THE VIEW ON THE RELIGIOUS, ETHNIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXTRANEOUS GROUPS IN GREAT MORAVIAN LEGISLATION
/POHLED NA NÁBOŽENSKY, ETNICKY A PROFESNĚ CIZORODÉ SKUPINY VE VELKOMORAVSKÉM ZÁKONODÁRSTVÍ/

Lubomira HAVLIKOVA

emerita of the Institute of Slavonic Studies the CAS, v.v.i., Czech Academy of Science, Valentinská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech republic, department of paleoslavic and byzantology, havlikoval@centrum.cz, 00420 286 592 663

Abstract

The article deals with the religious, ethnic and professional extraneous groups in Great Moravian legislation. This brief overview related to the Old Slavonic legal source entitled the Nomokanonь, which was translated by the Archbishop Methodius in the 9th century in Moravia, suggests that the groups of the extraneous inhabitants differing by religion, nationality (stsl. sъ eretiki ni sъ židy ni sъ eliny; řec. pros gamon hairetiko, e Iudaio, e Helleni) and profession (stsl. fimelikija; řec. thymelikus) from the majority of people existed in the Great Moravian Empire. And therefore, the legal source from Great Moravian milieu – the Nomokanonь knew and wrote about them.

Keywords

Great Moravia, Byzantium, history, law history, Great Moravian law, Byzantine law, Slavonic law, nationality, religion, profession

(Language: czech)

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