Reconsidering the 1095 novella of Alexios I Komenenos: A testimony to the Byzantinization of the Slavic population
The Novella issued by the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos in 1095 regulates the process of proving freedom for persons descended from “Bulgarians and the like” and the introduction of mandatory religious marriage, which scholarship tends to interpret as the full penetration of the C...
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| Language: | Bulgarian |
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Institute for Byzantine Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta |
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| Online Access: | https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0584-9888/2024/0584-98882461103I.pdf |
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| Summary: | The Novella issued by the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos in 1095
regulates the process of proving freedom for persons descended from
“Bulgarians and the like” and the introduction of mandatory religious
marriage, which scholarship tends to interpret as the full penetration of
the Christian notion of grace into these spheres of life. The text of this
Novella, abridged, slightly revised, and in Old Serbian translation,
reappears in the Nomokanon of St. Sava and some subsequent Old Russian
Nomokanons. This paper employs the historical method and linguistic analysis
of a range of sources to explore the role of this law in the process of the
Byzantinization of the Slavic population. |
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| ISSN: | 0584-9888 2406-0917 |