Open AccessThe joint charter of the Brankovic brothers and the magnate chancery in the Nemanjic state
Author(s) -
Станоје Бојанин
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
zbornik radova vizantološkog instituta/zbornik radova vizantološkog instituta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0917
pISSN - 0584-9888
DOI - 10.2298/zrvi1653275b
Subject(s) - emperor , reign , charter , state (computer science) , greeks , joint (building) , history , classics , formulary , ancient history , law , political science , medicine , computer science , engineering , architectural engineering , algorithm , politics , pharmacology
A recent discovery shows that the documents Chilandar №58 and №59 are a compilation of two documents issued by the members of the Branković family. For the most part, it is the joint charter issued by Grgur and Vuk in 1364/1365. This paper investigates an unexamined formulary of the Branković brothers‘ joint charter and considers it as a type of a formulary that could be characteristic to the magnate chancery in medieval Serbia. A diplomatics analysis shows us how the vassal-suzerain relationships were represented in the documents of a nobleman’s chancery during the reign of Stephan Uroš, the Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks (1355-1371) and probably earlier in the Nemanjić state