CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Trajkovic Filipovic, Stefan Djordje |
|---|---|
| Title | Saint Vladimir of Zeta. Between Historiography and Hagiography |
| Summary | First published in 1601, The Annals of a Priest of Dioclea is a controversial chronicle, burdened with never-ending historiographical debates. Its authenticity as a historical source is usually doubted and its narrative considered as fictional. Several datings of the text were offered; most commonly accepted is te dating to the twelfth century, while Solange Bujan offered an alternative dating to the seventeenth century. In the focus of the thesis is Chapter XXXVI of The Annals that offers a full account of the life and death of Saint Vladimir of Zeta. It is one of the longest chapters and most of the previous scholarship agreed that the Chapter is actually an earlier hagiographic text incorporated in The Annals. Aside from that, two more problems are being discussed: the connections of the Chapter XXXVI with Skylitzes’ Synopsis of Byzantine History where Vladimir of Zeta is also mentioned, and the contextualization of the Chapter XXXVI in the tenth- and eleventh- century literary context of hagiographies of martyr rulers. Starting from previous research and analysis of the narrative of the Chapter, as well as of The Annals, I argue that Chapter XXXVI was written in the same time as the rest of the chronicle, by the same author. That claim is based on the presence of same narrative strategies and lessons in the Chapter as in the rest of The Annals. However similarities with the tenth- and eleventh- century phenomenon of martyred rulers remain. Therefore, it is possible that the story of Saint Vladimir of Zeta from the Chapter XXXVI of The Annals originated in that literary tradition, but was changed to great extent in the time of writing of the chronicle, either in the twelfth or seventeenth century, where it obtained a specific hagiographic and dialectical structure. |
| Supervisor | Sághy, Marianne |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/trajkovic-filipovic_stefan.pdf |
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