Византијски извори о становништву и црквеним приликама у средњовјековној Босни
Bizantine Sources on Population and Church in Mediaeval Bosnia
Abstract
The first part of the paper examines the way in which the population
of Mediaeval Bosnia is shown through the prism of Byzantine sources.
Byzantine writers had used different archaic names for the population of
Bosnia. The greatest number of them called the population of Mediaeval
Bosnia – Dalmati (D a l m Ÿ t a ς). This term used Jovan Kinam, historian
from the XII century and Kritovul from Imbros, historian from the XV
century. Except for them, another short Byzantine chronicle of an unknown
author brings the data that Dalmati lived in Bosnia. It is interesting that
Kritovul from Imbros alongside the word Dalmati used the term Vostri for
the inhabitants of Bosnia.
Mihailo Anhijalski, rhetorician from the XII century in one complimentary
speech dedicated to the emperor Manoilo I Komnin called the population
of Bosnia – Bosnians (B Ê s t r o y v). Laonik Halkokondil, historian from
the XV century mostly called them Ilirians ( # I l l y r i o Ǻ) but in one place
he denoted... them as Bosni (B Ê s n o i).
Unknown author of the Chronicle of the Turkish sultans, of the Greek
sources from the XVII century, had not mentioned the name of the people
in Bosnia but he did point out that they were beautiful and brave and that
remained so until his time.
The second part of the paper represents an attempt to explain what the
Byzantines had in mind when they were mentioning the heretics in Bosnia
which they called kudugeri. It is mentioned in three Byzantine sources.
Chronologically, the first of the sources is an epistle of Genadi Sholari, the
first Carigrad’s patriarch after the fall of the Byzantine Empire. It contains
the suggestions to the monks of Sinai in connection to the prayers for Stefan
Vukčić Kosača who was under the influence of the kudugeri in Bosnia.
The second Byzantine source which mentions kudugeri is Laonik
Halkokondil. In the fifth book of his history, Halkokondil mentions Stefan
Vukčić and wrongly calls him Sandalj and says that the kudugeri are all
those who are in Sandalj’s land.
The third Greek source which mentions the kudugeri is the Chronicle of
the Turkish sultans where we can read that in Bosnia the population of the territory of Stefan Sandalj is called kudugeri.
Keywords:
становништво / називи народа / византијски извори / Босна / средњи век / институција цркве / историографијаSource:
Зборник за историју Босне и Херцеговине, 2012, 7, 37-48Publisher:
- Београд : Српска академија наука и уметности
Note:
- Recueil de l’histoire de bosnie et herzegovine, 7.