Written legal texts (so-called normative legal texts) are also indispensable for the study of the history of Great Moravia. The most extensive of them is the Great Moravian Nomocanon, which is a translation of its Byzantine original, while the author has significantly narrowed the original text. Most experts dealing with the history of Great Moravia assume that the author of the translation was Methodius himself. In this paper we try to determine when the translation of Nomocanon was conducted. The previous papers stated that the translation was carried out at the beginning of the Byzantine mission in Great Moravia. In this paper we present the hypothesis that the translation of Nomocanon was probably conducted only in the final phase of Methodius’s activity in Great Moravia. This hypothesis is supported by the timing of the necessity (and urgency) of its translation in practice, as well as by the historical events of the fight between Wiching and Methodius.
The article aims at the elucidating the cultural contacts between Slavs in the Balkans and in the Carpathian region. It is based on the excerpts from a penitential collection included on ff. 65r-78v in manuscript № 34B from the National Museum of the Przemyśl Land, and Euchologion (Trebnik) from the 16th c. In the course of survey it becomes clear that the rules were taken from one of the most popular Slavic legal compilations – Pseudo-Zonaras nomocanon (Nomocanon Cotelerii). A description of the content of this part is appended at the end of the article.
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