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Запрет браков с католиками у православных славян в средние века
The prohibition of marriages with Catholics among Orthodox Slavs in the Middle Ages

Author(s): Viktor Alexandrov
Subject(s): Cultural history, Social history, Middle Ages, Eastern Orthodoxy, Canon Law / Church Law
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Orthodox Slavs; mixed marriage; Latins; Matthew Blastares; canon law; Alphabetical Syntagma; Theodore Balsamon; Zakonik;

Summary/Abstract: The present article outlines the history of the prohibition, in the medieval Slavonic tradition, which forbade the Orthodox believers to contract marriages with the “Latins”. The article traces the main cases of the appearance of this prohibition in the Slavonic sources, primarily canon and civil law codes, starting from the eleventh century in Kievan Rus’ to the sixteenth century in the Balkans. The form of the prohibition as found in the Syntagma of Matthew Blastares and related legal codes (legislation of Stefan Dušan and the Epitimian Nomocanon) is discussed in especial detail. The Slavonic translation of Blastares’ Syntagma was the main channel through which the opinion of Theodore Balsamon on marriages with Latins entered the legal corpus of the Orthodox Slavs. In the texts analysed it was recommended that the Latins be treated as a heterodox group of a particular nature.

  • Issue Year: 47/2002
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 101-113
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Russian