ТРОВАЊЕ ЂУРЂА БРАНКОВИЋА ТОКОМ ОПСАДЕ СЕЛИМВРИЈЕ 1411. ГОДИНЕ У СВЕТЛУ ПОЗНАВАЊА ОТРОВА У СРЕДЊОВЕКОВНОЈ СРБИЈИ
POISONING OF GEORGE BRANKOVIĆ DURING THE SIEGE OF SELYMBRIA IN 1411 IN LIGHT OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF POISONS IN MEDIEVAL SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: The attempt to poison George Branković during the siege of Selymbria in 1411 provides an opportunity to examine the knowledge about poisons and poisoning in medieval Serbia. The research includes few, but diverse sources of genre-determined data. Sources of secular and ecclesiastical legislation have been considered, as well as records from chronicles, annals and histories regarding individual events, both real and legendary. However, the most significant source is the treatise on poisons from the Hilandar Medical Codex, which is a translation of Avicenna’s text on poisons from his Canon of Medicine. By analyzing the data from the surviving sources, we can reconsider the description of George’s poisoning in Constantine’s The Life of Despot Stefan in a broader social context and indicate the imprecise interpretation of the description in modern historiography.

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