title: Svatopluk’s Regnum Sclavorum as a source of medieval Slavic concepts of Sclavinia
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metadata.value: Malinovská, Nora
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-08-21T09:02:37Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-08-21T09:02:37Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu19.2017.102
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/7088
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The Primary Chronicle (The Tale of Bygone Years) is believed to have incorporated and
  preserved the very archaic West Slavic segments from the unknown historical source belonging to the Great
  Moravian or Pannonian literary tradition of the late 9th and early 10th centuries. These parts bear the precious
  testimony about the archetypal motherland of the Slavs on the Danube River, from where they gradually
  spread out over the extensive parts of Europe, preserving, however, solidly the consciousness of their initial
  unity. This motherland on the Danube, which they called Slovyenskaya zeml’ya [Slavic land/country], was
  later then occupied by the Hungarian tribes and consequently renamed into Hungary. Acknowledging this
  West Slavic tradition as their own, the East Slavs became the apparent successors of the Great Moravian and
  Cyrillo-Methodian ideological concept of the Slavic world.
  The analogical case of an adoption of the Great Moravian tradition into the particular, this time, the
  South Slavic tradition can be detected in the Chronicle of Pop Dukljanin. Here we have witnessed how
  the interjection of the (Great Moravian) Svatopulk’s tradition with the tradition of the Slavonic-Croatian
  statehood laid the basis for the South Slavic tradition of Sclavinia as the powerful and archaic Balkan
  country of the Slavs. A very similar message is brought forward by the Hungarian-Polish Chronicle, where
  Sclavonia as Great Moravia is explicitly considered to be a predecessor of the Kingdom of Hungary.
  The last discussed concept of Sclavinia, as the vast country of many Slavic tribes, arises when dealing
  with the Chronicle of Gallus Anonymus. Within this widest portrayal and territorial depiction of Sclavinia
  we have witnessed the gradual evolution of an idea of the ethnic unity of the Slavs, which was gradually
  extended into the geo-political dimensions (e. g. references to St. Adalberts’s plan of Sclavinia as the political
  union of the West and possibly the South Slavs; also to Otto’s III plan of Renovation Imperii Romanorum).
  Again here, we come to a touch with the Great Moravian legacy and its genius loci, which was influencing
  the ideological movements in this region for many centuries.
  Summarizing the outcomes from the analysed historical sources, we presume to identify the three basic
  Slavic traditions, which trace their roots back to Great Moravia of Svatopluk and its ideological and
  territorial legacy: 1) Old-Russian tradition; 2) South Slavic tradition; and 3) Latin West Slavic tradition. All
  these traditions, as it was shown, are alleged to have fixed the historical memory of the Slavs themselves
  about their first statehood on the Danube — the river, which as a result acquired a «totemic», sacral character
  both in oral and written traditions of almost all Slavic peoples. Great Moravia, which served as the model
  of the powerful and in all aspects important Slavic state, stamped the evolution and history of the majority
  of its Slavic descendants. These, in order to receive a hallmark of their own legitimacy, preserved, modified
  and spread further the memory on the common Slavic country (motherland), called Sclavinia.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Issue 1(21)
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Sclavinia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Sclavonia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: regnum Sclavorum
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Great Moravia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Svatopluk
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Svatopluk’s Regnum Sclavorum as a source of medieval Slavic concepts of Sclavinia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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