Preliminary communication
On some questions of the early Bosnian legal history
Lujo Margetić
Abstract
The author explores several important problems of the early Bosnian history.
1) In the second half of the 12th century, Bosnia was an independent country under the rule of Ban Borić, who was at the same time a high Hungarian official who acknowledged the formal supremacy of the Hungarian-Croatian king because of his huge possessions in Slavonia
2) Pope Innocent III (1198-1210 reacted with marked restraint to accusations of heresy of Ban Kulin because he did not want to deteriorate his relations with Kulin’s protector, Hungarian-Croatian King Emeric.
3) At the turn of the 13th century, the term “duke of the whole of Slavonia” appeared in the title of Hungarian-Croatian rulers. At the time, the title implied all the Croatian areas south of the Drava river.
4) In some elements of their religious beliefs, Bosnian “krstjani” were not in keeping with the doctrine of the Catholic church, but they skilfully hid their heterodoxy out of fear of dying t the stake.
5) Bosnian “krstjani” had religious beliefs which had some similarity with Bogomilism.
Keywords
Bosnian ban; ban Borić; Pope Innocent III; Bosnian “krstjani”; “tota Sclavonia”
Hrčak ID:
6422
URI
Publication date:
20.12.2006.
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