We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
ОБРОК ИЗ ЧЛАНА 110. ДУШАНОВОГ ЗАКОНИКА И ПОСУЛ ИЗ ЗАКОНСКИХ СПОМЕНИКА РУСКОГ СРЕДЊОВЕКОВНОГ ПРАВА
- Authors
ЧВОРОВИЋ, ЗОРАН
- Abstract
When the evolution of the Serbian institution of obrok is viewed from the perspective of the development of financial institutions of the related Russian medieval law, it can be assumed that obrok developed from the ancient Slavic way of taxation, which was preserved in early Russian medieval law through the multifunctional institute of polyudia. It is possible that until the beginning of the reign of King Milutin, the Serbian obrok retained the characteristics of an ancient multifunctional institute similar to the Russian polyudia, which included both hosting rulers and civil servants, as well as their exercise of public authority in the field. Obrok from the charter of King Milutin to the monastery of St. George near Skopje already resembles the Russian korm from the 13th to the 15th century, because then obrok, as well as korm, represented, in the words of T. Taranovskiy, „a permanent salary that was paid by the local population for the maintenance of local bodies". The change in the nature of the ancient common-law multifunctional institution of obrok into a standard tax that serves to support local authorities was probably connected with the beginning of the process of accelerated Byzantinization of the state administration, but also with the territorial expansion of the Serbian state and the inevitable growth of the local administrative-judicial apparatus. The introduction of state judges, i.e. judges „of the empire" in Dushan's code, and the consequent ban on obrok in Article 110 of the Code, is reminiscent of the process that took place in Muscovite Russia during the reign of Grand Duke Ivan III Vasilyevich and Tsar Ivan IV Vasilyevich, when the feudal system of supporting the local administrative-judicial apparatus through kormlenia was abolished. The ban on posul, even though this institute was by its nature narrower than obrok, resembles the prohibition of judges from receiving obrok in Article 110 of Dushan's Code.
- Publication
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2022, Issue 59, p157
- ISSN
0584-9888
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2298/ZRVI2259157C