SERBIA IN THE REGISTERS OF THE ANGEVIN CHANCERY (1265–1295). AN ATTEMPT AT RECONSTRUCTION
SERBIA IN THE REGISTERS OF THE ANGEVIN CHANCERY (1265–1295). AN ATTEMPT AT RECONSTRUCTION

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the history of the registers of the Angevin royal chancery in Naples until their total destruction in World War II and the subsequent effort to reconstruct them, as well as the history of research and publication of documents from those registers pertaining to Serbia and the Southern Slavs in general. It is concluded that the project of reconstruction, which has so far covered the period from 1265 to 1295, made only indirect and consequently insufficient use of publications in which 19th century researchers who examined the registers in search for information about the Southern Slavs (Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski, Franjo Rački, Vikentij Makušev) presented their findings. On the other hand, the reconstruction project has revealed some information that was missed or misinterpreted by those earlier researchers. The article brings these two sources together to produce an optimized reconstruction of 27 documents from the registers containing references to Serbia, with the dual intent of providing an updated edition of this corpus of source material for Serbian medieval history and drawing attention to the usefulness of these 19th century publications in the ongoing reconstruction of the Angevin registers.

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