

It is our conclusion that we can now take a different path in analysing data on the earliest history of the Serbs and the Croats it is evident that Constantine Porphyrogenitus used the information collected by an anonymous author who had been employed, very likely, as a high commissioner of the Roman Church. The connection between De conversione Bagoariorum et Carantanorum and chapters 30, 31, and 32 of the DAI is easily recognised in the conception of the work, and in the annexed parts by the author. The analysis of the aforementioned chapters of the DAI established a high degree of correlation with parts of the text known in historiography under the title – De conversione Bagoariorum et Carantanorum. THE 'DE ADMINISTRANDO IMPERIO' OF CONSTANTINE PORPHYROGENITUS GEORGE Y. This style or literary genre – De conversione – did not exist in Byzantium but was well known during early medieval times in the West. SHULGIN, Kiev, Mother of Russians Towns, The Slavonic and East European Review. The treatise De Administrando Imperio, ' from which some of the preceding vulgarisms are selected, was addressed by Constantine, one of the most. The work combines two of Constantines earlier treatises, 'On the Governance of the State and the various Nations' (. It contains advice on running the ethnically-mixed empire as well as fighting external enemies. However, our analysis of the earliest historical text on the Serbs and the Croats described in chapters 30, 31 and 32 of the DAI has established that oral tradition could not have been the source of the information on the Serbs or the Croats but rather that Constantine utilized a written source with its approximately dated to around 878.The peculiar style of the source focuses on baptism ( Conversio Croatorum et Serborum) and the close ties of the Serbs and the Croats with Rome. See Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Administrando Imperio, ed. De Administrando Imperio was written between 948 and 952. Commonly accepted knowledge in historiography tells us that Constantine Porphyrogenitus must have used references on the Serbs, the Croats, and other Slavs from the archives of the Imperial Palace and the verbal accounts of Byzantine administrative personnel who were stationed in Dalmatia. There are eight chapters (29-36) in De Administrando Imperio by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus that contain known historical information on the Slavs of the Balkan Peninsula. polskim: Biaa Chorwacja, De administrando Imperio. 2009 copy, years of compiling of the original codex.

THE SOURCES OF CONSTANTINE PORPHYROGENITUS CONCERNING THE EARLIEST HISTORY OF THE SERBS AND CROATS Constantine Porphyrogenitus: de Administrando Imperio, II: Commentary. which is principally dedicated to a review of the various conjectures about. Treatise De Administrando Imperio by emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus: date of the Paris.
