Open AccessThe basic characteristics of legal and economic terminology in the Banjska Charter
Author(s) -
Milica Grkovic
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
južnoslovenski filolog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0763
pISSN - 0350-185X
DOI - 10.2298/jfi1066205g
Subject(s) - charter , terminology , slavic languages , linguistics , character (mathematics) , political science , history , law , philosophy , geometry , mathematics
The Banjska Charter was written at the beginning of the 14th century. It has over 2000 lines of text, thus giving us a good picture of language in medieval Serbia. This paper gives an overview of the legal and economic terminology in the charter. This analysis shows that terminologies in medieval Serbia preserved a common character and that they were mostly of Slavic origin, with the exception of religious terminology, where terms of foreign origin prevailed