PERCEPTION OF ROMAN CATHOLICS IN 13TH-CENTURY SERBIAN HAGIOGRAPHIES: FROM FELLOW CHRISTIANS TO HERETICS
PERCEPTION OF ROMAN CATHOLICS IN 13TH-CENTURY SERBIAN HAGIOGRAPHIES: FROM FELLOW CHRISTIANS TO HERETICS

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the attitude towards the Latins and the Roman Church in the Nemanjićs’ state as presented in 13th-century Serbian hagiographies. The fact that the Serbian state was the only medieval Balkan state in which the jurisdictions of two canonically recognized churches, the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox Church, were intertwined in that region made this attitude more complex. The narrative presented in these hagiographies, taking into account the function of the genre itself, clearly indicates that the formation of a negative image of the Roman Catholic Church and the Latins was the consequence of the conclusion of the Union of Lyon and the Orthodox world’s resistance to it.

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