in pre-Ottoman Macedonia (1282-1355)» by publishing an article on the essential question of the relation between the titles of the Serbian Emperor Stefan Dusan and the territoriality of his realm in the 14th century6. Starting from this point, it might prove useful to move back in time and focus on the last quarter of the 13th and the first third of the 14th centuries, without which a holistic picture may not be achieved. Therefore, we aim at continuing our initial approach by focusing on the reigns of the Kings Milutin and Stefan Decanski, which is the third step after the aforesaid two publications in 2016 and 2020 respectively.

It goes without saying that our results, outlined below, are based on a meticulous re-evaluation and analysis of published Serbian written sources with an exclusion of

2 PopovicM. St. The «Medieval Serbian Oecumene»... P. 43.

3 Mortimer I. The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England. New York, 2014. P. 2.

4 Савик В. (Псеудо)класични и стари називи српских земаша у старим српским говорима // Српско je3H4BD и каижевно насше^е на простору данашае Црне Горе. Српски ]език и каижевност данас. Зборник радова са Другог ме^ународног научног скупа одржаног у Подгорици 26-28. ма]а 2017. Подгорица; Нови Сад; Бааа Лука, 2019. С. 95-125.

5 Vocals Miroslav Ilic and Lepa Brena (real name: Fahreta Jahic-Zivojinovic), Lyrics Milutin Popovic Zahar, Producer Jugodisk: «Kadpogledamnasemore, nasereke, nasegore, svulepotugdesamrodena, [...]».

6 Popovic M. St., Zervan V., Filiposki T. Über das Verhältnis von Herrschertiteln und Räumen: Eine Fallstudie zu Makedonien unter dem König und Zaren Stefan Dusan (1331-1355) // Зборник радова Византолошког института. 2020. Ка. 57. S. 61-102.

post-modern approaches to the topic. Inspiring is in this respect a book review by Warren Treadgold, an American historian and specialist in Byzantine Studies, who commented as follows: «All Byzantine histories that recorded events before living memory must have depended almost entirely on written sources, even if those sources are lost today. Modern scholars have traditionally approached such histories by trying to identify and analyze their sources, a process commonly known by the German term Quellenforschung. This approach, without denying that the later authors modified their sources (especially by abridging them), attributes most of the information and opinions in the later texts to their sources, then tries to determine how faithfully the sources recorded historical events. Postmodern scholars dislike this approach because they are uninterested in historical events (if indeed they believe in historical reality at all) and care only about the later historians' «construction of a narrative» by rewriting the sources (if indeed they believe in the existence of sources). Dismissing clear statements by many Byzantine historians that they were merely trying to provide an accurate record of the past, postmodernists insist that what the Byzantines really wanted to do was to comment on their own times by means of oblique allusions in their narrative. Defenders of the traditional approach (including me) admit that the later historians sometimes did allude to contemporary events in recording earlier times, but believe that such allusions were usually explicit and relatively rare. [...] Postmodernist distractions are particularly unfortunate in the field of Byzantine historiography, where so much real work remains to be done in identifying sources and stages of composition, understanding prose styles and narrative techniques, editing and translating texts, and explaining the historical events that postmodernists find so tedious»7.

Keeping these explicit words in mind, we would like to introduce as our first source the so-called charter of the Serbian King Milutin for the settlement site of Ulijare from ca. 1318, which is in fact a falsification from the 15th century8. Nevertheless, our approach shall be retrospective at first in order to understand, what kind of image King Milutin had in the eyes of a compiler of the 15th century, whose compilation is based on sources from the 14th century. After that we will proceed to the Lives of the Serbian Kings and Archbishops by Archbishop Danilo II as well as medieval Serbian charters, inscriptions and notes from the period of our study.

In the aforesaid charter, King Milutin is addressed as «by the Grace of God King and Autocrat of the Serbian and Coastal Lands» («po milosty Boziei kralb i samodrbzcb vséhb Srbbskyihb i Pomorskyihb Zemlb»)9, while the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos

7 Treadgold W. Marjanovic, Dragoljub. Creating Memories in Late 8th-century Byzantium. The Short History of Nikephoros of Constantinople. Central European Medieval Studies // The Medieval Review. Amsterdam, 2018. P. 250. URL: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/ view/25450/31266 (last visited — 11.08.2021).

8 Cf. on the question of the falsification and the sources used for the falsification: Суботин-Голубовик Т. Jош о «Житщу у свитку» крала Милутина // Зборник радова Византолошког института. 1994. Ка. 33. С. 115-125; Убипарип М. Зборник са кратким житщем крала Милутина // Прилози за каижевност, ]език, исторщу и фолклор. 2005. Ка. 71/1-4. С. 53-72. And also: Ъирковик С. Биографща крала Милутина у Уларсму повели // Архиепископ Данило и аегово доба. Београд, 1991. С. 53-68; Мошин В. Житще крала Милутина према архиепископу Данилу II и Милутиново] повели — аутобиографщи // Зборник исторще каижевности. Оделеае ]езика и каижевности. Ка. 10. Стара српска каижевност. Београд, 1976. С. 109-136.

9 Edited in: Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела и писама Србще, Босне и Дубровника. Ка. I: 1186-1321. Београд, 2011. Бр. 147. 18-19 (С. 533). Also cf.: С. 543 (signature).

(1282-1328) is referred to as «Emperor of the Greeks» or «Emperor of the Oecumene» («cara Grbkomb kyrb Andronika, vbseljensky carb kyrb Androni'kb»)10

We discern a distinct antithesis between the «Fatherland» or «Serbian Land» of the Serbian King on the one hand (i zemli otbcbstvia moego11, vb otcbstvyi mojemb, i otcbstvia moego, ot Zemlje Srbbskyje, na otcbstvie nase12, Zemli Srbbskoi13, Srbbskyje Zemlje, zemlja otcbstvia nasego kraljevstva14, otcbstvii nasemb, Zemli Srbbscei15) and the «Great Romania» or «Greek Empire» of the Byzantine Emperor on the other (vb Veliku Romaniu, vb Velikoi Romanii16, toi Velikoi Romanii11, vb drbzavu Carbstva Grbcbskaago18).

The narration in this source reveals that the Byzantine Emperor invaded the Serbian lands at the very beginning of King Milutin's reign and that the Byzantine troops reached the Serbian town of Lipljan19 in today's Kosovo with the aim to subdue the Serbian King and his father-land20. But King Milutin launched a counteroffensive and succeeded to conquer the region of Polog, the town of Skopje and the regions of Ovce Polje, Zletovo and Pijanec in Byzantine Macedonia (Fig. 1), which he incorporated into his fatherland (prilozihb kb otcbstviu moemu). Moreover, a change of elites took place, because King Milutin ousted the Byzantine structures of power (prognavb vse vlasti grbcbskyje). After that, he returned to his fatherland (paky vbzvrastaet se kraljevstvo mi vb drbzavu otcbstvia svojego)21. What becomes evident based on the narration in this source, is that we cannot discern a political concept of universality in the politics of King Milutin. At first, he defended his fatherland against the Byzantine intrusion, and then he himself intruded Byzantine Macedonia and conquered certain territories, but he returned to his fatherland after the respective military campaign. Therefore, the narration highlights two distinct entities — the Serbian Kingdom and the Byzantine Empire — and their struggle in a joint border zone.

Several years ago Paul Nick Kardulias published a paper on Archaeology and World-Systems Analysis (WSA). He introduced three categories of territoriality to the audience: the extraction zone, the fully incorporated periphery and the contested periphery22. Paul Nick Kardulias and Thomas D. Hallemphasise in their research that: «First, the 'world'

10 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 147. 284-285 (С. 540), 308-309 (С. 541). Also cf.: 269-270 (С. 540).

11 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 147. 53 (С. 534).

Бр. 147. 250-252, 255-256 (С. 539).

Бр. 147. 264 (С. 540).

Бр. 147. 313, 318-319 (С. 541).

Бр. 147. 367 (С. 542-543).

Бр. 147. 243-244, 246 (С. 539).

Бр. 147. 261-262 (С. 540).

Бр. 147. 295 (С. 541).

12 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела.

13 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела.

14 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела.

15 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела.

16 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела.

17 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела.

18 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела.

19 Cf. on Lipljan and its history: Лексикон градова и тргова средаовековних српских земала: Према писаним изворима. Београд, 2010. С. 167-169.

20 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 147. 53-57 (С. 534) («Do mesta glagoljemago do Lipijanja. hotestu sb otbCbstvi'emb moimb i mene vb poslusliva raba i imeti»).

21 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 147. 85-92 (С. 535).

22 Cf. the following of his publications in detail: Kardulias P. N., Hall T. D. Archaeology and World-Systems Analysis // World Archaeology. 2008. Vol. 40/4. P. 572-583; Hall T. D., Kardulias P. N, Chase-Dunn C. World-Systems Analysis and Archaeology: Continuing the Dialogue // Journal of Archaeological Research. 2011. Vol. 19/3. P. 233-279.

in world-systems does not mean global or planetary, but rather a self-contained world. Obviously, no place is entirely isolated. But there can be steep gradients of density of interactions, and this defines a boundary»23. They stress that systems cycle or pulsate, expand

and contract and

have different durations, e. g. 600, 300, 100, 50 years etc.24 Therefore, the question arises: «when do two separate systems merge to become one larger system?»25 They explain on the relation of the three categories of terri-toriality: «[...], core areas tend to exploit peripheral areas, with semi-peripheral areas being

exploited by core areas, yet exploiting peripheral areas in turn»26. But «The boundaries between core areas, peripheral areas, and semiperipheral areas are similarly fuzzy and gradual»27.

Hereby, a contested periphery refers to a region with certain key resources or in a strategic location between major states. They can be key areas for economic, political, social and religious competition and exchange28. Semiperipheral areas are located on the fringe of a system and are not subject to contestation from many sides simultaneously like core areas29. State formation is a process, which is closely linked to processes of incorporation of new areas and peoples into world-systems, from which follows that frontiers are zones of incorporation30. Consequently, the fuzziness of world-system edges facilitates negotiation of the terms of incorporation31.

23 KarduliasP. N., Hall T. D. Archaeology. P. 574. Also cf.: Hall T. D., KarduliasP. N., Chase-Dunn C. World-Systems Analysis. P. 236.

24 Kardulias P. N., Hall T. D. Archaeology. P. 575.

25 Kardulias P. N., Hall T. D. Archaeology. P. 575.

26 Kardulias P. N., Hall T. D. Archaeology. P. 576.

27 Hall T. D., Kardulias P. N., Chase-Dunn C. World-Systems Analysis. P. 242.

28 Hall T. D., Kardulias P. N., Chase-Dunn C. World-Systems Analysis. P. 243.

29 Hall T. D., Kardulias P. N., Chase-Dunn C. World-Systems Analysis. P. 255.

30 Hall T. D., Kardulias P. N., Chase-Dunn C. World-Systems Analysis. P. 257.

31 Hall T. D., Kardulias P. N., Chase-Dunn C. World-Systems Analysis. P. 260.

A Self-Contained «Medieval Serbian Oecumene»?

Several years ago I heard an inspiring paper by Paul Nick Kardulias, since then, I have been asking myself, if and how such a model would be applicable to the medieval Serbian realm. By taking the aforesaid publications by Paul Nick Kardulias and Thomas D. Hall as a premise, I would like to elaborate on the question, whether the Serbian realm during the reigns of the Kings Milutin and Stefan Decanski may be preceived as a «self-contained space» in the written sources?

Ernst Edward Aurel Stein (1891-1945) stated that Byzantium was at the beginning a universal power, then a world power, then a great power and finally a regional power32. May we imply that the Serbian realm experienced a reciprocal development, being first a regional power under the Kings Milutin and Stefan Decanski and then becoming a great power under King Dusan, without reaching the status of a world or universal power?

The Lives of the Serbian Kings and Archbishops by Archbishop Danilo II confirm the story, which is told in the aforesaid falsified charter from the 15th century, and seem to confirm the picture of a self-contained «Medieval Serbian Oecumene» during the reign of King Milutin. The Life of King Milutin reports that the Byzantine territory stretched indeed to the town of Lipljan. In 1282/83 Milutin attacked the Byzantine Empire successfully and conquered the regions of Polog, Ovce Polje, Zletovo and Pijanec as well as the town of Skopje. It is stated explicitly that he added all these conquered territories to his fatherland. Most probably at the end of 1283 and the beginning of 1284 Milutin pillaged the regions of Struma and Serres. Finally, he conquered the regions of Debar, Kicevo and Porecie in 1284 and added them to the territories of his fatherland as well33.

At this point we deem it necessary to consult additional Serbian written sources from the period of the reign of King Milutin in order to address the potential perception of a «self-contained space»34. In a charter for Dubrovnik from 1282 King Milutin undersigns as «King and with God Autocrat of the Serbian and Coastal Lands» (kralj i sb Bogomb samodrbzbcb srbpskie zemli i pomorbskie)35. Most probably in the same year his signature on a charter

32 Stein E. 1) Geschichte des spätrömischen Reiches. Bd I: Vom römischen zum byzantinischen Staat (284-476 n. Chr.). Wien: Seidel, 1928; 2) Histoire du Bas-Empire. T. II. De la disparition de l'Empire d'Occident a la mort de Justinien (476-565). Paris: Desclee, De Brouwer et Cie, 1949. Cf. the analysis of his terminology in: Максимовик Л. Значеае речи Грк и Jелин у српским средаовековним изворима // Зборник радова Византолошког института. 1999/2000. Ка. 38. С. 226.

33 Cf. the edition of the Life of King Milutin in: Датчик Ъ. Животи кралева и архиепископа српских. У Загребу: У Светозара Галца, 1866. С. 102-161 (here С. 107-114). In German translation: Serbisches Mittelalter. Altserbische Herrscherbiographien. Bd 2: Danilo II. und seine Schüler. Die Königsbiographien. Graz; Wien; Köln, 1976. S. 145-204 (here 150-157). On the dating of the respective events: Исторща српског народа. Ка. 1: Од на^тарщих времена до Маричке битке (1371). Београд, 1981. С. 439-441; PopovicM. St. Historische Geographie und Digital Humanities. Eine Fallstudie zum spätbyzantinischen und osmanischen Makedonien. Mainz; Ruhpolding, 2014. S. 86f.

34 I am very grateful to my scholarly co-worker David Schmid, BA, then working in my project «Digitising Patterns of Power (DpP): Peripherical Mountains in the Medieval World» at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and to Dr Srdjan Pirivatric (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia) as visiting scholar of the project DPP from 25 January 2018 to 26 February 2018, who both discussed my thoughts on various aspects of the aforesaid sources with me.

35 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 81. 10 (С. 276).

for the Serbian Monastery of Hilandar on Mount Athos emphasizes that he is «with the Grace of God King and with God Serbian Ruler» (po milosti Bozijei kralb i Bogomb drbzbcb srbpbsky)36. In a charter from the period 1282-1289 King Milutin signs as «Serbian King» (kralb srbpbski)31. The charter by King Milutin for the Chapel of Saint Petka in the village of T'morane from ca. 1299/1300 mentions the «Emperor of the Greeks» (carb Grbkomb)38, whereas Milutin undersigns as «King and Autocrat of all Serbian and Coastal Lands» (kralb isamodrbzbcb vsehb srbpbskyhb zemblb ipomorbskihb)39. He explicitly highlights the «Serbian Lands» (u Srbpbskoi zemli) in his charter for Dubrovnik in 130240. In King Milutin's charter for Hilandar's Tower of Hrusija from the period 1300-1303 a clear distinction is made between «the Serbian and the Greek Lands» (vb Srbbsceii vb GrbCscei Zemli)41. In 1306 the King appears as «Stefano Uros re di Servia» and «Stefano Uros, solo nominato re di Servia et Tramarina» (i. e. in Old Serbian Stefanb Urosb samodrbzavnyi kralb srbbbskiipomorsky) in his charter for the Monastery of the Holy Mother of God Ratacka42. In King Milutin's charter for Hilandar's Tower of Hrusija from the period 1313(?)-1316 a clear differentiation is made between the «Imperial» (i. e. Byzantine) and the «Royal» (i. e. Serbian) chrysobulls (vb carbskihb hrisovulehb i vb kraljevstva mi hrisovule)43. In 1317 the Serbian Archbishop Nikodim I (1317-1324) addresses Milutin «who is ruling all Serbian Lands» (kraljevstvu justagovseju Srbbskoju Zemljeju) in his charter for the Monastery of Saint Stephen in Banjska44. Very instructive in our context is an expression, in which King Milutin states in his charter for the hermitage of Saint Sabbas in Karyes from 1317/18 that he ruled «autocratically in the land of my fatherland» (samodrbzavnovb zemli otbcbstva mojego)45. In his charter for the Monastery of Gracanica from 1315 (or 1321) King Milutin juxtaposes the «Greek Lands» (ot oblasti grbcbskyje) and «the Land of My Kingship» (zembli kraljevbstvami)46.

According to the charts of Zarko Vujosevic in his unpublished PhD thesis «The Serbian Royal Chancery in the Middle Ages. A Study in Comparative Diplomatics»47 in which he made an overview of the signatures of King Milutin in his charters, we can discern that, when Milutin signed with territorial attributes, he always used the expression «the Serbian and Coastal Lands»48.

36 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 82. 53 (С. 280).

37 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 87. 9 (С. 290).

38 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 93. 9 (С. 332).

39 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 93. 62 (С. 333).

40 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 98. 3 (С. 344).

41 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 101. 30 (С. 355).

42 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 106. 8-9 (С. 395).

43 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 121. А32-33 (С. 440).

44 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 127. 88а (С. 474).

45 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 131. 47 (С. 487). — A similar expression can be found in a contract between King Milutin and the Monastery of Hilandar from the period 1317-1321: Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 143. 16 (С. 516).

46 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 137. 40 (С. 502), 48 (С. 503).

47 Ву]'ошевик Ж. З. Српска владарска канцеларща у средаем веку. Студща из упоредне дипломатике. Докторска дисертацща. Београд, 2015.

48 Ву/ошевикЖ. З. Српска владарска канцеларща. С. 221-225. — An excellent pioneer work in this respect is: Марковик В. Jесу ли средаевековни Срби сматрали Македонщу бугарском? КРФ: Штампано у Државно] Штампарщи Кралевине Србще, 1918. С. 6-10.

Therefore, we do not find any hint in the aforesaid sources that King Milutin perceived his realm to be a great power, not to speak of a world or universal power. On the contrary, we get the impression that King Milutin's space is perceived by himself as a «self-contained space». In order to complete our picture, we have to take medieval Serbian inscriptionsand notes from the reign of King Milutin into account as well.

In a note from 1286 it is stated that ecclesiastical items and books were placed in a church in the times of the «Autocrat and King of all Serbian and Coastal Lands, who is ruling over Greek Territories» (samodrbzavnaago kraljavseh srpskyhzeml ipomorskih, grbckymi stranami gospodbstvujustaa)49. An inscription in the Monastery of Hilandar from 1293 mentions King Milutin as son-in-law of the «Autocrat and Greek Emperor Andronikos» (zetu prevysokago samoderzca imperatora greceskago cara Andronika)50. In an inscription on the Church of Saint George in Staro Nagoricino from the year 1313 King Milutin is addressed as «King Uros Milutin, with God Autocrat of all Serbian and Coastal Lands» (... krale UrosaMilutina, bogomb samodrbzbcu vsei srbbskoi zemli i pomorbskoi, ...)51. The same is true for the inscription of the foundation of the Church of the Saints Joachim and Anne in Studenica from 1313/14 (i kralb vseh Srbskyh Zemli Pomorbskyh)52. A note in a manuscript in the Monastery of Hilandar from 1316 mentions King Milutin again as «Autocrat of all Serbian and Coastal Lands» (vsehb srbbskihb zemlb ipomorskihb)53. Another note in a manuscript from 1319 makes a clear distinction between the «Autocrat and King» Milutin and the «Orthodox Emperor» Andronikos in the «New Rome, the Emperor's City»54.

As an interim conclusion we may state that the medieval Serbian charters, inscriptions and notes emphasise a self-contained «Medieval Serbian Oecumene» during the reign of King Milutin. Does this impression also uphold during the reign of his successor King Stefan Decanski?

In the Life of King Stefan Decanski Archbishop Danilo II equalises the «Fatherland» of Decanski with the «Serbian Land» (na otbcbstvije jego, rekbse srbbbskuju zemlju)55. The councils of his realm are always addressed as «Councils of the Serbian Land» (sbboru sbbranu zemlje srbbbsyje; i vbsego sbbora bogomb sbbranaago zemlje srbbskyje; kb vbsemu sbboru zemlje srbbbskyje)56. After his victory against the Bulgarian Tsar Michael III Sisman (1323-1330) in the battle of Velbuzd on 28 July 1330, Archbishop Danilo reports on a letter, which the Serbian King sent to him and to Queen Maria Palaiologina, in which a clear difference is made between the Serbian realm (vb drbzave kraljevbstvami) and the Bulgarian Tsardom (vb drbzavu carbstva zemlje blbgarbskyje)5. Moreover, Stefan Decanski seized

49 Стари српски записи и натписи. Ка I. Београд, 1982. (Фототипска издааа 4). Бр. 27 (С. 14). Cf. on the manuscript: Описание русских и славянских пергаменных рукописей. Рукописи русские, болгарские, молдовлахийские, сербские. Л., 1953. С. 98.

50 Стари српски записи и натписи. Ка. I. Бр. 29 (С. 15).

51 Стари српски записи и натписи. Ка. I. Бр. 41 (С. 19).

52 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 119, 3 (С. 431). Also cf.: Стари српски записи и натписи. Ка. I. Бр. 46 (С. 20).

53 Стари српски записи и натписи. Ка. I. Бр. 48 (С. 20).

54 Стари српски записи и натписи. Ка. I. Бр. 52 (С. 22-23).

55 Даничик Ъ. Животи кралева. С. 171.

56 Даничик Ъ. Животи кралева. С. 176, 189.

57 Даничик Ъ. Животи кралева. С. 190.

the strategic opportunity after the battle and advanced «to the East into the Bulgarian Land» (kb vbstokuvb drbzavu zemlje blbgarbskyje)5S. Finally, Stefan Decanski concluded peace and returned «from the regions of the Bulgarian Land . from East to West» (otb predelb zemlje blbgarbskyje, i ide otb vbstokakb zapadu)59. In the evidence, which we have quoted above so far, a clear difference is made between the Serbian and the Bulgarian realms, and even after the Serbian victory in the battle of Velbuzd Stefan Decanski is not taking steps for an incorporation of Bulgarian territories. Thus, we may highlight at this point that King Stefan Decanski continued in King Milutin's approach of a self-contained «Medieval Serbian Oecumene».

Nevertheless, it seems that the battle of Velbuzd marked a turning point with regard to the self-contained «Medieval Serbian Oecumene», for which we find first subtle allusions in the Life of King Stefan Decanski, on which we will comment below also on the basis of medieval Serbian inscriptions and notes. Since the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos (1328-1341) had been Michael Sisman's ally, Stefan Decanski turned as a consequence against the Byzantine Empire in Macedonia. He invaded the «Greek Land» (i ide na cara togo vb drbzavu zemlje grbcbskyje) and conquered the towns and fortresses of Veles, Prosek, Stip, Cresice and Dobrun in 1330/31 (zemli otbcbstva mojego)60. After the successful campaign against the Byzantine Emperor, the Serbian King returned to his «Fatherland» (vb drbzavu otbcbstvija svojego)61. Based on the aforesaid sources on the reigns of the Kings Milutin and Stefan Decanski, our results confirm the interpretation published by Ljubomir Maksimovic on the Lives of the Serbian Kings and Archbishops, who came to the conclusion that: «The three realms [i. e. the Byzantine, Serbian and Bulgarian] are perceived as different realms with their own traditions, while their 'ethnic' character is certainly not in the foreground»62.

In our next step — in analogy to the analysis of the signatures of King Milutin in his charters — we will undertake the same approach for the period of Stefan Decanski. Decanski's signatures indicate — with one exception — that he is like his predecessor «with the Grace of God King of all Serbian and Coastal Lands» or «King and with God Autocrat of all Serbian and Coastal Lands»63. The exception is remarkable though. On 9 September 1330, only one month after his victory at Velbuzd and one year before his deposition and death, Stefan Decanski issued a charter for the Monastery of Saint Nikola Mracki, 4 km to the north-northeast of Zemen in today's Bulgaria, and signed it as «vb Hrista Boga verny i samodrbzavny kralb vsei Srbpbskoi zemli i Pomorbskoi i Ovcepolbskoi i Velbbuzd^skoi»64.

58Даничик Ъ. Животи кралева. С. 191.

59Даничик Ъ. Животи кралева. С. 196.

60Даничик Ъ. Животи кралева. С. 197. Cf. on the dating of these conquests: Исторща српског народа. Ка. I. С. 507-508; PopovicM. St. Historische Geographie. S. 87.

61 Даничик Ъ. Животи кралева. С. 199.

62 My translation; cf.: Максимовик Л. Значеае речи. С. 222 («Три државе се схващу као различите државе са сопственим традицщама, док аихово "етничко" биЬе свакако нще у првом плану»).

63 Cf. the overview in: Вуошевик Ж. З. Српска владарска канцеларща... С. 225-227. - See also: Марковик В. Jесу ли средаевековни Срби. С. 10-11.

64 Edited in: Мишик С. Повела крала Стефана Уроша III манастиру Светог Николе Мрачког у Орехову // Стари српски архив. 2002. Ка. 1. С. 59. Also cf.: Ву/ошевикЖ. З. Српска владарска канцеларща... С. 227.

The mentioning of the regions of Ovce Pole and Velbuzd is most remarkable, because it signals the dawn of a new territorial perception.

Do we witness a leaving aside of the «self-contained space» and a novel approach towards the Byzantine neighbor? On the one hand, one may argue that Stefan Decanski's victory at Velbuzd in 1330 constituted a turning point in the development of the Serbian realm, as has already been emphasized by Gavro Skrivanic65.

On the other hand, such an argumentation seems to be hampered by the fact that there is an ongoing discussion on the authenticity of the charter for the Monastery of Saint Nikola Mracki66. An additional source could shed more light on this very issue. A note of the scribe Stanislav in a manuscript, which he finished in the Monastery of Saint Archangel Michael in Lesnovo in 1330, reports that the Serbian King Stefan Decanski ruled over «all Serbian and Coastal and Danubian Lands and the Ovce Pole» (ysejq srbpbskyjq zemljqi pomorbcgjei podunavbskqi ovcepolbskg) and that he «ravaged the Greek land, conquered towns and killed the powerful Bulgarian Tsar Michael» (I grbcbskg zemqo pusti, i gradovg prejq, i silnaago care blbgarbskaago Mihaila ubi)67.

The inclusion of new toponyms (i. e. regions) into the title of Stefan Decanski could signify the beginning of a new political and military approach towards Byzantium in the last year of his rule. Was he on the verge of overcoming the «self-contained space» in order to evolve his realm into a great power according to the definition by Ernst Stein? This highly speculative thought cannot be proved, based on the hard facts and the little evidence we have, the more so as Stefan Dusan, Stefan Decanski's son, seized power with force in 1331 and deposed his father, who, thus, did not have the opportunity to evolve his potential new approach.

It was Stefan Dusan, who aspired to transform his realm into a great power and to merge two separate systems — Serbia and Byzantium — into a world power. But it could have been his father, a ruler of a regional power, who could have discerned this potential in 1330/31 and who could have pathed the way, without having the chance to implement it. As this question has to and could finally remain unsolved, it would be certainly worthwhile to analyze and structure the history of medieval Serbia according to systems cycles advocated by World-Systems Analysis, which could lead to new insights and interpretations, but this is another story to be told in the near future.

Mihailo St. Popovic

65 Skrivanic G. A. Bitka kod Velbuzda 28. VII 1330. godine // Vesnik Vojnog muzeja. 1970. Ка. 16. S. 76 («Bitka kod Velbuzda udarila je temelj sprskoj prevlasti na Balkanu i resila borbu oko Makedonije u korist Srbije»).

66 Cf. the following publications on the question of authenticity: Иванов Й. Български старини из Македония. (Фототипно издание: София: Държавна печатница, 1931). София, 1970. С. 608618; Иванова В. ОрЪховскишъ монастирь и неговитЬ грамоти // Известия на историческото дружество въ София. 1931/1932. Ка. 11/12. С. 84-118; Мар]'ановик-Душаник С. О питащу аутентичности повела Мрачког комплекса // Стари српски архив. 2004. Ка. 3. С. 153-168; Марковик В. Православно монаштво и манастири у средаевековно] Србщи. Сремски Карловци: Српска Манастирска Штампарща, 1920. С. 100; Мишик С. Повела крала Стефана Уроша III. С. 55-68; Синдик Д. И. Српска средаовековна акта у манастиру Хиландару // Хиландарски зборник. 1998. Ка. 10. С. 25-26; Солов]'ев А. В. Повеле манастира Св. Николе Мрачког // Прилози за каижевност, ]език, исторщу и фолклор. 1929. Ка. 9/1-2. С. 1-18.

67 Стари српски записи и натписи. Ка. I. Бр. 56 (С. 26).

On the semantics of the concepts "oikoymenh", "otbcbstvije", "otbcbstvo"»

While Mihailo St. Popovic focused in the previous part mainly on the question of the existence of the own local Oecumene concept during the reign of the Serbian ruler Stefan Uros II Milutin and Stefan Uros III Decanski on the official level, which was evidenced mainly by charters and inscriptions, I intend to center my attention mainly on the semantic level of the use of Slavic equivalents of the Greek word oiKov^svq and other own concepts of territoriality in various genres of Serbian medieval literature.

The term oiKov^svq is present in both the Septuagint and the New Testament. However, translators of liturgical books into Old Slavonic and later into Church Slavonic did not include this Greek term in their vocabulary and the passages, where the word appears, were translated by various equivalents. The most common equivalent was the loan translation from the Greek vbseljenaja, vbseljena, useljenaja or naseljenaja (seemingly almost exclusively in the Codex Suprasliensis), which was used in almost the same meanings as the Greek original word, i. e. «inhabited land», «district», «world»68. This long translation came into the Serbian and Russian language through Old Bulgarian. While it remained as vselena or vselennaja in Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Russian, it was changed to vasiona and vesolje under various circumstances in Serbian and Slovenian and the translation svemir finally prevailed in Croatian69.

The use of the equivalent vbseljenaja is closely related, above all, to its biblical context. The arengas, which were generally rhetorically and theologically the most advanced part of Serbian medieval charters, provide several examples of such uses. In the confirmation charter of the Serbian King Stefan Uros II Milutin for the Eparchy of Hum, which can be dated between 1317 and 1321, the author of the arenga took over the motif from the Gospel of Matthew 19:28. It already appears in the charter of the Serbian ruler Stefan Uros I (1243-1276) for the Saint Peter and Paul Monastery at the Lim River. He applied the word vbseljenaja to a passage where it is missing in the original wording70. The scribe of

68 Slovnik jazyka staroslovenskeho. Lexicon linguae Palaeoslovenicae. T. I. Praha, 1966. S. 321; T. II. Praha, 1973. S. 312; Речник на грчко-црковнословенски лексички паралели. Скоще. 2003. С. 329.

69 Etymologicky slovnik jazyka staroslovenskeho. Sv. 13. Praha. 2006. S. 799; Български етимологичен речник. T. I. София. 1971. С. 195; Schumann K. Die griechischen Lehnbildungen und Lehnbedeutungen im Altbulgarischen. Berlin; Wiesbaden. 1958. S. 40. 59. 61; Филкова П. Староболгаризмы и церковнославянизмы в лексике русского литературного языка. Учебный словарь. Т. 1. София. 1986. С. 302; Речник на македонскиот ]азик со српскохрватски толкувааа. Т. I. Скоще. 1961. С. 87; Словарь древнерусского языка (XI-XIV вв.). Т. II. М.. 1989. С. 218; VasmerM. Russisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. Bd I: A-K. Heidelberg. 1953. S. 236; Цыганенко Г. П. Этимологический словарь русского языка: Более 5000 слов. Киев. 1989. С. 72; ВушовиЬ Д. Речи: Васелена. Васиона и Василена. аихова употреба. значеае и порекло // Nas jezik. 1933. Ка. 11/1. С. 140-145; SkokP. Etimologijski rjecnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika. Kn. III. Zagreb. 1973. S. 568; Grivec F. Vselenskij — sobornyj // Slavisticna revija. 1957. No. 10. S. 14-15; Bezlaj F. Etimoloski slovar slovenskega jezika. Kn. IV. Ljubljana. 2005. S. 304.

70 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 144. 18-20 (С. 520); Бр. 64. 12-13 (С. 227).

Stefan Uros II Milutin's founding charter for the Tower of Hrusija and the Church of Christ the Savior evokes a prayer in the arenga similar to the ones in the psalter and — in my opinion — partially paraphrases the Gospel of Luke 4:3771. The scribe of Milutin's charter arenga for the Tower of Hrusija near the Hilandar Monastery from 1313 to 1316 added the word vbseljenaja into the modified text of the Book of Acts 2:472.

In the Byzantine Empire, the patriarch, emperor, or ecumenical councils were often presented as oiKov^eviKoq, and therefore these words are often found in charters, inscriptions, and other manuscripts in combination with this adjective. The Greek adjective oiKov^evwoq in the sense of «universal» or «for the whole inhabited world» corresponded to the Slavic adjective derivative vbseljenbskyi. If we want to know the process of thinking, through which the conceptions of the territoriality of the Serbian Kingdom were developed, it is important to find out how the patterns as owov>y.evwoq were reflected in the Serbian medieval sources.

During the reading of the source material, I did not come across a place, where the adjective derivative vbseljenbskyi would be mentioned in connection with the Patriarch of Constantinople. It does not seem to be very popular, and after Domentijan, who named the Patriarch of Constantinople Germanos II (1223-1240), the adjective appeared rarely in Serbian medieval writings73. The change of circumstances is reflected in the so-called Great Prilep charter of Stefan Uros IV Dusan for the cell at Kareys on the Holy Mount Athos from 1348. After the establishment of the independent Serbian Patriarchate in 1346, the title, which was used in the chancery of the Patriarch in Constantinople, is not taken into account, and it is only referred to as otbcem nasimb patriarhomb svetago prestola velikie crbkvi patriarhie. This charter is also remarkable for the fact that it is one of the examples, which mentions the sevenecumenical councils as vbselenskyhb in the sanction form. This phrase was very popular not only in documents but also in law collections, which were mostly translations of the Byzantine originals74.

The adjective vbseljenbskyi is very rare in medieval Serbian literature when describing the Byzantine Emperor75. It appears exclusively in connection with the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos76. The majority of its mentions is linked to a complex of writings

71 Веселиновик А. Оснивачка повела крала Милутина за Хиландарски пирг на мору са Храмом Спасовим // Стари српски архив. 2010. Ка. 9. С. 21, 13-16 [16-19].

72 Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 121. A6-10 (С. 438).

73 Даничик Ъ. Живот светога Симеуна и светога Саве. Написао Доментщан. У Биограду: У државно] штампарщи, 1865. С. 219.

74 Живо]иновик Д. Велика прилепска хрисовула цара Стефана Душана Каре^ксу келщи светог Саве (Хил. 149) // Стари српски архив. 2008. Ка. 7. С. 77, 116-117, 133; GrivecF. Vselenskij... S. 15-32; Новаковик С. Матще Властара Синтагмат. Азбучн зборник византщских цркве-них и државних закона и правила. Словенски шревод времена Душанова. Београд: Српка кралевска академща, 1907. (Зборник за исторщу, ]език и каижевност спрског народа. Прво оделеае. Споменици на спрском ]езику. Ка. IV). С. 1, 2, 7, 8, 11, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 48, 49, 56, 62, 67, 75, 199, 237, 251, 272, 274, 298, 313, 332, 333, 334, 335, 540.

75 Serbisches Mittelalter. S. 303. N. 153.

76 Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit. Fasz. 1-12. Add. 1-2. CD-ROM-Version und Gesamtregisterband. Wien, 2002. Nr 21436; Laiou A. E. Constantinople and the Latins. The Foreign Policy of Andronicus II. 1282-1328. Cambridge (MA), 1972; Kaltsogianni E. 1) Die Lobrede des Matthaios von Ephesos auf Andronikos II. Palaiologos // Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik. 2010. Bd 59. S. 107-127; 2) Nikephoros Xanthopoulos und die Kaiserpanegyrik:

mapping in particular the Life of the Serbian King Stefan Uros II Milutin. Evidently, the oldest layer of the Milutin legend is a biography of his military achievements, emphasizing the Saint's protective function against external non-Christian enemies. It is found in Milutin's biography by Danilo and in the so-called charter of the Serbian King Stefan Uros II Milutin for the Ulijare settlement. Both sources report quite extensively and almost identically on the invasion of the Turks into the Byzantine Empire and the Kingdom of Serbia. Both sources describe how Milutin miraculously defeated their army, and word of this reached the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II. While in Milutin's Life, Danilo titled the Byzantine Emperor as carb samodrbzavbnyi velikyje Romanije, the charter on the other hand prefers the title vbselinskyi veliky blagocbstivy hristoljubyvii carbb, tbstb kralievstva mi77. During the subsequent Turkish invasion of the Byzantine Empire, both sources mention the request of the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II for help addressed to Milutin. In describing these events, Danilo titles Andronikos II as svetomu i vbseljenbskomu caru, the charter adheres to the previous title but deletes the adjective vbseljenbskyi78. The news of the victory of the Byzantine army and the auxiliary Serbian contingent against the Turks reached the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II, who is titled by both sources with the adjective vbseljenbskyi79.

Danilo, who apparently met with the Byzantine Emperor in person during diplomatic missions, is very positive about Andronikos II and uses the word vbseljenbskyi several times. In the Life of Saint Jelena, Danilo mentions Simonis, the wife of Milutin and the daughter of Andronikos II, who is referred to as vbseljenbskyi80. Danilo's next message is shrouded in mystery. The hagiographer writes about Milutin's wish to meet Andronik II twice. In this case, the Byzantine Emperor — again titled as vbseljenbskyi — would fulfill Milutin's unspecified wish81.

Danilo and his disciple, who wrote the Life of the Serbian King Stefan Uros III Decanski, mention the adjective vbseljenbskyi in connection with Andronikos II three more times in the episode about the blinding of Decanski by Milutin and his subsequent stay in Constantinople. It seems that the records of this episode could have been made only after Danilo's demise or Danilo's disciple took over and expanded upon Danilo's literary style82. Although the Lives

Das Bild Kaiser Andronikos II. in der Dedicatio der Historia ecclesiastica und seine literarischen Vorbilder // Ecclesiastical history and Nikephoros Kallistou Xanthopoulos: Proceedings of the International Symposium. Vienna, 15th-16th December 2011. Wien, 2015. S. 109-124; Kyriakidis S. Warfare and propaganda: The portrayal of Andronikos II Palaiologos (1282-1328) as an incompetent military leader in the Histories of John VI Kantakouzenos (1347-54) // Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 2013. Vol. 37. P. 176-189; Gaul N. All the Emperor's Men (and His Nephews): Paideia and Networking Strategies at the Court of Andronikos II Palaiologos, 1290-1320 // Dumbarton Oaks Papers. 2016. Vol. 70. P. 245-270; Schneider J. Le moine et l'empereur Andronic II dans les lettres de Maxime Planude // Nihil veritas erubescit. Mélanges offerts à Paul Mattei par ses élèves, collègues et amis. Turnhout, 2017. P. 655-669.

77 Даничик Ъ. Животи кралева. С. 145; Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 147. 269 (С. 540).

78 Даничик Ъ. Животи кралева. С. 146; Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 147. 273-274 (С. 540).

79 Даничик Ъ. Животи кралева. С. 148; Зборник средаовековних Ьириличких повела. Бр. 147. 308 (С. 541).

80 Даничик Ъ. Животи кралева. С. 96.

81 Даничик Ъ. Животи кралева. С. 141.

82 Даничик Ъ. Животи кралева. С. 126, 164, 168.

of the Serbian Kings also mention other Byzantine Emperors, they are never characterized as vbseljenbskyi, which may be related to the relatively favorable conditions on the Byzantine-Serbian border after the marriage of Milutin to Simonis and the later change of geopolitical-ideological ideas. The other Byzantine Emperors are either depicted in a very dim light, such as Michael VIII Palaiologos, or in most cases mentioned without a name and only with the title «Greek Emperor», such as in the case of Andronikos III Palaiologos, which probably testifies to the already developed concept of self-contained space of the Kingdom of Serbia in relation to other entities83.

So far, I have not discovered any correlation between the adjective vbseljenbskyi and the Serbian rulers Milutin, Stefan Decanski, or Stefan Dusan in the sources. Nevertheless, several documents indicate that the Serbian rulers and their court probably fed the idea of a Serbian ruler, who is also vbseljenbskyi. A charter forged just before 1744 — which was found in three variants in the archives of the Zographou Monastery on the Holy Mount Athos — mentions that Stefan Dusan controlled blbgarskaqq zemlju i grbcbskuju i vbsu vbselqnuju (Variant 1) or in the Greek translation BouAyaprov yq Kai Pro^airov Kai oAnv t^v oiKou^evnv (Variant 3)84.

Among the typical topoi of the Serbian royal panegyric was the mention of the renowned and recognized name of a Serbian ruler in other countries or around the world. This topos was probably based on the Old Testament faith in the power of God's name85. A certain variation of such a rhetorical figure is a passage from Stefan Uros IV Dusan's charter from 1333 on the donation of the Peljesac peninsula, the coastal region from Ston to Dubrovnik and the island of Posrednica to Dubrovnik in exchange for an annual tribute of 500 perpers. The charter has been preserved only in the later Latin and Serbian transcripts, and it is one of the first issued documents of Stefan Dusan with a more extensive arenga. The arenga was a great tool to legitimize the power of Stefan Dusan in the first years, since he had ascended the throne86. The Serbian transcript of the document is particularly noteworthy. The author praises Jesus Christ for attributing royal rank and power over the Serbian land and coastal lands to the holy parents and ancestors of Stefan Dusan, making them more famous than other earthly emperors, and adorning them with the crown of holiness, which is to be commemorated in the whole ecumene87. Although it is primarily a glorification of the beata stirps of the Serbian royal dynasty, the author of the arenga did not forget to mention the commemoration of parents and ancestors throughout the Oecumene. However, it is not possible to say with certainty, whether Stefan Dusan's foreign policy ambitions — which only became fully apparent in the following years — were manifested in the arenga.

The confirmation of the idea that the Serbian monarch acted more as vbseljenbskyi, could be manifested in the three syncrises with Alexander the Great in Milutin's biography by Danilo and Stefan Uros III Decanski's hagiography by Danilo's disciple. The first syncrisis is found in Milutin's biography, after Danilo compares the Serbian monarch to Saint Demetrius. Danilo

83Даничик Ъ. Животи кралева... С. 110-111, 196-198, 222, 224, 225.

84 Pavlikianov C. The Mediaeval Greek and Bulgarian Documents of the Athonite Monastery of Zographou (980-1600). Critical Edition and Commentary of the Texts. Sofia, 2014 (Университска библиотека, 512). Appendix. Falsified Bulgarian Charter No. 3. Variant 1. 103-104 (P. 597); Variant 3. 44 (P. 605).

85 Hafner S. Studien zur altserbischen dynastischen Historiographie. München, 1964. S. 109-113.

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claims that as Alexander the Great exalted himself on earth through power, Milutin achieved a similar position in the realm of government given to him by God, which could be seen in his venerable appearance, courage, nobility, and royal retinue88. Danilo undoubtedly used this rhetorical figure to create the ideal image of Milutin as a holy warrior as perfectly as possible. Most likely, the comparison was based only on models of the Byzantine panegyrics. However, it seems that the choice of the famous ancient history character was also purposeful to some extent89. Danilo's disciple describes the events preceding the battle of Velbuzd in 1330 and compares the speech of Stefan Uros III Decanski to the words of Alexander the Great before the battle against King Darius of Persia90. A few lines below, Danilo's disciple mentions two episodes from the Alexander Romance, when the Macedonian King mourned the dead body of Dareios and the Indian ruler Poros after a victorious battle, which he associates with the venerable behavior of the Serbian King towards the body of the deceased Bulgarian Tsar. Although I do not think that Danilo's disciple may have had access to the Serbian version of the Alexander Romance, I consider it indisputable that he used specific passages about the Macedonian King to highlight the moral qualities of the Serbian King and celebrate his holiness. In addition, I believe that comparing the victory over the Oriental monarchs with the success of Decanski can also be seen as a desire to reach the farthest borders of the Byzantine Empire by the Serbian monarch Stefan Dusan, during the reign of which Danilo's disciple also produced Decanski's hagiography91.

The Byzantine historian Nikephoros Gregorascaptured apparently Milutin's willful strategy of influencing Byzantine behind-the-scenes politics and using them to his advantage in a negative description of Eirene, the wife of Andronikos II. In several lines of his work, Gregoras deals with the intrigues of Eirene, who — according to his interpretation — longed for the Serbian King to seize the Byzantine Empire, from which her children would also benefit. Around 1303 she spent considerable funds on donations and gifts to Milutin. She even sent him a crown that resembled the diadem of her husband Andronikos II. Gregoras considers Eirene in particular to be the driving force behind these actions, but in my view, Milutin certainly did not play an insignificant role in her conspiracy and may have been involved in its planning, if the conspiracy actually had happened, as it was presented by Gregoras92.

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The key term «fatherland» still lacks a comprehensive analysis of its use in the Serbian medieval texts, but we can follow up on the conclusions of Dimitur Angelov, who examined the works of Bulgarian medieval literature. This term is undergoing a very similar development in the Serbian environment93. Two forms otbcbstvije and otbcbstvo have settled in Church Slavonic. In Old Serbian, both nouns are used in parallel, in the modern Serbian literary language only otecestvo appears, and even that very rarely94. In translations of biblical texts, both forms expressed the equivalents of the two Greek words naxpia and narpig. The meaning of both forms in these texts basically corresponded to their Greek equivalents. It is clear that both forms come from the Slavic otbcb, which reflected in fact that one of the meanings of the word otbcbstvije and otbcbstvo was «genus», «family» or «generation». The second meaning of both forms also initially occurs mainly in biblical texts and refers to the hometown or birthplace95. Until the 19th century, the collective consciousness that otbcbstvije or otbcbstvo is a confined space was preserved. This space could be a village, a cluster of several villages, or sometimes a valley or an island. Often, the inhabitant of this space perceived everything outside as something foreign96. Over time, the ambivalence of both forms merged into a concept that implied both meanings. At the same time, they were joined by the attributes «royal» or «rulers», which indeed emerged on the basis of the word otbcb and worked with the meaning of the authority and power of the father97. We then encounter this meaning in the hagiographic work of Danilo and his disciple, as already mentioned by Mihalo St. Popovic. Particularly noteworthy are the combinations with other territorial-power expressions, like (Srbbska) zemlja9S, drbzava", vb dbni samodrbzavnaago jemu gospodbstva100, sbbor101, sego prevysokaago kralja /sego blagocbstivaago kralja102, kraljevstvo103.

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All of these last aspects will have to be researched in detail in the near future, which represents a field of study flanking our research outlined above.

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Статья подготовлена по результатам проекта «Byzantino-Serbian Border Zones in Transition: Migration and Elite Changeinpre-Ottoman Macedonia (1282-1355)», поддержанного Австрийским научным фондом (FWF Austrian Science Fund, project P 30384-G28)

Авторы: ПоповиЪ, Михаило Ст. — доктор византиноведения, доцент, Отдел византийских исследований, Институт средневековых исследований, Австрийская академия наук, Вена, Австрия, Огс ID 0000-0002-3128-2210; e-mail: Mihailo.Popovic@oeaw.ac.at;

Зерван, Вратислав — PhD, постдок, Отдел византийских исследований, Институт средневековых исследований, Австрийская академия наук, Вена, Австрия, Огс ID 0000-0002-1870-4482; e-mail: Vratislav.Zervan@oeaw. ac.at

Заголовок: The «Fatherland» of the Serbian Kings Milutin and Decanski or Some Additional Thoughts on the «Medieval Serbian Oecumene» [«Отечество» в период правления Стефана Уроша II Милутина и Стефана Уроша III Дечанского или некоторые дополнительные мысли о «средневековой сербской ойкумене»] Резюме: В статье изложена новая концепция о «средневековой сербской ойкумене». В первой части исследования авторы анализируют сербские средневековые письменные источники и указывают на антитезу между «Отечеством» и Сербской землей сербского короля Стефана Уроша II Милутина, с одной стороны, и Великой Романией и Греческой империей византийского императора — с другой. Согласно, М. Поповичу, к политике Милутина не может быть применена концепция универсальности. Следуя концепции Пола Ника Кардулиаса, он рассуждает о Сербском королевстве как о самодостаточном пространстве. Опираясь на изученные документы и надписи времен правления Милутина, исследователь делает вывод, что такое пространство, по-видимому, было создано. Грамоты и надписи времен правления Стефана Уроша III Дечанского, с точки зрения World System Analysis, рисуют несколько иную картину. Вероятно, они иллюстрируют переход от самодостаточного пространства к великой империи. Вратислав Зерван в свою очередь сосредоточил внимание на семантическом уровне использования греческого слова oiKovjuevq и выражений otbcbstvije и otbcbstvo. Наиболее распространенным эквивалентом oiKovjuevt] была калька уъзе1]'епа]'а. Анализируя использование производного прилагательного vbseljenbskyi в связи с общепринятыми византийскими названиями, он обнаруживает, что идея универсальности продвигалась только при упоминании всеобщих соборов, а единственным византийским императором, в титуле которого присутствовало это слово, был Андроник II. И хотя автор не фиксирует широкого применения прилагательного vbseljenbskyi в отношении сербских правителей, он отмечает в сербских панегириках случаи использования термина vbseljenbskyi. Сложнее работать с понятием «отечество». В церковнославянском языке утвердились две формы — otbcbstvije и otbcbstvo. Амбивалентность этих двух форм со временем привела к образованию термина, объединяющего значения «род» и «место рождения». В то же время к ним присоединились атрибуты «королевский» или же «правящий», образованные от основы слова otbcb и несущие смысловое значение авторитета и власти отца. Позже этот термин также встречается в агиографическом произведении Данило и его ученика.

Ключевые слова: Сербия, Средневековье, ойкумена, Византия

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Authors: Popovic, Mihailo St. — PhD in Byzantine Studies, Habilitation in «History of South-East Europe and Byzantine Studies», Assistant Professor, Division of Byzantine Research, Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, Orc ID 0000-0002-3128-2210; e-mail: Mihailo.Popovic@oeaw.ac.at;

Zervan, Vratislav — PhD in History, Postdoctoral Researcher, Division of Byzantine Research, Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, Orc ID 0000-0002-1870-4482; e-mail: Vratislav.Zervan@oeaw. ac.at

Title: The «Fatherland» of the Serbian Kings Milutin and Decanski or Some Additional Thoughts on the «Medieval Serbian Oecumene»

Summary: Mihailo St. Popovic, in his part of the Study, follows up on the premise that an own local concept of ecumene was emerging during the reigns of Stefan Uros II Milutin and Stefan Uros III Decanski. In his analysis, he relies on Serbian medieval charters and inscription. Following the analysis of the charter of Serbian King Stefan Uros II Milutin for the Ulijare settlement, he recognizes the clear antithesis between the fatherland and the Serbian Land of the Serbian King on one hand, and Great Romania and the Greek Empire

of the Byzantine Emperor, on the other. According to him, the narrative part of the manuscript clearly proves that it is not possible to notice the concept of universality in Milutin's politics. Inspired by the research of Paul Nick Kardulias, he considers the Kingdom of Serbia as a self-contained space. With an emphasis on the examination of the charters and inscriptions, he states that during the reign of Milutin, such a space was probably created. From the World System Analysis perspective, charters and inscriptions from the reign of Stefan Uros III Decanski paint a slightly different picture. They probably illustrate the transition from self-contained space to the great realm. In his part of the study, Vratislav Zevran focused mainly on the semantic level of the use of Slavic pendants of the Greek word oiKovjuevq and expressions otbcbstvije and otbcbstvo. The most common equivalent of the word oiKovjuevq was the loan translation vbseljenaja. By analyzing the use of the adjective derivative vbseljenbskyi in connection with the Byzantine common titles, he finds that the idea of universality prevailed only in the titles of general councils, and the only Byzantine Emperor thusly named was Andronikos II. Although he does not recognize the use of the adjective derivative vbseljenbskyi anywhere near the Serbian monarch, he believes that based on several examples, Serbian panegyric probably promoted the idea of a Serbian ruler who was also vbseljenbskyi. The key concept of a fatherland still lacks a comprehensive analysis of sources. Two forms otbcbstvije and otbcbstvo have settled in Church Slavonic. Over time, the ambivalence of both forms merged into a concept that implied the meaning of «family», «genus» and/or «generation». At the same time, they were joined by the attributes «royal» or «rulers», which indeed emerged on the basis of the word otbcb and worked with the meaning of the authority and power of the father. This concept then also appears in the hagiographic work of Danilo and his disciple. Keywords: Serbia, Middle Ages, Oecumene, Fatherland, Byzantium

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