GIOVANNI DE CASAMARIS E L'ABIURA DI BILINO POLJE 1203 – GIUDICE DELEGATO PAPALE IN BOSNIA
Papal Legate and Judge John de Casamaris and the Abjuration of Bilino Polje (1203)

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses several issues linked to the Abjuration of Bilino Polje, suggesting a different historiographical interpretation than the prevalent one. Special attention is paid to the ecclesiastical-legal position of the papal chaplain John de Casamaris in order to establish to which class of papal representatives he actually belonged. The paper also discusses the attitude of Pope Innocent III and the papal curia towards the question of orthodoxy of the Bosnian church and considers the Abjuration of Bilino Polje from the Roman aspect, as a result of compromise between the political situation in the Balkans and the theological tenets of the Krstjani church, between the pope’s pastoral concerns for the salvation of the faithful and the position of Ban Kulin as a secular protector indispensable for achieving this goal.

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