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Liber Methodius between the Byzantium and the West: Traces of the Oldest Slavonic Legal Collection in Medieval Croatia

the purpose of this article is to analyse the following question: whether the liber Methodius, mentioned in chapter 9 of the The Chronicle of the Presbyter Diocleas (Ljetopis Popa Dukljanina), and the Nomocanon of Saint Methodius, as the first adaptation and translation of the Byzantine canon and civil law collections in the Slavonic language, are one and the same book. This question is not without relevance for the legal history of the mediaeval lands described there by the Presbyter Diocleas: a positive answer to the question above is an indication that one of the most important early contacts of the mediaeval Croats with the Roman legal tradition was a direct consequence of the missionary work of the Byzantine 'Apostles to the Slavs'. Morover, special attention will be dedicated to the problem of mutual relations between this oldest Slavonic adaptation of the Byzantine legal culture and the Western normative models in mediaeval Croatia as a Byzantine- Carolingian contact zone.

Byzantine Law, Canon Law, Saints Cyril and Methodius, Croatia, Presbyter Diocleas

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