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The Wanning of the Empire. The Disintegration of Byzantine Rule on the Eastern Adriatic in the 9th Century
Mladen Ančić
; Zavod za povijesne znanosti Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti, Zadar, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The author pinpoints two different approaches in historiography to the problem of Byzantine overlordship on the Eastern Adriatic from the 9th to the 11th century. In accordance with R.Cessi, who's idea is that Byzantium lost its positions on the Eastern Adriatic in the second half of the 9th century, the author then goes on to evaluate the Byzantine sources,' particularly the works of Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. Pinpointing Constantine's adherence to the conservative political ideology of the Empire, the author concludes that his works have to be treated with utmost caution and always confronted with the 'real time' data. In the second part of the paper the author thoroughly analyses accessible sources, and tries to reconstruct the chain of actual events. This leads him to the conclusion that the Byzantine overlordship on the Eastern Adriatic ended in 879, when the Byzantine protégé on the Croatian ducal throne, Zdeslav, was overthrown. After this the imperial presence on the Eastern Adriatic was confined to symbolical gestures and sentiments of the inhabitants of the Dalmatian towns.
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Hrčak ID:
179454
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Datum izdavanja:
1.5.1998.
Posjeta: 781 *